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AFL offers to fund rehab for Ben Cousins

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The AFL has offered to pay for a drug rehabilitation program for former football star Ben Cousins.

The Herald Sun reports that a number of influential figures and business people have offered to help the Brownlow Medallist.

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After two nights behind bars, former West Coast Eagle admitted to breaching a violence restraining order and was fined. Vision courtesy Network Ten

Its understood AFL Chief Executive Gillon McLachlan made the offer to Cousins' father Bryan several months ago - and that the offer still stands.

It is also reported that Kim Ledger, Heath Ledger's father, has also tried to help.

Cousins has admitted going through "a bit of a tough time" and revealed he has no permanent home after he appeared in a Perth court on Thursday.

He was fined $600 and released on bail when he appeared at Armadale Magistrates Court for breaching a violence restraining order taken out by his former partner Maylea Tinecheff, the mother of is two children.

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When he left court he told waiting media that the considered himself 'really lucky" to be released after previously admitting he expected to spend Christmas in jail.

The 38-year-old went into more details of his difficult personal life when he talked to a journalist who offered him a life.

"Its hard to know where to go," he told the News Corp reporter.

"I am living out of a backpack at the moment. I move between three mates' houses, spend time on different couches."

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