AFL legend Ben Cousins reveals his exciting new career move after turning his life around

AFL legend Ben Cousins is celebrating another important milestone on his recovery journey after turning his life around. The 46-year-old premiership player has been rebuilding his life in recent years after a very public fall from grace at the end of his footy career. Cousins is now celebrating earning a full time position in radio, joining Pete Curulli and Kymba Cahill on Mix94.5 Breakfast. 'It's been great fun getting into radio and being able to chat to Perth in the morning,' Cousins told Perth Now.

'We've got a lot planned and I'm really keen to share all the things happening in my life and the great experiences I'm able to be a part of. 'I've had a lot of fun with the Pete & Kymba team, they've definitely stitched me up a few times and I've been slowly getting my revenge. Ben Cousins (pictured at the 2024 Brownlow Medal) is celebrating another milestone on his recovery journey. Cousins now has a full time position in radio on the Pete and Kymba Breakfast show on Mix94.5 Perth.

'Guess I'll have more time for that in 2025.'. Hosts Curulli and Cahill had only good things to say about Cousins. 'Ben has become a rascal brother to us, we love mucking around and having fun with him, and we know our fans love being in on the fun too,' they said. 'But we would like to make it known we plan to throw Ben in the deep end even more, and as people who listen to our show know, there's no other show like ours, we'll find some genuinely unique scenarios to put him in, get ready.'.

Cousins played 238 games and booted 205 goals for West Coast between 1996 and 2007, winning the premiership in his penultimate season in Perth. The former midfielder captained the Eagles from 2001 to 2005, securing the club's best and fairest award in four out of those five seasons. He was suspended by the club in March 2007 - just six months after the grand final triumph over Sydney - for alleged substance abuse and sacked six months later after being arrested for drug possession and refusing to submit to a blood test.

He returned to the AFL in 2009 with Richmond, before retiring at the end of the 2010 season. Ben Cousins played 270 AFL games for the West Coast Eagles and Richmond Tigers before he retired in 2010. Cousins was jailed on six separate occasions in 13 years and spent seven months behind bars in 2020, when he apparently decided enough was enough. He is now on the right path and is reading the news for Seven in Western Australia, and recently appeared on Dancing With The Stars.

Cousins has said he only regrets how long it took to get clean. 'I wish it hadn't had to have taken this long, and had to run its course the way it did,' he revealed to The Front Bar in April last year. 'But yeah, it's nice to be working and busy, have some real ambition back, and, you know, just connected back in with friends, family, and even on a community level, you know. 'Life's never been better, to be honest.'.