Aussie Olympic diving champion Matthew Mitcham is making the move to OnlyFans, seven years after getting sober.
The 2008 diving gold medallist was the star of the Beijing Games, becoming the primary Aussie in 84 years to win gold within the 10m platform, pulling off what was then the highest-scoring dive in history to win the event.
But Mitcham battled a methamphetamine addiction in 2011 which he said was as a consequence of a “post-Games comedown”, finally getting clean in 2016.
He has now been sober for seven years.
He also revealed he battled depression, saying he realized he was gay at an early age but felt ashamed of his sexuality.
He battled addiction for Mitcham has been clean since retiring from the game in 2016, and last yr married his British partner Luke Rutherford.
Interestingly, each are creators on the platform.
On Wednesday, he spoke with Seven’s The Morning Show from his home in London, revealing a straightforward reason he was joining OnlyFans.
“The cash, duh,” Mitcham said.
“But in addition, do you understand that quote Moira Rose (from Schitt’s Creek) said ‘take a thousand naked photographs of yourself whilst you’re young and exquisite’, so I took 8000 simply to be secure.
“It was a fairly quiet period over Christmas and that got me through quite easily. It’s just one other way for people to attach with me.
“I don’t do anything too raunchy. I similar to to indicate off my beautiful body, which may be very quickly becoming more of civilian body than an athlete body but people need to see it.”
Of his addiction, Mitcham said he learned a straightforward lesson that “Drugs and alcohol don’t make problems go away — you’re just left with problems and a hangover.”
Mitcham works in diversity and inclusion in business and sports settings in addition to being the ambassador for the charity Controlling Chemsex, which helps people cope with drug and sex addictions.
“(It) deals with addictions to drugs, sex, and particularly with sex and medicines addictions that are insidious,” Mitcham said.
“This charity provides free online counseling for people who find themselves struggling to have sober sex and every other traumas around sex.
“We are attempting to lift money to bring on more therapists to satisfy demand.
“It’s all online, regardless that it’s a London-based charity, they do counseling for people in America, Thailand, Australia, wherever cause it’s all online.”