IF mud sticks then Brian McFadden must be wallowing up to his neck by now.

Insults and accusations have come thick and fast since he split with former Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona last October.

And most have had Brian's name on them.

Was he cheating on wife Kerry with Aussie pop star Delta Goodrem? Did he dump Kerry over the phone? Could he really be that cruel?

Brian, to say the least, is under media siege and understandably defensive.

"I do think I've copped an enormous amount of s*** in the past few months," he says. "There was no way that I expected what's happened, that it would all be so black and white; that there'd be a good guy and a bad guy and I'd be the bad guy.

"What did I do to be painted as the villain, I don't know? Probably being born," he smiles.

"But there's no mystery, the whole thing was actually very simple and it was then made complicated by everything in the press and all these other people who got involved.

"There was so much to deal with when Kerry and I split up and it was very difficult because of everything that was being said.

"Now we're great friends and we can talk about it, but to be honest I don't under-stand why people take such great entertainment out of my life."