Big Brother winner Reggie Sorensen reveals her secret battle with depression during an interview with A Current Affair. Courtesy Channel Nine/A Current Affair.
reggie Bird Tasmanian winner of Big Brother 2003 Source: News Corp Australia
SHE was once the most popular person in the country when she won Big Brother in 2003, but now Reggie Sorenson (formerly Bird) has revealed she is broke and almost blind.
Sorenson walked away with $250,000 prize money when she won the show 11 years ago but the mother of two told A Current Affair last night that she has "none, not a cent, zero" left and is struggling to make ends meet.
"Its hard being a single mum and living on a disability pension and you just live fortnight to fortnight," she said, "so there's not much left at the end of the day."
The former fish and chip shop owner from Tasmania said she spent her winnings paying off her ex-husband's $100,000 mortgage only for their marriage to end when he had an affair shortly after she left the Big Brother house.
Sorenson opened up about hitting rock bottom on A Current Affair last night. Source: Channel 9
"He was happy to have met someone else along the line so that was one of the big reasons why I walked away."
She also lost $40,000 to a con man who promised her her own TV show.
"Then I paid $20,000 in advance on my rent in Sydney and I was only in the unit for two months because that guy became a stalker psycho, so then I had to move out and the real estate wouldn't give me my money back."
Sorenson then got a job as an air hostess for Virgin, but quit seven months later when fellow crew members became jealous of the attention she received for her celebrity status.
Sorenson says she only has a few years of eyesight left. Source: Channel 9
After finding love with her second husband Dale, the pair had children Mia and Lucas, but her world was again rocked when she found out Lucas had cystic fibrosis.
"We both just cried our eyes out, it was awful," she said. "You just think the worst is going to happen. It's a horrible disease."
Sorenson, who is currently unemployed, is also struggling with her own health after being diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa ten years ago, a degenerative eye disease.
She says she won't have her eyesight for much longer and is close to losing it for good.
"It's like tunnel vision, it's like looking through a pinhole," she said.
Reggie Sorensen, known as Reggie Bird when she won Big Brother 10 years ago, with children Lucas Sorensen (4) and Mia Sorensen (6) in her Queensland home. Source: News Limited
"I want to see Mia grow up and get married and make sure she's got a good looking fella and I want to see Lucas get older."
Her tumultuous ride since leaving the house has also left her struggling with depression which she says at one point almost overwhelmed her.
"I didn't want to be here any more, just didn't want to be here, at all. I was having those thoughts of no one cares and no one will miss me, they'll get over it and they'll move on.
"I go through these phases, I get down and then I think 'gosh, there's people worse off in the world than me so snap out of it.'
Big Brother contestant & overall winner Regina "Reggie" Bird on stage with host Gretel Killeen at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. Source: News Corp Australia
"Everyone knows who you are and you're so loved, but deep inside you're really lonely. It's a bizarre weird feeling."
But Sorenson says despite the hardship she's faced in her life, she doesn't regret appearing on Big Brother.
"Not at all, so much has happened over all this time but I'd go back in for sure, I'd do it all again, I really would. People might say I'm mad, crazy, but I'd do it again, no regrets."
Her next big challenge is to write a book.
Sorenson, outside her fish and chip shop in Tasmania in 2003. Source: News Corp Australia
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