The distraught spouse of rugby league love rat Joe Westerman has revealed how his intercourse tape disgrace has destroyed their household.
Lauren Westerman, 33, mentioned the graphic seven-second clip, filmed in a darkish alley behind a department of Greggs and uploaded to Twitter, had inflicted untold hurt on her and their youngsters.
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The eldest two, aged 9 and 14, have each tearfully endured the ordeal of watching the footage after merciless children at college took enjoyment of sending it to them on Snapchat.
Primary faculty instructor Lauren fears it’ll scar all of them and revealed: “People used to look up to him but not any more.”
In an unique interview with The Sun, the mum-of-three informed how his almighty fall from grace, and her residing nightmare, started after the participant went on a rare 15-hour booze binge on the weekend.
It began at 11.30am on Saturday within the pubs and bars of Pontefract, West Yorks, took within the grim alleyway and ended at 2.30am the following day.
Hours later, footage of the Castleford Tigers star — his trousers and pants wrapped spherical his ankles whereas performing a intercourse act on a blonde property agent — had been shared everywhere in the world, leaving a path of heartache.
Lauren has been bombarded with apologetic textual content messages from her 33-year-old childhood sweetheart however she is adamant there isn’t a manner again.
“I’ve relived that footage over and over again,” Lauren informed The Sun.
“It’s something I’ll never be able to get out of my mind no matter how hard I try.
“There are absolutely no excuses for what he’s done, not just to me but to our children and wider family.
“Everything between us was fine, he FaceTimed me at 4pm on Saturday while he was out and then texted at 2.30am to say he couldn’t get in because he didn’t have his house keys.
“I was staying overnight at my mum’s house and he texted the next morning to say how rough he felt, but that was it.
“There was no inkling of what was to come.”
But by the top of the next day, Lauren’s world would come crashing down after Joe revealed the reality.
“Later that night, Joe was at our neighbour’s house and he said, ‘I need to talk to you’,” she defined.
“His face just dropped and he looked totally different.
He said, ‘I’ve done something last night … I’ve been videoed with a girl with my pants down’.
“I asked to see the video and he said he didn’t have it but that it was on Twitter.
“I went on to Twitter and saw it had been deleted and deleted loads of times and then about half an hour later it was posted again and that’s when I saw it.
“I just felt physically sick.
“My next thought was for my 14-year-old daughter and whether I could get to her before she saw it.
“But it was too late. She kept being added to these Snapchat groups from school and being sent the video.
“She left the groups but kept being added to more and it was sent to her again and again and again.
“Our nine-year-old was also sent a screenshot of the video in messages.
“That’s their dad and I feel so sorry for them that they’ve had to see something like that.
“Truth is, he only told me because it was on social media.
“But I’m glad it was found because the thought of kissing him after that just makes me feel sick.”
Lauren was additionally contacted by frightened buddies who had seen the video on-line and feared she was unaware.
However, she informed them every: “It’s OK, I’ve already seen it.”
Lauren, who married Joe in 2014, reveals she instantly kicked him out of the household dwelling however paused momentarily to indicate the terrible memes that includes him that at the moment are flooding social media.
For some time, folks on-line claimed it was Lauren within the video and joked in regards to the Westermans being “filthy tramps”.
Fuming Lauren logged again on and wrote: “Can I make this VERY clear that this is NOT me!!!!!!”
She added: “And we have three children, one of whom is almost 15, and she doesn’t need to see things like this all over social media!”
As Twitter erupted, Joe texted Lauren: “Words will never ever explain how sorry I am.
“I can’t explain what happened cos I physically can’t remember.
“It’s disgusting and I now have to live with it forever.
“Losing you and the kids is heartbreaking Lauren, you deserve so much better.”
Another message learn: “You always said alcohol would f*** me up.”
Lauren replied to say it was a disgrace he had by no means listened, to which he replied: “Story of my life. I miss you like crazy. U was perfect.”
More adopted, together with: “I need you to know I can’t remember anything about that night. I look like a zombie.”
His membership, who will play their Super League season opener in opposition to Hull on Sunday with out him, launched an investigation into the video that concluded with him paying a “substantial fine” and agreeing to undertake neighborhood service to coach younger folks in regards to the results of alcohol.
Joe additionally apologised in an announcement issued by way of the membership, saying: “I have realised that I need to work on my decision-making around alcohol.
Sitting at the dining room table of a pal’s home, Lauren is remarkably charitable, saying: “I thought it was forever.
“We’ve had our ups and downs but always managed to find our way back together.
“This is just incredibly sad. I feel heartbroken, angry, sad and disappointed.
“He’s laid waste to everything. I haven’t been able to sleep because of it. But there is no way back.
“I want us to get on eventually and have a really good co- parenting life.
“I want the kids to want to see their dad. I want him now to use this to turn his life around, do counselling or whatever he is doing through the club, stop drinking and be a good dad.
“That is all I want and I’d like to think that this time next year he will be an advocate for not drinking.
“For some people, drinking is the devil.”
She added: “I’ve got no choice but to be strong now.
“I could sit and cry in a ball, let the kids see me and they’d dislike their daddy even more.
“That’s not what I want at all.”
And of the married mum-of-two concerned within the video, Lauren says: “It’s the children I feel for. Our children and her children.
“She’ll never live it down. She’s lost her job and there are memes of her sweeping the internet. Her children are going to see that.
“I don’t know if our children will ever forgive their dad.
“There will be no more family dinners, no family days out.
“It’s all gone. The kids won’t be able to see him play again because of the chants he will now inspire.
“I just hope in time they can forget it.”
This story first appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission.
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