Real Housewives of Sydney’s Lisa Oldfield started drinking because of the ‘basic b****s’ on the show

REAL Housewives of Sydney star Lisa Oldfield is giving up the booze after the drama and stress of appearing on the reality show drove her to drink.

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REAL Housewives of Sydney star Lisa Oldfield is giving up the booze after the drama and stress of appearing on the reality show drove her to drink.

Oldfield, who has signed up as a Dry July ambassador, says she turned to liquor after the reality show and major spinal surgery took its toll.

“I’ve never drank spirits,” Oldfield told Confidential, “but the first time I went out with the Real Housewives of Sydney as a group, I went home and poured myself a triple scotch.

“The fact I was having to hang out with the basic b-----s (on Housewives), you cannot reason with these women, you can’t argue with stupid so I would come home frustrated that these women are so malevolent.”

Lisa Oldfield says she was driven to drink by her Real Housewives castmates as well as her spinal surgery. Picture: Supplied

The reality star said waking up in a taxi having passed out on the way home from filming came as a wake up call.

“I’m a little bit dependent on alcohol,” Oldfield, who is married to former deputy leader of One Nation David Oldfield, confessed.

“I call myself a wine witch when I’ve had too much to drink and my problem is I can go without drinking, but I can’t stop at one or two. I’ll open a bottle of wine, I’ll finish the bottle and that’s not good.

“Being of Asian heritage I find it hard to metabolise alcohol so I get pissed pretty quickly and then things start to escalate.”

The Real Housewives of Sydney cast; Krissy Marsh, Melissa Tkautz, Athena Levendi, Victoria Rees, Matty Samaei, Nicole O'Neil and Lisa Oldfield. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Oldfield, who is mother to Harry, 6, and Bert, 4, hopes to raise funds to support a friend who is suffering stage four breast cancer as well as benefit her health by giving up alcohol.

“I’ve porked up so I need to lose some weight,” she said. “I’m a size 14 so I want to lose about five kilos.” Oldfield says she lost 20kg last year after giving up alcohol for ten months.

So far over 7000 Aussies have signed up to give up booze for July this year, with over $380,000 raised already to help people affected by cancer.

Lisa with her husband, former deputy leader of One Nation, David Oldfield. Picture: Justin Lloyd

Over $28 million has been raised by participants since Dry July began ten years ago.

As for signing up for season two of the reality show if it were commissioned, Oldfield says producers would need to “get rid of some of the dead wood” first.

“Some of those women and I can’t be in the same room together,” she said. “I don’t think Athenacould come back either after women had been so cruel to her.”

Matty Samaei has slammed Beverly Hills housewife Erika Jayne after her comments. Picture: Richard Dobson

Erika Jayne said the Sydney Housewives have to turn of the nastiness to make the show interesting as they have no lives. Picture: Rohan Kelly

Meanwhile, fellow cast member Matty Samaei has hit back at her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills counterpart Erika Jayne after she said the women were nasty on the show because their “lives are boring”.

“We can all perform on stage, having a stage name doesn’t automatically make you interesting,” Samaei fired back. “We have real lives, I have kids, a business ... what’s Erika done apart from sing and dance?”