- Ben Cousins shares daughter’s lavish Christmas wish list
- Eye-watering list asks for a new MacBook, phone and a fridge
- Cousins has turned his life around since being released from jail
Former AFL champion Ben Cousins has taken to social media to share his 10-year-old daughter’s extravagant festive wish list – and he might need a second job to pay for it all.
Cousins, 46, has turned his turbulent life around after a heartbreaking battle with drug addiction, recently revealing that he is the ‘happiest he has ever been’.
The footy legend has worked hard at rebuilding his relationship with his children – Angelique, 11, and Bobby, 13.
On Monday, Cousins took to social media to share news that his daughter was finishing primary school, followed by a photo of the lavish Christmas wish list she had given him.
‘My girl on her last day of primary school – goes too fast,’ he posted alongside a photo of the pair hugging.
‘And lot long after that photo this Christmas list from her landed. Help,’ he wrote.
Ben Cousins has posted the Christmas wish list his daughter has given him
Angelique gave her AFL legend dad a detailed list of what she wanted
In addition to designer clothes, money and jewellery, the pre-teen’s list also included a MacBook, a new mobile phone and stocked mini fridge.
Cousins played 238 games and booted 205 goals for West Coast between 1996 and 2007, winning the premiership in his penultimate season in Perth.
The former midfielder captained the Eagles from 2001 to 2005, securing the club’s best and fairest award in four out of those five seasons.
He was suspended by the club in March 2007 – just six months after the grand final triumph over Sydney – for alleged substance abuse and sacked six months later after being arrested for drug possession and refusing to submit to a blood test.
He returned to the AFL in 2009 with Richmond, before retiring at the end of the 2010 season.
Cousins was jailed on six separate occasions in 13 years and spent seven months behind bars in 2020, when he apparently decided enough was enough.
He is now on the right path and is reading the news for Seven in Western Australia, and recently appeared on Dancing With The Stars.
Cousins has said he only regrets how long it took to get clean.
Cousins has has been rebuilding his life in recent years after a very public fall from grace
Ben Cousins played 270 AFL games for the West Coast Eagles and Richmond Tigers before he retired in 2010
‘I wish it hadn’t had to have taken this long, and had to run its course the way it did,’ he revealed to The Front Bar in April.
‘But yeah, it’s nice to be working and busy, have some real ambition back, and, you know, just connected back in with friends, family, and even on a community level, you know.
‘Life’s never been better, to be honest.’
When asked about his new job reading the sports news for Channel Seven in Perth, Cousins hit back with a joke.
‘It’s much easier than being the news,’ he said.
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