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Todd Carney is clean and sober after years of booze-fueled scandals that prematurely ended his NRL career - but he has revealed he had to take the hard road to get there.
The former NRL bad boy is now happily married to MAFS star Susie Bradley and the couple welcomed their son Lion Daryl Carney in 2021.
Carney has now been clean and sober for 14 months and is a proud dad, but he had to hit rock bottom before he could reach this point.
His NRL career was chequered with controversy, including being charged with drink driving and reckless driving, allegedly urinating on a man at a nightclub, vandalism, being sacked by the Raiders and banned from his home town of Goulburn, NSW.
That led to him being deregistered by the NRL and forced to play bush footy with far north Queensland side Atherton Roosters, before he was kicked out of the NRL for good after a string of alcohol-related indiscretions including the infamous bubbler that saw him pretend to urinate into his own mouth.
Carney is living happily today with wife Susie Bradley, her daughter Baby and their son Lion (pictured together)
Carney receives a hug from his mother Leanne after coming back from being deregistered by the NRL to win the Dally M Medal playing for the Sydney Roosters
His new life with Bradley was just what Carney needed, until he realised he was still on a very dark path.
'My life was going fine, at least I thought it was, until our relationship got really serious,' he told Triple M's Rush Hour with Gus, Jude & Dell.
'My wife fell pregnant with our son Lion and obviously her love for me, obviously was always going to stay the same.
'But she said, "Before bringing a boy into this life, into this world, I can't see you keep harming yourself".
'And she was honest with me. She said, "You think
