Erin Molan reveals she was homeless in her 20s

Erin Molan has made a stunning revelation about her 20s, despite being the daughter of a former Army Major General.

Television and radio host Erin Molan has revealed she was forced to live in a car after being kicked out of her sharehouse.

Speaking to co-hosts Dave Hughes and Ed Kavalee on the new 2Day FM breakfast show, the 37-year-old said it was when she was in her early 20s.

“I lived in my car by the way for a couple of months,” she said.

2Day FM breakfast host Erin Molan.

“It was a Holden Barina 1997. I would have been early 20s. I was working at a TV station for $350 bucks a fortnight.”

Hughes questioned Molan on her upbringing, joking that her father was “the boss of the army”.

Jim Molan with daughter Erin. Picture: Gary Ramage

Molan’s dad, Jim, is a former Major General in the Australian Army and more recently a Federal Liberal Senator for NSW.

“I was naughty so we had a stage where I didn’t particularly want to go home,” Molan explained, adding though that she “grew up in an amazing family”.

Later when contacted, Molan confirmed that she was already living out of home at the time.

“I had been living with flatmates and that didn’t work out for whatever reason, I think I ate someone’s nuts or lollies or something and things soured,” she told Confidential.

“I had too much pride to tell mum and dad and didn’t want to go home with my tail between my legs so I lived out of my car for a while.”

Molan, who is mum to two-year-old daughter Eliza, along with Hughes and Kavalee kicked off the year with their first show together last week.

In November, it was announced the trio had been hired to replace Jamie Angel in the competitive shift.

It is the eighth breakfast show incarnation since Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O Henderson defected to rival KIIS 106.5.

Dave Hughes, Erin Molan and Ed Kavalee. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Jeremy Piper

Hughes and Kavalee come from the drive shift while Molan previously broadcast for 2GB.

In their first show together, Molan admitted to “a couple of indiscretions” including a midnight drunk dial to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.

“I have actually quit drinking for January right but I’ve had a couple of indiscretions,” she said.

“It might have been 11pm, potentially midnight or 1am, I am not quite sure. We were talking and we clearly need to get lives but we were talking about how well you (Berejiklian) have handled the pandemic and how we all look up to you.

“Then I said to the girls, Gladys and I are basically best friends, do you want me to call her and I will tell her how we all feel.”

Fortunately for Molan, the call went unanswered.