Kate Ritchie bursts into tears live on-air: 'Doesn’t ever end'

Kate Ritchie burst into tears during Monday morning’s broadcast of her radio show when a guest on the program spoke about the differences between motherhood and fatherhood.

The former Home and Away star, 44, became emotional as parenting expert and Maggie Dent explained that mums are “biologically wired” to get into a state of overthinking when trying to sleep at night.

“So we’ll go through every decision we made during the day from breakfast right through,” Maggie said on Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie.

“Not only that, but oh my god they didn’t eat enough broccoli. Jeez did I have enough for that in the lunchbox? And we second guess and we beat ourselves up and then suddenly we’re wondering if they’ll get into university.

“And then we’ve gone back and regret something we did at our 21st. And then we’ve come forward to the kids again comparing to somebody else. Then we’ve gone, oh my god, my eyebrows, I’ll need to book that in. There’s a load of washing.”

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While co-hosts Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli cracked up laughing at what Maggie was saying, Kate had a much more emotional reaction.

“You’re gonna make me cry!” she said as tears welled in her eyes and she held her hand to her face.

“Did that strike a chord, Kate?” Fitzy asked, to which she replied, “Oh just the mind, the inner dialogue that doesn’t ever end”.

“This is the mum brain,” Maggie, who hosts The Good Enough Dad podcast, continued. “This is the mental load we carry for the people we love.”

'I am deserving of love'

The on-air moment comes shortly after Kate opened up to The Sunday Telegraph about her tight bond with her eight-year-old daughter, Mae.

“Mae gives me incredible purpose and strength and she is one of the few people who allow me to be truly me. Nothing more or less,” she shared.

“I am merely her mummy and she loves me for that. In fact, if I am to be really honest, as she gets older she is also teaching me I am deserving of love.”

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Kate shares Mae with her ex-husband, former NRL player Stuart Webb, whom she split from in 2020 following 10 years of marriage.

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