Footy great Wayne Carey has confessed he is the man shown in a viral video that allegedly featured a man and woman emerging from a bathroom after a sexual encounter in a trendy Melbourne bar.
The North Melbourne premiership winner said he has contacted Victoria Police in an effort to have the people who filmed and distributed the video held accountable for their actions.
The footage, which was taken at the Toorak Cellars bar in Armadale in the city’s inner south east, shows Carey and the unnamed woman walking into view around 20 seconds apart.
A female voice is heard saying ‘we’ve got you on camera’ as the woman walks past, before asking ‘What’s he doing in there?’ and remarking, ‘She looks embarrassed.’
Carey and the woman depicted in the clip have lashed out over the video, with the ex-AFL star branding it ‘s**t shaming’ and cyberbullying and both parties insisting there was no ‘tryst’ in the toilets.
‘Annoyed is the wrong word, I’ve gone through about 10 different emotions in the last three days,’ he said on Sam Newman’s You Cannot Be Serious podcast.
Wayne Carey is pictured in a grab from a viral video that was taken in a trendy Melbourne bar recently. He has furiously blasted claims it shows him and a woman emerging from the bathroom after having a sexual encounter in the toilets
The woman who appears in the footage shortly before Carey, has blasted the people behind the video on social media, writing: ‘Shame on you women, we are better than that’
Carey’s partner Jessica Paulke (pictured together) has also blasted the footage and tried to have it removed from social media by contacting the E-Safety Commissioner
‘I’ve gone through disbelief, sadness, I’ve gone through anger.
‘This woman has been thrown into this just because I could kick a footy.
‘And you’ve got two vile, disturbing, probably p**sed women who want to do this to another woman.
‘That’s all they were doing, they were s**t-shaming another woman.
‘If two men had done that they would be raked over hot coals, it would be the biggest story going around.
‘But because it’s two women doing it to another woman … you don’t know what’s going on, this other woman has had all sorts of stuff going in her life, I’ve since found out.
‘You talk about vile and disgusting, what they’ve done and who they have affected by a few sh**s and giggles drinking their chardonnay, sitting up there, doing whatever.
‘Once again, I’m not going to name them because that would be as pathetic as what they are. I’ll let the law take care of it.’
The AFL great (pictured with Jessica Paulke) revealed he has contacted police about the footag and is now going to ‘let the law take care of it’
Carey also said his partner Jessica Paulke had spoken to the woman in the footage to support her in her efforts to have the people who filmed the video held accountable.
Paulke also messaged an Instagram account where the uncensored video was published, warning that she and Carey had ‘contacted esafety commission to have this content removed’.
The woman shown in the footage also lashed out on social media.
‘Shame on you women, we are better than that,’ she wrote.
‘It [a tryst] did not happen, but that’s not the point.
‘It’s time that narrative changed.’
Carey added that one of the women’s claim that she heard people ‘grunting like pigs’ in the toilet just before the video was taken is ‘completely made-up crap’.
He revealed that they were warned not to post the video on social media.
‘This other woman has had an horrific few months.
‘She’s lost her parents, she’s split up from a partner and these two women think it’s OK to film her and slut shame her online and post it online,’ he said.
‘What sort of penalty should these two women get?
‘We [he and the woman in the video] are speaking and we will follow this through to the nth degree.
‘I’m blown away that women in their 40s could think this was a good idea.
‘How would they explain this to their children?’
