Cody Simpson’s mum Angie and sister Alli have weighed in on the singer-turned-swimmer’s love triangle with Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers.
Appearing on Sunrise live from the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Angie and Allie told hosts David Koch and Nat Barr that the former singer’s background in the spotlight — particularly his relationship with Miley Cryus — made him uniquely qualified to handle his private life making global headlines.
“I think he has been lucky because he has had so much history with press and media before, performing on stage for thousands of people,” Angie said.
“So I think the pressures of what he has dealt with in camp and at the Commonwealth Games has been pretty easy for him.
“It has given him an advantage to deal with a lot of those stresses and not let that stuff bother him.”
Alli added: “I think he’s used to it, growing up from a very young age in the entertainment world a lot of this stuff is what comes with it, the public eye and the public world.”
Rumors of a supposed rift between Chalmers and Simpson have dominated media coverage of the Australian team’s success at the Commonwealth Games after news Simpson was dating Charlmers’ former flame and fellow swimmer McKeon.
Cody was with Cyrus for about 10 months before moving to Australia from LA to focus on swimming.
His mum said the career change came as a shock and she did “everything I could to discourage” Cody from taking up swimming.
“I feel like a bad mum,” she admitted on Sunrise.
“I tried to do everything I could to discourage him. Being a former swimmer myself I went, ‘are you kidding, you’re singing, traveling the world parting till late why would you go back to a black line, the solitude of the sport when you’ve got this lifestyle of traveling and everything ?’
“I just didn’t think he could transition from so manly years of that…but he proved me wrong and once he lived with me he wanted to do it I was 100 per cent behind him.”
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