Brynne Edelsten’s shock news: ‘I’m broke’

SHE’S accustomed to the high life, but Brynne Edelsten has revealed she is so broke she was unable to fly home for her beloved grandmother’s funeral last month.

Brynne Edelsten has given an interview to New Idea in a bid for privacy....

BRYNNE Edelsten says her high-profile split from husband Geoffrey has left her so broke she was unable to attend her grandmother’s funeral.

In an interview published in this week’s New Idea, the 31-year-old socialite and reality TV star reveals that as her marriage has crumbled, so too has her access to Edelsten’s considerable wealth.

Brynne lost her grandmother, 89-year-old Joyce Hansen, last month after she fell and broke her hip. Brynne said she was desperate to make the trip home to Phoenix, Arizona to attend the funeral, but didn’t have the money to buy her plane ticket.

“I asked if Geoff was willing to help me with airfares to get to the funeral, but he wasn’t,” she tells the magazine.

Brynne Edelsten has given an interview to New Idea in a bid for privacy. Makes sense to us.

“Geoff had threatened to change the locks on our apartment and he’d done that quite a few times in the past, so it wasn’t something that was unbelievable.

I was scared that if I went away to the States, I wouldn’t have anywhere to come home to. That broke my heart. It was horrible, especially knowing how much my mum wanted me there at Grandma’s funeral with her.”

Edelsten and her 70-year-old ex continue to share their Melbourne penthouse apartment as the details of their divorce are ironed (which sounds like an incredibly juicy premise for the next season of Brynne’s reality show, My Bedazzled Life). Geoffrey is reported to sleep on the couch, while there have been rumours Brynne has held wild parties at the residence using his money — something she refutes.

We really thought these two crazy kids were going to make it.

“There is no housekeeping money and no wild parties. The honest truth is that I don’t have an income right now, Geoff has cancelled all the joint credit cards and I don’t have anywhere to go. I don’t have family here, I don’t have the money for bond and I can’t afford any rent.”

Edelsten also uses her interview with New Idea to issue a bitterly ironic plea for privacy.

“Divorce is so personal and it should be very, very private,” she says.

“There are things Geoff has done that I am embarrassed and ashamed about, and I’m sure he feels the same about things I have done. There is good and bad in any marriage, but either way it’s not stuff you want to share with other people,” she says, having just shared with Australia the fact that her husband would not buy her a plane ticket.