Gary Rohan engaged to Madi Bennett
Gary Rohan penned a gushing tribute to fiancée and local Geelong physio Madi Bennett as he shared their happy news to the world.
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Geelong forward Gary Rohan has proposed to partner Madi Bennett who he credits for helping him smile again.
Rohan and Bennett both shared the happy news on social media on Tuesday night with deep tributes to each other.
“You showed me how to smile again when I thought I had forgotten how, and you have made me happier than I ever thought I could be,’’ Gary wrote.
“You have made me a better partner, father and person and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you. I love you Mads xxX.”
Rohan split from Amie, his wife of four years, in 2020 and they share two young daughters Bella and Sadie.
They went through the grief of losing Bella’s twin, Willow, in 2018, when she passed away five hours after being born.
Physiotherapist Bennett, who briefly worked at the Cats, has been by Rohan’s side since 2020 with the pair slowly opening up about their relationship.
She stepped out to support the former Swan’s 150th game last year.
“You make me happier than I ever thought I could be,’’ she wrote.
“A kind of happiness I never knew was possible, and a kind of love I thought only existed
in movies. You are my whole world and more, and forever with you is everything I could have ever dreamt of. I love you Gaz.”
Rohan’s post received many wishes of congratulations including from his Cats teammates Tom Hawkins, Patrick Dangerfield and Jed Bews, as well as Brit Selwood and Demi Duncan.
Last August Rohan praised Bennett as “incredible” and “strong” after she opened up about her family heartache and her mother’s death aged 47, following a seven-year battle with Huntington’s disease.
“I’m so proud of this incredible woman, one of the strongest people I have ever met. I love you,’’ Rohan wrote.
Bennett has since worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the disease.
Rohan and ex-wife Amie went through a tough separation. Amie revealed to the Herald Sun in May that she had met a new man in February.