Jackie 'O' Henderson shares embarrassing parenting moment (2025)

Jackie 'O' Henderson has shared a cringeworthy parenting moment that many a mum and dad can relate to.

The 50-year-old was attending her daughter Kitty's school concert on Sunday when she fell asleep attracting unwanted attention from audience members.

And to make matters worse Jackie managed to mistake her 14-year-old daughter's on-stage appearance for another student.

The KIIS FM star shared her mortifying story in a segment on the Kyle and Jackie O Show on Monday.

Jackie explained she was battling fatigue ahead of arriving for her daughter's show at the Opera House after she flown into Sydney from Europe at 6am.

The radio queen, who shares Kitty with her ex-husband Lee Henderson, attended the show solo and it was not long before jet lag got the best of her.

'I had to go to Kitty's school concert last night,' she began.

'Lee wasn't going and somebody had to be there and honestly, the whole day, I'm like, ''How can I get out of this?'' I was like, ''Can I bribe her? Can I say, Do you want to chuck a sickie?'' 'she laughed.

'We had to sit through the orchestral stuff first, I reckon in 10 minutes, I was asleep.

'You know when you're on the nod and your head is jolting up and it's obvious to everyone around you.'

She added: 'Everyone, it seems, at Kitty's school is still married. I feel like the only parent that isn't!'

Co-host Kyle Sandilands then had a crack at Jackie's expense in reference to her recent memoir in which she confessed to abusing drugs and alcohol for a short time -which led to her rehab.

'"Check her out [they would be saying], she's probably drunk, back on the pills have a look at her, she's wasted"' they'd be saying. You'd be better off staying at home,' Kyle joked.

Later in the segment Jackie said attempted to film her daughter's appearance on stage - only for it to end in disaster.

'I thought, ''Oh, there she is!'' I spotted her, I zoomed in and was like, ''that's Kitty, I got her'' I filmed the wrong girl. I need glasses, right? My eyesight is so bad,' she said.

In the end Jackie explained her parenting moment turned out to be all for nothing.

'Iget a text from Kitty 25 minutes after she's performed and she says, ''Mum, I felt sick, I didn't go up on stage to perform''.

'I thought, ''Oh, great'', but that's all good, poor thing.'

It comes after Jackie recently confirmed she lost her driver's licence following mounting speculation.

Jackie and her on-air partner Kyle are currently enjoying a contract worth $200million with KIIS FM.

The pair signed the record-breaking deal with Australian Radio Network (ARN) in November 2023 that will see them remain on airwaves until 2034.

It leaves the pair reportedly earning a whopping $10million per year salary each.

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