McLean, 47 admits to having watched the two previous seasons of the show and has known some of the women, including Gina Liano, Chyka Keebaugh and Lydia Schiavello, for a long time. So surely she knew what she was up against when she signed the contract?
“When I started the show, I thought that it would be easy and that it would be good,” she told The Daily Telegraph. “But I was sorely mistaken.”
McLean, whose parents were both born in Italy, says she has no problems finding her voice on the show.
“I fire up quickly and then calm down,” she says, adding that some of the other women have already described her as a “cute little rattlesnake”.
“In the beginning someone asked Gamble whether she had chewed me up and spat me out yet,” McLean says. “But she wailed that I was the one who was chewing people up and spitting them out.”
McLean says she has had to develop a tough skin after marrying at 19 and then having two children.
She divorced her first husband 11 years ago and in February 2009 married the former St Kilda Football Club president Rod Butterss, but the marriage only lasted for five months. Butterss later opened up about his 10-year battle with alcoholism.
“We met at the wrong time,” McLean says. “Rod’s not drinking anymore though and it has changed his life. He’s a completely different person.”
In the new season, McLean says that she and Janet Roach will be looking looking for love.
“Sadly, both of us no longer have a clue about how to meet men,” she reveals.
How does Jackie Gilllies feel about McLean addition to the show?
“I like Susie, she tells it like it is and keeps it real. I told her right from the beginning, just speak your truth and you will be fine,” Gillies explains.
Besides adding drama in her life by joining the Foxtel reality series, McLean is the president of the venerable Country Women’s Association Toorak branch.
McLean along with Gina Liano, Chyka Keebaugh, Gamble Breaux, Jackie Gillies, Janet Roach, Lydia Schiavello and Pettifleur Berenger will bring plenty of drama in the upcoming third season of The Real Housewives of Mebourne, which is expected to air sometime in February 2016 on Arena.
Source/Photo Credit: The Daily Telegraph