Kyle Sandilands has released a statement, saying that he regrets his on-air falling out with co-host Jackie Henderson but is not in breach of his ARN contract.

It comes four days after Jackie issued her own statement, claiming she did not quit or resign from the KIIS Network Breakfast show.

In the ASX announcement after the on-air blow-up, ARN said Henderson’s contract had been terminated, and Sandilands suspended for “serious misconduct.”

Today, Sandilands said he wanted to speak directly to the public about what is really going on.

The statement in full reads:

ARN told me that I am not allowed to contact Jackie. They have told me that I am not allowed to speak to
my colleagues. I did what was asked even though it made it impossible for me to do the one thing anyone
in my position would want to do — pick up the phone and talk to the person I have been talking with
continually for my entire career.

The truth is that ARN terminated Jackie’s contract on the same day it accused me of a breach. It suspended
me from work. All of this happened while I was being told to sit quietly and say nothing. That is not a genuine
process.

I am not going to pretend that everything about this situation is simple. Jackie told me she was hurt, and I
accept that. But we have had disagreements before and we have always worked through them. That is what
partners do. We never needed lawyers or ASX announcements to sort things out. I believe we could have
sorted this out too, if ARN had given us the chance.

I have a contract with ARN that runs until 2034.

I am committed to that contract.

Despite what ARN says, I am not in breach of that contract.

I want to be on air. I want to be with my audience. I want to do the job I have done my entire adult life.
I am asking ARN to do the right thing: honour our agreement and let me get back to doing what I do best —
entertaining the people who have supported this show for more than two decades.

To my listeners: Thank you. I miss you. I’ll be back.

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