‘I just yap’: Abbie Chatfield doubles back on political future

Media personality Abbie Chatfield says her ADHD may have made her blurt out that she was interested in a political career. The podcaster and television host has dispelled the speculation in a video to followers on Friday. “Apparently, I said in some sort of context I was going to enter into politics,” she said. “But I’m going to be honest, this ADHD chook; I just yap. I don’t know what context I said this in. I don’t know if it was a joke,” she told followers. “I just want to let you all know that I am not considering entering politics,” she added through laughter on Friday. “These are the trials and tribulations of having ADHD in (the) media.” Turns out Chatfield told a Sydney-based publication fairly recently that if her reality TV show hosting gig dried up, maybe she would seek election. In the same interview, published on July 19, Chatfield said her “intelligent, vocal, progressive” mother shaped her political views. “I grew up with a single mother, no men in the house, so I never had these problematic, patriarchal ideals instilled in me,” she told The Sydney Morning Herald. “Growing up with her, we’d watch the news and she’d go ‘What a bloody dickhead’ or ‘Isn’t it awful the way these women are being treated?’. There was constant conversation. It helped me refine my debating skills.”