How Australian Idol’s Ricki-Lee Coulter trumps toxic people

How Australian Idol’s Ricki-Lee Coulter trumps toxic people

Ricki-Lee Coulter is pleased to play mom hen to this 12 months’s crop of doe-eyed Australian Idol finalists and lesson primary is: “some people are just a…….s”.

Coming full circle, the 37-year-old singer finds herself the present stalwart an unbelievable 19 years on from making a reputation for herself as an 18-year-old hopeful on the identical present.

Since then, Ricki-Lee has been rattled about within the showbiz cauldron with highs that embrace travelling the world, topping the charts and turning into a family TV and breakfast star. The lows have included maintaining the incorrect hangers-on round her. It’s these classes she desires to impart on WA’s 15-year-old finalist Phoebe Stewart and her rivals, Josh Hannan, 20, and 23-year-old Royston Sagigi Baira.

“This industry is a rollercoaster,” the Hell No! singer tells The West Australian after reeling off “so many highs”. But there’s all the time a however.

“There was a period in my career where I got a bit lost.

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“I had some really bad toxic people in my life that I needed to flush out. That was really impacting my ability to do my job. It affected everything. There were a few years there when things were really messy and I couldn’t get on top of it. My music, my personal life, my friendships, my mental health — I was a mess. It took me a few years to get through that and to get over that and flush out those people.”

But she says these moments are despatched to attempt us.

Ricki-Lee Coulter
Camera IconRicki-Lee Coulter dodged poisonous folks to maintain her profession on monitor. Credit: Supplied/TheWest

“Many of the tough times I try and learn and take as much out of it as I can and turn it into something positive,” she says.

Coulter is acutely aware the younger music stars must navigate the treacherous world of social media suggestions, one thing she escaped again in 2006.

“There wasn’t social media. You had to go on weird forums which felt like you were on the dark web,” the star remembers.

“It didn’t exist when I did the show, I feel like it is a totally different world. There is a double-edged sword with two sides to it. There is the love, praise and support, but then there are some people who are just a…holes. You have to take the good with the bad.”

She has shared with the finalists how she copes, saying, “One of the best pieces of advice I was given early on was not everyone is going to love you and that is OK. You have to accept that. It’s the same in life. Not every person you meet is going to be your best friend.

Source: www.perthnow.com.au