Moana Hope

This is the abuse I'd call it all the time.

No, we didn't even have a therapist at the club for me to talk to about it.

And things just kind of went really downhill really fast because the other thing that really got me was this was the first time playing footy that I've had men scream at me in terms of coaches.

Now, if you can think about that little girl that was tortured from a man, the moment I started having men that I allowed into my life that I trusted scream at me, it really triggered something in me to go into a shell and not want to come out because I was scared.

And it's not that they're scary people, but I was genuinely scared.

And so everything just kind of went, you know, downhill real quick for me mentally.

I remember, again, Gil McLaughlin was so lovely.

I remember I have a text message.

I got a text message from him after that round two of all of the shit that was written about me.

He messaged me and he was like, are you okay?

And then called me.

He was like, are you all right?

My life started after I had kids, yeah.

My kids, I love more than life itself.

Everything I do and every way that I want to be the best version of me, I want to do it for them and with them.

I love them, yeah.

No child should ever have hands put on them for any reason.

And it shouldn't be out of fear.

It shouldn't be to get to do something.

I will never, ever, ever even raise my voice because kids just need love.