Luke Sayers' gaslighting masterclass
Schadenfreude? Guilty as charged.
To describe the latest development in Sayers v Sayers as a humdinger would be to do it a grave injustice. The affidavit filed on May 14 by Cate Sayers' solicitor Patrick George would bring an involuntary tear to the eye of even Luke Sayers' worst enemies. Reading it is akin to watching him brutally coathanger himself on Australia's Funniest Home Videos.
The affidavit contains a series of text messages between Luke and Cate, exchanged in the hours after the AFL released an indefensible statement exonerating Luke from having posted his own Johnson on social media, and blaming "[an unnamed] person not being Mr Sayers".
Cate expresses her fury that the AFL was implicitly blaming her, and that her husband ("and your team of supporters") had arranged it just so. "You are once again cleared. You looked after yourself well, but your media people have left it on me. Thanks." By Luke's "media people", of course, Cate means Sharon McCrohan, now a senior – and rather problematic – executive at AFL House.
In response, Luke's sheer muppetry is just terrific. "We are no longer in the public eye babe… Where can I meet you babe?" He throws around the babes more liberally than Alexis on Schitt's Creek.
