Kate DeAraugo has lifted the lid on Kyle Sandilands’ sudden, off-camera confession within the moments after he infamously referred to as out her “tuckshop girl arms” on Australian Idol.
The truth TV decide sparked outrage in every single place again in 2005 when he made the fat-shaming remark concerning the present’s eventual winner, then 18, after she opted to put on a sleeveless high throughout a efficiency.
Addressing the controversial second on her new podcast, Why Do I Really feel This Manner?, DeAraugo, 38, revealed for the primary time the weird excuse the radio star had privately given her afterwards.
“The bit that no one is aware of is that after that present was completed and we have been all backstage, Kyle got here as much as me and stated, ‘I’m actually sorry about that remark, however you sang like s**t and I didn’t need you to get voted off, so I simply threw that remark out to get a sympathy vote’,” DeAraugo informed co-host Claudia Coy.
Regardless of his reasoning, DeAraugo identified that the comment had scarred her.
“No matter cause he stated it’s irrelevant – I suppose the message in that’s that it’s a must to be actually cautious about what you say about folks’s our bodies,” she stated.
“It might actually scar and harm any person. On a unconscious stage, that remark by no means actually left me.”
She added that she’d by no means once more worn a sleeveless high, and that she hadn’t even felt rage on the time, simply the grim acceptance that Sandilands confirmed her worst fears about her physique.
“I don’t assume I used to be ever offended sufficient to need to forgive him within the first place, which is unsuitable in itself,” DeAraugo stated.
She then went into element concerning the painful, full-body liposuction she had after the present, which left her “black and blue” and with round 30 incisions.
The singer and former actuality TV star has additionally opened up in her podcast about her prolonged battle with drug habit, which escalated within the years following her Idol win.
DeAraugo defined that her virtually decade-long battle with drug abuse started across the age of 20, when – lastly feeling like she “slot in” and was “in with the cool children” – she tried cocaine.
After that, she moved on to the “terrible, terrible drug” of nitrous oxide earlier than attempting methamphetamine, or “ice”, for the primary time throughout a street journey from Airlie Seaside to Mackay with a good friend in 2009.
In 2015, DeAraugo was charged with drug driving; then in 2017 got here a medication and weapons conviction after ice, a knife and a tomahawk have been present in her automobile.
“Behind my thoughts, it was a narrative I informed myself … ‘I’m not an addict. I don’t find yourself in these locations. I come from a great house’,” she defined.
“However this sh** doesn’t give a f**ok who you’re. It doesn’t care the place you got here from, who your mummies or daddies are, or what college you went to.
“ … I’d misplaced all hope. I didn’t need to dwell anymore however, to be sincere, I used to be too gutless to die.”
DeAraugo has since managed to show her life round after turning into sober six years in the past, and is now mum to an almost-one-year-old boy with associate Shannon Riseley.
