LIVING in a brothel, having sex workers at his beck and call, working girls paid to be his “babysitters” and escorts, and drivers organised by the brothel madam to take him wherever he wanted to go.

That was “such is life” for Ben Cousins in the months before his latest stint behind bars.

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It was the sex and drugs lifestyle, without the rock ’n’ roll. Or, perhaps just rock bottom for a man who once had the world at his feet thanks to his footballing talents.

Camera Icon Mary-Anne Kenworthy. Credit: Travis Anderson

A life he turned his back on as he chose ice over everything and anyone.

Correspondence received this week by The Sunday Times from workers at the brothel Langtreeshas revealed an insight into Cousins’ life in the months before he wound up back in prison facing another string of charges.

This time, it’s alleged he again stalked the mother of his children, made terrifying threats against her, breached violence restraining orders and was carrying 13g of ice internally.

Since May — coincidentally or not, around the same time his parole ended and he stopped working at his old club, West Coast — Cousins became a regular face and client at the Langtrees’ Burswood bordello after madam Mary-Anne Kenworthy invited him to stay in her apartment on the first floor of the brothel.

A Langtrees sex worker, who did not want to be named, said she had never seen Cousins at Langtrees until May, when he moved in.

“He was good for ages ... he’d come downstairs for breakfast every morning,” she said.

Ms Kenworthy had even thrown Cousins a 40th birthday party in the Langtrees’ “pleasure lounge” in June, she said, at which the fallen football star was well-behaved.

Camera Icon One of the rooms at Langtrees of Perth. Credit: Langtrees of Perth

But the worker said some of the girls felt uncomfortable around Cousins and his associates, who appeared to be fellow drug users, and although they “flirted and carried on” with him they avoided him as a client.

Others were still willing to offer him paid sexual services, she said.

The woman claimed she never saw Cousins take drugs, but that he and his associates would regularly disappear to the upstairs apartment.

“Girls were made to be his babysitter,” she said, adding Ms Kenworthy’s random requests for girls to come into work out of hours to look after Cousins stemmed from her not wanting him to be on his own.

Camera Icon Langtrees. Credit: Ross Swanborough

She also recalled a casual but telling moment when Cousins agreed to go out back for a cigarette.

“I light up and go, ‘Do you want one’, and he goes, ‘Nah, not that kind of smoke’, and I’m like, ‘What do you think I have, a crack pipe?’”

She said it was a shame that there were people in Cousins’ life willing to help him fuel his addiction.

An anonymous email signed by the “Girls of Langtrees” was sent to The Sunday Times this week after the newspaper revealed Ms Kenworthy had been giving Cousins a “helping hand” recently until he had become too erratic.

“She fed him, clothed him, gave him a place for him and his associates to stay ... provided him with numerous girls, hell she even threw him his 40th birthday there,” it states.

“She protected him and allowed him to continue everything from her apartment.

“She would call a number of us girls at outrageous hours and ask us to start shift early or finish late to be there for Ben and look after him as he was having a bad time.

“She would get the drivers to drive him wherever he wanted to go and supply them alcohol. She even covered the wages of girls herself to send ... escorts to meet with him, whether in her apartment or multiple places across the city.

“So many girls refused to be at the lounge or would avoid him on shift as he would make people uncomfortable.”

Cousins’ three-month stay at the brothel came to a halt a fortnight ago when he came into Langtrees’ reception demanding the staff pay for his taxi fare, the email claims.

“That was the worst I had seen him,” the sex worker said. “(He was saying) ‘We’re friends, you’re meant to pay our taxis’.”

Two days later police arrested Cousins at his ex-partner’s Canning Vale home and charged him with a raft of new offences. Despite Cousins begging for his freedom, a magistrate refused to give him bail.

Before serving his first prison sentence, a homeless Cousins last year revealed he was “living out of a backpack” and spending his time couch-surfing at mates’ places or staying with a “lady I knock around with”. He’s repeatedly told the courts he’s desperate to spend more time with the two children he has with his former partner, Maylea Tinecheff.

His fall from grace was further laid bare recently amid reports he was trying to get hold of his 2005 Brownlow Medal — which his father Bryan has in safe keeping — in a bid to sell it to further feed his addiction.

Ms Kenworthy, who last week told The Sunday Times she believed Cousins has never grown up and had life “too easy”, was contacted this week in India about the claims of Cousins’ life at Langtrees she facilitated.

This time, she declined to comment.