Wayne Carey's father Kevin furiously denies claims made in fallen footy star's autobiography

WAYNE Carey's father has furiously denied his son's claims that he was a violent alcoholic who beat his wife and children.

Kevin Carey says he is penning his own book that would expose his son as a liar.

THE father of fallen AFL star Wayne Carey has furiously denied his son's claims that he was a violent alcoholic who beat his wife and children and threatened to kill them.

Kevin Carey slammed his son's new tell-all book, The Truth Hurts, in which the former footy star said his father was so violent his terrified mother and brother devised a plot to murder him.

The former boxer and rugby league player, who has a criminal record dating to 1957, said he was penning his own book that would expose his son as a liar.

"I know all about it. I don't care what he says," Mr Carey said.

"I'll be coming back against all that. I'm writing a book of me own. So f--- off," he said.

Son Wayne's book reveals his terrified mum and brother devised a plot to murder him by waiting at the front door with a rifle.

But Kevin did not come home that night - and it saved his life.

He describes how his father bashed, stabbed and shot at his terrified mother.

And yet Wayne Carey says he loved his philandering father as a young boy and wanted nothing more than a "normal family".

"One night, Dad put a serrated knife into Mum's nose and slit her nostril open," Wayne Carey says in the book.

"The wound left a scar, which she still carries today.

"Another time, he broke her cheekbone with a punch."