Podcaster and TV host Abbie Chatfield, whose live show Abbie Chatfield Loves Men is touring Australia, shared personal insights in a recent interview, including her mother's breakup advice, a chaotic dating story involving a wetsuit, and her obsession with a tortoise named Jorge.
Mother's Breakup Advice
When asked about the best advice she ever received, Chatfield recalled her mother's words during a difficult breakup. “She said, 'Oh, I feel so sorry for him.' And I was like, 'Why do you feel sorry for him? That doesn’t make any sense, because I’m the one that’s been destroyed by this freak.' And she said, 'Because he has to live in his head and you get to live in yours.'” Chatfield described this as a powerful way to avoid resentment and take poor treatment less personally.
Chaotic Show Moments
Chatfield recounted the most chaotic event during a performance in Aotearoa. During a segment called Nightmare Fuel, a woman shared her worst dating story: she slept with a man wearing a wetsuit rolled down to his thighs. After sex, he removed the wetsuit, peeled a scab from his shin, and ate it. “I lay on the floor of the stage and screamed,” Chatfield said.
Procrastination and Sleep Struggles
Chatfield admitted to doomscrolling as a procrastination habit and cutting her cuticles when anxious. For sleepless nights, she often doomscrolls but is trying to switch to reading National Geographic magazines. “There was a tortoise called Jorge I became obsessed with. There was a whole five-page spread on him,” she said, adding that the magazines offer hopeful stories about animals and environmental restoration.
Screen Time and Lies
Chatfield accurately estimated her daily screen time at nine hours and five minutes, noting that much of it is work-related. She also confessed to a recent lie: after a sound healing session that caused a near panic attack, she told the instructor it was “life-changing” and “beautiful.” “Not her fault, I think I just wasn’t in the right headspace. I guess it was life-changing, in that it was horrifying and made me want to vomit.”
Belief in Extraterrestrial Life
Chatfield believes extraterrestrial life likely exists but doubts it has reached Earth. “If they’d reached Earth, things would be very bad for us. We’d know.”
The Abbie Chatfield Loves Men national live tour kicks off in Thirroul, New South Wales, on 10 July.
