Candice Warner suffers miscarriage after ball-tampering scandal
The Warner family front media at Sydney airport on their return from Australia in the wake of the ball tampering scandal in South Africa.
Candice Warner has revealed she had a miscarriage shortly after the ball-tampering scandal that engulfed her family in March.
In an interview with Australian Woman's Weekly, Warner said the stress and taunting she received after the incident involving her husband, cricket star David Warner, led to her miscarriage.
"I'd have to be bullet-proof for the taunting not to have affected me," she told the magazine.
Candice Warner has revealed she had a miscarriage after the ball-tampering scandal.
"It rocked my very foundation and I paid the ultimate price, losing our baby. I wonder how all those who came after me feel now?"
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David Warner with wife Candice before speaking publicly on the ball-tampering scandal.
Warner said she miscarried just one week after her husband's emotional Sydney press conference where he apologised "unreservedly" for his part in the ball-tampering scandal.
"I called Dave to the bathroom and told him I was bleeding. We knew I was miscarrying. We held one another and cried," she said.
A day after Warner's press conference, Warner told News Corp the scandal had affected their family greatly.
Warner speaking to media in tears in Sydney.
"I feel like it's all my fault and it's killing me - it's absolutely killing me," she said.
"I haven't been much of a support because I've been a wreck. I'm really not well."
The Warners have two young daughters, three-year-old Ivy Mae and two-year-old Indi Rae.
Warner was a central figure during the controversial test series between Australia and South Africa earlier this year.
While the couple were criticised for taking their children through the media scrum when they arrived at Sydney Airport, Candice said they had been assured it would be a private exit.
"I was completely gutted when I saw the media," she told Women's Weekly.
Warner said she took a pregnancy test when they arrived in Cape Town ahead of the third test, and said the pair were "overwhelmed" to know they would be having a third child.
David and Candice Warner and their daughters Indi and Ivy.
"I don't think either of us realised how much we longed for this baby," she said.
Then Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera during day three of the test putting sandpaper down his pants.
In the hours and days that followed, Bancroft was banned from international and domestic cricket for a year, while Warner and then-captain Steve Smith were banned for a year and stripped of their leadership positions.
Two days after arriving back in Sydney, Warner gave his press conference while his wife watched from the back of the room.
"I take full responsibility ... it is [a decision] that I will regret for as long as I live," Warner said.
"I hope in time I can repay all you've given me and earn your respect again."
He also apologised to his teammates and family for the hurt he had caused, saying he "let [them] down badly".
By this stage, the Warners had been through a lot, as they were both targeted with abuse earlier in the South Africa test series over Warner's tryst with New Zealand rugby star Sonny Bill Williams that occurred long before she met her husband.
"The miscarriage was a heartbreaking end to a horror tour," Warner said.
"The ordeal from the public humiliations to the ball tapering had taken its toll and, from that moment, we decided nothing will impact our lives like that again."
Warner posted her Woman's Weekly cover photo to Instagram, saying she discussed "coming through our darkest days and how Dave and the girls will always come first".
In reply, Dave Warner wrote: "Absolute ripper you are my love @candywarner1".
- Sydney Morning Herald
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