Australian OnlyFans star Annie Knight has revealed that her fiancé Henry Brayshaw's gambling addiction and repeated lies nearly led to the end of their relationship. The 29-year-old content creator from the Gold Coast is set to marry Brayshaw in October, but she almost walked away after discovering he had been hiding the extent of his addiction.
Betrayal Beyond the Money
While Knight knew Brayshaw had occasional gambling slip-ups, the real betrayal was not the financial loss but the deception. She learned that he had been lying to her and even involved friends to cover up his addiction. Speaking on Stan's new reality series Turned On: Dirty Sexy Money, she described spending a week crying from morning until night.
“I didn’t find out all at once that he’d spent $30,000. I found out it was happening week after week. It would be one grand, two grand, then three grand, four grand. It just kept adding up,” she said. “What really broke me wasn’t even the money. It was finding out he’d been lying to me. That was the betrayal. That was the thing that pushed me over the edge and made me question whether our relationship could survive.”
Emotional Toll and Hard Lessons
Knight recalled the emotional turmoil: “I spent a full week crying from the minute I woke up until the minute I went to bed. I still had to film a TV show in between all of that, but it was honestly the hardest week of my life. I thought I was going to lose everything.”
She said the experience taught her a difficult lesson about loving someone with an addiction. “The most difficult part about loving someone with an addiction is that they are not their addiction. Who Henry is at his core is such a beautiful, loving, kind and trustworthy person. Addiction changes people. It turns them into someone they’re not,” she said. “I realised that just because someone has an addiction doesn’t mean you have to accept being hurt. I understood that addiction was making Henry lie and manipulate people, but that didn’t mean I deserved to feel used or manipulated.”
Looking Forward
Knight admitted she initially carried the burden alone because Brayshaw was ashamed of his relapse. “Looking back now, if it ever happened again, I wouldn’t do that. I’d ask for help immediately. The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that no matter how much you love someone else, you have to love yourself enough to know when it’s time to put yourself first.”
Knight and Brayshaw first met in 2016 while working together at a pub in Melbourne. They got engaged during a trip to Cancun in March 2025. Knight rose to fame for being “Australia’s most sexually active woman”, filming with “barely legal 18-year-olds” at Schoolies and for having sex with nearly 600 men in a day in May 2025. Brayshaw is the son of former WA cricketer and Channel 7 commentator James Brayshaw, and the cousin of Fremantle Docker Andrew Brayshaw and ex-AFL players Angus and Hamish Brayshaw. The couple plan to tie the knot at a $170,000 wedding.
