“It's a train wreck sometimes”: Molly Meldrum health update
Australian singer-songwriter guitarist Russell Morris has shared an update on his friend, Molly Meldrum, on the Ben Fordham Live! radio show.
Morris was chatting to host Ben Fordham when conversation turned to Meldrum, with Fordham asking how the 80 year old was doing after footage leaked of him exposing himself on stage at a Rod Stewart concert in Melbourne in March.
“He’s doing okay,” the 74-year-old ARIA Hall of Fame guitarist said. “He’s not young anymore, he’s 80 years old, and I guess I’ll be doing worse things than that by the time I’m 80. I haven’t got too far to go.”
“So, yeah, it just happens,” he added, before going on to explain that his friend just wanted to live his life, and that that was part of the problem.
“He doesn’t want someone to put him in a home or something,” Morris revealed, “so he just decides to go out.”
According to Morris, “if you’re with him and you’re a carer or something, and you’re in awe of him”, and he declares that he’s going on stage, that telling him “no, no, no, no, I don’t think you should” won’t have any effect.
He’d tell them to get away from them, Morris explained, “he pushes and they all back off.”
However, as Morris went on to put it, “he just does what he wants to do. And consequently, it’s a train wreck sometimes.
“And I do love him, he’s a fantastic guy. I owe him a lot.”
At the time of the incident, Meldrum’s assistant Alan Evers-Buckland had informed 9Honey that he was shaken to see the footage circulating, and was “just really upset and shocked.
“He’s really sorry, that’s it.”
Evers-Buckley went on to express that Meldrum needed all of the love and support he could get from his fans, his family, and his friends in the wake of what had transpired.
Meldrum has not made his own public comments on the matter, though fans have been assured that the former music critic is receiving the care he needs.
And as his friend, Paige McGinley, told Sydney Morning Herald, the star had “a coordinated and dedicated support system in place” to help him during the difficult time.
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