A former workmate of a woman at the centre of a group sex scandal with National Rugby League players says she experienced "no trauma whatsoever" from the affair.
Former NRL star and Channel Nine personality Matthew Johns was stood down by the network and the Melbourne Storm yesterday in the wake of the scandal.
On Monday night ABC1's Four Corners program revealed Mr Johns and other Cronulla Sharks players had sex with a 19-year-old woman in a Christchurch hotel in 2002.
The players involved insisted the sex was consensual and New Zealand police did not lay any charges.
The woman said the experience left her feeling degraded and suicidal.
But workmate Tanya Boyd has told Channel Nine tonight that the woman openly boasted about the incident with fellow employees.
"She was bragging about it to staff and quite openly saying she had had sex with several players," she said.
"There was no trauma whatsoever."
Ms Boyd said the woman did not report the incident to police until five days later.
"I was disgusted that a woman can all of a sudden change her story from having a great time to turning it into a terrible crime," she said.
Earlier, Sharks chairman Barry Pierce refused to name other players involved in the group sex act.
Mr Pierce, who was the NRL club's chairman at the time, says he shares the public's outrage over revelations several players took part in the incident.
But he says innocent players could be implicated if he named names.
"It would be incredibly damaging to an ex-player or staff member to be named who had nothing to do with the incident," he said in a statement.
"Certainly the club is a very different organisation today than it was then, and I have had a role in driving that change.
"I cannot undo what has been done, and I again apologise on behalf of the club to the young lady involved for her suffering."
-*The Four Corners program can be seen in full on the "ABC's iView website. Extended interviews can be seen on the "Four Corners website.*