Kyle Sandilands details mother’s battle with postnatal depression and being ‘hated by step-parents’

Kyle Sandilands candidly discussed his heartbreaking family story live on air on Thursday.

The topic of conversation with his co-host Jackie O began when the broadcaster explained a recent advertisement about postnatal depression left him ‘angry’ because he believed it was what his mother had suffered from during his childhood.

The 49-year-old said on The Kyle and Jackie O Show that he had ‘never been kissed or cuddled’ by his mother – and didn’t see much luck with his step-parents who ‘hated him’ too. 

Kyle played the offending ad, in which a woman is heard telling a therapist she thought about leaving her newborn child in a cafe.

Describing why he was so livid about the advertisement, Kyle told Jackie: ‘My mum had postnatal depression – so she didn’t hate me as a teenager when she threw me out, she hated me from birth.

‘Her and dad had problems over it [postnatal depression] because they weren’t intimate, and he turned to alcohol, and things got violent.’

Kyle emotionally added: ‘My whole life, deep inside, I’ve been wondering, what did I do wrong as a teenager? I wasn’t a bad or a nasty kid.

‘She just hated me from the moment I crawled out of the vagina.’

Revealing that he has worked on his relationship with his mother in recent years, Kyle said: ‘My childhood was empty and nothing. I wasn’t hugged and told I was loved.

‘Now me and mum force it in there [saying ‘I love you’] and it’s awkward as hell!

Kyle’s brother Chris then called in to discuss his childhood further, who told him: ‘I don’t think mum kicked you out! It was Pat [their step-father]’

Shortly after, Kyle’s aunt Jill called in and defiantly stood up for his mother, exclaiming: ‘She smothered you in love!’

However, she did admit that he was disliked by both step-parents.

‘What hope did I have?” Kyle pondered as they concluded the conversation.