Mitchell Pearce video: Highs and lows of Roosters star’s career on and off the field

MITCHELL Pearce has experienced a roller coaster ride as a rugby league player with the highs of Origin selection and an NRL premiership mixed with constant questions over his form and dumping from the NSW team.

And his life off the paddock has been no less tumultuous.
Few players have courted headlines for their offield behaviour like Pearce, 26.
The former Marist College North Shore student who now lives in Cremorne, was filmed attempting to kiss a woman, wetting himself and simulating a lewd act on a dog at an Australia Day party in Sydney.
JULY 2009



Roosters teammates Jake Friend and Sandor Earl were charged following complaints from a 31-year-old Queensland woman who claimed she was had been assaulted by the pair.
Pearce was also at the venue - Tank nightclub in The Rocks - and was questioned by police but not charged. Both Friend and Earl were later cleared of all charges.
APRIL 2012





Pearce’s live-in girlfriend Phoebe Carpenter was left devastated after the half-back was photographed out on the town with Pussycat Dolls singer Ashley Roberts.
Roosters players had a field day with the allegations with some even turning up to training with cat ears and playing the girl band’s songs.
“The boys have been playing The Pussycat Dolls all week,’’ Pearce later said.
He denied there had been any relationship and said the pair had just been having a drink.
“We had a drink and she was cool,” he said.
Roberts on the other hand was a little more open.
“I’m a single girl, having a bit of fun,” she said on Mornings during an interview with David Cambell and Sonia Kruger.
“Yes, I think his name was Mitch.”
APRIL 2012





Carpenter moved out after the details of the Pussycat Dolls incident but it didn’t take long for Pearce to move on.
Two weeks later he was at it again, this time spotted with Playboy model Ciara Price.
The former centrefold was spotted leaving the Rooster’s home early one morning and then she was seen watching him from the stands during a match.
Despite his short romances with a cat and a bunny, Carpenter ended up taking Pearce back later that year.



MAY 2014


Pearce was again in trouble with police, this time being arrested and fined after an altercation in Kings Cross.
A woman in a yellow dress, later revealed to be Melissa Arroja, made an initial complaint to police about Pearce’s behaviour.
It led to a one-game suspension and a $20,000 fine by the Roosters and saw Pearce dumped from Origin.
“The club is most disappointed with the events of the weekend,” said Sydney Roosters Chief Operating Officer Football, Brian Canavan.



JANUARY 2016


Disturbing footage surfaced of Pearce drunkenly trying to kiss a woman, wetting himself and simulating a sex act with a dog before being thrown out of an Australia Day party.
The Roosters stripped Pearce of the team captaincy and dropped him indefinately while they investigate the incident.
Coach Trent Robinson came down hard on the behaviour the morning after the footage was aired.
“We the Sydney Roosters have found Mitchell’s behaviour was unaccetpable and that is why he has been stood down,” he said.
“I know people will have their views but this is between us and the NRL to review.”
Originally published as The Pussycat Doll and the Playboy Playmate