her Rozelle home with crushing chest pains then spending 10 days in intensive care of Balmain Hospital, Sydney. It was the fourth time in 5 years suffering a similar seizure. In Brooke's case, the seizure was brought on by a busy change in lifestyle over a period of months, causing extreme tension that affected the heart; doctors warned she must never endure such tension again, and she made sure it did not happen again. In 1976, Brooke moved into her house in the near city suburb of Balmain, yet one year later rented the house and moved out due to a terror campaign which bizarrely included threats, anonymous letters, visits from police, ambulancemen and an undertaker. Brooke owned two dogs, as did her neighbor, and both received photostat pamphlets about keeping residence dogs under control, which is believed to have been the first indication of the aforementioned events. Brooke lived with Pat McDonald, who suggested her for the role of Flo Patterson. They shared the same birth year and a small house at the eastern end of Fox Valley Road in Wahroonga in northern Sydney. Although the true nature of their relationship was never originally detailed, many photos of them on holiday in various overseas locations were featured in magazines. Pat McDonald would later die in 1990 of pancreas cancer. Brooke endured a nervous breakdown within the mid-1990s, which was a few years before her death. It is not known as to why, but Brooke did have a history of depression in the earlier decades of her career. Career Earlier career (1940s–1970s) Brooke later worked as a typist with Melbourne-based television production company Crawford Productions. The association with Crawford awoke Brooke's creative side, and she became interested in scripts, joining an amateur theatrical group. A year later, she traveled to the UK and, within a week of arriving, had secured work in the repertory theatre as well as radio and television shows. Her first Magic Circle Club guest appearance, as a Southern belle with two suitors, led to a recurring role as Aunty Vale (an enchantress) in the children's television series. She later became a mime artist whilst in Europe as studied under Marcel Marceau in Paris. In the late-1940s it is believed one year later Brooke returned to Australia and gained her legal name "Bunney Brooke", which would later become her much well known name. Brooke's acting career continued