Former rugby league Phoebe Burgess has come out swinging against the Australian press and the NRL's 'PR machine' after her ex-husband Sam Burgess was cleared of domestic violence and drug allegations.
On Thursday, she endorsed an opinion piece by women's website Mamamia - which has long been a champion of Phoebe amid her messy divorce from Sam - that argued there was a 'smear campaign' going on to discredit her.
The article was published after the journalist-turned-influencer, 32, made bombshell revelations about her marriage to the former Rabbitohs player, also 32, in an interview with The Weekend Australian Magazine last week - only for NSW Police to drop its year-long investigation into Sam just days later.
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Defiant: Former rugby league Phoebe Burgess (pictured on the school run in the Southern Highlands on Thursday) has come out swinging against the press and the NRL's 'PR machine' after her ex-husband Sam Burgess was cleared of domestic violence and drug allegations
The police investigation had been launched 12 months earlier following similar allegations published in The Australian newspaper in October 2020.
After the case was closed without any charges being laid, Mamamia published its lengthy op-ed by executive editor Jessie Stephens titled 'The smear campaign against Phoebe Burgess has begun'.
Phoebe reshared it twice on her Instagram Stories on Thursday evening, and clearly agreed with its analysis of the situation.
Support: On Thursday evening, she endorsed an opinion piece by women's website Mamamia - which has long been a champion of Phoebe amid her messy divorce from Sam - that argued there was a 'smear campaign' going on to discredit her. Phoebe reshared it twice on her Instagram Stories, and clearly agreed with its analysis of the situation
Case closed: The article was published after the journalist-turned-influencer, 32, made bombshell revelations about her marriage to the former Rabbitohs player, also 32, in an interview with The Weekend Australian Magazine last week - only for NSW Police to drop its year-long investigation into Sam just days later. Pictured on the school run with her children, daughter Poppy, four, and son Billy, two, in the Southern Highlands on Thursday
The article argued that stories would be appearing in the media 'over the next few weeks' portraying Phoebe as 'a liar, self-interested, a hypocrite, an unreliable witness, a woman scorned [and] a "fame whore".'
Ms Stephens claimed this was proof of what Phoebe had alleged in her Weekend Australian interview - namely that the NRL has a team of spin doctors hired to cover up players' bad behaviour and discredit their accusers.
