Abbie Chatfield: ‘Someone told her worst dating story. I lay on the floor of the stage and screamed’

‘There was a tortoise called Jorge I became obsessed with,’ reveals podcaster and TV host Abbie Chatfield, whose live show Abbie Chatfield Loves Men is touring Australia Photograph: Supplied

What’s the best piece of advice you have ever received?

It’s not really advice, but it is something my mum said when I was going through a breakup with a guy who treated me so badly our whole relationship. She said, “Oh, I feel so sorry for him.” And I was like, “Why do you feel sorry for him? That doesn’t make any sense, because I’m the one that’s been destroyed by this freak.” And she said, “Because he has to live in his head and you get to live in yours.”