Oliver Curtis: Roxy Jacenkos husband on his time in prison

OLIVER Curtis has opened up about his year in prison and has revealed he had a cellmate who refused to wear clothes. Curtis was released from Cooma Correctional Centre in June last year on a good behaviour bond after he was convicted of conspiracy to commit insider trading.

OLIVER Curtis has opened up about his year in prison and has revealed he had a cellmate who refused to wear clothes.

Curtis was released from Cooma Correctional Centre in June last year on a good behaviour bond after he was convicted of conspiracy to commit insider trading.

For the first time since his release, he spoke about his time behind bars during an interview with KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O this morning.

“My first cellmate was an interesting chap,” Curtis told the radio hosts.

“He was a little bit older, probably mid-50s ... He was a lovely, lovely chap but he enjoyed walking around ... with no clothes on.”

Curtis said the cell was so small that he couldn’t even walk past the guy without bumping into him so he had no choice but to sit and watch TV with his nude bunk buddy.

Kyle Sandilands took great delight in questioning Curtis about his time behind bars, asking him, “Were you molested by any other inmates?”

“No, there was definitely no molesting,” Curtis said, before Roxy Jacenko — who also sat in on the interview — chimed in and said, “That was one question that I asked.”

The former investment banker also told the KIIS duo about his time at Parklea Correctional Centre where he was in “segro” for a month [a slang term for segregation].

“I was basically in a 2 x 4 cage out the back and they open the door for a couple of hours a day and you go out the back,” he said.

At one stage Curtis was also housed in the holding cells in Surry Hills, which he said “was not an enjoyable experience”.

For eight nights he shared a cell with a variety of different people including “lots” of junkies and had to go to the toilet in front of them.

“You’ve got to get on with everybody, you’ve just got to adapt and roll,” he said.

Sandilands also asked Curtis about the group shower situation and if going to a private boys school got him ready to shower nude in front of other men.

“I was a border at school and it’s funny, every time someone came in and visited me I’d sit down and say, ‘Actually it’s really just boarding school but you’re with drug dealers and murderers.’

“You end up getting the discipline and it’s all just about routine and regiment and all that sort of thing,” he said.

Curtis said there’s a “social scene” in prison but denied he belonged to any particular group on the inside.

When he was released from prison, Curtis was wearing jeans and a hoodie as he was greeted by Jacenko and their two kids on a private plane at the local airport.

“That took me a long time to put together,” Jacenko said.

“You put that together, the perfect leaving prison outfit?” Sandilands asked.

“Yes, I did, I won’t lie,” she said. “And that was the second go because the first go was not quite suitable ... The hat wasn’t right.”

Jacenko and her husband had tried to hide the truth about Curtis’ time in prison from their two kids, but last week her six-year-old daughter found out.

“Poor Pixie got accosted in the playground last Friday at school and kids said to her, ‘your dad’s in jail’,” Jacenko said on air this morning.

The kids who told Pixie had overheard their parents talking about the prison sentence and Jacenko was furious.

“I spoke to the school and the school were amazing about it and they spoke to the parents,” she said.

“I think you’ve got a job as parent to make sure that what you say in front of the children is not going to be detrimental to another child, there’s enough bullying as it is.”

Curtis added that the hardest part of his sentence was being away from his family and in particular his two kids. But he did joke that his year behind bars “was an excellent health retreat, you have nothing but exercise and a tuna diet”.

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