Chrissie Swan's shock confession as she admits to four-year secret: 'I'm tired of hiding'

Daily Mail​

15-05-2025

Chrissie Swan has spilled the beans on a secret she has been hiding for four years.
The Nova star joined colleagues Ryan 'Fitzy' Fitzgerald, Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli, on their Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie show on Thursday to make her shock confession.
The former Big Brother star, 51, revealed she has been dealing with the effects of a midlife crisis.
'Here's the thing, midlife crisis, right? I recommend them to everybody,' Chrissie began.
'Something has happened and I want to know, from your standpoint, if this is a new evolution of my midlife crisis or if I'm just... being the person that I wanted to be as a teenager?'
Admitting she was 'four years deep' into her midlife crisis, Chrissie added it was something she welcomed.
'I think it's like your whole world opens up into a glittering opportunity,' she said.
'That's why I don't really like the word crisis because that implies there's a problem. It should be renamed "midlife awakening".'
Wippa then suggested that Chrissie may have misdiagnosed her 'condition'.
'I'm not a doctor but I would suggest you've been completely nuts since the day you were born,' he joked.
It was an assessment with which Chrissie agreed, adding she was keen to embrace her 'nuttiness'.
'I can't hide. I'm exhausted from hiding the fact that I'd be nuts. I've just gotta be nuts and make no apologies for it,' she said.
Chrissie then admitted her midlife crisis had manifested in her buying things that she missed out on during her youth.
She asked Fitzy and Wippa to rattle off the items of clothing she was wearing, which included a Benetton jumper, a Swatch watch and a pair of Reebok sneakers.
'I am wearing classic '80s things. These were huge in 1988,' she said.
'Is this just the next phase of my midlife crisis or am I doing all this stuff that I couldn't do in 1988 because I was only working two mornings a week at Baker's Delight?'
'Maybe you're just angry you missed that period, so now you're trying to bring back 1988?' Wippa surmised.
Chrissie's admission comes after she shared a remarkable sobriety milestone in February, admitting her decision to put down the bottle was the best she's ever made.
She posted a short video that featured what appeared to be a clip art image of a sobriety chip featuring the phrase '4 years sober time'.
Captioning the celebratory post, Chrissy admitted that she does not miss indulging in alcohol.
'Four years no booze today,' Chrissy wrote.
'One thing I have learned is this: there is not a single thing that alcohol makes better.
'It is still the best decision I have ever made (and followed through) for myself.'
The Nova radio star revealed in 2021 that she quit drinking alcohol following Melbourne's harsh 112-day lockdown in 2020.
Chrissie has also lost a reported 90kg in three years and has .