Mitchell Pearce enjoyed rugby league’s highest highs but also endured its lowest lows during a rollercoaster career he believes might never begin if it weren’t for some supernatural intervention.
Pearce began his rugby league career with the Sydney Roosters in 2007 when he was just a teenager and quickly rose to the top of the playmaking ranks, chosen to represent New South Wales in the 2008 State of Origin series. .
He retired in 2023 at the conclusion of the Catalans’ 2023 Super League grand final defeat against Wigan and has since returned to Australia to pursue new opportunities after a stellar career that included 350 top-class appearances.
However, Pearce, son of Australian and New South Wales rugby league legend Wayne Pearce, has revealed his family feared his career would never have taken off unless they brought in a ghost whisperer during his first season. .
“I had an injury that was giving me a lot of trouble,” Mitchell said. New Corporation.
“It was a stabbing pain in my shoulder and I just couldn’t get over it. I was playing through pain and nothing I did to try to treat it helped. And then one day it suddenly stopped hurting.
While it seemed like a miracle to Pearce, his family had carried out an intervention without his knowledge to free him from his grief, which they believed was caused by a tormented child who had recently died but could not pass on to the afterlife.
When she happily told her parents Wayne and Terri that her pain was gone, they weren’t surprised. Instead, they revealed that they had brought in a ghost whisperer to clean up the family home.
Pearce’s parents Wayne and Terri (pictured together) called a ghost whisperer to clean out the family home when his football career was just beginning.
The former Gallos y Caballeros star had been battling a mystery injury in his first year of first grade, but the pain went away after the cleaning was done.
“I told him the medium had cleaned the house and the child was gone,” Terri said.
‘It no longer went up the entire back. And the strange thing is that the ghost crossed over at the same time that Mitch’s wound inexplicably disappeared.
A stunned Pearce shared that story with his Roosters teammates.
“They must have thought I was crazy,” he said.
Pearce was all smiles in 2007, but behind the smile he was fighting a private pain that he couldn’t get rid of until the Ghost Whisperer intervened.
Mitchell Pearce’s sister, Tatum (right), also felt the boy’s presence in her room.
It all started when Tatum, Mitchell’s younger sister, felt a presence in her room, which was right next to the NRL star’s bedroom.
His parents jumped out of bed and instantly thought there was a person in their house, but Tatum quickly clarified: ‘No, not someone. Something. It’s a ghost.
The Pearce family later claimed that they noticed all sorts of tricks and traps set by the ghost, including bumps in the night and times when the entity would even trip them.
“He often stumbled or tripped on a step,” Wayne said.
‘I would have to avoid falling by holding on to the wall or another step. I would get up and move on. It was something I found strange.’
Even Tatum’s boyfriend was seen fleeing the room in fear, claiming to have seen the apparition of a child.
Pearce would have a successful football career, including winning the 2013 premiership with the Roosters (pictured).
“You seem to have quite a presence in your son’s room,” the ghost whisperer told Wayne and Terri.
“That’s where he spends most of his time. He also wanders down the hallway and enters the girls’ bathroom next door.
“Don’t be scared, because this is not unusual, but I think the ghost has attached itself to the child,” the medium told the couple.
“He is hanging on his back all the time. He is always on his back, jumping. He is not an evil spirit. I would describe him as playful and he is obviously attracted to the boy because he considers him a friend and likes his company.
“But the good news is that you have already crossed the border,” he told them.
“He’s gone and he won’t come back.”
The Roosters halfback would play 19 games for the Blues and claim the NRL’s top spot in 2013.
In 2022, Pearce moved to the Super League, signing for the Catalans Dragons. Pearce has retired from professional rugby league and is focusing on opportunities in coaching, media and other sports-related ventures.