EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Leong: ‘Dating is the worst’
The best and least moments of Melissa Leong's life are punctuated by memories of food.
There is the Lo Mai Gai, that helped them treats as a child, and the Hainanese Chicken rice they learned to create from her mother, who calls them a “love” to her Singaporean Heritage.
Recipes for these dishes are shared next to the moments of the moments that have formed the foodrical and TV host in whom she is in her integer and disclosure, Guts.
“Privacy is important for me and there are things that have happened in my life I never thought I would dive,” Melissa admits to WSO.
“But I wanted to be honest and pre-in pre-a pre-writing and think everything would have known in my life that you should not have the perfect life to go to the things you want.”
While Melissa long the audience is long to live with depression and fear, in their book, she could have proposed a priceless than one.
In a raw and unavoidous way, opened to be a child of immigrants who were played at school and with a father who ruled by physical punishment.
“A large portion of the childhood my little brother and I had spent in fear of living to be struck to be beaten for the smallest inflation,” Melissa wrote.
“My father will not yet apologize for all damage that he caused, specified, specified that it was how he was raised and that it was done for my own good.”
She also opened about her rise in the hospitality sector, in which she was subjected to a terrible rape; The burglary of the marriage with Joe Jones, who lied to their fighting of an eating disorder; and to have thoughts of suicide and even evil.
She further revealed it they “blend it all up” to run away to try to find something better.
These include a two-year-old stint who lives in Tasmania where she worked in an abattoir, and her decision to leave Master Scheef Australia in 2023 to a very successful four season stint stings next to Andy Allen and the late Jock Zonfrillo, who passed away that year.
“I think we are all a product of where we came and what we have been,” explains Melissa. “So that is what guts for me. The harracks to my guts and after those feelings of intuition and eventually listening to it to it's in this situation I know I don't know well.”
Approximately Melissa a massive lawyer for therapy, with which they regularly attends to help with them by some of their darkest moments.
“I love therapy,” she says. “I see it as the same as if I would break my arm and went to a rough branch and the cost of life is so high to live in a country where many of us have access to these types of services.”
Men helps them out of the past Traumas is Brazilian Jiujitsu, which they revealed that she has included in 2024. She works after her third stripe on her white leash.
“Part of it was that I wanted to see the expectation that Melissa is just a food and that's all,” she explains them.
“But it also gave me strength. There are times in my life when I felt an incredibly weak. It gives me a sense of faith in myself to walk and trust in what I can handle.”
After staying their journey so far in the pages of GutsMelissa now feels ready to embrace a new chapter.
“Someone hopefully light and happier than the last,” she says.
Of the things that missed in their very full of life, at the top of the list is love. Following their 2020 separation, Leong is ready now to the possibility of romance.
“I did not have a lot of a love life when I'm honest,” she says. “I have great friends but I feel a space for more. If someone is running in my life, who makes it a brighter and happier place I'm ready for that.”
Although she is not very sure what form of love can come in, eating what she is looking for “on the apps”.
“Dating is seriously the worst,” they confessed to a laugh.
“I went on an app because a friend said,” You just have to put yourself out. ” It was one of the most soul – crushing five minutes of my life. My intuition tells me that there is another way for me even if I still don't see it, should I trust my guts. “
She also has several new projects in the pipeline, including an upcoming TV show called Taste of art. Melissa recently returned from Queenstown, where they made for a month beside New Zealand chef Vaughan mabee, which died in the room before Masterchef with them.
As per the camera, worked behind the sharpness in the next series, including scripts and in production, they claimed.
“I think that really is the following logical step for me, work more in the background,” she says. “I am asked for a lot and I think there is not truly variety of the screen, until you have people write from different backgrounds, the Shows of the Shows. Life needs a lot of flavors.”
Guts is out now; You can purchase through Dymocks.
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