Unrepentant AFL star Wayne Carey insists there was nothing illegal in the bag of white powder he dropped at a Perth casino last year.
Carey has professed his innocence in a new “tell-all” podcast stating that no one could prove the bag didn’t contain crushed anti-inflammatory that he claimed to have taken with his dinner.
The yet-to-be-released podcast co-starring Channel 9 journalist Ayrton Woolley is titled The Truth Hurts – a nod to his 2009 book.
It delves into Carey’s life, which dates back to when he soiled his pants on his first day of school.
Wayne Carey was cut from radio and television after last year’s ‘white powder scandal’
Last month, the 51-year-old went public with his new girlfriend, Melbourne TikTok star Catie O’Neill, 28.
Wayne Carey celebrates after winning the 1996 AFL Grand Final game between the North Melbourne Kangaroos and the Sydney Swans
“I cried my eyes out, on the first day of school I shit my pants, I took it home, I didn’t clean it at school, it got really musty,” he told Woolley.
“I came home and cleaned it up. When I got home I think I got slapped for shitting my pants the first day.”
Carey’s media career came to an abrupt end last September after he dropped a bag of white powder on a gaming table at Perth’s Crown Casino.
An unashamed Carey maintained his innocence this week.
“Everyone knows why I’m out of the media, the so-called white powder saga at Crown Casino… which incidentally had nothing in it, wasn’t talked about or even shown a picture or had no picture of anything,” he said.
Carey lashed out at media coverage of the incident, which he claimed had no direct impact on him.
“I had a very emotional period after all that stuff came out in the media. People need to understand that this kind of coverage doesn’t affect me anymore, I built a wall and built a mask that is almost unbreakable,” he said.
“But who it does affect is my 17-year-old, my eight-year-old, my four-year-old, it affects the mother of those kids that I’m very, very close to, it affects their families, their aunts, uncles, their nans, their pappies .
“It affects all those people, so I sat down and had a really emotional period thinking, How can I give voice to my truth for the first time in my life?”
Wayne’s Carey’s mugshot after the star faced a Miami court charged with battery of a police officer when he was charged with assaulting his girlfriend in 2007
Carey sits at Crown with three other men – one of whom appears to be drinking a beer. He would place a bag of white powder near a table later that night
Carey claimed he was already planning to give up his lucrative Channel 7 media role before the rug was pulled from under him.
“I was thinking about leaving Channel 7 anyway at the beginning of this year or late last year because I really wasn’t enjoying it all the way,” said Carey.
The former star claimed he was tired of conforming to the mainstream media’s “woke world.”
“I knew you could just go there on autopilot, you knew what to say…you get muzzled for what you can say, you train yourself on what to say and what not to say,” he said.
“Obviously in the new world, the awakened world with political correctness that you are paralyzed by in the mainstream media. This is the first time since I was sixteen that I’ve had a chance to speak my truth.’
The photo shows Carey speaking for the first time on Sept. 8 about the white powder incident
Carey claims he was about to end his television appearance before the white powder scandal broke
In the podcast, Carey speaks at length about his childhood, revealing that he didn’t feel comfortable standing up for himself until after he left home at age 13.
“I don’t blame my behavior on my upbringing and I had a very indifferent upbringing, but I don’t blame that on behavior because a lot of other people had a much tougher upbringing than I did.
“When I was 13 I moved in with my brother and built a wall and a mask, that mask just grew over time. I moved to Melbourne when I was 16 and lived with a group of young boys in Melbourne in a house where no one really looked after us,” he said.
“Three or four years later I am captain of North Melbourne. Everything happened very quickly and I was really an emotionally immature person.
“I really didn’t have time to figure out who I was, I built this wall and this mask that no one would ever hurt me.”
Carey was banned from all Crown casinos for two years after the white powder scandal.
Last month, the 51-year-old went public with his new girlfriend, Melbourne TikTok star Catie O’Neill, 28.
Carey was said to be “quietly seeing” Catie, with the news that their romance broke out in January.