exactly what was said, or why Petty was upset.
Harrison Petty’s parents have
refuted claims their usadream.xyz son burst into tears after a rival player wished death on
his mother because she is dying of cancer.
The Melbourne Demons young gun was
visibly upset by the brutal
newshut.org sledge from Brisbane captain Dayne Zorko during
Friday night’s AFL match.
Zorko was widely condemned for
supposedly uttering words
newspapersmagazine.com to the effect of ‘I hope your mother dies’ but many
fans questioned how Petty, 22, could be so upset by a sledge on the football
field.
Several AFL pundits claimed Petty’s
mother Karen was ‘terminally ill’ with cancer, setting off a young footballer
already distraught about her illness.
The Adelaide Thunderbirds netball
team, where Petty’s sister Hannah is co-captain, also held its first cancer
fundraiser with The Longest Table earlier this month, where Hannah posed for
photos in team uniform.
Harrison Petty with his mother Karen
and father Simon in the Melbourne Demons dressing rooms after his team with the
AFL Premiership last year
However, Karen was on Thursday
morning working behind the counter at a hardware store in the family home town
of Wudinna, looking the picture of health.
‘That’s all rumours… I don’t have
cancer,’ she told Daily Mail Australia with an amused smile when directly asked
about reports she was terminally ill.
Petty’s father Simon also insisted
his wife was not sick, though both declined to discuss the Zorko situation,
reveal exactly what was said, or why Petty was upset.
‘My wife’s not ill,’ he said while
shaking his head at the family home in country South Australia.
The family has lived in the tiny
town, on the Eyre Peninsula, 6.5 hours from Adelaide, population 550, for
generations.
Even before the 22-year-old defender
lifted the AFL Premiership Cup last season, the Petty family was local sporting
royalty.
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