Tina Arena complains she’s out of a job and struggling to pay her mortgage due to the COVID-19 pandemic… as she blasts the government for ‘ignoring the arts industry’
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Tina Arena is struggling to make ends meet amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to Stellar magazine this weekend, the songstress, 52, said she’s been out of a job for some time, and that coronavirus has exacerbated her financial woes.
‘I haven’t worked for a year and a half. This is a very serious thing for me. I’ve got a mortgage to pay,’ the mother-of-one said.
‘I can’t pay right now’: Tina Arena, 52, has complained she’s out of a job and struggling to pay her mortgage due to the COVID-19 pandemic
‘I had to tell the bank I need to freeze my loan, I can’t pay right now,’ she lamented.
Tina, once one of Australia’s highest-selling female artists, lives with her artist partner Vincent Mancini and their 14-year-old son Gabriel in a $5.7million Melbourne mansion.
The brunette explained it’s no secret that there’s ‘no job security whatsoever’ in the entertainment industry, and insisted that the government should better financially support artists from falling through the cracks.
‘I haven’t worked for a year and a half’: Speaking to Stellar magazine this weekend, the songstress, 52, said she’s been out of a job for some time, and that coronavirus has exacerbated her financial woes
‘The arts industry is being categorically ignored [by the government], she said, adding that many of her entertainer friends who have lost their jobs ‘aren’t doing well’.
It’s not the first time Tina has spoken about the dark side of the music industry.
Last year, the acclaimed soprano, who has sold over 10 million records, said she’d been the ‘victim of a lot of s**t in this industry’.
Suburban palace: Tina, one of Australia’s highest selling female artists, lives with her artist partner Vincent Mancini and their 14-year-old son Gabriel in a $5.7million Melbourne mansion (pictured)
Appearing at the Support Act’s annual flagship fundraising event, Tina called out ‘predators’ in the music business, and said that growing up in the public eye was a ‘double-edged sword’.
‘I don’t understand why people preyed on vulnerability, I didn’t understand why people manipulated others, it’s not what I grew up with,’ she said.
‘It was shocking and it was damaging but … I was able to express myself and talk to people in the industry and my close circle of friends, to say “Am I losing my mind or is this really going on?”‘
Tina added: ‘You go through it and hopefully you survive. I am proud of my survival.’
‘The arts industry is being categorically ignored’: The brunette explained insisted that the government should better financially support artists from falling through the cracks
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