Fallen AFL great Wayne Carey has left Australia with his partner and four children to an undisclosed Asian location following his lastest in a long line of scandals.
Footage of marketing executive Kate Aston and then Carey leaving a bathroom at Toorak Cellars in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale earlier this month was posted online and quickly went viral.
Aston and Carey were pursuing legal action after the incident was filmed and then made public by two women also visiting the venue.
Carey, 54, has been embroiled in a series of scandals during and after his playing days with North Melbourne and the Crows, often involving women and alcohol.
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After the most recent episode blew up, Carey, his partner Jessica Paulke and his four children headed for a holiday at a Sofitel Hotel in Asia, as the former Kangaroos skipper explained to Sam Newman on his podcast, You Cannot Be Serious.
“You know what, couldn’t be better where I am Sam,’’ a gravel-voiced Carey said from the resort.
“No one knows where you are, who you are, where I am, who I am. What a beautiful part of the world this is. I'm not telling you where I am.
"I'm not on 'Australia’s Most Wanted' at the minute."
Pushed by Newman on whether he was "withdrawing from the public arena just to gather yourself", Carey replied: "Anyone that wants to escape from reality, take four children, put them on a plane.
"And if you think you’re escaping from reality, you’re kidding yourself.”
He later added: “I’m not going to be on 'Banged Up Abroad'.”
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Carey also tried to explain his voice, stating "we just got here late last night, which is why I'm a little dusty" before then trying to talk down any shenanigans.
He then justified why he had taken his kids away when it's not school holidays in Victoria.
"The reason it's not school holidays is you want to get out of the mainstream. So that's why I’ve pulled the kids out of school and said let’s do it now," he said.
"One, because it’s not as busy. Two, we’ll make it educational. So I won't tell you where I am, but I did a project on the place I'm in and I got a B. One of my very few B's for a project.
"If you take your children away, outside of school time, they're meant to be in school right now, you've got to make it educational.
"So you teach them about where you are, the history of the country and our relevance to that country."