Robert Irwin hits back over nasty reports about mum
Robert Irwin has hit back at the nasty comments about his close relationship with mum Terri Irwin.
The wildlife conservationist appeared with I’m A Celebrity... co-star Julia Morris on The Kyle & Jackie O show on Monday morning to discuss their Gold Logie nominations, when Kyle Sandilands expressed his surprise that Terri didn't join Robert in the studio for the interview.
“Are you saying that the press reports are inaccurate that everywhere you go, your mother’s there?” Sandilands asked.
“I hear it all the time but I don’t believe it’s even true.”
Robert laughed and jokingly responded: “Who would’ve thought press reports are inaccurate?”
But, co-host Julia Morris was quick to come to his defence.
“Can I just address that because it drives me absolutely nuts,” she said on-air.
“It takes all my strength not to go onto the internet and go absolutely spare every time [Robert and Terri headlines are] written. All I want you to do is every time you see that written that, you know, ‘Terri hangs around’, I want you to go directly to who’s written that story and know that that person hates their parents.”
“If you’ve got parents that are as unbelievably awesome as Terri, and you have a great relationship, you want them to be around at all times,” she added.
“If you’re trying to hide stuff from your parents, or your parents are constantly badgering or at you, then you don’t want them around and you can’t get why anyone would want their parents around, you know?” she concluded.
Robert then chimed in and explained that people often don't understand his close relationship with his mother, and how they became especially tight as a family following Steve Irwin's death in 2006.
“I think loss brings a family together like nothing else. People forget,” he said.
“I think when we lost dad, our little tight knit family unit became incredibly tight.”
“And we travel with the whole family everywhere most of the time. It’s nice.”
This comes after a few trolls criticised his close relationship to his mother during a trip to the US back in May.
A few outlets have also suggested that the mother and son are unhealthily attached, but many fans have since defended their close relationship.
“People saying why Robert has he’s mum in so many photos. Remember every day is precious. Life is fragile. The Irwin’s like millions of other families have experienced loss on a monumental scale,” one wrote on Instagram.
Image: The Kyle and Jackie O Show