Judith Lucy has shared her negative experiences with 's rental market.
The beloved Australian comedian described her dire living situation, which has left her without electricity and locked inside her own home after a screen door became stuck, in an Instagram video this week.
'I am living in a rental that I like to refer to as The House of Sh*t,' the 57-year-old said in the clip.
'Since moving in here just over a year ago, I've had the plumber here I think four or five times – Tom – we're on a first-name basis,' she continued.
'At one point he came around because my toilet cistern pulled away from the wall and was at such a bizarre angle that every time you went to p**s, it was like you're in a Salvador Dali painting.
'A power point blew up not that long ago, and one evening I was massaging my lower back with a very small ball against my living room wall – part of it just collapsed.'
Judith Lucy (pictured) has shared her negative experiences with Melbourne's rental market
'In the space of a week, my friend Michelle knocked on the door – that just came off in her hand,' Judith added, holding up a rusted door knocker.
She went on: 'Then the lock came off the front gate, then the front fell off the kitchen drawer.
'Last week, I went to leave my home and couldn't because the front flywire door was jammed. So I couldn't leave my own home through the front door for three days.
'And last Friday, I made the mistake of getting someone around to fix my washing machine – there was nothing wrong with my washing machine, there's just no longer any electricity in my laundry.'
Judith concluded by insisting she was 'grateful to be living anywhere' amid Australia's housing crisis, but joked that she was 'considering moving into a small chest of drawers that was left on the footpath because I think it could be safer'.
In 2022, Lucy announced she was retiring from stand-up comedy after 35 years on the road.
The funnywoman said at the time that she was 'done' with the constant travel and wanted to prioritise other aspects of her life.
'I started doing comedy before I lost my virginity,' she told ABC Everyday.
'I am living in a rental that I like to refer to as The House of Sh*t,' the 57-year-old said in the clip, and displayed a door knocker that had fallen off her front door
In 2022, Lucy announced she was retiring from stand-up comedy after 35 years on the road. Pictured in 2009
Lucy rose to fame as a cast member on ABC comedy series The Late Show in 1993
'For years I'd beaten myself up about the habits I'd used to numb myself, whether it was drinking, smoking, dope or watching hours of mindless TV,' she said.
