Woman at centre of Wayne Carey ‘toilet-gate’ video speaks out
The woman at the centre of the ‘toilet-gate’ video involving former AFL star Wayne Carey has detailed the immense toll the viral video has taken.
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The woman pictured walking out of a bathroom ahead of former AFL star Wayne Carey in a now-viral video has vowed to take action against the two women who filmed her.
Marketing executive Kate Aston, 38, told the Herald Sun the scandal associated with the alleged toilet tryst has taken an immense toll on her personal and professional life.
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“What has happened to me could happen to anyone, and no one should have to go through what I have been put through – the damage, the speculation, the impact on my livelihood, all from the malicious actions of a small few,” Ms Aston, who has denied anything happened in the toilets, said.
“Overnight, from footage of me simply exiting a toilet at a bar, I’ve had my life turned upside down.
“From a professional perspective, my ability has been put into question which has had immediate financial repercussions, one that is costing me every day with the effects likely to be long term and irreversible … while I appear strong, those closest to me know that my suffering over recent days has been colossal.”
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Ms Aston said she will be pursuing legal action after she was filmed at Toorak Cellars in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale last Friday leaving a bathroom about 20 seconds before Carey, 54, walks out.
As the recording unfolds, one voice behind the camera can be heard saying “she looks embarrassed” before a second ponders “what’s he doing in there?”.
“I have been put in this situation simply because of the cyber-bullying actions of other people,” Ms Aston said.
“There needs to be some sort of accountability for their actions.
“The actions of these women have meant my name is now in the public realm, and I am now the subject of immense ridicule. It has already affected my ability to earn an income with other far-reaching negative consequences to come.”
Carey has also hit out at the footage, with the premiership winner demanding action and also labelling it cyber-bullying.
Earlier on Thursday, entertainment reporter Peter Ford questioned Carey’s decision to bring the incident further into the public consciousness when he spoke about it on Sam Newman’s podcast.
“This ‘toilet-gate’ scandal if you like, is it a scandal or is it completely blown up out of all proportion?” Ford asked in a chat with radio station 3AW Melbourne.
“Wayne Carey decided to out himself, which I thought was an interesting choice, he didn’t have to do that and the story probably would’ve been dead by now.
“If you can’t use names, the story kind of peters out. But in this case, Wayne did decide to do it and of course Wayne has got a track record of bad behaviour in the past.
“He’s on the defence now and come out fighting with this case.”
Ford went on to say most people would think “only two things” could be happening in the unisex bathroom and then joined Carey in slamming the action of the women that filmed the incident.
“Two women were there and for whatever reason, they must’ve been having a very dull night, decided they would film the two people,” he said.
“Wayne is demanding action, going to police, calling in lawyers, AFL Players’ Association, he really is fighting back on this one.
“If I was running Toorak Cellars, I certainly would be banning those two women.
“If they’re regular patrons I would be saying ‘please don’t come back’, because to me it crosses a line.
“We have no evidence that anything untoward was happening between those two people.”
Carey, a great of the North Melbourne footy club, has a track record of incidents away from the playing arena.
The most famous was his affair with former teammate Anthony Stevens’ then-wife Kelli, which led to Carey’s sacking from the Kangaroos.
He has also been hit with indecent assault, domestic violence and misdemeanour battery allegations, along with issues with drugs and alcohol, and has been sacked from a number of media roles.
Just last month Carey was filmed in an altercation with a man outside a Melbourne pub.
Ford conceded it was an unpopular opinion, but was opting to support Carey in this latest incident.
“Sometimes it’s not a popular stance to back Wayne Carey, but in this particular case, my gut feeling is he and the mystery woman are the innocent party,” he said.
“Unfortunately, it’s the curse of anyone in the public eye these days, everyone now is an amateur paparazzi and that’s fine, wanting to get selfies and all that.
“But the problem is people also love making moral judgments about famous people and what they’re doing wrong and might be up to behind closed doors and I think this is a classic case of that.”
Carey spoke about the footage with Newman, confirming he had been in contact with Victoria Police and the AFL Players’ Association.
“Annoyed is the wrong word, I’ve gone through 10 different emotions in the last three days,” he said on Newman’s podcast.
“One has been disbelief, that’s not an emotion, but 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.
“This woman has been thrown into this just because I could kick a footy. And you’ve got two vile, disturbing women who want to do this to another woman.
“That’s all they were doing, they were slut-shaming another woman,” he said.
“If two men had done that they would be raked over hot coals, it would be the biggest story going around if that had occurred.
“But because it’s two women doing it to another woman … you don’t know what’s going on, this other woman has had all sorts of stuff going in her life I’ve since found out.”
The former North Melbourne captain said he and his partner, Jessica Paulke, had been in contact with the woman in the video and they had all teamed up to hold those behind the footage accountable.
“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.
“You talk about vile and disgusting, what they have done and who they have affected by a few s**ts and giggles drinking their chardonnay sitting up there doing whatever.
“Once again I’m not going to name them because that would be as pathetic as what they are. I’ll let the law take care of it.”
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