Erin Molan's emotional confession about marriage after father's death
In an emotional new interview, the broadcaster said the death of her father, the late senator Jim Molan, in 2023 changed her perspective on marriage.
Speaking to the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About, the 41-year-old said: 'I'll never get married because I don't think I could without Dad there to walk me down the aisle'.
'I think that is the only thing I [would] look forward to about marriage … I never grew up dreaming of a dress, or a Prince Charming,' Molan said, in the interview released today.
'Dad would always joke about his speech at my wedding, He's obviously not here to give that. So marriage does not interest me in the slightest at this stage. I'm so fine with that.'
Listen to the full interview with Erin Molan on Something To Talk About below:
In the interview, Molan said she is happily single and dating, and she feels it is 'OK to be on my own'. It is a contrast, she told Something To Talk About, to 'when I separated from my daughter's father, I went into another relationship almost immediately for three years.'
'I didn't give myself time to be alone. And I didn't quite understand why people don't recommend that until a little while in.
'Being on my own, being OK to be on my own … it's the loveliest, most peaceful existence I've ever had. I'm dating, absolutely.
'I'm open to connection, but in terms of commitment, not for me.
'This is my time to be selfish, to be the most present mother that I can be and do exactly what I want when I want. I'm having more fun now than I've ever had, in every single way.'
The radio and TV presenter also addressed the fallout from losing her high-profile Sydney breakfast radio job on 2Day FM, as well as a TV role on Sky News Australia – and how it brought her to a personal reckoning.
'I started out in television at 21 and I'm now 41. I didn't quite realise until I lost professionally every role that I had – from the start of [last] year til the end – how miserable I had been,' Molan told Something To Talk About.
'I was crippled by fear that entire time. It was only once I had lost everything, every job, that I realised that I was actually OK.
'I realised what I'd been terrified of, which was 'if this doesn't work out, if this doesn't rate, if I get sacked', then I'm nothing. I have no worth and value. People won't like me, I won't be able to get another job, I will have failed. My fear of failure was so massive.'
See the full shoot in today's Stellar, inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland) and Sunday Mail (SA).
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