Wayne Carey has made a dark prediction about his future, saying he has “only nine good summers left” and asking the world to stop bringing up his checkered past.
The two-time AFL Premiership winner and seven-time Australian was excluded from North Melbourne’s centenary celebration video released earlier this week.
In a discussion with former Geelong star Sam Newman, Carey, 53, urged people to “stop the rot” and said he didn’t want to have to live the rest of his life with people who continued to dig up some of the parts darker. of his past.
“This is me finally saying, ‘Come on, enough is enough,'” the football great said in the Newman interview. You can’t be serious.
Carey, who retired in 2004, added: “I probably only have nine good summers left, Sam.
‘Surely I don’t have to live the last years of my life living things that happened more than 30, more than 20 years ago.
Former North Melbourne player Wayne Carey, 53, has urged the world to stop mentioning his checkered past.
His comments came after the big kangaroo had apparently been omitted from the club’s centenary video.
Carey was speaking on Sam Newman’s You Cannot Be Serious podcast when she made a very dark prediction about her future.
‘Surely I’m not interesting enough to keep bringing up things that happened so long ago. “It’s amazing.”
Carey announced earlier this year that he and his model girlfriend Jessica Paulke, 33, were expecting their second child together after they had previously split. Carey also has a daughter with Sally McMahon and a son with his ex-fiancee Stephanie Edwards.
Although he revealed that the constant talks about his past controversies were negatively affecting him, he added that they were also taking a toll on his previous partners and children.
‘They are encouraging my children, their friends… to talk about violence. “They are taking the mothers of my children to the grave, that is what they are doing,” he said.
“The vindictive nature of what continues to happen is simply wrong.”
North Melbourne’s decision to omit Carey from the video celebrating the club’s anniversary was criticized by some, including Channel Nine’s Tony Jones, who told the Kangaroos to “grow up” while speaking on 3AW radio earlier this week.
The announcer added: “Surely people deserve a second or third chance, don’t they?”
Corey McKernan was another to call out the Kangaroos, posting on X: “FYI North Melbourne, you know Wayne Carey played for us right?”
Carey and her partner Jessica Paulke announced earlier this year that they were expecting a child.
But Carey said the constant speculation about her past was “driving my children’s mothers to their graves.”
Carey, who made 244 appearances for North Melbourne, also has a daughter with Sally McMahon (right)
The two-time premiership winner also has a son with Stephanie Edwards (pictured right)
Carey said it was “unusual” that he wasn’t included in the video, while Newman added it was a “shame.” Carey claimed Kangaroos legends Wayne Schimmelbusch, Denis Pagan, Sam Kekovich and Malcolm Bligh were also not included in the clip.
“I don’t know what you get for murder, but you don’t get this,” Carey continued.
“I talked to Sonja Hood and I said, ‘Sonja, I just want you to know that this has caused an uproar and people are talking about it.’ I’m not sitting there saying why you didn’t include me, but I just have to address this constant conversation about these things that I have (supposedly) done in my life, and that I have not done.
‘I guess it’s for my health to vent, to really say how I feel and to be a voice for others and say how they feel. If that’s what makes me feel a little better then I’ll do it.
‘I have reached a point in my life where I can live with myself and no longer feel guilty about these things. I decided through help and only through help I will no longer live with that toxic shame and guilt for these things that are written and are not true.
“I guess the constant storytelling and the constant headlines that appear after something as simple as a few people tweeting about me not being in a video and my whole history of things that haven’t happened being continually written about , it’s no big deal”. my fault It has simply gone too far.
‘If you look at what Alastair Clarkson has been through in the last few years. Chris Fagan. Guilty before being granted any presumption of innocence. It’s wrong.
“I’ve come to a point where I’ve learned to forgive myself.”
The former North Melbourne star admitted he had “come to a point where I learned to forgive myself”.
In 1997, the 53-year-old pleaded guilty to indecent assault after allegedly grabbing a woman’s breast on a Melbourne street.
The former North Melbourne star has made headlines for incidents off the football field in the past, including his affair with teammate Anthony Stevens’ wife in 2002. It is understood that led to him joining the Crows in 2003.
In 1997, the 53-year-old pleaded guilty to indecent assault after allegedly grabbing a woman’s breast on a Melbourne street. The matter was resolved through a civil lawsuit filed by the woman out of court.
Speaking on the matter, Carey told the podcast she had pleaded guilty after North Melbourne advised her to do so.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted North Melbourne for comment.
“I have never been accused of domestic violence,” he said.
‘There have been two major incidents in my life, one was over 30 years ago. It was on King St and over 30 years ago I received advice from the North Melbourne Football Club.
‘I don’t remember what happened that night. It was in the middle of the street, it wasn’t a cloak and dagger thing. I pleaded guilty on North Melbourne’s advice because we were halfway through the year where we thought we had a shot at the premiership.
“The allegation was that he had grabbed a girl by the tits and told her, ‘Get a bigger pair of tits.'” I pleaded guilty on the advice of the North Melbourne Football Club.
Carey, pictured alongside Kate Neilson, said he had “never been accused of domestic violence”.
‘I don’t categorically remember what happened that night. “If I had known I had to live with that for the rest of my life, which I have had to do, I would be fighting against it today.”
In 2007, the former Crows star was arrested in the US after he allegedly smashed a wine glass in his ex-fiancee Kate Neilson’s face.
Carey also claimed that the accusations made against him were “ridiculous” and not correct.
“An incident with a girl I was dating on and off, I wouldn’t call her a girlfriend… we were in a restaurant abroad and everyone says you hit someone with glass,” he said.
‘”You literally dressed your girlfriend.” That’s ridiculous, that’s not accurate. Yes, the glass touched her because I was trying to throw wine at her, I’ve said this before publicly, I was trying to throw a drink of wine at her in a crowded restaurant. I leaned down and touched his lip. Then I threw the glass on the floor and it broke.
In 2008, police were called to an apartment in Port Melbourne and allegedly used pepper spray to subdue Carey, after he had allegedly assaulted officers.
“There was an incident in Port Melbourne that I have a criminal record for,” Carey said. ‘I called the police to my apartment. When they arrived, I opened the door and said they don’t need you anymore.
The former football star was subsequently sacked from his jobs at Channel Seven and The Age after being kicked out of Perth’s Crown Casino last year.
‘The police forced their way into my apartment and then I defended myself inside my own apartment. So I didn’t fight those charges either.
‘They came in and grabbed me in my apartment. So I resisted arrest, that’s my conviction. I didn’t even throw a punch. These are real things that have happened.”
Last year, Carey was kicked out of Perth’s Crown Casino after a bag containing an unidentified white powder fell out of his pocket while he was on the premises.
He claimed the substance was an anti-inflammatory medication he was using to treat injuries he had suffered on the field.
The former football star was later sacked from his jobs at Channel Seven and The Age over the incident. The AFL had also prevented Carey from being honored at a Hall of Fame ceremony.