The former Australian pace bowler has opened up on his tryst with alcohol addiction and how his relationship with his wife Anna made him shrug of his alcohol addiction. The former fast bowler from South Australia opened up on his life and was open about he was addicted to alcohol.
The fast bowler has a special record to himself where he picked up a hat-trick in the Ashes in the home series of 2010-11. Peter Siddle was known to be a fierce fast bowler who used to get into the heads of the batsman and make them commit errors.
In an interview, the former Australian pace bowler admitted that he used to have 25-30 drinks per session and still used to get behind the steering wheels and drive his car. It was his then-girlfriend and now wife Anna Weatherlake, who help him dispose of him this addiction of his as Anna threatened him of calling off their relationship. He also opened about his partying behaviour and also told on how he used to party hard, he also threw light on how his addiction to alcohol was affecting his relationship with his close once.
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“I was partying too hard, and it was getting out of control. All relationships that were close to me, I was just in a way lying to them all,” Siddle said in an emotional interview on podcast Ordineroli Speaking.
Siddle credited Anna Weatherlake to help him overcome this demon as she was on the verge of calling off her relationship with the right-handed bowler.
“I begged her to death, but also I knew things had to change then,” said Siddle.
He also revealed that his struggle with alcohol made him live a double life at the start of his Test career back in 2008. The right-handed workhorse said that earning so much of money in the early part of his career- something he had never imagined as a kid- probably got to him and he was pretty much “pi**ing it up against the wall.
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Siddle is also not the first Australian cricketer to accept that he had drinking problems. David Warner had also accepted that he had problems with drinking issues that had threatened to plague his career before a stern confrontation with his wife made way for him to give up the alcohol for good and start cricket in a better fashion.
