Candice Warner believes society has modified however nonetheless a method to go as she continues to relive her notorious 2007 incident with Sonny Bill Williams on the Clovelly Hotel in Sydney.
On Sunrise this morning Warner, who’s on the publicity circuit for her new memoir Running Strong, was as soon as once more questioned in regards to the night time — with a very pointed query coming from host Natalie Barr.
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The pair have been present in a males’s lavatory cubicle on the venue in Sydney’s east the place the then-21-year-old Bulldogs star and 22-year-old Ironwoman have been caught within the compromising scenario.
Speaking on The Project over the weekend, Warner mentioned the pair had merely seemed for a personal place to share a kiss — however the that photographer had caught their cellphone below the cubicle to take the picture.
Warner mentioned she wished she “picked that phone up and deleted it”, however the story blew right into a scandal.
Despite being single on the time, Warner revealed the media highlight led her to driving to an notorious clifftop location on the depths of her despair.
“I just thought ‘this is it’, I just couldn’t take it anymore,” she mentioned.
“I couldn’t take the headlines. I couldn’t take disappointing my parents. I couldn’t take it all. It was all too much.”
But talking on Channel 7’s Sunrise on Wednesday morning, host Nat Barr requested Warner, then Falzon, “did you think about coming out straight away and talking more about it?”
“This was 16 years ago,” Warner mentioned.
“16 years ago, we lived in a society where we didn’t have the voice, women didn’t have the voice that we do now. I didn’t have the opportunity
“Back then, I was forced to apologise for — I was single — for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nowadays that just wouldn’t happen.
“I didn’t have a voice back then, now I do and our society has changed. It still has a long way to go, but I feel like as a woman, I now have the confidence to be able to tell my side of the story and be heard.”
Warner, who has change into a media persona engaged on Triple M radio and Fox Sports, mentioned the rationale for speaking about her earlier scandals was for her kids.
Candice and David married in 2015 and have three daughters.
“In part it was for my three daughters, who in time will be able to read the book and I wanted them to get a better understanding of my story without any interferences or judgment from outside,” Warner mentioned of the explanations behind writing the guide.
It was the identical purpose she gave when confronting hecklers on the cricket in the course of the summer time.
Warner has spoken in regards to the incident beforehand, talking out on SAS Australia in 2020 and telling her fellow contestants it was one thing she regrets.
“A long time ago, when I was young, I got myself in a compromising position, which I regret,” she mentioned on the time.
“It had a huge impact on my family. Huge.
“It was just a personal situation. Too many drinks.
“Living with that and having to explain to my kids in the future is going to be very difficult. Especially when you’ve got three girls.
“I remember sitting on the side of the street and not being able to take it anymore.
“Yes, I’d made a mistake. But is that really worth, every single day, the media trying to drag me down? I don’t think so.
“It is not something I am proud of but something I can never take back.”
Originally revealed as ‘Didn’t have a voice’: Natalie Barr’s brutal query to Candice Warner after SBW scandal
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
