Roxy Jacenko had nervous breakdown, contemplated suicide after Oliver Curtis went to jail

Roxy Jacenko has opened up about the dark period she went through after husband Oliver Curtis was jailed for insider trading in 2016.

In a frank interview on Seven’s Sunday Night, the PR queen admitted she had a nervous breakdown, was “living on alcohol and drugs” and experienced suicidal thoughts.

The Sweaty Betty founder was pushed to “breaking point” looking after the couple’s two children, Pixie, seven and Hunter, four, on her own, and running her business empire.

“I was very resentful. You know, I looked at my life, and I was like, how am I even in this position? How has this happened to me? You know. I’d worked hard my whole life; I have tried to do the right thing. You know, how am I in this position?”

She even alluded to contemplating suicide.

“I was very close to standing at the gap,” she said referring to a famous suicide spot in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She said it was her children that prevented her from ever doing it.

“I wouldn’t have coped. But the only thing that stopped me was the fact that and they needed me,” she said.

The PR mogul was given an antidepressant medication when she “reached a breaking point” about a month before Mr Curtis was released.

“You need to admit me to a clinic,” she begged a GP.

She admitted that she “started living a life as soon as Oli went to jail that was fast” and quickly spiralled out of control.

“I didn’t eat and went out and indulged in things I shouldn’t have indulged in. I had cancer. I weighed, like, 45 kilos,” she said. “I went rogue, basically.”

During this time she felt resentment towards her husband and blamed him.

“I said to him, It’s your fault. This is all your fault,” she recalled, even telling him “you gave me cancer.”

She had a lump removed from her breast in 2016 and has since been given the all clear.

“I felt bad saying it, but, to be honest with you, at the time you know I was very resentful. I was resentful I had to I was resentful that I had to be on my own. I had to work. I had to look after the children.

“I didn’t … I couldn’t cope. I had a nervous breakdown.”

“I remember I would go out, and I’d come home at all hours of the morning. I basically lost my marbles,” the 38-year-old said.

“I remember driving Ollie’s car and parking it and then the next day going downstairs and looking at it, and it was all smashed up. And I was like, I don’t even remember how I did it.”

She also recalled the day she got home after Mr Curtis has been sentenced, and daughter Pixie asked after noticing she was sad “Did you have a bad day in the office?”

“I was like, ‘A very bad day.’ I had to lie, and I remember she said, ‘Oh, where’s Dad, and why isn’t Dad coming home?’”

Roxy told her daughter that her dad had gone to China.

“Because it was the first thing I thought of. And everyone was like ‘how could you lie to your child?’ … but what could I say?

“It was bad. I’ll never forget it.”

Mr Curtis, who now works at his wife’s PR firm, seemed to want to use the TV appearance as a way to improve his public image, projecting a happy-go-lucky persona.

“Of course I regret it,” he said of his insider trading conviction.

“You can’t not regret it. I was a kid, you know? I was a silly kid. I remember my old man telling me that you fly too close to the sun, your wings get burnt. And that’s just what happens.”

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