Brendan Fevola’s brutal admission after Sam Fisher was jailed for five years

Brendan Fevola has delivered a brutal admission in the wake of former AFL player Sam Fisher being jailed over a drug smuggling plot.

Brendan Fevola brutal admission after Sam Fisher's arrest

Brendan Fevola has dropped a brutal admission in the wake of former AFL player Sam Fisher being sent to jail.

Fisher was sentenced to five years and four months in jail on drug trafficking and drug possession charges last week.

The court was told the 13-year veteran of the game was arrested in 2022 after a “suspicious parcel” in Western Australia was found to contain $129,000 in cash sent by Perth man Julien Morvan, 35.

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A raid on Fisher’s home unfolded in May last year which uncovered quantities of drugs including ketamine, LSD, methamphetamine, diazepam and steroids.

Fisher had been scheduled to face trial in early April, but pleaded guilty to all charges a week before the trial began.

Fevola opened up on the matter and said the same fate could easily have fallen on his shoulders and stated he could see it happening to more footballers.

The 204-game forward said he’d focused only on football during his playing days and wasted his money along the way.

“You can either go, it’s sad, his life has turned upside down and he went down the wrong path. But I sort of look at this like – Jesus, this could have happened to me,” Fevola said on The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick show.

“I went down the wrong path. When you’re a footballer, it doesn’t last forever.

“I was very lucky that I went on a show, I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, and I won it. And then I’m very lucky to have this at The Fox.

Fev won I’m A Celebrity.

Fev alongside Fifi Box and Nick Cody. Picture: Supplied/Fox FM.

“But if I didn’t have that, I don’t know where I’d be because I didn’t set myself up. I wasted my money; I didn’t have a degree. I didn’t worry about school, I never studied like I’d literally be stuffed.

“I wouldn’t know what to do with my life, and I think that’s where Sam was. And I think a lot of AFL players are in that situation.

“I do know that the AFL now make players do stuff outside of footy to keep them occupied. But I remember back in the day (Fifi) Boxy, we’d have a day off and we’d just go to Crown (Casino) and play poker.

“They’d be like literally they’d be six different (AFL) teams playing poker at Crown because we’d always got the same day off.

Brendan Fevola at Poker with the Stars at the Grand Hyatt. Pic: Fiona Hamilton

“The whole Crown poker room was full of AFL footy players, just playing poker because we had heaps of money and we’d just gamble. And then you go home, you play footy, and you train … and that’s all I knew. That’s what most blokes knew.

“The AFL is a big business. I think drugs and gambling is probably the biggest issue.

“Sam Fisher did it himself. He’s copped it. He knew he did it, he owned up to it. He’s going to serve his time.

“But just for the young kids that are growing up now and going through the system in any sport or local footy clubs, just make sure you set yourself up.”

Fevola’s fears come after he previously revealed he had wasted his entire fortune with gambling issues that ruined his life and saw him do a stint in rehab and declaring bankruptcy in 2013.

His fall from grace is what ultimately led him to appearing on the 2016 version of ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’.