Controversy
In February 2009, Rapport newspaper and Heat magazine reported that they had video evidence of him engaging in sex play with a mystery blonde and snorting a white substance. He denied being in the video but admitted knowing the two people in it. although he has never identified who they are. Heat magazine later posted censored versions of the video online. Van der Westhuizen said he would lay criminal charges and civil claims against the producers of the video, but eight months later has not done so.
In March 2009, a mystery former female sports star – thought to be high-jump champion Charmaine Weavers (Gale) – claimed in a very detailed interview in YOU magazine that she had an on-off affair with him, with sexual encounters even while his wife Amor was in hospital. Also in March, a former stripper called Marilize van Emmenis came forward and in an interview with Heat magazine said that she was the girl in the video with Van der Westhuizen, and that they had done drugs together. She passed a polygraph test and her voice was verified by a voice-recognition expert. Van der Westhuizen has refused to comment on this and other subsequent allegations of improper conduct with other women.
On 28 June 2009, Van der Westhuizen was taken to hospital with a suspected heart attack, though he was discharged soon afterward when tests found no evidence of heart problems. A panic attack was suspected. On 1 November Van der Westuizen confessed that it was him in the controversial sex video and he apologized for lying. It's around that time that his autobiography was released, "Spieëlbeeld" (Man in the mirror)
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