Roxy Jacenko has revealed she puts $100-a-week into her jailed husband Oliver Curtis’ prison buy-up so he can get a doona to protect from the cold.
The PR queen said the disgraced investment banker is now working as a clerk at Parklea Correctional Centre – two months after being jailed for insider trading.
Roxy, who was diagnosed with breast cancer weeks after Curtis’ sentencing, also discussed the possibility of conjugal visits, but said it was not her priority.
Support: Roxy Jacenko has revealed she puts $100-a-week into her jailed husband Oliver Curtis’ prison buy-up, pictured is the couple during the investment banker’s trial
‘I’ve visited twice. It’s not a nice place. It’s sad. It’s not somewhere where you’d choose to be,’ she told The Kyle and Jackie O show.
‘I have to put $100 in his buy-up every week. You can’t go over the amount. He’s buying a doona next because it’s cold.
‘He has a job, he works as a clerk in an administrative role. They go to the gym a lot.
Battle: Roxy, who was diagnosed with breast cancer weeks after Curtis’ sentencing, said she has visited him twice at the Sydney jail
‘He’s said everyone is really nice. He has settled in as well as he can. He likes his job, it’s good to have a job.’
When Kyle Sandilands asked whether she would consider going for a conjugal visit during the two-year jail-term, she said: ‘It’s not something that even crossed my mind.’
The mother-of-two revealed that her five-year-old daughter Pixie and two-year-old Hunter believe their father is working is China.
She said she made the ‘rookie error’ of putting Pixie on the phone to Curtis and that the youngster spent the rest of the day in tears.
Getting back to work: The disgraced investment banker is now working as a clerk at Parklea Correctional Centre – two months after being jailed for insider trading
‘She spent the day in tears’: Roxy said she made the ‘rookie error’ of putting Pixie on the phone to Curtis
‘It was the worst thing. He phoned on a Saturday she cried for the whole day after. Her first words were: ‘When are you coming home?”
‘The older you are the worst separation is. I put her on the phone on her birthday and I regretted it.
‘I’ve said I don’t want to speak when I’m around the children.’
The founder of Sweaty Betty PR, 36, said she panicked and told the children that their father would be back in time for Christmas.
‘I think I was asked on the spot when dad was coming home and I said Christmas. I will have to say he’s still in China,’ she said.
‘Your husband is a criminal’: Roxy faced tough questions from reporter Allison Langdon in a 60 Minutes special on Sunday
Roxy believes her children are both too young to be exposed to the truth of why their father is not at home.
But she told the KIIS 106.5 show she is constantly worried that they might find out and get teased in the playground.
‘It’s a constant concern. But at the moment they’re five and two, I’m not going to expose them.
‘I don’t think it’s something I need to address now. I’m very very careful.
‘But when I think it’s appropriate they’ll have their lines for response when asked about their dad ‘the one who went to jail’.
Tense relationship? The 36-year-old previously snapped at Allison in another preview clip after the reporter suggested there was ‘cynicism’ over the ‘timing’ of her cancer diagnosis
Battle: In another 60 Minutes promo, Roxy was seen being pushed through a hospital ward before going into surgery to remove a tumour on her breast
The PR maven revealed that her children were also in the dark about the explosive 60 Minutes special on Sunday.
During the interview, she faced tough questions from reporter Allison Langdon who stated bluntly: ‘Your husband is a criminal.’
Roxy, 36, did not seem happy with the journalist’s choice of words to describe Oliver’s conviction for conspiracy to commit insider trading.
‘He was accused of stealing 1.43 million dollars,’ she continued.
Looking quietly frustrated, Roxy responded: ‘I don’t know that we should use the word ‘steal”.
Treatment: Roxy revealed the news of her breast cancer diagnosis last month and has since confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that she will undergo radiation therapy
Challenging: She also revealed how her Oliver’s jail term for insider trading has left her as a single mother to their two young children, Pixie, five, and two-year-old Hunter
She also slammed the critics who have questioned why the announcement of her breast cancer diagnosis came weeks after Oliver Curtis’ incarceration.
‘I don’t really give a f**k what they think on my timing,’ she said.
And when Allison said that ‘normal’ people were cynical about the timing, Roxy snapped back, saying: ‘Well they’re not normal Alison, change your friends.
‘You’ve got too much time on your hands if you say that. They can say that, the reality is, it’s not something that I ever thought I would face.’
During the interview, the 36-year-old revealed she chose not to have a mastectomy, despite doctors recommending the surgery for her 10mm tumour.
Speaking of her choice to have a lumpectomy instead, Roxy noted: ‘I wasn’t in the headspace to make rash decisions.
‘I suppose, unlike everything else in my life where I’ll go full pelt, I wanted to do this one thing in a phased approach’.
She underwent the breast cancer surgery two weeks ago and a tumour was successfully removed.