Sweaty Betty maven Roxy Jacenko has snapped at cynics in a fiery promotional clip for next Sunday’s airing of 60 Minutes.
The blonde beauty secured a resident spot in the limelight when her husband, Oliver Curtis, was sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to commit insider trading in 2007 and 2008.
Three weeks on from his conviction, she announced the discovery of a cancerous lump in her left breast, which reporter Allison Langdon pointed out in their one-on-one interview, has caused some members of the public to question the timing of her diagnosis.
“It is what it is. I’m unfortunately the person who has got the cancer, my husband is in jail, and I’m now a single mother,” she snapped in a teaser for the upcoming interview on 60 Minutes before adding, “I don’t really give a f— what they think on my timing.”
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“There’s a problem isn’t there – when you announce that you have breast cancer and people’s first reaction is cynicism?” asked the segment’s reporter, to which Roxy fired back, “You’ve got too much time on your hands if you say that.”
“It’s normal people out there,” Allison replied.
“Well they’re not normal Allison. Change your friends,” the mother-of-two retorted, adding, “They can say that, the reality is, [breast cancer] is not something that I ever thought I would face.”
When asked about whether she had any knowledge of the businessman’s conviction, the 36-year-old revealed that they “don’t discuss it”, but insists that Oliver has “got no reason to lie to me.”
The mother of Pixie, five, and Hunter, two, also opened up about her adjustment to life as the sole carer of her and her husband’s children.
As scenes flashed across the screen of her making her way through hospital in preparation for surgery, Roxie says, “I don’t want to let down the children.”
“There is me and only me. So I’ve got an obligation to all of those people to keep running, in heels!”
As for whether Roxy and Oliver have ever discussed his past, the PR guru says it’s not something they talk about. “He’s got no reason to lie to me,” a defiant Roxy explains in the teaser.
The full interview with Roxy Jacenko will air on 60 Minutes this coming Sunday.
Watch the couple’s kids sing happy birthday to their father as he spends his birthday in prison in the player below.
