Lisa McCune breaks her silence after THAT kissing scandal with New Zealand opera singer Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Lisa McCune has spoken out after she was caught kissing New Zealand opera singer Teddy Tahu Rhodes back in 2012, while they were both married to other people.

New Idea magazine revealed recently unearthed comments the 50-year-old actress made back in 2017 following the scandal. 

‘I was getting advice, saying: “Make statements.” I just thought, “No, I don’t need to because it’s my life,”‘ she said, as reported by the magazine on Monday.

Kiss and tell: Lisa McCune has spoken out after she was caught kissing New Zealand opera singer Teddy Tahu Rhodes back in 2012, while they were both married to other people. Pictured at a fashion event in Melbourne in February 2018

‘For me personally, I have always been open and happy to talk about my babies when they were born and my marriage, and then I hit a speed bump.’

She revealed in 2020 that she was ‘happily single’, but still living with her ex-husband, Tim Disney, as they continued to co-parent their three children.   

Lisa made headlines in 2020 when she revealed the very unusual co-parenting arrangement she shares with her props handler ex-husband.

Speaking out: New Idea magazine revealed recently unearthed comments the 50-year-old actress made back in 2017 following the scandal. Pictured with Teddy Tahu Rhodes at the Helpmann Awards in Sydney in September 2012

Despite no longer being a couple, they happily live together in Melbourne with their three children. 

‘We all live on one property so we’re here for the kids – we have to because our work is so all over the place,’ she told the Australian Women’s Weekly. 

‘Tim and I are very much dual parenting. We are all over them as parents. I think it takes two people a lot of the time.’

‘I was getting advice, saying: “Make statements.” I just thought, “No, I don’t need to because it’s my life,”‘ she said, as reported by the magazine on Monday. Pictured with ex-husband Tim Disney at the TV WEEK Logie Awards in Melbourne in 2006

Lisa insisted there was no tension in the household, saying: ‘As a family, we’re talking a lot. I’m insisting everybody have dinner together.’ 

In 2012, Lisa was famously pictured kissing Teddy, 55, her co-star in the stage production of the musical South Pacific.

The photos were splashed across the tabloids and dubbed ‘scandalous’ because she was still married as far as the public was concerned. 

‘For me personally, I have always been open and happy to talk about my babies when they were born and my marriage, and then I hit a speed bump,’ she said. Pictured onstage in South Pacific with Teddy in August 2012

Lisa did not announce her separation from Tim when she was caught kissing Teddy, leading some publications to speculate the couple had an ‘open marriage’. 

‘That gives me the giggles. I think the description [open marriage] is hysterical. It does make me laugh when I read that,’ she was quoted as saying at the time. 

She married Tim in 2000, and they went on to welcome three children – sons Archer, 20, and Oliver, 18, and daughter Remy, 16. 

Unusual arrangement: Lisa revealed in 2020 that she was ‘happily single’, but still living with her ex-husband, Tim Disney, as they continued to co-parent their three children. Pictured with Peter Helliar