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Dayne Beams with wife Kelly and kids Ruby and Carter. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
Collingwood Magpies star Dayne Beams has opened up on the harrowing details of his gambling and pain killing addiction that led to a downward spiral culminating in the 30-year-old crashing his car deliberately into a power pole.
Beams, a 2012 All-Australian and 2010 Premiership winner, took to social media last year to reveal his mental health battle and posted a statement saying he was a “broken man” as he stepped away from the AFL.
The 30-year-old told the Herald Sun’s Sacked podcast a second stint in a rehab facility as he battled depression in February finally allowed him to break his prescription drug habit. And he has not gambled for 16 months, thankful he was able to save his family home despite the. Afl Gambling Herald Sun, jackpot city casino unsubscribe, future casino in elk grove ca, coup de poker jour. Herald Sun Afl Gambling more about Winward Herald Sun Afl Gambling Casino! Claim $55 No Deposit Bonus! No deposit bonus spins are exclusive to new Winward Herald Sun Afl Gambling Casino customers only. The bonus can be applied once only. Winnings from no deposit spins are capped at $100, and free spins Herald Sun Afl Gambling winnings must be wagered 20x. Bonus funds must be wagered 35x.
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However it wasn’t the end of his struggles as Beams crashed into a power pole in February, an act he revealed to the AFL in June was deliberate.
“I didn’t want it to be fatal, I didn’t want to die but it was a cry, it was a massive cry … I needed help,” Beams said on the AFL’s The Last Time I Cried series.
Months on from the incident, Beams has opened up in a wide-ranging interview with the Herald Sun podcast Sacked, where he revealed the extent of his gambling and painkilling addiction.
Beams started his career with the Magpies playing 110 games before moving to Brisbane in 2014 to be closer to his father, who was in remission for bowel cancer at the time.
But Philip Beams’ death in February 2018 sent the younger Beams spiralling as he lost his passion for AFL football.
Beams said he was “obsessed” with his father but when his parents divorced when he was five, the separation from his father was “traumatic”.
Dayne Beams in round 5 of the 2019 AFL season.Source:Getty Images
Having lived together when Beams moved to Brisbane, the pair would drive together to Lions home games.
“He would want to talk about footy the whole way back or he would fall asleep in the passenger side, and it was just then when I was driving to games after he passed I would find myself looking at the passenger seat and it was just emotionally draining going to games, it just didn’t feel right,” Beams admitted.
Round 3 of the 2018 season was Beams’ 150th game, but he had what he called “a complete meltdown” and was sent home injured.
It sparked a 16-week period of gambling and painkiller use where he didn’t want to play.
“I still managed to play some really good footy, I honestly don’t know how I did it,” Beams said.
“I didn’t want to play and you have to be up for it emotionally and be charged to go. I was drained so it was difficult.”
Off the field he was spiralling into addiction, he said, revealing that drugs had replaced gambling as his major vice.
“You replace one addictive behaviour with another and that’s what a lot of people do. It stopped then the drugs started happening,” he said.
“That was ten times harder to stop because your body goes into withdrawal and your brain tells you if you don’t have this drug you are going to die. It becomes life or death, that’s what it feels like.”
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Dayne Beams has channelled his passion into art.Source:News Corp Australia
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Beams also decided to seek a trade back to the Magpies, which was meant to reignite his passion for the game but after just nine games for the club, he took indefinite leave from the game.
“(Footy) brought me so much joy for 10 years and I loved it,” he said. “I started losing passion for footy pretty much when dad died.
“It really started to fizzle out in me and the main reason to come back to Victoria was to find that again … to come back to the club where I first started, a big footy state, and to just try and reignite that flame and my love for footy again. But it just didn’t work out that way.
“For me, it no longer became a love and everything became very, very hard to do … I had had enough. It was burning me out and I pretty much made the decision to step away indefinitely.”
Beams also called his retirement as “one of the worst hidden secrets” in the game as he has moved into his next career already, setting up the Health of Mind Art studio.
