Ben Cousins was "actually in a very good place at the moment", his lawyer said as the ex-AFL star appeared, agitated and fidgety, in an Armadale court on Tuesday.
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Cousins was released on bail after police charged him with breaching a violence restraining order taken out by the mother of his children Maylea Elizabeth Tinecheff, and carrying methamphetamine.
Cousins and Ms Tinecheff have two children together.
Cousins had spent the night in custody at Perth Watchhouse after being arrested on Monday afternoon on Amherst Road in Canning Vale.
He appeared restless as his lawyer requested bail, saying his client did have a recent address, was not a flight risk, and was "actually in a really good place at the money."
He pointed to the content of an email, which the judge read but the content of which was not shared, and asked for there to be be no surety payable.
The police prosecutor agreed Cousins was not a flight risk, and Cousins was granted bail, on condition he stay 50 metres from his ex-partner's home, and not contact her in any way apart from via text message to arrange for visitation of his two children, aged three and five.
Visits would have to be carried out away from the home, with the court hearing that while Mr Cousins had been in regular contact with his children, aged three and five, the visits were mostly done in his ex's front yard or in the cul-de-sac it was in.
The magistrate said the parents would have to sort this out.
"If you're going to have access it's going to have to be outside this address," she said.
The matter was adjourned until November 22. Cousins did not speak to reporters outside the court.
The fallen football star was last detained by police, and then hospitalised, in late June after interfering with traffic on Canning Highway in Como while in a dazed state.
Cousins has had drug issues throughout his career and after it ended in 2010.
At one stage he was banned for a year from football while contracted to the Eagles and had several run-ins with police after Richmond threw him a lifeline in 2009.
The 2005 Brownlow medallist was spared jail last year for a bizarre episode in which he trespassed at a Sikh temple in Canning Vale.
In the subsequent court case, a lawyer for Cousins said his client had been mentally ill at the time of incident, had been hospitalised rather than locked up and had taken a fencing job in Collie.
When former Eagles teammate Chris Judd launched his autobiography Inside last October he said he'd had recent contact with Cousins and that he was "doing well".
West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett, on the eve of the club's 10-year premiership celebrations, said he would forgo that 2006 success in exchange for the good mental health of Cousins and other troubled ex-Eagles from that side.
Cousins' on-field career had just about every honour imaginable, including six All-Australian jumpers and a Brownlow Medal in 2005.
But there was just as much drama off it, with West Coast forced to take the captaincy of its favourite son after he famously avoided a booze bus by jumping into the Canning River and then eventually being sacked by the club in 2007 after several failed stints in rehab.
He finished his career with two seasons at Richmond in 2009 and 2010 and played 270 AFL games in total.