Common Australian Olympian Matthew Mitcham has opened up on his current determination to affix the grownup web site OnlyFans.
Mitcham received a Gold Medal within the Beijing Olympics in 2008, however since then the multi-talented athlete has appeared on the stage and display screen and every thing in between.
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Mitcham lately took to social media to have fun seven years of sobriety, revealing that he battled melancholy and drug dependancy after his gold medal win.
The diver made headlines in 2008 when he turned the primary male Aussie to win gold within the occasion since 1924. He additionally set an Olympic report.
However his life quickly spiraled uncontrolled when he developed an dependancy to crystal meth.
Nevertheless, he was capable of get on high of it, telling Channel 7’s The Morning Show that “medicine and alcohol do not make issues go away”.
“You are simply left with issues and a hangover,” he stated.
Mitcham was requested about why he joined OnlyFans, to which he replied: “The cash.”
And requested if he had made a lot cash from the subscription-based platform, he was emphatic.
“Completely … That quote Moira Rose (from Schitt’s Creek) stated ‘take a thousand bare pictures of your self when you’re younger and exquisite’, so I took 8000 simply to be protected,” he joked.
“It is simply one other approach for folks to attach with me.
“I do not do something too raunchy. I identical to to point out off my stunning physique.”
Mitcham’s husband Luke Rutherford can also be on the web site and, reportedly, is a high performer.
Mitcham additionally revealed that he’s the ambassador for a charity that offers with intentional intercourse below the affect of psychoactive medicine, referred to as Controlling Chemsex.
“(It) offers with addictions to medicine, intercourse,” Mitcham stated. “Significantly with intercourse and drug addictions that are insidious.
“This charity gives free on-line counseling for people who find themselves struggling to have sober intercourse and every other traumas round intercourse.
“We are attempting to boost cash to deliver on extra therapists to fulfill demand.
“It is all on-line, despite the fact that it is a London primarily based charity, they do counseling for folks in America, Thailand, Australia, wherever trigger it is all on-line.”
Mitcham is now primarily based in London and spends most of his time serving to athletes with goal-setting and dealing within the variety and inclusion area.
“I do variety and inclusion coaching with companies and with sports activities,” Mitcham stated.
“Lots of people are very scared of constructing errors round gender pronouns, stuff like that.
“I simply need to say, simply give it a go, you are going to make errors and that is OK so long as you are making an attempt.”
