Guy Sebastian reveals the 40 ‘excruciating minutes’ he thought would ruin his marriage – and what left him sobbing uncontrollably in a courtroom bathroom

Guy Sebastian has opened up about two key moments that changed his life – sobbing in a NSW court bathroom, and screaming for his wife following 40 ‘excruciating minutes’ of constipation.

The Battle Scars hitmaker and his wife Jules sat down with Sunday Life for a tell-all interview about his ongoing legal battle against his former friend and manager, Titus Day.

Day was jailed in 2022 for allegedly pocketing about $625,000 of Sebastian’s money, before he was released on appeal and found not guilty last year on four counts of embezzlement.

However, the jury couldn’t reach a verdict on the remaining 31 charges.

Despite choosing to continue pursuing Day – who maintains his innocence – over the same allegations in costly civil court proceedings, Sebastian and his wife were teary-eyed as they recalled the emotional toll of the hearings.

His lowest point, he said, before posing for photos in his $8million three-storey concrete fortress in Maroubra, was crying in a toilet cubicle at Sydney’s Downing Centre while giving evidence against Day.

He started praying, only to feel guilty because it had been so long since he prayed.

Another low point was wondering whether his marriage was over while desperately calling for Jules to ‘help’ him in the bathroom, after he’d been prescribed constipating opioids for a spinal operation.

Absent from the interview was any mention of a restraining order and assault charges against his elderly and disabled neighbour in 2023, Phillip Hanslow, which were eventually dropped. 

Sebastian brought the case on, but never attended court in person and tried to get a suppression order on his name, which was withdrawn when the case was thrown out.

Throughout the magazine interview, Sebastian and his wife talked about how they felt betrayed by Day, whose children were best friends and used to ‘run through the park under sprinklers’ together.

On the first day of the trial, when Sebastian was due to testify against Day, he told the publication that he would ‘literally vomit’ and at times burst into tears because the stress was overwhelming.

Drying her eyes with a serviette, Jules added: ‘Watching Guy go through this was the hardest thing.

‘There’s no way to know how it’s going to end, and every day there’s something new to wake up to. It was a really wobbly road, and some would say I handled it terribly.’

She described him as ‘superhuman’ for taking their two sons to the beach during the trial, and for casting his emotional turmoil aside and continuing his music tour that same year.

‘I’ll struggle to say this without being emotional,’ he told the magazine.

‘But I don’t think people in the audience realised just how much they pulled me out of the mud during that time.’ 

Sebastian’s eyes also welled with tears while talking about Jules’s support, and her role making sure their sons stayed out of the public eye.

Speaking about the constipation incident from last year when he cried for Jules’s help in the bathroom, Sebastian told the magazine: ‘At that point, I thought, “My marriage is over”.

‘If she loves me after this, we’re good. And here she is – and we are good.’

Crying with laughter, he said: ‘I know you girls give birth to children but I imagine [the pain I suffered] was close.’ 

The former Australian Idol winner is now looking forward to another tour in April, and feels he’s learnt valuable lessons over the past few years.

‘I’ve wasted so much energy trying to please everyone,’ he said.

‘You end up spreading yourself thin and not really being impactful in anyone’s life.’