{"id":383864,"date":"2026-01-01T02:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:50:24","slug":"wayne-carey-and-sam-newmans-incredible-lachie-neale-claim-jules-neale-tess-crosley-marriage-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383864\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Carey and Sam Newman\u2019s incredible Lachie Neale claim, Jules Neale, Tess Crosley, marriage breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne Carey\u2019s infamous affair with his former teammate and best friend\u2019s wife saw his reputation irreparably damaged.<\/p>\n

His affair with Kelli Stevens, the wife of his Kangaroos teammate and friend, Anthony Stevens, while Carey was married to his then-wife, Sally McMahon, saw him kicked out of the club.<\/p>\n

What transpired more than two decades ago has seen him become somewhat of an AFL outcast, and to this day he is still despised by many.<\/p>\n

So he may be the last person you\u2019d expect to speak on the Lachlan Neale situation, with the Brisbane star having seen his life ripped apart following a very public and brutal marriage breakdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But after the former North Melbourne captain was a guest on the controversial You Can\u2019t Be Serious podcast<\/a>, hosted by AFL bad boy Sam Newman, it would come as no surprise that he was drawn into the saga.<\/p>\n

You can see Wayne Carey\u2019s full comments in the player above.<\/p>\n

Neale\u2019s marriage with Jules Neale appears all but over with the popular hairstylist revealing she had been \u201cbetrayed in the most unimaginable way\u201d<\/a> last week, before again clarifying that she had no desire to work through things with her 32-year-old husband.<\/p>\n

Jules has since wiped the two-time Brownlow Medal winner from her Instagram page, with all photos of the pair deleted.<\/p>\n

She also called out a third party, the couple\u2019s former friend Tess Crosley.<\/p>\n

Crosley quickly became entangled in the fallout<\/a>, though there has been no suggestion of wrongdoing on her part.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the off-field saga, Newman said the Australian media had gone easy on the Brisbane superstar.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou (Wayne Carey) would be front and square, or I would be, but it seems to just drift on with no real controversy\u201d,\u2019 Newman said on his podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey treat people with kid gloves if they want to, don\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n

To which Carey replied: \u201cFor all those people that sit on their ivory tower, Sam, they are generally doing a lot, lot worse than those they are judging.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what, what Lachie Neale does in his life with his family, with whoever else, friends, whatever, whose business is that but theirs?\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman then added: \u201cYou know very well that if you are in the public eye, it\u2019s everyone\u2019s business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lachie<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be, but it is,\u201d Carey replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sad part about anything that has been in the news \u2013 and this is what I have empathy for \u2013 I feel for children that get dragged into it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would prefer those things, like everyone else\u2019s life (when) they go through issues, that they don\u2019t have to be dragged through the media circus that we live in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, Lachie\u2019s kids have to be dragged through this, which is terribly sad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is something that he will wrestle with over the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s their business. Not mine. And\u00a0I would be a hypocrite if I was to sit here and be judgmental, wouldn\u2019t I?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Carey has since moved on from his Kangaroos saga and is now a father of four, welcoming his second child with girlfriend Jessica Paulke in January.<\/p>\n

He also shares two daughters from previous relationships: Ella with ex-wife Sally McMahon, and Charlotte with former fiancee Stephanie Edwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Carey\u2019s infamous affair with his former teammate and best friend\u2019s wife saw his reputation irreparably damaged. His…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-383864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}