{"id":38344,"date":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/ben-cousins-has-recorded-no-holds-barred-tv-interview\/"},"modified":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"ben-cousins-has-recorded-no-holds-barred-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/ben-cousins-has-recorded-no-holds-barred-tv-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Cousins Has Recorded A \u2018No Holds Barred\u2019 TV Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Fallen AFL superstar Ben Cousins has recorded a \u201ctell-all\u201d television interview expected to air on Channel 7 later this month.<\/h3>\n<p>According to reports the interview was secretly recorded in Perth last week with \u201cno questions off limits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In comments made to the West Australian and reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/ben-cousins-to-open-up-on-troubled-past-in-exclusive-interview\/news-story\/348a8add140c921bfdd7c302575c7221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">foxsports.com.au<\/a>, Seven\u2019s Head of News and Current Affairs Craig McPherson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of the great untold stories in Australian sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Ben Cousins go so dramatically off the rails? What really happened to him over the past decade?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an epic story of a riches-to-rags life infused with great hope and desire to get back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He has won a Brownlow, spent time in jail, associated with notorious underworld figures, and been one of the country\u2019s highest-profile drug addicts. <br><br>Now Ben Cousins is going to answer all the tough questions. <br><br>LATEST: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C7rijkyLys\">https:\/\/t.co\/C7rijkyLys<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EBZRRUWnVf\">pic.twitter.com\/EBZRRUWnVf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SuperFooty (AFL) (@superfooty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/superfooty\/status\/1234252679561400320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallen AFL superstar Ben Cousins has recorded a \u201ctell-all\u201d television interview expected to air on Channel 7 later this month. According to reports the interview was secretly recorded in Perth last week with \u201cno questions off limits\u201d. In comments made to the West Australian and reported by foxsports.com.au, Seven\u2019s Head of News and Current Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38345,"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-38344","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>Ben Cousins Has Recorded A \u2018No Holds Barred\u2019 TV Interview - 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\/ben-cousins-has-recorded-no-holds-barred-tv-interview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Cousins Has Recorded A \u2018No Holds Barred\u2019 TV Interview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fallen AFL superstar Ben Cousins has recorded a \u201ctell-all\u201d television interview expected to air on Channel 7 later this month. 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