‘Affairs, secrets, abuse’: Dead celebrity dentist’s wife reveals betrayals
Cassandra Lin has spoken of the man she felt safe with before he spiralled. Photo: Instagram
The wife of a former celebrity dentist who descended into meth addiction and was shot dead by police has spoken of the betrayal she suffered as their perfect life unravelled.
The 41-year-old was shot dead while confronting police when a Taser failed to subdue him.
It was reported that Lin, who had several children, had fathered a child in secret. This caused his marriage to break down, and he spiralled into meth addiction.
He had several run-ins with the law, including stalking, assaults, choking and breaching apprehended violence orders.
Cassandra Lin, an orofacial myologist, penned an open letter on Wednesday, trying to come to terms with the two sides of the man she thought she would grow old with.
“I discovered the life you had been living behind my back. The affairs. The secrets. The abuse. The child you fathered that I knew nothing about,” she posted on Instagram.
“It shattered the trust I had placed in you and the future I thought we were building together. The pain of that betrayal is something I’m still learning how to carry.”
The couple reportedly separated in 2023.
Dr Steven Lin was a prolific dentist before his downfall.
At the peak of his career, Lin owned two successful dental practices on the NSW Central Coast and published The Dental Diet, a book about eating to strengthen teeth and help prevent oral disease.
Cutting a clean image, Lin had a significant social media following, offering health advice to his Instagram followers.
His website boasted he was a “world-leading functional dentist, speaker, and best-selling author”.
Cassandra wrote that when she first met Lin “something in me settled. For the first time in my life, I felt like I had found peace… like l had finally found home.
“You weren’t just the man I loved — I thought you were my soulmate, the person I believed I would walk beside for the rest of my life.
“Together we built a life. We built a legacy. We had it all.”
She said the greatest part of their life together was becoming parents.
“Watching you become a father is something I will always treasure. Our children were the apple of your eye. You loved them fiercely, proudly, completely.
“The way you looked at them — with wonder, with joy — is something I will carry with me forever. In those moments, our little family felt whole and unbreakable.”
Despite what happened between them, Cassandra promised to take care of their children “with everything I have”.
“I will guide them, protect them, and love them in the way we always dreamed they would be loved.
“I will tell them stories about you — about the parts of you that made them laugh, the parts that made you their dad, the parts of you that live on in them.
“Because whatever happened between us, they deserve to know where they came from. They deserve to know that their father loved them.
“Your story doesn’t end here, because it lives on in them.”
Cassandra and Steven Lin built life together. Photo: Instagram
During the incident in March, Lin broke into a unit and demanded money from photographer and mother-of-three Chloe Paul was working from home.
Her family told the Nine Network that Lin pinned Paul to the ground, beat her and attempted to choke her. However, her background in boxing helped her to break free and call police.
She had surgery for a broken nose following the attack.
Lin also reportedly assaulted one of Paul’s neighbours in the unit’s communal laundry room, Nine reported.
Police have said that the first officers on the scene used a taser to try to control him but it was ineffective.
Lin then confronted the officers before one fired a single shot, killing the man, Assistant Commissioner Peter McKenna said.
McKenna emphasised police had been responding to the women in distress when the situation escalated quickly.
The street was cordoned off with a helicopter flying above the scene. Up to 20 riot cars, police vehicles and ambulances descended on the block.
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