A 17-year-old St Kilda schoolgirl who said she had sex and had taken drugs with disgraced AFL manager Ricky Nixon has reportedly retracted her claims.
In a statement to the AFL Players' Association, the girl denied that she had had a sexual relationship or took illicit drugs with the deregistered player agent, News Ltd papers reported.
The papers said Nixon was determined to seek damages upwards of $2 million from the AFLPA in light of the revelations.
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The twist looks set to complicate a police investigation into Nixon, with a brief of evidence under review from the Office of Public Prosecutions.
Nixon denied pressuring the girl to retract her statement and has always rejected her claims of sex and drugs despite a damning video of him in his underpants in her hotel room.
In her statement, she also claimed she was affected by drugs when she spoke to AFLPA-commissioned barrister David Galbally, QC, about her relationship with Nixon.
In his report, Mr Galbally found Nixon had taken advantage of a vulnerable girl and engaged in drug-taking and sex with her.
Nixon told News Ltd that the AFLPA probe was an "an amateurish investigation at best".
