During a recent talk, Former Australian bowler and spin legend Shane Warne makes shocking revelations about his life. The 50-year-old spinner admits to some horrible mistakes and terrible decisions he has taken in his playing days.
Warne was a part of a fixing probe, was also involved in a controversy that he had a run-in with fellow players and also a doping ban. He missed the 2003 World Cup following a 12-month ban for doping. However, he is still amongst one of the world’s best leg-spinners the game has ever seen.
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Speaking on Fox Cricket show ‘A Week with Warnie’, Warne said, “I’m not proud of all of my decision. I made some horrible mistakes and choices with things. But I was always true to myself and that’s what I’m proud of today.”
The 50-year-old divorced his first wife Simone Callahan in 2005. He added, “I let my family down, I embarrassed my children … but that’s something I have to live with.”
Warne also recalled how the 1993 ‘ball of the century’ had a massive influence on his life. He said, “I was 23 when that happened. I remember going to the Windmill Pub in London, we were staying at the Westbury Hotel 100 yards up the road … and I went for a pint with Merv (Hughes). And when I came out there was, without a word of a lie, probably 25-30 photographers just taking pictures. The next day was about ‘Shane Warne was at the pub’. I was getting critiqued about what I was wearing, I had ’10 things you don’t know about Shane Warne’ and I’m reading it going, ‘that’s not true, I didn’t know that about me!’”
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Shane Warne also expressed how astounded he was on media for the way then often handled most of the untrue stories about him.
“I didn’t really understand how it worked when I had to read these things about myself that weren’t true which was quite tough to take. You don’t want to spend your life worrying about that stuff, but I did. I worried. I was like, ‘that’s not what I’m like’. So I found that I didn’t understand how it (the media) worked and I resented it.”
