Content warning: This post deals with themes of domestic violence.
The nation has witnessed former AFL star Ben Cousins’ meteoric rise to pro athlete level fame, and subsequent downfall to the life of a criminal drug addict.
While the 38-year-old serves a one-year prison sentence on 11 charges including drugs, violence and stalking, and breaching a violence restraining order, his former partner and mother of his children Maylea Tinecheff has spoken to Channel Seven’s Sunday Night.
And it appears their relationship – which endured some of the football player’s most troubled years – was more fraught than ever imagined.
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He will never beat this addiction. I think she's very right there. I had to laugh when the journalist was shocked when she said he was using in jail. Of course they get stuff in there! I can understand she wants the best for her kids but I don't think I'd be encouraging him to come home to them given she believes he will never get better- it's clear he doesn't want to. I'd be saying if you can get clean, I'd like you to be in the kids lives but as for you and I, we are merely co-parents. I wouldn't be encouraging more or sounding even like it was a remote possibility after all he's done.
Hard to understand why she would expose Ben like this....if she says she still loves him.....money... the root of all evil...I guess. Exposing him and their life together on national television could only have a detrimental effect on him....money more important to her.....like drugs more important to him. Ice is the devil of all drugs...once it takes hold....it grips on tight and takes control and tricks your mind into thinking you can't function and live without it. The user has no idea...recollection of their bizarre actions and behaviour. Sellers and manufactures of this drug should be jailed for life....they are killing people.....destroying lives. I feel very sad for Ben .....one bad choice and now his life destroyed....yes...he made that choice but I doubt he and many others never anticipated the destruction that would follow them. God help him. If he and others are using in prison...then our prison system is failing badly...if you go to jail for drug related offences n can get drugs in prison then something is very wrong!