{"id":38336,"date":"2020-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/port-adelaide-young-gun-opens-about-familys-drug-battle\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:00:00","slug":"port-adelaide-young-gun-opens-about-familys-drug-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-adelaide-young-gun-opens-about-familys-drug-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide Young Gun Opens Up About Family\u2019s Drug Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Impressive Port Adelaide youngster Zak Butters has revealed he was distracted at times in his debut year after leaving his drug addicted sister back home in Victoria.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Butters has told The Advertiser<\/a> his sister Tiarni, 22, was addicted to ice for three years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was letting it get to me,\u201d Butters told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuff was going on back home that was probably affecting my mindset over here because I felt at times I needed to be there with my family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re too busy worrying about that, your mind is not where it needs to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring last year it was getting pretty intense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to Kenny probably midway through the year and he was there for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I could trust him opening up and talking to him, and it made things heaps easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Butters says Tiarni has since moved in with him and his mum Renee in Adelaide and has been clean for six months.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EXCLUSIVE: Zak Butters has opened up about how he initially struggled moving to SA because he was away from his sister as she battled an ice addiction. \u201cI was letting it get to me. I felt at times I needed to be there with my family.&quot;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nh8MI3Uwx1\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nh8MI3Uwx1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/marshseries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#marshseries<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CtCoL97dAs\">pic.twitter.com\/CtCoL97dAs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Turner (@mattturner1986) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattturner1986\/status\/1234302301604478976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressive Port Adelaide youngster Zak Butters has revealed he was distracted at times in his debut year after leaving his drug addicted sister back home in Victoria. Butters has told The Advertiser his sister Tiarni, 22, was addicted to ice for three years. \u201cI was letting it get to me,\u201d Butters told the paper. \u201cStuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Port Adelaide Young Gun Opens Up About Family\u2019s Drug Battle - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-adelaide-young-gun-opens-about-familys-drug-battle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Port Adelaide Young Gun Opens Up About Family\u2019s Drug Battle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Impressive Port Adelaide youngster Zak Butters has revealed he was distracted at times in his debut year after leaving his drug addicted sister back home in Victoria. 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