Cousins with his dad
There comes a time when friends and family of a drug addict have to make a painful decision – to finally cut them loose. And that’s when Ben Cousins admitted himself into rehab last Monday. His partner Maylea Tinecheff, with whom he has a baby son, and his parents, were not seen at the hospital.
Then the former AFL legend had a fall at the rehab clinic and hit his head on a wash basin and yesterday, after displaying paranoid behaviour, he was committed to a psychiatric unit of a Perth hospital “for his own safety.”
Cousins was one of the most decorated West Coast Eagles players, winning the 2005 Brownlow Medal and playing in their 2006 premiership side before the club sacked him in late 2007 because of his drug addiction.
Such a sad episode for a young man who had the world at his feet.
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