Inside Real Housewives star Susie McLean’s five-month marriage to Rod Butterss

Real Housewives of Melbourne star Susie McLean has opened up about her whirlwind marriage to multi-millionaire businessman and former St Kilda Football Club president Rod Butterss.

The Toorak socialite, 51, married the wealthy entrepreneur in a ‘wild’ wedding ceremony in 2009, but the marriage lasted just five months.

Speaking to the Herald Sun, Susie said that the Sydney ceremony, which was held at The Ivy, racked up a $96,000 alcohol bill. 

‘I was giving CPR to one of the guests in the morning who fell out of the spa. It was wild,’ she revealed.

However, the booze bill was pocket change for Rod, who has admitted to blowing a whopping $90 million dollars over a decade while drinking, doing drugs, and playing the stock market. 

‘I was completely out of my depth and didn’t understand it,’ Susie admitted.

‘He said he was going to buy a yacht and sail around the world,’ she added.

At one point during their short marriage, Susie’s mother walked in on Rod while he was doing drugs.

‘My mother-in-law walked in on me,’ Rod revealed on Mike Sheahan, Sam Newman and Don Scott’s You Cannot Be Serious podcast in May.  

‘She was a very prudish Italian woman. She said, “what are you doing?” I said, “I’m making scones.” That’s all I could think of.’

Rod has now been sober for more than a decade. 

He made a fortune in the 1990s after founding an IT recruitment firm, which he sold for a substantial amount years later.

From there, he bought a 50% stake in another recruitment company, which was sold in 2007 for $100 million.

He also served as the president of the St Kilda Football Club from 2000 to 2007.  

Susie is best known for starring on the third season of the Real Housewives of Melbourne in 2016.

She later dated comedian and Triple M host Mick Molloy, but they split in 2018.