{"id":367315,"date":"2025-12-23T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367315\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:41:15","slug":"revealed-the-heartwarming-reason-for-footy-legend-andrew-johns-very-rare-reunion-with-his-ex-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367315\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The heartwarming reason for footy legend Andrew Johns’ VERY rare reunion with his ex-wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posed for a photo with former spouse Cathrine Mahoney\u00a0<\/p>\n

By JOSH ALSTON, SENIOR SPORT REPORTER, AUSTRALIA <\/p>\n

Published: 01:15 EST, 23 December 2025 | Updated: 01:15 EST, 23 December 2025 <\/p>\n

Andrew Johns has made a very rare appearance with his ex-wife\u00a0Cathrine Mahoney to celebrate a big milestone for their son Louis after he signed on with an NRL<\/a> team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johns and Mahoney were married from 2007 to 2014 before calling it splits, with the fallout becoming messy when Mahoney released her memoir\u00a0Currently Between Husbands\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n

It included her frank and often humorous deep dive into the breakdown of their marriage, with Mahoney revealing the price of fame took its toll.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I’d get exhausted sometimes being with Andrew because you’d have to smile all the time \u2013 usually when you were in the middle of a big argument,’ Mahoney said at the time.<\/p>\n

‘Even the most amazing high-end celebrity still goes to the toilet, still gets a period, still fights with their boyfriend and still has to get up with their kids, but they have to be “on” the whole bloody time.’<\/p>\n

Johns has since tied the knot with his new wife Kate Kendall in a secret ceremony in Bali<\/a> in 2024 and the couple have a daughter together, Alice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns reunited with ex-wife Cathrine Mahoney after their son Louis signed a development contract with the Sydney Roosters<\/p>\n

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Johns and Mahoney, pictured with their son Louis and Johns’ son Samuel from his previous marriage, divorced in 2014.<\/p>\n

The rugby league Immortal also has two sons, one with his first wife\u00a0Renae Chapman and another with Mahoney.<\/p>\n

And it was that son who brought the former husband and wife back together, with their boy Louis Byron taking his first strides towards an NRL career of his own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old has signed a development deal with the\u00a0Sydney Roosters and is set to play\u00a0in the Harold Matthews Cup under-17s competition for the Bondi club in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That huge announcement meant both parents met with Louis to congratulate him in Newcastle, with Mahoney posting the image of their reunion to Instagram.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Proud parents post. There aren’t many people I’d drive up and back to Newcastle in a day for but Louis Byron I wouldn’t have missed it,’ she said.<\/p>\n

‘Tipping you’re set to be taller than your folks any day now.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mahoney has previously spoken about how challenging the divorce from her high-profile husband was.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘When a marriage ends, you shove it all in a box and stuff it in the back of your wardrobe and don’t want a word of it,’ she said.<\/p>\n

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Johns is now married to Kate Kendall after they tied the knot in a secret ceremony in Bali<\/p>\n

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Johns is a legend in Newcastle after delivering two premierships to the region during his playing days<\/p>\n

‘But unpacking it six years later, you realise time heals and you look at things differently. I was bonkers crazy in love with Andrew, and he was with me. It just didn’t last the course.’<\/p>\n

And footy fans loved seeing the amicable moment with the proud parents and their son, hoping Louis can forge his own path in the NRL in the coming years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Louis is such a nice combo of you both,’ one posted.<\/p>\n

Another said: ‘Congratulations Louis Byron. No doubt two very proud parents. Welcome to the Roosters.’<\/p>\n

Newcastle supporters were not as happy, hoping Louis would continue the Johns legacy in the Hunter region.<\/p>\n

Johns was born in Cessnock and delivered two premierships to Newcastle in 1997 and 2001, as well as playing alongside his famous brother Matthew Johns.<\/p>\n

‘This hurts my Newcastle soul,’ one fan lamented.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another pleaded: ‘Keep him in Newcastle knights colours please.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Johns says he has ‘moved on’ from Newcastle.<\/p>\n

‘I live in Sydney now,’ he said on his podcast with Brad Fittler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I haven’t lived there now in Newcastle for 18 or 19 years, and I’ve moved on. I’m not on the ground, you’ve got to be there every day.<\/p>\n

‘I’ll never coach, because I haven’t got the personality. I live in Sydney and I love where I’m living. The drive up there, I couldn’t be doing it and I’m not moving back to Newcastle.’<\/p>\n

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