The former partner of fallen AFL star Ben Cousins is set to give an explosive interview about the ex-West Coast star claiming drugs "destroyed" his life and he is a "broken man".
Maylea Tinecheff, who is the mother of Cousins' two children, aged three and five, is doing a tell-all interview with Seven Network's Sunday Night about the perils of living with a drug addict.
Cousins was jailed for 12 months in March for stalking and breaching a violence restraining order against his former partner.
The sentencing related to an aggravated stalking charge, seven breaches of a violence restraining order, two drug related charges and no authority to drive.
"The drugs have destroyed him, he's a broken man. It's very sad," Ms Tinecheff says in a preview for Sunday Night.
Ms Tinecheff said Cousins had done drugs in front of her and at times his behaviour was "extremely out of control."
"Paranoia, lies, stealing things...he was violent," she said.
She said Cousins would often stalk her in the middle of the night.
In March, Magistrate Richard Huston heard the disgraced former Eagle "bombarded" Ms Tinecheff with thousands of phone calls and text messages since October, contacting her on one occasion 103 times in one day.
Mr Huston described the stalking - which related to the multiple times Cousins breached the violence restraining order taken out by Ms Tinecheff in May 2016 - as "persistent, sustained and intended".
Most of the VRO breach charges heard in court related to Cousins' attending his children's school and Sunday school.
"He would just turn up my house in the middle of the night, bang on the door," Ms Tinecheff.
But the mother-of-two revealed she still loved Cousins.
"The kids need you, we need you – just come to us," she said.
When Cousins was sentence to 12 months in jail he dropped his head into his hands and looked up at his father Bryan, who was in court to support his son.
Cousins was jailed after a long and public battle with drug addiction, with the court hearing he had a serious two-gram-a-day methamphetamine habit.
"Previous efforts to bring about change in Mr Cousins' behaviour hasn't worked... any leniency it might be suggested has been exhausted," Mr Huston said.
The court heard Cousins hadn't had regular employment since shortly after his playing career ended in 2010. His lawyer Michael Tudori said he had "hit rock bottom" in relation to his addiction, and wanted to seek help so he could continue to see his children.
"This man has had a very long, entrenched drug addiction," he said.
"There was periods of his offending where he suffered drug-induced psychosis.
"It's the root of all his problems."
- With Heather McNeill
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