“I raced to stop him and slipped on the laundry floor that I had managed to flood.
“Telstra couldn’t help, the toddler was hassling for my phone, the sick kid was screaming for help, my house looked like squatters had moved in and started breeding.
“I called my husband who literally did not understand.”
Constance then went onto explain that husband, Denim had no comprehension of having to juggle several things at once.
"I find a lot of men have single focus. They see what they need to do, they want to get it done and they struggle to comprehend what it’s like to never be able to focus on one thing, to have five questions or urgent requests hitting you at once and to always be thinking about everything/everyone else,” she continued.
“Emails were piling in, tours, photoshoots, rewrites for books, legal shit to sign and my brain shut down. Unable to reply to any of them, I sat on the floor and hid my tears while Snow braided my hair and Rumi begged me for cereal for dinner.”
The outspoken celebrity revealed that it was one of her closest friends, Tash, who saved the day.
“Tash walked in, and of course, I got up and did the whole, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine, seriously, just having a moment.’
“But she didn’t believe me or accept me pushing her away. She made some calls… not the gossip calls, the right calls.
“Since that night, two of my husband’s beautiful best friends have not left our house. Cooking, working on the garden, patiently playing with kids and calming us all.