Brendan Fevola lost millions living as a bogan, Carlton Blues great’s net worth

Brendan Fevola has revealed extra particulars on how he blew millions of {dollars} living as a “bogan”.

The Carlton cult hero on Wednesday opened up on the playing points that ruined his life — having famously admitted to promoting his prized Coleman Medal (awarded to the AFL’s main goalkicker) to fund his dependancy.

The star footballer has spoken brazenly in regards to the downwards spiral he went by means of in direction of the tip of his soccer profession, together with a stint in rehab and declaring chapter in 2013.

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Fevola stated on Fox 101.9’s Fifi, Fev & Nick present his millions of {dollars} “ruined” his life.

“I did it. I earned millions. Millions. And I lost all of it as a result of I used to be a bogan,” he stated.

“I just about wasted all of it. We had seven homes all through my footy profession. Lost all of it as a result of I punted.

“Bang. Silly. As a result of I had cash from the age of 17. Huge cash. Everybody else was working onerous for his or her cash. I didn’t need to work onerous. I simply performed footy. I simply thought cash would come simple. Successful the lotto – simple cash. Let’s spend it.”

He stated it’s the motive he ended up on “silly” actuality TV present ‘I’m A Celeb Get Me Out Of Right here’.

Fevola was the break-out star and received the 2016 version of the Australian sequence and stated on the time he hoped the present would restore his public picture as an ‘fool’.

“You get into cash you lose all of it after which you find yourself on a silly present like “celeb get me out of right here”. That’s what occurs,” he stated on Wednesday.

His spouse Alex final yr spoke in regards to the couple’s marriage break down — and the second she realised her husband had lost their life financial savings.

The 46-year-old instructed the Mamamia No Filter podcast she was given no warning earlier than studying her husband’s scheduled payday by no means arrived.

“The pay hadn’t gone into the account,” she stated.

“I believed, ‘That’s so unusual. What’s happening?’ And I couldn’t get onto anyone, nobody was answering my calls.

“Ultimately, somebody answered my name and instructed me that, “yeah, there was no pay” and it was that total yr’s worth of pay.”

The make-up artist and cosmetics influencer ended their relationship in 2010 and returned to Melbourne whereas her husband was nonetheless taking part in for the Brisbane Lions.

It got here after the notorious nude photograph and dishonest scandal involving bikini mannequin Lara Worthington, former Lara Bingle.

Alex opened up on the affair in her new e book Silver Linings the place she reveals the devastating second she realized about it.

She additionally confirmed Fevola’s earlier claims that the actual motive she left him on the time was due to his playing dependancy.

He lasted only one season at Brisbane earlier than the Lions sacked him.

“I used to be really simply in disbelief. I couldn’t imagine that this may all occur and nobody would notify me,” she stated on the brand new podcast.

“The largest shock of all of it was that this had gone on behind the scenes, and no one thought it was vital to inform me that that’s what was occurring.

“I had to enter restoration mode. We needed to get out of the place we had been living. We’d simply purchased a home. We needed to promote every part.”

She had simply given beginning to their third daughter on the time.

The couple at the moment are a glad household with daughters Leni, Lulu, Tobi and Mia.

The Fevola’s marriage is now stronger than ever.

They had been married in 2005, earlier than divorcing in 2014. They received again collectively shortly after the separation.

In 2013 Fevola’s playing drawback was uncontrolled — at one level shedding $363,000 in at some point.

Playing away his household’s life financial savings, the previous Brisbane Lions and Carlton nice was pressured to declare chapter and was in a deep gap when Alex moved out.

The footballer has since owned as much as his private points and admits that his dependancy is the bottom level of his life.

He has beforehand stated the hardest factor was seeing the way it impacted the remainder of his household.

“I did (lose a lot of our financial savings) and therefore why Alex left the primary time once we had been in Brisbane,” he instructed his Nova breakfast present.

“She went again due to the playing. Now she takes care of a lot of the accounts which is sweet.

“I stated to myself then I didn’t lose that ($300,000) as a result of I’d already received it, so it’s so bizarre. However you probably did, you lost it.

“The worst factor is it didn’t really have an effect on me an excessive amount of but when impacts your loved ones and that’s the underside line, Alex and the children.

“It’s an addictive factor, it’s a actually dangerous dependancy to have and it clearly cripples a lot of individuals’s lives.”

The previous Coleman medallist and the favored make-up artist now make up certainly one of Melbourne’s energy {couples}.