Jules Neale has emphatically shut down wild rumours she and ex-husband Lachie Neale were swingers, saying they were never even in an open relationship.<\/p>\n
In an explosive tell-all interview that aired on Wednesday on Adelle Petropoulos\u2019 Pretty Sure Podcast, Ms Neale detailed the shocking circumstances surrounding her marriage breakdown.<\/p>\n
She said she moved out of their marital home and returned to WA after she was told by a Brisbane Lions player\u2019s wife that Lachie was cheating on her.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n She initially thought the cheating only went as far as a kiss, before discovering it was a four-month affair with her best friend Tess Crosley.<\/p>\n Following the revelations, rumours ran rife that the Neales were swingers \u2014 meaning the couple consensually engaged in sexual activities with other people.<\/p>\n After months of speculation, the 36-year-old finally addressed the claims that she says had largely been circulated by online trolls.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was definitely not an open relationship and definitely not swinging,\u201d Ms Neale told Adelle Petropoulos on the Pretty Sure Podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we were swinging, I wouldn\u2019t have packed up my life and packed up the kids and left over a kiss.\u201d<\/p>\n The mother-of-two said she believed swinging rumours had become inevitable in high-profile cheating scandals.<\/p>\n \u201cI swear that just gets thrown around in cheating scandals all the time because it absolves any wrongdoing because people can just say \u2018Oh, they\u2019re swinging\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut absolutely not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n During the vulnerable interview, Ms Neale spoke about the moment she discovered the infidelity, saying it was the \u201cworst feeling in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYou just question everything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re like, \u2018Who knows about this? Am I the only person that doesn\u2019t know? And does everybody else know? And did the other players know? And then did the other partners know?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cYou kind of question your trust with everything and everyone at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n Ms Neale\u2019s tell-all interview comes eight months after the high-profile couple\u2019s marriage breakdown exploded into the public eye.<\/p>\n In December, Ms Neale rejected reports the pair were \u201cworking through\u201d relationship issues and declared she had been \u201cbetrayed in the most unimaginable way\u201d.<\/p>\n Her former best friend Tess Crosley was subsequently linked to the scandal after a screenshot emerged of Ms Neale demanding she remove social media pictures featuring Lachie.<\/p>\n Lachie confirmed the separation in January and stepped down as Brisbane Lions co-captain, admitting he had \u201clet my family down\u201d and apologised for his actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jules Neale has emphatically shut down wild rumours she and ex-husband Lachie Neale were swingers, saying they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[638,43,44,588,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-869031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-afl","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869031","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=869031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}