Wissam Ben Yedder, 34, has been absent from football fields for a number of months. The striker has to defend himself in court while going through a true plunge into hell. In fact, the formerly AS Monaco star, who was already under scrutiny from the legal system last year due to a rape allegation, has been forced to defend himself for weeks for alleged sexual assaults that occurred intoxicatedly in September of last year.
WBY spoke in court on October 15 about his alcohol addiction after being pulled over by the police having a blood alcohol content of 0.76 milligrams per liter of exhaled air. He said, “It’s a bit of a difficult period. I had problems with my agents, with my wife… I had been drinking for three or four days. I was drinking more and more, it was getting worse. I started having problems two years ago, since then I’ve had difficulties. I was already drinking before, but in small doses and from time to time.”
He added, “I felt better, I thought it could make me forget this pressure. I have responsibilities in my family, it was hard to bear (…) I had drunk two bottles in a row, I wasn’t myself. I know it’s wrong, I was under the influence of alcohol, I should have stopped, but I wasn’t myself.”
“I’ve been betrayed in quite a few cases” : Wissam ben Yedder
During the procedure, the prosecutor asked for a serious punishment for the football player, which included an 18-month jail term and an 18-month suspended period of probation.
The France striker added, “I’m a loner, I have trouble trusting people. I’ve been betrayed in quite a few cases. I took refuge alone in alcohol, but I realize that it is the worst mistake of my life. I had been drinking and I do not remember what happened. Because of the alcohol, I have memory problems. I sincerely ask forgiveness from the complainant, from my family…”