Essendon forward Jessica Wuetschner was working at the docks as a stevedore in Brisbane when the crane she was holding on to amid a storm was struck by a bolt of lightning that changed her life as she knew it.
“I say to the guy who’s working with me, ‘We should not be working right now, it is too bad of a storm, to be out right now,’ but me being just me, little stevedore not in charge, just does what I’m told.”“When this happened, I saw big, bluey white flashes go up my arms, and then I kind of like, from there, just sort of fell to the ground.
Two weeks after the lightning strike, Wuetschner had a breakdown and tried anti-anxiety medication, which had an adverse reaction that ended up making her situation worse. “It was a really scary time and that’s when we sort of came to the conclusion I needed to go on antidepressants to help manage anxiety,” she said.
She took time off in season six to focus on her mental health and wellbeing and wasn’t offered a contract from Brisbane for season seven.
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