Madeleine West has found love with her partner Maximo Bottaro.
The notoriously private couple have been together for more than three years now, after the former Neighbors star was first seen kissing and cuddling the environmentalist on the beach at Byron Bay.
At the time, Madeleine, 44, and Maximo were seen passionately kissing and cuddling in the shallow waters of a secluded beach.
Two years later, the mother-of-six and her boyfriend were spotted again on the beach in Byron Bay.
Before their sun-drenched day, the couple stopped at a grocery store to pick up some strawberries, coconut water and other items for their day trip.
Madeleine West has found love with her partner Maximo Bottaro. Both pictured
Maximo has been an environmental activist for two decades and previously worked for Greenpeace, one of the largest environmental organizations in the world.
In 2018, he co-founded his own environmental organization ReForest Now.
Madeleine has been working with ReForest Now on various projects since January 2020.
In March 2020, ReForest Now shared a photo on Instagram of Madeleine helping plant trees and thanked her for her continued support.
The notoriously private couple have now been together for more than three years after the former Neighbors star was first spotted kissing and cuddling the environmentalist on the beach at Byron Bay in 2020
“Madeline supports ReForest Now by promoting our work, inviting the community to our plantings, and helping to fund reforestation,” the post reads.
Since then, the actress has spoken about her love for Maximo a few times.
“The way he acted was so attractive. “It went beyond ideas of fame, fortune or notoriety,” Madeleine said on the No Filter podcast.
“Seeing how much he cared about his cause and his passion and his confidence … was possibly the most attractive thing I’ve ever seen.”
Elsewhere, Madeleine said Maximo had been her biggest support when it came to her mental health issues.
Maximo has been an environmental activist for two decades. Madeleine has been working on various projects with his company ReForest Now since January 2020
“I'm lucky to have someone evolved and compassionate enough to walk this journey with me without sugarcoating or trying to avoid the difficult moments,” she told Stellar magazine earlier this year.
Madeleine was previously married to Shannon Bennett and had six children together.
They split after 13 years together in 2018, with West later explaining that the breakup process had “made love toxic.”
Two years after their split, she left Melbourne for the Byron Bay area to be near her six children and bought her own $4.6 million property overlooking Tallow Beach.
Madeleine has spent this year in court battles with Benny Bennett, Shannon's elderly father, who lodged an AVO against her following an alleged clash at the chef's Byron mansion in 2022.
Madeleine was previously married to Shannon Bennett (left) and had six children together. They separated after 13 years together in 2018
Two years after their split, she left Melbourne for the Byron Bay area to be near her six children and bought her own $4.6 million property overlooking Tallow Beach
A judge imposed the AVO, describing Madeleine as an “evasive” and unreliable witness and her alleged treatment of her former father-in-law, 75, as “almost aggressive”.
However, the decision was overturned when Madeleine appealed to the NSW District Court and won in a ruling by Judge Jonathan Priestley, who said that “the evidence of the facts supporting it is flimsy and is not supported by the footage from five different CCTV Cameras will be supported around Shannon”. Bennett's home.
In January this year, West revealed that she was sexually abused between the ages of five and 10. Her perpetrator was finally named this month.
Peter Vincent White, 73, pleaded guilty to 33 counts of child sexual abuse against seven children, including the actress, then named Melanie Ann Weston.