Troubled AFL great Ben Cousins will return to footy, pulling on the boots to play in the All Stars side in the upcoming Legends Game.
The 47-year-old won a premiership, a Brownlow Medal and six All Australian nods during his 270-game career with West Coast and Richmond.
His life also famously spiralled due to a long-term drug addiction, leading to a stint in prison in 2017.
But he has turned his life around in recent years, leading to a variety of TV and radio roles in Perth.
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It was announced on Monday that the 2006 premiership player will join the likes of Cyril Rioli, Nick Reiwoldt, Andrew McLeod, Adam Cooney and one of Cousins' former teammates, Andrew Embley, in the All Stars line-up.
They will take on a Victorian side that features Gary Ablett jr, Dane Swan, Brendan Fevola and Steve Johnson, among others, for the charity match at Marvel Stadium on Thursday, August 28.
Cousins played 238 games with the Eagles and another 32 matches for Richmond in his final two seasons before retiring from the AFL.
The former midfielder must be feeling 100 per cent fit again after detailing a painful incident in late June.
Interviewed on Triple M’s Rush Hour with JB & Billy, Cousins said he was feeling sore after he ignored a hernia concern for months.
“I’m a little tender actually. I went in for a hernia op on Friday, not much fun," he told the show.
“I’ve had a little bubble or lump pop up where it probably shouldn’t a couple of months ago, and I’ve been in denial, if you like.
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“I hadn’t gone in and had the ultrasound and I thought I’d put it off until the end of the footy season, I’d hang on for 12 more games — you’d swear I was still playing.
“I went to (Game 2 of) the State of Origin (in Perth), it was a great game, got home and then I went in to put my daughter to sleep and I sat on her bed and then out of nowhere, this pain came.
“I may have been in as much pain (before), but I have never been in more. I was ready to pass out, all this sort of stuff, couldn’t talk.
“So, the next day I did my best to try and get seen as quickly as possible, so I went in (to hospital) the next day. That’s my sad story.”
The Legends game is back on the AFL schedule and will raise money for prostate cancer.