Paulini Curuenavuli FINALLY gets her licence legally

Paulini Curuenavuli announced that she has finally obtained a drivers licence. 

In a Facebook post on Monday, the singer, 38, shared the good news, along with a photo of her new car. 

‘So something happened. This time I did it the right way… The legal way. I got my LICENCE, I sat the test, I did the driving test and I passed,’ she wrote. 

‘I can’t tell you how empowering it feels to have done it. I learnt to trust in my own ability.

‘Last attempt, I didn’t have the confidence that I could do it… I was so wracked with anxiety… (So I tried to buy one… and we all know how that ended).’ 

She added:  ‘A massive thank you to my driving tester, you helped to make me feel comfortable in my own skin. 

‘It’s a new day! Give me a wave if you see me out and about on the roads.’ 

Paulini was previously charged with bribing a public official to unlawfully obtain a driver’s licence. 

She pleaded guilty and was given a six-month suspended sentence in 2017. 

The former Australian Idol star told Woman’s Day: ‘When I look back I just can’t believe how naive and stupid I was… not a day goes by where I don’t shake my head and think, ‘What were you thinking, girl?’ I’m so sorry.’ 

‘I wanted to handle the situation very differently to the way it was,’ she said.

‘My management at the time wanted me to say and do nothing, and I did as I was told, which I now regret.’ 

After rising to fame on Australian Idol back in 2003, Paulini claimed a rough patch in her life led her to make poor choices.

‘I went through a very traumatic breakup from a tumultuous relationship,’ she wrote in a letter to the court, obtained by The Daily Telegraph in January 2018.  

‘I am embarrassed to say this was not the first relationship I had been in involving domestic violence and low self-esteem,’ she added. 

‘In addition to the breakdown of my relationship, my failed album release had cost me my savings and the relationship with the record label.’