For more than 40 years, Peter Garrett has been a familiar face in Australia.
The now 68-year-old, who is the frontman of Australian rock band Midnight Oil, has made a name for himself in both music and politics.
But before Garrett became a household name, the musician faced a difficult family tragedy.
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On Tuesday night's episode of Anh's Brush With Fame, Garrett opened up about losing his mother in a house fire in April 1977.
Garrett, then a 23-year-old university student, was sleeping downstairs in the family's Sydney home when the fire broke out on the top floor.
Although Garrett attempted to save his mother Betty who was trapped upstairs, the intense flames and smoke forced him back.
"She's upstairs and I'm downstairs and I wake up and the house is on fire and I just escape," Garrett told Do.
"But then I realise what’s gone on, I try and get back in the house to go up the stairs... it’s all alight, and I can’t," he continued.
"Something like that has a big impact on you. The fact I couldn’t rescue my mum, and get her out of a burning house, stayed with me, and is still with me. That’s quite a difficult thing, even though I know rationally that I wasn’t able to [save her]. I was certainly comforted by the police and fire people about that."