Boxer Harry Garside breaks his silence after ex-girlfriend charged with assaulting him

Boxer Harry Garside has broken his silence following the shocking news his ex-girlfriend had been charged with assaulting him, declaring on social media: ‘I am perfect exactly where I am right now’. 

In a video posted to Instagram on Friday morning, the Olympic medallist shared a heartfelt, motivational message to his followers.

‘I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I know I’ve needed to hear it over the past week or so,’ he said.  

‘Of course there’s always room to grow and evolve but I am perfect exactly where I am right now. I know my heart’s in the right spot, I know I’m a good person.’  

Garside (pictured right with then girlfriend Ash Ruscoe) said he was ‘perfect exactly as I am right now’

On Thursday morning, Daily Mail Australia exclusively revealed that Garside’s ex-girlfriend Ash Ruscoe had been charged with assaulting and stalking or intimidating him at her Bellevue Hill home in Sydney‘s eastern suburbs.

On the same day, the ex-Olympian’s distressed ex-girlfriend rushed to her lawyer’s office and frantically cancelled the early morning gym class she teaches after NSW Police charged her.

Garside said he made a motivational Instagram video on Friday ‘because I’m sure just like myself someone needed to hear it’.  

‘You are perfectly fine exactly where you are,’ he wrote in a post alongside the video. 

‘Turn that criticism back into curiosity and watch the self improvement journey become fun again.’ 

On Thursday, Daily Mail Australia revealed that Garside’s ex-girlfriend was charged with assaulting and stalking or intimidating him

Ash Ruscoe refused to answer questions when she was approached by Daily Mail Australia in Sydney’s CBD on Thursday

The news of the assault comes three months after Ms Ruscoe, a boxing and martial arts instructor, went to police claiming that Garside was making her fear for her safety. 

It was the same day he had flown to South Africa to film I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

Garside was charged by police upon his return to Australia however those charges were withdrawn in May after footage and audio recordings came to light that allegedly told a different story about what happened between the pair. 

On Wednesday afternoon Ms Ruscoe was arrested at her home and taken to Waverley Police Station, where she was charged over an alleged domestic violence incident that occurred at her property on Wednesday, March 1.

A police spokesman said: ‘Following further inquiries, police attended the Bellevue Hill home about 4.45pm today, and arrested a 35-year-old woman.

‘She was taken to Waverley Police Station and charged with common assault (DV) and stalk/intimidate intend cause fear physical etc harm (DV).’

Ms Ruscoe was granted bail and took legal advice at Sydney’s ‘premier criminal law firm’ Streeton Lawyers in the city’s CBD on Thursday, where she later emerged looking stressed.  

She also cancelled her regular boxing classes she teaches at luxury wellness studio, Shelter, in Double Bay. 

Ms Ruscoe was tight-lipped when approached for comment over the alleged incident.

Ash Rusco rushed to her lawyer’s office and frantically cancelled the early morning gym class she teaches

Garside also has not commented on the legal twist.

Last month, the 25-year-old boxer was relieved that the charge against him, and an associated apprehended violence order, was formally withdrawn.

Garside announced in a statement outside court that he had been informed by the ‘police prosecutor that they had dropped all matters against me’.

‘Today I have been vindicated,’ he said.

Garside represented Australia in boxing at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, taking bronze in the men’s lightweight division, and had since won his first three professional bouts. 

Ms Ruscoe will face Downing Centre Local Court in July.