Wayne Carey’s former fiancée Kate Neilson has accused him of lying about an alleged glassing attack that she says left her bleeding from wounds to her mouth and neck.
Neilson was reacting to comments Carey made during a recent podcast appearance with former Footy Show host Sam Newman in which he branded her accusations about what happened ‘ludicrous’.
In 2007, Carey was accused of allegedly ‘glassing’ his then-girlfriend in the face while the pair were having dinner at a restaurant while holidaying in Miami.
Carey was arrested and charged by Miami police while on holiday with Kate after she alleged he had smashed a wine glass into her face during dinner, cutting her mouth and neck.
At the time, the police officers said they were called to the hotel after a report that Carey hit Neilson in the face with the glass.
The former North Melbourne star later pleaded guilty to two counts of battery of a law enforcement officer and one count of resisting arrest with violence.
Kate Neilson (pictured) said she feels ‘extremely insulted’ after Carey aired his take on his alleged 2007 glassing attack on her
Neilson (pictured with Carey outside court in 2009) described his version of events as ‘all lies’
Neilson decided not to press charges against him over the incident, and Carey was ordered to perform 50 hours of community service, attend classes to manage his anger and alcohol consumption, and pay money to a police charity.
‘An incident with a girl that I was seeing on and off, I wouldn’t call her a girlfriend… we were overseas in a restaurant and everyone says you glassed someone,’ Carey said on the podcast.
‘”You literally glassed your girlfriend.” That is ludicrous, that is not accurate.
‘Yes, the glass did touch her because I was trying to throw wine, I’ve said this before publicly, I was trying to throw a mouthful of wine on her in a packed restaurant.
‘I leaned over and touched her lip. I then threw the glass on the ground and it smashed.’
Neilson hit back furiously on Friday, accusing him of changing his story about the attack once again and leaving her ‘extremely insulted’.
‘Wayne’s story about the glassing in Miami has changed from when he did the Andrew Denton story [an appearance on the TV show Enough Rope in 2008] saying he didn’t mean to break the glass on my face, but now he is saying he threw the glass on the ground,’ she told News Corp.
‘Which is all lies. He was locked up in jail for a reason, not because he poured wine on my face.
The Kangaroos great’s ex said she has photos of the wounds she received when Carey allegedly glassed her in a Miami restaurant before assaulting police
Neilson’s furious words for her ex came after he complained about ‘vindictive’ attacks on him over his chequered past
‘I was bleeding profusely and the FBI took photos, which I have.
‘So to say I was hardly a girlfriend is insulting when I lived with him for years and he flew to Tasmania and met my family, wrote about my dad in his autobiography and I was engaged to him.
‘I’m extremely insulted by the downplay of all of this.’
Carey re-enacted the incident on Denton’s show, with the host later saying the star was ‘in so much denial about things that he’s done in his life’.
‘We’d had a fair bit to drink, we got into an argument, as I stood up I went like that to throw the wine at Kate,’ Carey said on the program.
The Kangaroos great’s appearance on the podcast was sparked by North Melbourne excluded him from a video made to mark the upcoming 100th anniversary of the club’s time in the VFL/AFL.
He made a dark prediction about his own future as he lashed out at what he perceives as unfair treatment over his controversial past.
‘This is me finally saying, “Come on, enough is enough”,’ he said.
‘I’ve probably only got nine good summers left, Sam.
‘Surely I don’t have to live the last years of my life living things that occurred 30-plus, 20-plus years ago.
‘They’re driving my kids, their friends… the talk about violence. They are driving the mothers of my children into their graves, that’s what they’re doing,’ he said.
‘The vindictive nature of what continues to happen is just wrong.’
