The sad news was shared by the Australian reality star on Instagram today.
“…doesn’t feel real,” she wrote next to a picture of herself with her late father. We love you, dad. I hope you’re up there having a port with your friends and looking down at us who will always miss you.
The favorite of the Mafia was closer to her father, Troy, than to her mother, whom she had grown apart from years ago.
Troy and Jessika, an ex-boxer, had been apart for a long time but got back in touch and became close again six years before she joined Mafs in 2019.
He went to her TV wedding to Mick Gould and even told the groom he would punch him after his best man gave an inappropriate speech at the reception.
In the past, Jessika talked about her hard childhood on the Lads Dads And Couple Of Beers Podcast.
“My mother has sold stories on me, I’ve had best friends sell stories on me,” Jessika said.
“My mother and I haven’t had a relationship in about seven years but she decided four years ago that we were really close and sold stories that were completely fabricated and false.”
One of the worst times in Jessika’s life was when she was betrayed.
“I’ve been through the worst things, but the worst thing was my mom telling lies,” she said.
When I fell to the floor, I remember completely breaking down and thinking, ‘How could she do this to me?’
“I hadn’t talked about my mother, brought her up in the news, or talked about anything else. I was also always turning down interviews about her.”
“The story was basically slandering me as a brat, saying that I wasn’t the child that she brought up.”
Jessika talked about how her childhood was different from other kids her age.
“My mother had a drug addiction from a very young age, that’s the reason why she sold the story because she needed money,” she said.
“She hit on my ex-husband and said she would have been better off with him. She also said all of my plastic surgery was gross.”
“I was so defeated at that point – even though we don’t have a relationship and don’t have respect, the last shred of respect I had for you was now gone.”
“I was just sad,” she said.I don’t mind if a thousand Australians hate me when I wake up in the morning.
“But when it’s your mom, you haven’t talked to her in a long time.
“I gave up my childhood to raise my mom when she was addicted to drugs. I raised my brothers and mom because she was so bad at life.”
“When I gave up my childhood for somebody, I never asked for anything back, it really hurt me.”
