Tess Crosley has sensationally hit back at former friend Jules Neale following her high-profile affair with Brisbane Lions star Lachie Neale.
Crosley’s first comments about the saga have been made public just hours after Jules claimed ex-husband Lachie had cheated on her with at least two women on a podcast released on Wednesday morning.
Jules, who took her and Lachie’s children back to her hometown in Perth following the end of their seven-year marriage, also revealed she found out about her husband’s fling with Crosley through the partner of another Lions player.
Crosley has recorded an interview for a separate podcast that will be released on Thursday afternoon, where she incredibly goes after ex-pal Jules for betraying her.
After the scandal erupted, Jules had commented on one of Crosley’s Instagram pictures of her and Neale, saying: “Take these down, you idiot. You’re embarrassing yourself.”
Now, speaking on the unreleased Daily Mail Australia’s The Debrief podcast,, Crosley said: “I thought we sort of made the unanimous decision not to make any comments publicly at all.”
She continued: “Only a couple of months ago, I also learned that somebody from the parties was sending private information to the journalists.
“And that was really hard. I’d been staying silent out of respect.
“There’s so much more to this story that people don’t know, but I’m not going to bring others down just to make myself look better either.”
Before she added: “‘It almost did feel like a betrayal.”
Crosley’s remarks come after Jules’ tell-all interview with Adelle Petropoulos — who called off her own wedding last year after discovering her fiancee’s infidelity.
Jules revealed she only discovered the true extent of Lachie’s cheating after she had returned to Perth.
Originally believing it was a one-off kiss, she later found out it was a fling that she believes went on for four months.
“It’s the worst feeling in the world,’’ Jules told Petropoulos on the Pretty Sure podcast.
“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?
“You kind of question your trust with everything and everyone at that point. It’s not a good feeling. But after talking to the other partners at the club, they all seemed very shocked, so I don’t think it was a known thing among them all, which is good because that would have been more salt in the wound to know everyone knew before you.”
Explaining how she was first made aware of the affair, she continued: “The poor thing, (she’s) a close friend of mine.
“It came from another partner at the club to her, she called one of my close friends at the club. 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.
“So my poor friend had to call me and tell me.”
But according to Jules it wasn’t the first time Neale had cheated on her.
The influencer revealed she was in bed for four days after a ‘Hey girly’ DM. But she claims Neale had promised her it was a one off and would never happen again and she ultimately decided to work through it for their daughter.
“I found out he had cheated on me before,’’ she continued.
“I got one of those awful ‘hey girly’ DMs with receipts. The worst day of my life; I didn’t leave bed for four days. Before that I would have bet my life that he would have never done that to me ever.
“Then I was reassured that was a one-off thing, it would never happen again, biggest mistake of his life, yada yada yada.
“We already had my daughter together, so I decided to stay and try to work on it. I just felt like after that people can make mistakes.
“And if it was a one-off mistake, I don’t want to break up our family because of it. I’ve got too much at stake here for her.
“So I did stay. It was really hard. 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.”
Jules and Crosley’s interviews come days after Neale confirmed his new romance with Emma Field with a kiss in the Brisbane Lions’ dressing room after the team’s win over Collingwood at the MCG on Friday.
The pair have been spotted multiple times in public together since they were first romantically linked when they were seen walking together at Brisbane Airport earlier this month.
Field, an advertising professional, has travelled to watch Neale play in recent matches and took things a step further on Friday night when she was spotted inside the football club’s inner sanctum following their win over Collingwood.
More to follow.
Originally published as Tess Crosley fires back at Jules Neale over Lachie Neale scandal, accuses former friend of betrayal