And after the court hearing, Gunn told reporters she wanted to be left alone to do her gardening.
In her first appearance since being arrested last month, the 63-year-old Aucklander appeared in Manukau District Court this morning on three charges after attempting to conduct an interview on camera without asking permission.
Gunn has been charged with willful trespass, resisting arrest and assault.
She pleaded not guilty and is now due to appear in court again on June 7.
Gunn had spoken to Judge Richard McIlraith about gaining access to airport security footage of the incident.
She said it was important for transparency and fairness.
“I would never be violent towards anyone else,” she said.
The issue of the security footage will be discussed at the hearing on the review of the case in June.
As part of her bail terms, Gunn was issued a warrant not to go near the woman she allegedly assaulted.
Co-defendant Jonathan Clark, who was at the airport with Gunn and attempted to film in the International Terminal, was charged with willful trespass and resisting arrest.
He also pleaded not guilty.
After the trial, Gunn told the media, “I am nothing and nobody.”
“I just want my gardening. “
She then urged people to be self-sufficient and grow their own vegetables and put money into gold and silver.
Gunn said she was still troubled by the February incident, including a broken wrist and migraines.
She called for the resignation of Police Commissioner Andrew Coster after the airport incident.
Clark was issued a blanket order of non-violence against people or property due to his bail conditions.
Before her appearance, Gunn said she was alone at the airport to greet friends returning to New Zealand, along with hundreds of other people.
“All we had was a slightly bigger camera,” she said.
Outside the courtroom, Gunn called on 12 “good and true men and women” to sit beside her after discovering that public seating was limited.
The former TV presenter was arrested on February 25 after a scuffle in the airport’s international arrivals hall.
She and Clark had tried to film the arrival in New Zealand of members of a family kept on lockdown in Tokelau after being refused the Covid vaccine, but Gunn characterized that meeting as “just filming friends arriving” and claimed that she had not been verbally entered. by Auckland Airport staff before police involvement.
Auckland Airport requires media to seek permission before filming there – a long-standing rule known to the media.
Gunn claimed the rules didn’t apply to her.
“We don’t earn a steady income and are not a commercial enterprise, we do this mahi out of love.”