An Australian rugby star is talking out for the primary time after x-rated screenshots from a homosexual porn video he filmed whereas he was a younger prospect beginning out in rugby league, leaked on-line this week.
Penrith Panthers participant Kurt Capewell notified police and the NRL integrity unit final yr when a person tried to promote the photographs of him in a sexual act with one other man.
“I’ve lived with this for years,” the 27-year-old advised The Every day Telegraph. “I’ve been involved extra for my household that it may come out and the embarrassment it will trigger.”
Capewell and his supervisor approached The Every day Telegraph on Wednesday to share his story after the seven-year-old video from porn web sites and on-line boards went viral in current days.
The 49-minute video was recorded in 2013 when Capewell was working as a carpenter whereas beginning out his rugby league profession in native groups.
Capewell says he was broke on the time and determined to answer an commercial to earn cash doing a photoshoot for a sportswear and underwear firm on the Gold Coast.
In the course of the filming, he says the main target modified from sportswear photos to nude pics after which to an grownup movie.
“I used to be younger and naïve,” Capewell stated. “The organizer used inducements and more money for being concerned within the grownup movie. I take full duty for what occurred.”
Capewell, who identifies as straight, stated producers led him to a glory gap and was advised there was a girl on the opposite facet ready to service him.
It wasn’t till after he completed filming that he found the particular person on the opposite facet was truly a person. However by then it was too late. The video had already been shot and Capewell admits he signed a consent kind with out studying the total particulars.
“It’s one thing I’ll all the time remorse,” Capewell stated.
“I used to be broke and doing a little modeling, then I obtained talked into doing a porno,” he defined to his teammates in a bunch textual content despatched this week. “Unknown to me nevertheless it turned out they put a bloke on the opposite facet of the wall.”
“I’m terribly embarrassed and ashamed regardless that it occurred after I was so younger,” he continued in his group textual content. “It’s one thing I’ve been coping with for the previous eight years behind closed doorways and I do know you’ll all have my again and stand by me shifting ahead.”
Capewell advised The Every day Telegraph it wasn’t straightforward sharing the story together with his teammates, however says everybody within the locker room was supportive and understood he had been taken benefit of by the producers.
Capewell hopes the incident can function a reminder to younger individuals, particularly fashions, to be very cautious when being supplied more money throughout photograph shoots.
“My message to younger individuals is to be actually cautious when being supplied cash for photograph shoots,” he says. “It’s not the particular person I’m right this moment. I’ve needed to be taught the exhausting approach. I hope others don’t need to undergo what I’ve endured.”
