Lisa Wilkinson has described the “intense level of scrutiny” she’s faced since she decamped abruptly on October 16 from Nine’s Today to Ten’s The Project.

In a Huffington Post Australia column called ‘A Little Bit of Perspective About What’s Important’, editor-at-large Wilkinson slammed paparazzi interest in her and her family.

Despite her decades of experience inside the media machine, Wilkinson, 57, has found her own fishbowl status in the last week “utterly overwhelming”.

Photographers “have been camped” outside the 100-year-old, two-storey Neutral Bay home she shares with her journalist husband Peter FitzSimons and adult children Billi, Jake and Louis.

“The prying lenses of complete strangers have captured and published images taken through my kitchen window,” she said.

“They’ve followed my children. I have been chased down streets. Into cul-de-sacs.”

“I have been the subject of literally thousands of articles, blogs and gossip columns, most of them containing largely inaccurate accounts of my recent job change,” said Wilkinson.

The hunt for new photos of the breakfast TV queen has also almost seen collateral damage outside her family, she said in a pointed sledge at some media outlets.

“I saw a poor unsuspecting road worker come within centimetres of being run over by a speeding pap, determined to get yet another shot of me for the fourth day in a row wearing black, in the same sunglasses, looking down.

“And they still got published.”

“Cheers to success,” said Wilkinson, raising a toast at a champagne tasting on October 20.

Wilkinson alluded indirectly to the issue of pay parity, reportedly the catalyst for her sudden departure from Nine, where she had been a marquee employee for 10 years.

She acknowledged she is “humbled” by how her big news has “generated an important national debate” and said strangers have been stopping her in the street.

“Mostly women, but many men too – often fathers of daughters – and they have been very kind,” she said.

Saying she feels the attention on her is “just a little out of whack,” she wrote about the death last week of a former Cleo magazine colleague, Rebecka Delforce, 45, after a five-week battle with cancer.

“Sometimes, life throws at you things you simply never saw coming,” said Wilkinson.

“Things that bring some much needed perspective.”

The emotional column was the first piece Wilkinson has penned for The Huffington Post since she wrote in July about breaking her arm during an Italian getaway.

The fact she didn’t share her injury first on Nine’s digital platforms reportedly was an issue for her old bosses.

Chief executive Hugh Marks went public with details of the $1.8 million package offered to Wilkinson, saying multiple “commercial contracts” were a stumbling block to sealing a deal.