News of Hogg\u2019s arrest emerged almost a fortnight after he was stripped of his MBE. He received the gong in the 2024 New Year Honours for his services to rugby but pleaded guilty the following November to abusing Gillian over a period of five years, for which he received a one-year community payback order.<\/p>\n
The removal of the honour was confirmed in a notice in The Gazette \u2013 the official public record \u2013 which read: \u201cThe King has directed that the appointment of Stuart William Hogg to be a Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 30 December 2023 shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old was sentenced in January last year, after which Gillian branded his community payback order \u201cabsolutely no punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n
She told the Scottish Sun: \u201cMy first thought was, \u2018Is that it?\u2019 It\u2019s not enough. No sentence will ever be enough for all of the abuse, heartache and pain he put me through for years. It feels like that hasn\u2019t been acknowledged.\u201d<\/p>\n
In October, Hogg admitted retiring from rugby to try to save his marriage was the \u201cbiggest mistake\u201d of his life. Hogg, who won 100 caps for Scotland and went on three British and Irish Lions tours, claimed he \u201cdid not know what was going on in life\u201d at the end of his rugby career and that he was \u201cup to his eyeballs in antidepressants\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI missed the buzz, the changing room, the banter. I missed rugby more than I ever realised. I gave up on my rugby career to try to save my marriage. At the time, I didn\u2019t know who I was,\u201d the former Exeter Chiefs full-back told The Rugby Paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was up to my eyeballs in antidepressants. I didn\u2019t know what was going on in life, whether I was making people happy or sad. I used alcohol to escape. I was purely existing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Doddie Aid cycle ride from Scotland to Rome changed everything. For the first time since retiring, I felt part of a team again. I came back and told my dad, \u2018I\u2019ve made the biggest mistake of my life\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
After leaving Exeter in 2023, Hogg moved to Montpellier in the Top 14. Hogg shares four children with Gillian and another with racing commentator Leonna Mayor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real downside is being away from my kids and getting the chance to go back and see them regularly,\u201d Hogg said. \u201cThe hope is that they\u2019ll be able to come out to France and see me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are improving on that front, which I\u2019m grateful for, so things are definitely improving for me and my family. I live 20 minutes from Montpellier, five minutes from the beach. It\u2019s relaxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players and coaches value me, maybe because I finally value myself. I\u2019m in a better place mentally than I\u2019ve been in years. I used to think being selfish was strength.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I took that too far. I hurt people. Now, I\u2019m learning to be selfless for the right reasons \u2013 for my kids, my partner, my team. I know I\u2019ll never be the same Stuart Hogg I once was, but I\u2019m OK with it. I\u2019ve found peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News of Hogg\u2019s arrest emerged almost a fortnight after he was stripped of his MBE. He received the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,2667,2022,213,1177,180213],"class_list":["post-336378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rugby-union","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-stuart-hogg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}