Brynne Edelsten tells: My new hell

Heartbroken over the death of her beloved grandmother, Brynne Edelsten was too broke to fly to the funeral – despite asking her estranged husband Geoffrey for financial help.

As the high-profile couple’s divorce battle becomes increasingly bitter, the reality TV favourite this week exclusively reveals to New Idea her pain at not being able to say goodbye to the woman who helped to raise her.

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‘I asked if Geoff was willing to help me with airfares to get to the funeral, but he wasn’t,’ she shares.

Brynne was also left fearing that if she did go back home to the US, she’d return to find herself locked out of the Melbourne penthouse the estranged couple still share.

‘Geoff had threatened to change the locks on our apartment and he’d done that quite a few times in the past, so it wasn’t something that was unbelievable,’ she confesses.

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Reports claiming that 70-year-old Geoffrey is forced to sleep on the couch while a defiant, moody and extravagant Brynne uses ‘housekeeping funds’ to throw ‘wild parties’ around him have only added to her torment.

Brynne and Geoffrey in 2013. Source: Getty

‘There is no housekeeping money and no wild parties,’ she says, cuddling up to her pampered pooch Juddy, who has become another bone of contention between the feuding Edelstens.

‘The honest truth is that I don’t have an income right now, Geoff has cancelled all the joint credit cards and I don’t have anywhere to go.’

Read Brynne’s full emotional interview in this week's New Idea - out now!'''