- Ben Cousins Shares His Daughter’s Lavish Christmas Wish List
- The eye-catching list calls for a new MacBook, a phone and a refrigerator
- Cousins has changed his life since being released from prison
Former AFL champion Ben Cousins took to social media to share his 10-year-old daughter’s extravagant holiday wish list – and he may need a second job to pay for it all.
Cousins, 46, has turned his turbulent life around after a harrowing battle with drug addiction, and recently revealed he is “happier than ever.”
The soccer legend has worked hard to rebuild his relationship with his children: Angelique, 11, and Bobby, 13.
On Monday, Cousins took to social media to share the news that his daughter was finishing elementary school, followed by a photo of the lavish Christmas wish list he had given her.
“My girl on her last day of elementary school is going too fast,” he posted alongside a photo of the couple hugging.
And long after that photo came this Christmas list of his. Help,’ he wrote.
Ben Cousins has published the Christmas wish list that his daughter gave him
Angelique gave her AFL legend father a detailed list of what she wanted
In addition to designer clothes, money and jewelry, the preteen’s list also included a MacBook, a new cell phone and a stocked mini fridge.
Cousins played 238 games and scored 205 goals for West Coast between 1996 and 2007, winning the premiership in his penultimate season in Perth.
The former midfielder captained the Eagles from 2001 to 2005, winning the club’s best and fairest award in four of those five seasons.
He was suspended by the club in March 2007, just six months after the grand final win over Sydney, for alleged substance abuse and sacked six months later after being arrested for drug possession and refusing to submit to a blood test. .
He returned to the AFL in 2009 with Richmond, before retiring at the end of the 2010 season.
Cousins was jailed on six separate occasions in 13 years and spent seven months behind bars in 2020, when he apparently decided enough was enough.
He’s now on the right track and reading Seven news in Western Australia, and recently appeared on Dancing With The Stars.
Cousins has said he only regrets the time it took him to get clean.
Cousins has been rebuilding his life in recent years after a very public fall from grace
Ben Cousins played 270 AFL games for the West Coast Eagles and Richmond Tigers before retiring in 2010.
“I wish it hadn’t taken so long and had run its course like it did,” he revealed to The Front Bar in April.
“But yeah, it’s nice to be working and busy, get some real ambition back and, you know, reconnect with friends, family and even on a community level, you know.”
“To be honest, life has never been better.”
When asked about his new job reading sports news for Channel Seven in Perth, Cousins responded with a joke.
“It’s a lot easier than being in the news,” he said.