Ben Cousins’ estranged former partner and the mother of his children has given an insight into living with the AFL star and witnessing his drug-fuelled downfall.
Maylea Tinecheff says she still loves the former AFL great, who is currently serving a year in jail for drug offences and for breaching a restraining order and stalking her.
In a preview for Channel Seven’s Sunday Night, Tinecheff describes Cousins as “violent” and details her experience as the victim of his constant phone calls, which a court heard reached 50 times in one day.
"He would just turn up at my house in the middle of the night, bang on the door," she says on the program.
Tinecheff says her former partner is "a broken man" and "drugs have destroyed him".
"He was extremely out of control... paranoia, lies, stealing things. He was violent."
However, she appears to still want to reconcile with the father of her two young children, appearing to make a plea to him on national television.
"The kids need you, we need you. Just come home to us," she says after the voice over announces that she is still in love with him.
Sunday Night airs on Channel Seven at 8.30pm Sunday 4 June.
Top Comments
If he was stalking her and behaved abusively to her, regardless of the fact it was drug fuelled, why would you want that around your kids or yourself going forward? I'm not sure that he will ever truly kick the addiction. A lot of people don't. very sad all around really
I must admit that in the early days of his off field problems, I noticed his father standing up for his appalling behaviour and being very hostile with journalists asking him for an opinion on his son's behaviour. He's his dad, as a mother and grandmother, I get it. However, I do wonder if Dad's love had been a little tougher in the early days, things may have been nipped in the bud then. I guess we'll never know.