‘They hope he gets hit by a bus’: Footy WAG says her husband has been forced to get professional help after trolls repeatedly threatened to KILL him for ‘eye gouging his opponents’
- Josh McGuire has been abused online after placing his hands on opponent’s face
- His wife Tanyssa defended him on Instagram after they received death threats
- McGuire was suspended for three games following a tackle on Thursday night
The wife of NRL star Josh McGuire has defended her husband after he received an onslaught of death threats online.
The North Queensland Cowboys enforcer will miss three games after taking an early guilty plea for rubbing his hand in the face of Brisbane Broncos forward David Fifita during a tackle on Thursday night.
McGuire was fined $3,400 for a similar incident in June and came under fire for an apparent eye gouge earlier this year during a clash with the Melbourne Storm.
Tanyssa McGuire has since spoken out after her husband was burdened with abuse, revealing the embattled league star was now seeking professional help.
McGuire’s wife has since revealed he’s seeking professional help to deal with the mental torment from online trolls
McGuire will miss three games after taking an early guilty plea for rubbing his hand in the face of Brisbane Broncos forward David Fifita during a tackle on Thursday night (pictured)
‘Of late, he has been receiving death threat upon death threat. Countless threats of the most unthinkable things,’ Mrs McGuire wrote on Instagram on Saturday.
‘Mental health is constantly being spoken about within the NRL and yet what I am witnessing is the absolute bashing of a man who can only take so much before that thick skin starts to soften.’
‘I am beyond sickened and disappointed and have witnessed more then enough moments of sadness for me to not make a stand and have a voice on this. It needs to change,’ she said.
Mrs McGuire has since said that her husband asked the football club for professional help in the wake of his online torment.
Mrs McGuire took to Instagram to defend the Cowboys player saying the abuse had a heavy impact on his mental health
‘He’s been getting absolutely hammered, relentlessly — like hundreds every morning and they are just the most disgusting things,’ Mrs McGuire told the Townsville Bulletin.
‘He had someone a couple of days ago saying they hope he gets hit by a bus so his kids don’t have to grow up with Josh McGuire as their dad,’ she said.
‘He accessed support as of today. I think since the suspension that paired with the comments he’s at the point where he said I need to involve other people and talk to someone.’
McGuire’s mother, Karlene, also defended her son through a Facebook post, slamming those who labelled her son as a ‘grub’.
Josh McGuire received a three game suspension following a tackle on David Fifita where he unnecessarily placed his hands on his face
‘NRL has in their game , players who rape women, abuse women physically and verbally, glass their partners, take, sell and traffic illegal drugs, they even bestowed immortal status on individuals who openly admit to playing while using coke,’ she wrote on Facebook.
‘Yet he is the grub, the bad guy!’
McGuire entered an early guilty plea for a grade two contrary conduct charge following the incident which was his third offence this season.
Tanyssa McGuire (pictured with husband Josh) has defended her husband after he received an onslaught of online abuse, following a three game suspension