Wayne Carey slams women who filmed viral video as cyberbullies

A furious Wayne Carey has condemned “anonymous keyboard cowards” for “sl-t shaming” and “cyber-bullying” after outing himself as one of the people captured in an alleged wine bar toilet tryst.

A furious Wayne Carey has condemned “anonymous keyboard cowards” – highlighting the recent racial abuse of two interstate footballers at the hands of online trolls while detailing the toll of “cyber-bullying” he experienced over an alleged wine bar toilet tryst.

The controversial footy legend on Wednesday outed himself as one of the figures shown stumbling out of a bathroom in a viral video, and vowed to pursue “through to the nth degree”, the “slut-shaming” women behind it.

Carey and a female were filmed leaving the bathrooms about 20 seconds apart at Armadale hotspot Toorak Cellars on Friday, with the women behind the phone commenting “she looks embarrassed” and “what’s he doing in there”.

Labelling the women who filmed the encounter as “vile, disturbing” and “probably pissed”, Carey said he had spoken to police and the AFL Players Association.

“This morning … I see the AFL are up in arms as they should be, a couple of Indigenous boys have been abused online,” he told Sam Newman on their You Can’t Be Serious podcast.

“You’ve got SA police involved … these cowards who sit behind a keyboard or have anonymous accounts and everyone is condemning it as they should be condemning it.”

Newman interjected, saying: “They should be condemning the person that filmed you.”

And Carey said: “This is what I want to talk about.”

Wayne Carey is seeking to hold to account the women who filmed the video.

Detailing his emotions in the aftermath of the trolling, he added: “I’ve gone through disbelief, sadness, I’ve gone through anger. I’ve had empathy, I’ve had all sorts of things go through this body and this mind.”

“You talk about vile and disgusting – what they have done and who they have affected by a few shits and giggles,’’ Carey said. “I’m not going to name them because that would be as pathetic as what they are.”

Carey said his partner Jessica Paulke had spoken to the woman in the video and they had joined forces to hold the women to account, adding: “I’ll let the law take care of it.”

“I know who they are, the police know who they are, my lawyers know who they are. I have contacted these people just like the footballers have contacted these people because they’ve been abused online,” he said.

The woman previously posted to her social media: “Shame on you women, we are better than that. It did not happen, but that’s not the point. It’s time this narrative changed”.

Carey said she had had “a horrific few months”.

“She’s lost her parents, she’s split up from a partner and these two women think it’s OK to film her and slut-shame her online and post it online. What sort of penalty should these two women get?

“I’m blown away that women in their 40s could think this was a good idea. How would they explain this to their children?

“This is women being cruel to another woman. They have shamed another woman and it is so wrong.

“It happens far too often and it doesn’t get called out. Men do it and it gets called out as it should.

Carey at North Melbourne’s 100-year celebrations earlier this month. Picture: Getty Images

Carey said he was at a loss over why two women would film people coming out of a toilet.

“It’s gone through my mind a million times, ‘what did they want to achieve?,” he said.

“What middle aged women would want to sit and film someone and for what purpose? But then make up a story about what occurred. If they really wanted to ruin someone’s life they could have contacted Jess personally and said ‘guess what I’ve just seen your partner come out of a toilet and a female came out 30 seconds in between so therefore they must have been doing something in that toilet together’.

“I could sit there and film people going in and out of toilets. Who does she think she is, Morgan Freeman narrating a wild life (documentary)? (She said) ‘I heard people grunting like pigs’. Completely made up crap.”

Carey has previously hit out at what he described as disability discrimination by Crown casino after he was evicted from its Perth venue over the infamous white-powder scandal in 2022.

Carey insisted at the time the bag of white power that fell out of his is pocket onto a gambling table was “crushed up anti-inflammatories” used to treat “debilitating” football injuries.

Originally published as Wayne Carey slams women who filmed viral video as cyberbullies