Candice Warner has damaged down revisiting the trauma of her notorious incident with cross-code rugby nice Sonny Bill Williams in an emotional interview set to air on The Project on Sunday evening.
The pair met on the Clovelly Hotel in 2007, with the then-21-year-old Bulldogs star celebrating a win with teammates whereas the 22-year-old Warner had attended with associates after a day trip on the races.
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“We were chatting, there was some flirting, and then we did, we wanted to kiss,” Warner revealed.
The pair headed right into a cubicle within the bogs on the venue, the place one other patron held a cellphone digital camera underneath the door and snapped a photograph, sparking nationwide headlines.
“It’s clear that all these years later, that shame has been a really heavy burden to carry,” Project host Sarah Harris stated to Warner, in an unique extract from the interview you’ll be able to watch above.
The 38-year-old former ironwoman then broke down in tears as she revealed the continued emotional fallout of the incident.
“It’s really real for me, it’s the pain that I caused my family, it’s the pain and hurt, like it’s so deep. I just thought ‘this is it,’ I just couldn’t take it anymore,” Warner stated.
“I couldn’t take the headlines, I couldn’t take dissapointing my parents, I couldn’t take it all, it was all too much.
“From then on (my brother) Pat would check in on me daily and I felt like I needed to get to that point to be able to move on to a degree.”
Warner has touched on the incident beforehand in public, occurring 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 stated 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.”
In the upcoming interview with The Project, Warner additionally speaks out about her star cricketer husband David, who underwent his personal public scandal with the 2018 Sandpapergate ball-tampering saga.
“We felt like criminals, we felt and were treated like absolute criminals,” she stated, additionally revealing that there is perhaps particulars we’re but to seek out out in regards to the scandal that price David his place within the nationwide aspect for a 12 months and completely barred him from management positions.
“I know enough to know he’s taken his fair share of the blame. Maybe a little too much,” she stated.
The notorious 2018 South Africa tour itself was a melting pot of torment for the Warner household, and Candice has spoken out beforehand about a few of the unsavoury experiences of that tour.
Candice was mocked by followers and South African cricket directors sporting Sonny Bill Williams face masks in Port Elizabeth, whereas David copped it on the sphere.
The fiery Aussie opener needed to be bodily restrained by teammates from South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock in a stairwell in now-infamous scenes, with opposition captain Faf du Plessis pressured to type out the change sporting nothing however a towel.
“I cop it left, right and centre, especially off the field from spectators and I’m used to that and it doesn’t bother me,” Warner stated on the time.
“But in a proximity of my personal space and from behind me, a comment that was vile and disgusting about my wife, and in general about a lady, was quite poor, I felt.
“My emotional response was just something that I don’t believe should have been said and I’ll always stick up for my family and in that case my teammates as well.”
Candice Warner’s interview comes forward of the discharge of her memoir, Running Strong – which will likely be printed by HarperCollins on April 19 and is accessible for pre-order now.
See the total unique interview on The Sunday Project from 6.30pm Sunday evening on Ten and 10 play.
Source: www.news.com.au
