Former Australian Idol star Kate DeAraugo opens up about her darkest moment during her battle with ice addiction: being stabbed by her ex-partner using a machete

Kate DeAraugo has revealed that at the lowest point of her addiction to methamphetamine, she was stabbed by a former partner. 

The Australian Idol star made the confession on her upcoming podcast series, Why Do I Feel This Way, as published by The Daily Telegraph on Friday. 

‘I got stabbed in one of his angry ice events,’ the 37-year-old said. 

‘I ended up with a machete in my leg, and in a hospital lying about it. I said I fell on a bit of tin on a job site. And they looked at me like, whatever.

‘In the back of my mind, it was a story I told myself… “I’m not an addict. I don’t end up in these places. I come from a good home”‘.

Kate DeAraugo has revealed that at the lowest point of her addiction to methamphetamine, she was stabbed by a former partner. Pictured with her current partner Shannon Riseley and their young son

‘But this s**t doesn’t give a f**k who you are. It doesn’t care where you came from, who your mummies or daddies are, or what school you went to.’

Kate added that she could tell ‘a million shocking stories’ about ‘where, and how, and what we used’. 

‘I’d lost everything – my career, beautiful relationships, friends, all my money’ she said. 

‘I’d lost all hope. I didn’t want to live anymore but, to be honest, I was too gutless to die.’

The Australian Idol 2005 winner found herself at rock bottom in 2017 after pleading guilty to possessing ice, drug driving and weapons offences

The Australian Idol 2005 winner found herself at rock bottom in 2017 after pleading guilty to possessing ice, drug driving and weapons offences. 

Avoiding conviction, the star was placed on a community corrections order and has since made every effort to rehabilitate herself and transform her life. 

‘I’m five years clean and sober,’ she told Shannon Noll’s Idol Talking podcast earlier this year. 

‘Addiction is a topic that should be talked about really openly and I think still in this country we are not very educated about it.’ 

‘I got stabbed in one of his angry ice events,’ the 37-year-old said. ‘I ended up with a machete in my leg, and in a hospital lying about it. I said I fell on a bit of tin on a job site. And they looked at me like, whatever’

Kate said that while she’s made plenty of mistakes over the years, she now takes responsibility for her past. 

‘My life went on a bit of a left field journey and I did some things and went some places that I never wanted to, or did not intend to, but it is just where life led me.’

‘Coming back from that, having to really turn around and stop and look at yourself and look at your life and take responsibility for your life decisions is probably the hardest and most terrifying thing I have ever done,’ she added. 

The Maybe Tonight singer previously spoke about how her partner Shannon Riseley helped her turn a corner in her life after her battle with addiction. 

‘In the back of my mind, it was a story I told myself… “I’m not an addict. I don’t end up in these places. I come from a good home”‘ she said. Pictured at the 2007 Australian Idol grand finale

Earlier this year, the couple welcomed their first child, a son called Hudson. 

Speaking on Channel Seven’s The Morning Show, Kate said her partner had been a huge support since she became a mother as she introduced her baby to viewers. 

‘This is my new main man, Hudson, and he is just the best guy. He has made my life pretty special,’ she said.

‘He is pretty chilled for the most part. He is the most amazing little guy.’

The Maybe Tonight singer previously spoke about how her partner Shannon Riseley helped her turn a corner in her life after her battle with addiction