Controversial AFL legend Wayne Carey has opened up on his inner-pain after he was left out of a recent video celebrating North Melbourne’s 100-year history.
Carey is North Melbourne’s best ever player and a premiership captain, but when the club released its centenary video he was nowhere to be seen (the club says he does appear albeit in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment).
Carey has now joined Sam Newman (another former AFL footballer who attracts controversy for his extreme views) on Newman’s You Cannot be Serious podcast.
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And he broke his silence on the issue, revealing he spoke to North Melbourne Sonja Hood about his omission, while also saying “enough is enough”.
“I spoke to Sonja Hood and I said ‘Sonja, I just want you to know this (video) has caused a kerfuffle and people are talking about it,’’ he said.
“I don’t sit there saying why didn’t you include me, but I just have to address this constant talk about these things I’ve (supposedly) done in my life, that I haven’t’.”
Carey said he was living in “toxic shame” and he had suffered enough for his past deeds.
“I don’t know what you get for murder, but you don’t get this,’’ Carey said.
Carey’s past relationship with women continues to haunt him, and this year he was uninvited at the last minute to the inaugural NSW Australian Football Hall of Fame as the event was held on the same weekend the AFL industry took a stand against gender-based violence.
“This is me finally saying, ‘come on, enough is enough’,’’ Carey said on the podcast.
“Surely I don’t have to live … I’ve probably only got nine good summers left, Sam. Surely I don’t have to live the last years of my life living things that occurred 30-plus, 20-plus years ago.
“Surely I’m not that interesting to keep bringing up things that happened that long ago. It’s astounding.
“They’re driving my kids, their friends … the talk about violence. They are driving the mothers of my children into their graves, that’s what they’re doing.
“The vindictive nature of what continues to happen is just wrong.”
Newman went to his go-to words and called the treatment of Carey a “sham” and a “disgrace”.
More to come …