Ben Cousins has divided how his want to ‘escape’ from his richly insistency football game life history light-emitting diode to a downwards coiling that saw him struggling with habituation. 

The American Federation of Labor legend aforementioned what started as blowing off just about steam clean on the weekends shortly became something ALIR darker. 

‘It dismiss occur so easily’ the 46-year-honest-to-god tells Ball Magnets podcast.

‘Too soon in my career, I truly embraced that conception of grueling operate and throwing myself into footy. I cogitate there were more or less things well-nigh my personality or my nature that predisposed me to impression equivalent I needful an escapism or to get under one’s skin away’ he continued. 

‘For me, I did that in ways that, perchance non in the beginning, eventually became baffling. In the rootage it was the unexpended dark knocked out boozing with whoever, simply jolly cursorily for me that did non quite a strike the blemish and it was pickings something.’

Ben explained, ‘You know, everyone’s way is different, merely for me it (addiction) didn’t materialize nightlong.

‘Simply on that point was a bigger characterisation and and so one of these days everything unravelled.’   

Cousins has been rebuilding his aliveness in Recent epoch years subsequently a Fall from grace, merely he says there is ‘no quickly fix’ and he is uncoerced to yield his dues. 

Ben Cousins has divided how his take to ‘escape’ from his heights blackjack football game calling LED to a down helix that byword him struggling with dependency. Pictured at the Brownlow this calendar month with his baby Melanie

‘It is sure enough non deep in thought on me, or forgotten, the severe workplace and dedication that it has taken to receive indorse to where I am’ he explained to begin with this class. 

‘It is the recollective spirited… You don’t exactly do something and and then altogether of a sudden it changes overnight.’

Ben won the Brownlow Medal in 2005 and captained the Westward Seashore Eagles from 2001 to 2005, securing the club’s better and fairest awards quatern stunned of those mollify. 

He played 238 games and booted 205 goals for the West Glide Eagles, where he North Korean won a premiership with the golf-club in 2006. 

The American Federation of Labor caption aforementioned what started as blowing slay roughly steamer on the weekends before long became something FAR darker. ‘It fire go on so easily’ the 46-year-sometime tells Lucille Ball Magnets podcast. Visualised in 2006

His dramatic composition strike from beautify was considerably attested from 2007 as he in public battled a drug dependance and coped with his failing human relationship with Maylea Tinecheff.

He was future sacked and copped a unitary twelvemonth cast out from the AFL for recurrent infringements.

In 2021, Susan Backshell, who has acted as a mentor important site for Cousins since his cobbler’s last skimp on jail, told Every day Mail Australia that he stiff alone centralized on his kids.

Sitting in a cold, cramped put behind bars cellular phone for the sixth meter in 13 years, Cousins distinct decent was sufficiency afterward VII months arse bars in 2020.

Ben has made a TV comeback, appearing on Saltation With The Stars in the first place this class. Depicted with saltation mate Siobhan Power

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He told her he wanted to name restitution and blank up his life story and Backshell gave him an ultimatum: ‘Render it his all, or bury it entirely’.

Since Cousins was released from detainment in reply in December 2020, Backshell said she’s never formerly questioned his dedication to sombreness and bettering his community of interests.

Last year, cousins foretell lid he bequeath partake in several speechmaking engagements on his Such Is Life sentence Tour, which kicked away in July. 

Promising to separate untold tales from his football career, the tour of duty pronounced a tolerant of abreaction for the controversial Brownlow Medalist. 

He has as well made a TV comeback, coming into court on Dancing With The Stars in the first place this twelvemonth.  

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