SARAH FERGUSON: Towards the end Paul Gallen, the current captain of the Cronulla sharks, went in to see what was happening. Gallen told us it was pretty much all over by then, but nothing bad had happened anyway.
After two hours it ended.
CLARE: I think maybe one of the guys said she’s had enough, or something along those lines, like alright guys let’s wrap it up she’s had enough. And so I put my clothes on and walked out as, yeah.
SARAH FERGUSON: Did anybody talk to you while you were putting your clothes back on?
CLARE: No no one. I was nothing.
SARAH FERGUSON: Afterwards in the car park, Matthew Johns told Four Corners, he went up to Clare and said he was sorry about the other guys coming into the room.
The players continued with their careers, but seven years ago when the Cronulla caravan moved on from Christchurch, it left a young woman alone to deal with confusion and pain.
CLARE: Well for years and years afterwards I was, I was drinking a lot and um crying a lot and losing a lot of friends and just doing quite destructive things to myself and to other people.
SARAH FERGUSON: Did you continue with your studies?
CLARE: I tried to, but I couldn’t.
SARAH FERGUSON: Did you did you know what was going on?
CLARE: No, no, no I, I just thought I was, I just thought I was a useless person that I couldn’t like. Um I didn’t yeah, didn’t care about anything and I didn’t really care what was happening.
SARAH FERGUSON: How long did that last for?
CLARE: Maybe four or five, five years or more to the end of it um, I wasn’t so much drinking heaps and heaps, I was more scared to go out of the house. I was a bit of recluse, didn’t want to go out and see the world after that.
NEVILLE JENKINS, DETECTIVE SGT CHRISTCHURCH POLICE: Yeah, I saw a young woman struggling with life. Um I didn’t know her prior to this episode but presumably um, I’m led to believe that this is as a result of what happened to her at that time.
