Last week, Channel 10 forced an already devastated Abbie Chatfield into a confrontation with Matt Agnew and Chelsie McLeod when they planned for their respective interviews to be filmed quite literally metres away from each other. With one clear glass window separating Abbie from her ex-boyfriend and the woman he chose over her, the 23-year-old went into a state of panic when she looked over her shoulder and saw the loved up couple holding hands while being interviewed by Nova 9.69’s Fitzy and Wippa.
“I don’t want to weird you out right now but they are in that studio over there,” said Smallzy who was interviewing Abbie at the time.
“Holy f**k… That’s alright,” she replied.
Although Wippa gave her the option to leave the studio, a stoic Abbie bravely soldiered on, later revealing watching Matt and Chelsie hold hands was “the most horrible thing” she’d ever experienced.
Since reports surfaced claiming Abbie was “in tears in the stairwell” after the uncomfortable encounter, Matt addressed the issue telling News.com.au that he was saddened to hear she was affected by his actions.
WATCH: The moment Abbie breaks down after the orchestrated run-in with Matt and Chelsie
“Obviously it’s horrible to hear … I mean we weren’t aware of that, but I mean you hope things are co-ordinated with logistics and stuff like that doesn’t happen … so that’s a shame that it has,” the astrophysicist told the outlet.
Matt went on to admit that hurting people was all part of the process, and is still thankful the tumultuous experience led him to the woman he hopes to spend the rest of his life with.
“It is hard … you don’t want to hurt people but you do and that’s a really tough pill to swallow,” the 32-year-old said. “You’ve got to upset quite a lot of people, and they’re going to let their opinion be known to you, and yeah … Obviously it’s been a fantastic result for us and really rewarding, but it comes with its own set of challenges.”
After what was no doubt one of her toughest interviews to date, Abbie was pushed to tears hours after the interview when KIIS FM’s Kyle Sandilands decided it was an apt opportunity to tell her about the first time Matt and Chelsie had sex.
“Get over him,” Kyle told Abbie. “Because I asked those two this morning what the sex was like. They were on a couch in a hotel in South Africa making out and feeling each other, and then he lifted her up and took her to the bedroom, took all his clothes off and inserted himself… You need to move on as well.”
After a brief moment of silence, Abbie could be heard crying on the other end of the phone.
“She didn’t need to hear that,” Jackie O said to which Abbie replied, “Umm… sorry.”
“Good one, Kyle,” Jackie said awkwardly as the radio shock jock desperately tried to defend himself by saying: “It happened months ago!”
After Abbie hung up, Kyle appeared to feel horrible about the conversation, admitting: I didn’t mean to make her cry. I was trying to help her get over it… In hindsight, you’re right. I don’t like when girls cry.”
You can listen to the interview below!
After what an emotionally exhausting week, Abbie has also been forced to contend with an intense amount of online hate. After being consistently bullied on social media, Lisa Wilkinson rushed to her defence over the weekend, slamming online trolls who claimed the controversial reality TV star deserves the hate directed towards her because she “knew what social media was like before even going on the show”.
Under a photo posted to her Instagram page with Matt and Chelsie, The Project host replied to a nasty user, saying, “Whatever you think of these shows, no-one deserves the next-level nastiness, the threats of violence, the vicious pile-on, and the mean girls mentality that has gone on around her— both on and off the show— just because she decided to run her own race.”
The mum-of-three continued: “She found him— and he clearly found her— sexually attractive. That was caught on camera but judging her, and not him, for taking part in that…is an attitude that belongs to the 1950s. Abbie is, clearly, heartbroken, and not the tough cookie she tried to portray in that final episode, so let’s all be mindful of that, at the very least.
Abbie recently touched on the hate, revealing she’s been struggling to cope with the abhorrent comments and Instagram DM’s she’s been receiving from nasty viewers who took exception to her “controversial” actions on the Bachelor.
“I’ve been getting a lot of horrible DMs,” she told the hosts. “I’ve got a few threats of violence, saying—’Your mother shouldn’t have had you’— those sort of things just hundreds of times a day.”
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