Aussie Rules star Nathan Broad apologises for photo scandal of topless woman wearing his winner’s medal
Richmond Tigers’ Nathan Broad ‘ashamed and embarrassed’ for distributing the picture on social media
A topless photo scandal that has gripped Australia’s biggest spectator sport for weeks came to a head on Monday with a player banned for three games and the woman involved left traumatised.
Richmond Tigers’ Nathan Broad was revealed as the Aussie Rules star who distributed the picture on social media of the bare-chested woman wearing his winner’s medal after the club’s 2017 Grand Final triumph.
He did not have her permission to share the photo, which did not show the woman’s face, and it went viral, sparking frenzied media and public speculation about who was involved.
Broad, 24, fronted a news conference on Monday with club president Peggy O’Neal to “take full responsibility for what I’ve done”.
“I am ashamed and I am embarrassed and I made a very bad drunken decision,” he said, urging anyone who had seen the photo to delete it and not pass it on.
“Most of all I let down a young woman who I cared about – a young woman who I spent time with before the Grand Final and a young woman who I like and respected.”