The wild story about Grant Denyer going to a Thai rehab facility that sparked false drug rumours

Grant Denyer addressed previous hypothesis of a drug behavior on Thursday’s episode of I am A Movie star… Get Me Out Of Right here! 

And now a Girl’s Day article that sparked the false rumours has resurfaced.  

The 43-year-old TV host was requested concerning the allegations on the present by his co-star, Toni Pearen, after a 2014 report by the journal claimed he had checked right into a Thai rehab facility. 

Within the February 2014 story, Girl’s Day reported that Grant and his spouse of 10 years, Chezzi Denyer, had sought remedy for an ‘ice’ behavior at The Cabin rehab facility in Thailand. 

The journal additionally claimed that the Household Feud host had a $200,000 a yr methamphetamine habit. 

Grant vehemently denied the rumours and launched an announcement on the time claiming he would take authorized motion in opposition to the publication, which by no means eventuated.

Chatting with Each day Mail Australia in July 2014, Girl’s Day said: ‘So far as we’re conscious, no authorized proceedings have been entered into at the moment. Girl’s Day stand by our story.’

Grant’s agent, Titus Day, informed Each day Mail Australia on the time that whereas authorized proceedings had been thought-about, it finally proved to be too pricey for the star.

‘Authorized charges had been quoted to be over $1million and a minimum of two years wait till there can be a trial. That was a major consideration on the time and doubtless nonetheless is,’ Day mentioned. 

Chatting with Each day Mail Australia in 2014, Grant labelled the publication of the story ‘a really hurtful and an uncomfortable factor’.

‘It was a merciless article by a foolish journal, so I do not fear about it an excessive amount of. If sticks and stones damage me too badly I most likely should not be in tv,’ he added.

On the time of the allegations, Day issued an announcement resolutely denying them, saying Grant was being handled in Thailand for an ‘ongoing unknown abdomen sickness’.

‘The wellness centre they attended in Thailand specialises within the remedy of PTSD and exhaustion, and so they spent 4 weeks there to lastly handle these ongoing well being considerations,’ he mentioned. 

Grant additionally addressed the rumours on Thursday’s episode of I am A Movie star, the place he emotionally denied the report.

‘For me, the worst of it occurred at a time after I was at my worst and wasn’t very sturdy,’ he started. 

‘I principally had persistent fatigue. I would run myself into the bottom. Yeah, it was a horrible interval. I used to be the breadwinner. And, you recognize, we had a child.’ 

Grant mentioned his exhaustion made him unable to fulfil his obligations at Channel Seven, who he was employed by on the time. 

‘Somebody offered a narrative to {a magazine} that claimed we had a major drug situation. That wasn’t true. Simply, you recognize, how do you counter so many tales and articles as soon as the gossip machine is fired up?’ he continued.

‘They’re completely made up, ludicrously ridiculous tales which are simply fabricated to promote magazines. It was arduous. It was actually arduous. You do not know what to do. You are so scared.’

He added: ‘You simply do not know the place to run ‘trigger they’re coming at you from each angle and also you simply wish to go and by no means come again. So we acquired away from all of it. We went abroad and simply labored on ourselves.’

An emotional Grant admitted that Chezzi, 40, ‘had a good bit of PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder] from all of it’, whereas he was involved he’d by no means land one other tv job.   

‘I am shocked that anyone touched me after that. I actually am. However Household Feud got here alongside and, as I mentioned in my Gold Logie speech, it saved my profession and it additionally saved me,’ he admitted, wiping away tears from his eyes.