Daniel Kerr in happier times with ex-teammate Andrew Embley. Credit:Getty Images The 32-year-old said he had a rude awakening while partying recently. "The last time I was at a party I looked around and I was the oldest person in the room by about 10 years," he said. "It was pretty sad." The two-time Brownlow Medal runner-up said the amount of "ice" on Perth streets was frightening - but his own problems with drugs started because he was abusing alcohol.

Daniel Kerr leaves Perth Magistrates Court in May. Credit:Brendan Foster "My problem stems back to drinking too much and when I'm drinking too much, I'm pretty much up for anything," he said. "The amount of it [meth] on the streets and the purity of it, and the way it's ingested these days, it's only progressing. I'm not sure I know how to stop the use of it. "All I know is, it is the devil's own medicine." Kerr has been working for Indigenous Services Australia in the remote community of Laverton, which itself is affected by drug and alcohol abuse.

"I've realised me coming up here has created a sense of positivity amongst the community," he said. "I've had a gutful of myself really and it's time to change." The former Eagles gun, who retired in 2013, said he has no one else to blame for his drug issues but himself. "It's no one else's fault but my own," he said. "The Eagles could not have done more, my parents could not have given me a better upbringing.

"I've been given every opportunity under the sun to do the right thing. I just got involved with the wrong crowd." Kerr's troubled private life has played out publicly since he retired in 2013. He spent five nights in Hakea Prison after he was arrested in November for allegedly splashing petrol around a Glendalough home and trying to light a fire. Kerr said the time he spent behind bars was hard, because even though he made bail, his mother ensured he stayed behind bars. "So mum rang all my friends and made sure no one would bail me out," he said.

Kerr, who is now playing football for the Boulder City Football Club in the Goldfields Football League, said he was now on the straight and narrow. "I have been in a pretty dire predicament at times and I'm out of that predicament and I intend to be out of that for good," he said. "Give me a little bit more time and see how I go." In 2007, Kerr was embroiled in a drug scandal, when Victoria police leaked tapes to the ABC of himself and West Sydney basketballer James Harvey caught in conversation with Victorian drug dealer Shane Waters. The tapes from 2003, captured Kerr allegedly talking about the horse tranquiliser ketamine.

"Yeah, it was f---ed. It turned all pear-shaped, I swear to God. I couldn't even sleep it was that bad," he said. "It turned all f---ing weird like everyone was … I basically didn't know where I was and shit like that." Earlier this month Kerr pleaded guilty to a downgraded charge of threatening to unlawfully harm, after originally being charged with endangering life, But on exiting court, he was led away by plain clothes police officers. The next day, he faced Perth Magistrates Court on alleged repeated breaches of a violence restraining order against his ex-partner. Four charges have been laid against Kerr, who police claim contacted his ex-partner via text messages.

Fairfax Media understands the texts are alleged to be of a threatening nature. Kerr was not required to enter a plea at his latest appearance. Kerr is due again in Perth Magistrates Court over the restraining order matter on July 8. His next appearance relating to the Glendalough matter is scheduled for July 6. Kerr made his debut with the Eagles in 2001 - recruited from WAFL club East Fremantle - and was part of the 2006 premiership team, before he retired from football at the end of the 2013 season, after a succession of injuries. Kerr was an All-Australian in 2007 but his career was not without controversy.

In September 2002, he was involved in a brawl with teammate Ben Cousins at Club Bayview during end-of-season celebrations, which left Cousins with a broken arm after a fall down some stairs. In January it was reported Kerr had split with his wife of three years Natasha Pozo. The couple have two daughters together, two-year-old Ruby June and Lola Violet, aged three. Follow WAtoday on Twitter