Seems there’s nothing quite like being abused in front of a room full of your peers and a national television audience to prompt a little soul searching.
News.com.au is reporting that Australian Idol judge and radio broadcaster Kyle Sandilands has been spending time making peace with others by apologising to a number of people and ending long running feuds.
I’m impressed. It’s one thing to apologise when you’re the only one at fault but Kyle has apologised to Dave Hughes who turned him into an object of ridicule at this year’s Logie Awards.
Kyle had threatened to punch Hughes in the throat for his comments and it would have been easy to simply claim that Hughes deserved his scorn for his behaviour but Kyle chose to call Dave and put things right between them. That takes guts.
Kyle has also called a Sydney journalist to put an end to their feud as well as finally talking with his mother and stepfather about their tumultuous relationship which resulted in him living on the streets as a teenager.
I have been making a lot of apologies. I just didn’t want to carry this hate around any more.
To this point I had never seen much in Kyle Sandilands that would invoke any kind of admiration but I have to take my hat off to him. I’m sure that he’s no saint but he’s man enough to realise that while working towards reconciliation can be a hard path, it’s a rewarding one.
Well done Kyle.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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I’ve always thought of him as a bit of a prat. But I read the transcript of his interview with Denton and found it interesting.
He was kicked out of him as a teenager and did it tough for a while.
He’s built a career as a “shock jock” but I wonder if now he’s maturing and realising life is more than picking on people.
Very neat. It is nice to see people realizing that hatred is a poison that kills yourself and not the people you hate, and then doing something to counteract that poison.