Russell Crowe, 51, believes buying a rugby team “cost him his marriage”.
The star, who split from wife Danielle Spencer in 2012, doesn’t regret buying the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2006 because it has been a good business decision, but the investment took its toll on his personal life.
He told the CBS show, Sunday Morning: “It ended up not being a bad business. No, it’s not a bad business decision at all. But it’s taken a lot of work and probably cost me my marriage. It took a lot of work, man, you know? It took a lot of work and I already had an extremely busy schedule.”
The actor admits Danielle struggled to accept his decision because, while she understood his film led to spending long periods away from home, she couldn’t figure out why he would then take on something else that would take him away from family life.