Grant Denyer ‘pelted eggs’ at his wife Chezzi in drug-induced rage

The TV personality opened up on I’m A Celeb about a time he was fighting addiction to painkillers and how it took him and his wife down a dark path.

In Monday night’s episode of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here, Grant Denyer opens up about an incident which saw him pelting eggs at his wife Chezzi.

Denyer told his camp mates how when he broke his back in 2008 after an accident at a monster truck promotional event, it led him down a dark path as he became addicted to pain medication.

Grant opened up to the other celebs about an incident with his wife. Picture: Channel 10

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“I decided to crash off it which was … when I went missing …” he told Abbie Chatfield, Alli Simpson and Toni Pearen. “Mate, I pelted eggs at her [Chezzi] one night. I cracked it for some reason. I was hungry and was in pain and was confused and I just started throwing eggs at her.” he said.

“She doesn’t deserve this but you just can’t stop.”

The TV personality recounted some of his darkest days. Picture: Channel 10

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It’s not the first time Denyer has opened up about his drug addiction.

On the couple’s podcast, It’s All True, Denyer explained how he was hooked on the painkillers while recovering from the accident.

“Holy hell, do you remember all the mad sh*t that went on?” Grant said to Chezzi on the podcast. “The moment you close your eyes, you can’t tell the difference between reality and your dreams. As soon as you close your eyes, you go into your worst nightmares.

“The things that you’re afraid of the most are the first things that happen the moment you fall asleep and you start dreaming.”

Detailing one incident, Denyer said: “I remember waking up thinking there was a home invasion and I thought that Chezzi was being attacked, being raped in the apartment.

“I’m trying to find these guys who are attacking you and raping you. I’m like, ‘Where are they? I know they’re here! Where are they?’”

The couple said the strong medication Denyer was prescribed during his recovery was “the worst part of the injury by far”.

“We had so many drug psychosis episodes where Grant would kick me out of the house because he would say I was an impostor dressed up as Chezzi,” his wife said. “He’d be like, ‘I don’t believe you. Get out of the house!’

“I’d get locked out of the house and I’d be a crying mess.”

The couple recalled another shocking incident that took place when they were living in an apartment on Castlereagh St in the Sydney CBD.

Grant Denyer with wife Chezzi. Picture: Lawrence Pinder

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“I remember one night I left the house in my undies to go and get some scotch,” Denyer said.

Chezzi added: “He said, ‘I want some scotch, you f***ing b**ch.’ I was like, ‘I beg your pardon?’ He said, ‘Listen, you f***ing b**ch, I am going to get some scotch. Where’s my ginger ale?’

“He came out and said, ‘Well if you’re not going to get it for me, fine, f**k you,’ and he grabbed the keys and walked straight out the door,” Chezzi said.

Denyer stressed it was the withdrawals talking and he would never normally speak to his wife like that.

“I just wasn’t in a place where I could understand my own actions or behaviours,” he said.

Chezzi spent three hours searching the streets for him before she decided to have a look in the fire escape of their apartment building.

“It broke my heart,” she said. “I found him at the top of the fire escape laying face down in all this filth. There was even a human poo next to him (which wasn’t Grant’s).”

Grant and Chezzi warned of the dangers of the medication and said, “You’re just not given the skills to handle it,” when leaving hospital.

Grant also apologised to Chezzi for his behaviour, saying to her on the It’s All True podcast: “I’m sorry for everything I put you through in that period.”

You can listen to Grant and Chezzi Denyer’s podcast here

I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! airs tonight on Channel 10, at 7.30pm