FORMER Olympic champion Grant Hackett has not seen his children since he left his Melbourne home in early April while he battles another unsavoury allegation of his drunken misbehaviour.
The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the swimmer's ex-wife Candice Alley made a statement to police at Melbourne's Frankston police station alleging Hackett was involved in an incident after drinking five bottles of wine over two hours at lunch.The incident allegedly occurred on April 7, while the family was spending the Easter weekend at Victoria's Red Hill winery.
Ms Alley, who made the statement on May 19, 16 days after the couple announced they had split and six weeks after the alleged incident, is not the victim of the alleged incident. Additional evidence allegedly supporting the claim has also been handed to detectives. A close friend of Hackett denied he drank excessively.
"Grant's got all the receipts from the hotel, which shows only one bottle of wine bought the whole weekend," the friend said.
The friend denied the claims of misbehaviour, which have emerged a week after The Sunday Telegraph published pictures showing Hackett allegedly trashed his multi-million Southbank penthouse apartment in a drunken post-Derby Day rampage in October 2011.
Hackett, 32, has been living with his parents on the Gold Coast since the break-up. The couple have two-year-old twins, Charlize and Jagger.
On Tuesday, Hackett pulled out of a planned appearance at a Sport Australia Hall of Fame function in Sydney and on Friday it was revealed he had been dumped as the public face of Westpac, where he remains a full-time employee. Earlier in the week he was dumped from representing a children's charity.
Channel 9 is still standing by Hackett, who will be part of the network's commentary team at the Olympic Games in London next month. Food giant Uncle Tobys said it was also reviewing a long-standing contract with Hackett.
Hackett's agent at Quarterback International, Chris White, refused to comment.
Hackett's father, Nev, told The Daily Telegraph Ms Alley was not in the Melbourne apartment for "90 per cent" of his son's Derby Day rampage.
"Could you let people know the kids did not witness the outburst?" his father Nev Hackett said. "He's a d . . k head, but I love him."
No comments:
Post a Comment