By David Prestipino
Ben Cousins is due back in Armadale Magistrates Court today to face charges of breaching a violence restraining order and drug possession.
The 38-year-old could spend Christmas in jail, with police likely to push for bail to be declined.
The former AFL star conceded last week he was "really lucky" to be granted bail after being fined $600 for breaching a VRO on December 6.
Cousins still faces a breach of bail offence, two VRO breaches from October 16, and three meth possession charges from June 28, October 17 and November 23.
Ben Cousins will appear in Armadale Magistrates Court again today.Credit: Getty Images
The Brownlow medallist was arrested on Tuesday while playing with his kids, aged three and five, at a Canning Vale park near his former partner's home.
Cousins has battled a long-standing drug addiction and after his court appearance revealed he was living out of a backpack on the couches of three mates.
"It's hard to know where to go to," he told a News Corp journalist who gave him a lift from court, where his father Bryan was present in support.
"There's a lady I knock around with these days who I stay with, otherwise I just move on to another place."
Cousins admitted he's going through a 'tough time'.
He said his public persona was very different to how he was currently feeling.
"Well, it's a bit of a facade really... I am having a bit of a tough time," he said.
Cousins' battle with drug addiction has been well documented and resulted in several court appearances, moreso in recent years.
Cousins' long battle with mental health and drugs
The popular West Coast captain has battled drug addiction throughout his AFL career with the Eagles and Richmond and after it ended in 2010.
The 38-year-old was detained by police, and then hospitalised, in late June after interfering with traffic on Canning Highway in Como while in a dazed state.
At one stage he was banned for a year from football while contracted to the Eagles and had several run-ins with police after Richmond threw him a lifeline in 2009.
The 2005 Brownlow medallist was spared jail last year for a bizarre episode in which he trespassed at a Sikh temple in Canning Vale.
In the subsequent court case, a lawyer for Cousins said his client had been mentally ill at the time of incident, had been hospitalised rather than locked up and had taken a fencing job in Collie.
When former Eagles teammate Chris Judd launched his autobiography Inside last October, he said Cousins seemed to be "doing well" when they caught up recently.
Even West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett, on the eve of the club's 10-year premiership celebrations, touched on the Brownlow medallist's battle, saying he would forgo that 2006 success in exchange for the good mental health of Cousins and other troubled ex-Eagles from that side.
Cousins' on-field career garnered just about every honour imaginable, including six All-Australian jumpers and his 2005 Brownlow triumph.
But there was just as much drama off it, with West Coast forced to take the captaincy of its favourite son after he famously avoided a booze bus by jumping into the Canning River.
He was eventually sacked by the club in 2007 after several failed stints in rehab and finished his career after two seasons at Richmond in 2009 and 2010, for a total of 270 career AFL games.
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