Former NRL star slams Ray Hadley over reaction to son's drug arrest
Former NRL premiership player Robbie O’Davis has slammed shock jock Ray Hadley over his reaction to his son’s drug arrest.
NSW Police senior constable Daniel Hadley was arrested at a pub in Rouse Hill in Sydney’s northwest on Friday following a professional standards investigation, according to NSW police.
On Saturday afternoon, a tearful Hadley said his son had since revealed he’d been struggling with mental health issues. The 2GB radio host’s son has been charged with drug possession.
O’Davis, a two-time premiership winner with the Newcastle Knights, received a 22-week ban for taking anabolic steroids in 1998.
The former Australian rugby league representative told the Mail Online he has no sympathy for Hadley who he said during that period about 20 years ago “wouldn’t shut up” about the fullback’s drug ban, adding he had no reason to cheat and believed he was taking an energy boosting supplement.
The 45-year-old said while the media crucified him, he said “Ray Hadley took it to another level” and added while Hadley’s “always had that power” to criticise others it’s a “really good wake-up call”.
“He went straight for my throat,” he said.
“He had the talking stick and he was going for it.”
Hadley’s son will face court next month.
