Craig Wells was supposed to be living a charmed existence.

He had been worshipped on the rugby union field while donning the jumpers of the NSW Waratahs and ACT Brumbies, and was said to be unlucky to be one of the last players cast aside from the Wallabies squad which went on to win the 1991 World Cup.

Craig Wells has been jailed over the rape of a teenage girl. Credit:Sylvia Liber

But there was more than a hint of darkness to the hard-running centre from Wollongong, a sinister side where drug and alcohol addictions had mixed in with wild group sex romps organised over the internet.

And so it was, on his 45th birthday in July, 2015, when his two worlds collided as an out-of-control Wells and his sometimes sex partner, Theresa Anne Blair, plied a 14-year-old girl with alcohol and cannabis before raping her.