NRL great Johnathan Thurston has opened up on the Canterbury Bulldogs "rape scandal" which saw his young rugby league career briefly descend into chaos.The former Australian and Queensland representative delved into the harrowing fiasco in his new book, Johnathan Thurston: The Autobiography.The scandal saw Bulldogs players accused of sexual assault after a night out in Coffs Harbour in 2004. Thurston, who was not involved with the accuser, shed light on the situation which "threatened to end my career before it even got started".An unnamed 20-year-old "slept with six of them" back at the team's hotel before being spotted
by Bulldogs the following night at the Plantation Hotel."I wish I could tell you that I was shocked by the group sex — but I wasn't," Thurston wrote."Consensual group sex, a girl sleeping with more than one NRL player at the same time, was not unusual."The woman allegedly wanted to meet up with some of the Bulldogs players again.Thurston said he jumped in a taxi back to the hotel at 5am with a couple of teammates. The young woman was trying to enter the car as well."One of the boys pushed her out and gave her a gob-full. She wasn't impressed," he said.Thurston revealed the woman followed them back to the hotel and began screaming and knocking on the room adjacent where some of his teammates were staying.
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