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Wallabies star Kurtley Beale is spending the night in a cell after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a pub in Bondi.
The 28-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted in the bathrooms of the Beach Road Hotel on December 17.
He then reported the incident to police in the Tweed/Byron Bay district soon after, according to a police statement.
Beale, 34, who has 95 caps for the Wallabies, was questioned for several hours at Waverley police station in Sydney before being charged on Friday night.
“He was charged with two counts of sexually touching another person without consent, inciting another to sexually touch her without consent, and having sexual intercourse without consent,” NSW Police said in a statement.
Beale was denied bail and taken to spend the night behind bars before facing Parramatta Court on Saturday.
Kurtley Beale, 34, who has 95 caps for the Wallabies and whose wife Maddie recently gave birth, was charged with a series of sex offenses at Waverley police station in Sydney on Friday.
He is believed to have been arrested while driving through the eastern Sydney suburb of Kingsford on Friday afternoon.
Beale and his wife Maddie celebrated the arrival of their first child weeks before the alleged assault.
The baby, a boy, was named after the winger, Kurtley James Windon Beale.
The arrest comes just days after Eddie Jones was named the Wallabies’ new coach.
Beale was also recently named in the Wallabies’ extended training squad for the upcoming World Cup.
Beale was recently named in the Wallabies’ extended training squad for the upcoming World Cup.
The 28-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted in the bathrooms of the Bondi’s Beach Road hotel on December 17 and reported the incident to police in the Tweed/Byron Bay district.
In December, Beale lifted the lid on his struggles with alcohol.
He revealed how he checked himself into rehab after a low point where he got drunk and got into a fight with two teammates.
In 2013, the playmaker came to blows with his Melbourne Rebels teammates Gareth Delve and Cooper Vuna, just hours after a record-breaking 64-7 loss to the Sharks in South Africa.
Captain Gareth Delve is understood to have asked Beale to put on a jersey before arriving at the team hotel and was abused and assaulted for doing so.
Then Vuna intervened, punches were thrown and Beale was smashed.
The 34-year-old now admits that he was wrong and deserved all the punishments he received.
‘I checked into rehab. He came off the back of the Rebels, I got in trouble with one of the other players,’ Beale revealed on the Stan-produced feature, Kurtley: My Story.
“I did a little bit of pork chop and absolutely deserved all the penalties and whatnot.” It was the moment there where things were not going well for me. I had to seek help.
‘With support coming back to my mainstays, they pretty much said, maybe we’ll go down this path and try to find each other a bit. It was pretty hard.
Beale and his wife Maddie celebrated the arrival of their first child just weeks before the alleged assault
Beale (pictured playing for the Wallabies in 2019) was told he would not be selected for the Wallabies until he completed his rehab stint.
‘You think you know everything as a child, don’t you? You know all. I always see it as everything is learning. It’s a time of growth and I found that period really helpful because it was about reconnecting with my identity because I lost it.
‘I didn’t know who I was. When you don’t have that sense of who you are and that attachment to yourself, you lose yourself by not being true to yourself.’
Beale was told that he would not be selected for the Wallabies until he had completed his rehab stint.
He ended up being selected in the squad to compete in the British and Irish Lions series, but underperformed and slipped while taking a crucial penalty.
In 2019, Beale apologized after he was filmed playing a didgeridoo next to a table covered in white dust.
In 2014, Australia temporarily suspended him after he sent “deeply offensive” messages and images to people, including Australian Rugby Union officials.
Di Patston resigned from his role as business manager for the Australian rugby union team over the dispute, which saw two separate incidents.
In the first, Beale accidentally sent her a crude text about Patston.
After an emotional apology and discussion, Patston agreed to keep the incident a secret as long as Beale treated her better in the future.
Four months later, he yelled at her on a flight and she quit, before telling the ARU about the two incidents.
After a four-hour hearing, he ultimately prevented his contract from being terminated and was fined $45,000.
In 2017, it was revealed that Beale’s wife, Maddi, then his girlfriend, allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with an AFL executive just before the couple moved abroad.
The relationship between Ms Blomberg and the AFL’s football operations manager is believed to have taken place just weeks before she moved to the UK with her long-term partner Beale.