Jules Neale has sensationally claimed her estranged husband Lachie cheated on her with at least two different women, revealing she feared his infidelity would continue ‘for the rest of my life’.
In a bombshell new interview, the mother-of-two opened up about the collapse of her marriage to the Brisbane Lions premiership player, describing the moment she learned of his affair with her best friend Tess Crosley as ‘the worst feeling in the world’.
Speaking on influencer Adelle Petropoulos’ Pretty Sure podcast, Jules detailed the devastating fallout from the scandal and claimed it was not the first time she had been confronted by allegations of cheating during their relationship.
The 37-year-old said discovering the affair in December last year left her questioning everyone around her.
‘It’s the worst feeling in the world,’ Jules said.
‘You just question everything. You’re like, who knows about this? Am I the only person that doesn’t know? Does everybody else know and did the other players know? Did the other partners know?’
In a bombshell new interview, Jules Neale, 37, (right) opened up about the collapse of her marriage to Brisbane Lions premiership player Lachie Neale, 33, describing the moment she learned of his affair with her best friend Tess Crosley, 30, (left) as ‘the worst feeling in the world’
Jules confirmed she was informed of the alleged affair by a close friend after the information was passed on by another AFL player’s partner.
‘She’s a close friend of mine,’ Jules revealed.
‘It came from another partner at the club to her. She called one of my close friends at the club and said, “This is the information I know and what I’ve seen. I don’t want to have to call Jules and tell her. Can you do it? It would be better coming from you.”‘
After seven years of marriage, Jules said she immediately returned to Perth with the couple’s children.
However, she later learned the alleged affair was more than a one-off incident.
According to Jules, what she initially believed was a kiss turned out to be what she described as a secret four-month relationship.
The social media personality also claimed the scandal was not the first time she had dealt with allegations of infidelity.
Jules alleged she previously received a direct message from another woman accusing Lachie of cheating, complete with what she described as evidence.
Speaking on influencer Adelle Petropoulos’ Pretty Sure podcast, Jules detailed the devastating fallout from the scandal and claimed it was not the first time she had been confronted by allegations of cheating during their relationship
‘I got one of those awful “hey girlie” DMs with receipts. The worst day of my life. I didn’t leave bed for four days,’ she said.
‘Before that, I would have bet my life that he would have never done that to me ever.’
Despite her heartbreak, Jules said she chose to remain in the marriage at the time because the couple already shared a daughter and she believed the incident was a one-off mistake.
‘Then I was reassured that that was a one-off thing, it would never happen again, biggest mistake of his life, yada yada yada,’ she said.
‘We already had my daughter together, so I decided to stay and try to work on it. If it was a one-off mistake, I didn’t want to break up our family because of it.
‘I’ve got too much at stake here for her.’
Jules said both leaving and staying after infidelity presented their own challenges.
‘If something like this happens to you in your relationship, if you get cheated on, betrayed in any way, leaving is so hard and scary, but staying is hard as well,’ she said.
Jules said discovering the affair in December last year left her questioning everyone around her. ‘It’s the worst feeling in the world,’ she added
She went on to claim that further information emerged after the couple separated.
‘Now people know that we aren’t together anymore and he was unfaithful, I’ve heard a bunch of stories from a bunch of different people,’ Jules said.
‘It wasn’t the first time for us, which is awful.’
Jules said many people assumed she immediately ended the relationship after learning of the alleged affair with Tess, but insisted the situation was more complicated.
However, she said the latest revelations convinced her the marriage could not continue.
‘When I did find out this recent thing had happened it was immediately, I was just like, “We’re done,”‘ she said.
‘It was immediately apparent that this was going to continue. It wasn’t a one-off mistake.
‘If you could do something like this after that, it’ll keep happening for the rest of my life.’
According to Jules, what she initially believed was a kiss between Lachie and Tess turned out to be what she described as a secret four-month relationship
Jules also revealed there had originally been plans to keep the separation private and publicly characterise the split as a marital issue.
But she said that changed when she shared a cryptic social media post claiming she had been ‘betrayed in the most unimaginable way’.
‘I actually felt a huge weight of relief off my shoulders,’ she said.
‘It actually felt good to have people know, not exactly what had happened, but just the truth.’
Jules also shut down rumours she and Lachie had been involved in an open relationship or swinging arrangement with Tess and her husband Ben.
‘Definitely not in an open relationship and definitely not swinging,’ she said.
‘If we were swinging, I wouldn’t have packed up my kids and left over a kiss.’
She added she intends to keep the Neale surname for now so she shares the same last name as her children.
Looking back on life in the AFL spotlight, Jules said professional footballers often face unique temptations because of their public profiles.
‘They have people throwing themselves at them,’ she said.
‘It’s definitely on the boys, but they have more opportunity to be unfaithful because the opportunity is just there.’
Lachie has not publicly responded to the new allegations made by his estranged wife during the podcast interview.
Tess Crosley will be speaking in her first tell-all interview, revealing her side of the story with Daily Mail’s The Debrief with Savanna Young this Thursday.
