Matt Willis taken aback by wife Emma's response to vaping addiction after confrontation

Matt Willis has come clean about lying to his wife Emma Willis regarding his secret vaping habit.

The revelation came up during a chat with a pal on the golf course, as disclosed on his podcast, On The Mend. The former Busted star realised he was wrong for not telling Emma about his addiction, especially when he started using three or four disposable vapes daily.

What took Matt by surprise was Emma's reaction, as she already knew, having found the vapes stashed away.

Speaking candidly on the podcast, Matt shared: "I try to live a very honest life. For instance, I was recently playing golf with a mate of mine and he's in recovery and I was vaping on the golf course and he was like, 'Does your wife know you do that?'".

"I was like 'No I only do it when I'm at golf and I do it when I'm with the band so I don't do it at home or around the family.' So he was like, 'You lie about it'. I was like, 'I don't lie about it, I just don't' talk about it.' He was like, 'So you're holding something from people, you're keeping a secret'."

He also admitted that the addiction became so severe that it began to affect his onstage performance during tours: "I knew I was doing it I bloody well knew I was doing it. I was hiding it.

"It's so ridiculous, it's a little piece of plastic and it became like an adult dummy for me. I couldn't take the thing out of my mouth. I have these nicotine patches, which I'm obsessed with.

"Before I knew it, I was doing three to four a day of these disposable vapes. I was even doing it on stage. I was walking to the back of the stage and vaping thinking no one could see me. I've got 20,000 people in the audience and I'm secretly vaping at the back thinking no-one could see me.

"I'd wake up in the middle of the night and go for a wee and vape in the toilet in my hotel room on my own and then go try and get back to sleep.

"So it all kind of dawned on me what I was doing when he called me out on it."

Eventually, Emma was the one who confronted Matt.

Matt remembered: "She knew, of course she knew. She was like, 'Babe, I find them in the wash'. I think that was another little bang on the head about honesty.

"I owned up to it and I haven't vaped now for a couple of months, two months and I do miss it. Everything I love kills me - apart from the people I love."