Kyle Sandilands reveals distressing childhood moment his father humiliated his mother

By Julia Naughton|

"Mum was crying in the bedroom."

Kyle Sandilands has given us an insight into his dysfunctional childhood.

The 46-year-old KIIS FM presenter showed a softer side on air on Friday, when he recalled a distressing moment that involved his late father bringing another woman home.

"When my dad was married to my mother — one day he came home because he was a drunk back in the early days," he told co-host Jackie "O" Henderson.

"He brought another woman home and sent my mum to the bedroom, and another woman sat down and ate dinner with us," he continued. "This other woman I had never met before sat down at the dinner table, and we all ate dinner like a family while my mum was crying in the bedroom."

Jackie responded, "Oh my God, your family was really dysfunctional."

To which Kyle hit back in jest: "After all this time you’ve just realised?"

Kyle has previously spoken of the "messy" relationship he had with his dad, Peter, who died of liver and bowel cancer last March.

In an interview with Anh Do last October, Kyle revealed the police would often be called to the family home when his parents fought.

"Back then, it was the 70s," he said. "I think it was quite a normal thing... husbands and wives at war with each other."

His mother, Pam, eventually left Peter, taking Kyle and his brother, Chris, with her. However, Peter would regularly try to interfere, forcing the boys to move from school to school.

"I was always the kid in the wrong school uniform always trying to assimilate, so that’s pretty much when I became the class clown."

By the age of 15, he was kicked out of home and lived on the streets. At one point, he lived behind a supermarket, and later a horse float at a petrol station.

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