‘Fake’ detail in Jackie O’s tell-all memoir

Jackie O has been forced to admit she’d faked a detail in her tell-all book after being confronted about it on air.

Jackie “O” Henderson has admitted to faking a detail about her new tell-all book after being confronted on air.

The Kyle and Jackie O host, 49, released her bombshell memoir on Tuesday, generating plenty of headlines with never-before-heard revelations about the top-rated radio show’s most controversial moments and her secret three-year struggle with drug and alcohol addiction.

But it was the actual cover of The Whole Truth which under the microscope during Wednesday’s episode of the KIIS FM show, with newsreader Brooklyn Ross calling out Jackie about her appearance on the cover.

“There’s a lot of freckles on that nose, Jackie,” he said pointedly.

“They’re drawn on,” she admitted. “They’re not real”.

“The Whole Truth? Yeah, sure,” Brooklyn joked in response.

Jackie O has released her tell-all memoir, The Whole Truth.

She admitted one detail about the cover was “not real”.

Jackie then revealed she’d been a bit worried about the false aesthetic on the day the photos were taken.

“I’m going to be doing this on my book cover – is this a good idea?” she recalled of the moment the fake freckles were being added to her face.

“One appeared on my chin,” she joked. “I’ve got a beauty spot”.

The memoir goes into detail about Jackie’s painful battle with drug and alcohol addiction, which had previously been kept under wraps.

“It was casual at first, until it wasn’t. Truth be told, while over the years when times got tough, I’d go to the chemist and grab myself some Nurofen Plus to take the edge off, now it was different,” she wrote.

“To experience any kind of high, I had been taking roughly ten Nurofen Plus tablets at once for years.

“Now that I was deeper into my addiction, I was taking that much three or four times a day.”

The radio star emotionally revealed she went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction.

Following her divorce from Lee Henderson in 2018, her need to escape reality heightened as she dealt with “loneliness and guilt” while separated from their daughter, Kitty.

“In an attempt to cope with the loneliness and guilt I was feeling, I made another bad decision. I began taking sleeping pills — Stilnox — on the days I was alone, as a way to numb the loneliness,” Jackie recalled.

“It was a coward’s way of dealing with my pain, finding comfort in what was slowly becoming an addiction.”

During an emotional segment last Thursday, Jackie admitted she had been “badly addicted” to lots of different things, including painkillers, sleeping pills and alcohol while reading a preview excerpt of the book.

“Someone was watching over me because I don’t know how I woke up most days with that kind of dosage,” she revealed.

After finally reaching out to her best friend about her problem, she was persuaded to check herself into US rehab centre the Betty Ford Clinic in November 2022.

Following criticism for not acknowledging that while she could afford expensive care at the ritzy facilit, others can’t even access basic care locally, Jackie announced on Monday that she was donating all profits from the book to an Australian rehab clinic.

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Originally published as ‘Fake’ detail in Jackie O’s tell-all memoir