Inside Ronnie O’Sullivan’s rollercoaster romance with TV star Laila Rouass who he asked out through an ESTATE AGENT

RONNIE O'Sullivan's emotion beingness moves conscionable arsenic accelerated arsenic 1 of his infamous 147 breaks.

The Rocket and his fiancee Laila Rouass person called time connected their narration aft 12 years together.

When the snooker legend and the glamorous TV prima Laila Rouass crossed paths, determination was an instant attraction betwixt the pair.

A person said: “They person been going successful antithetic directions.”

Actress Laila was not wearing her diamond engagement ring erstwhile she appeared on This Morning last month.

Seven-times satellite champion Ronnie gave her the immense sparkler successful 2013 — a twelvemonth aft they started dating.

However they ne'er joined and friends accidental they person present breached up — 147 months since they got together.

The mates separated successful 2022 earlier patching things up.

A person said: “Ronnie and Laila truly threw themselves backmost into their narration aft the divided a mates of years ago.

“He kept posting pics of them online astatine location unneurotic and saying romanticist things connected peculiar occasions, but that’s each travel to a halt.

“They’ve tried truthful hard but they conscionable can’t marque it work.”

When the snooker fable and the glamorous TV prima crossed paths, determination was an instant attraction betwixt the pair.

Fate brought them together, with the histrion house-hunting and stumbling upon Rocket Ronnie's location successful her search.

Once Ronnie heard Laila was looking astir his mansion, helium contacted the property agent, a person of the Footballers' Wives beauty, to put a date.

Within 4 months of that giddy 2012, they were surviving unneurotic successful his autochthonal Essex on with her daughter, Inez from a erstwhile marriage, and engaged successful 2013.

Matched up

It began implicit 12 years agone erstwhile Laila was looking for a caller home.

She stumbled upon Ronnie's abode, not knowing it was his, but wanting a viewing.

Ronnie's begetter showed her astir the property, and aboriginal told his lad who had been round.

As she explained it to the Belfast Telegraph: "It happened by accident. I was shown astir Ronnie's location by his father, who told his lad astir gathering me.

"Ronnie called the property agent, a person of mine, and asked maine retired via her."

Amusingly, she had nary hint helium was a sporting great.

"When she said helium was a snooker player, I said, 'Yeah, but what does helium bash for a living?' I'd ne'er heard of him due to the fact that athletics doesn't involvement maine astatine all, though Ronnie's won maine implicit to snooker!"

Fast mover

Four months later, the brace were caput implicit heels for 1 another.

They acceptable up home, with Ronnie playing doting stepdad to Laila's daughter, Inez from her 2nd joined to businessman Nasir Khan, a convicted fraudster who was jailed for 9 years successful 2011 for a VAT scam.

However, it wasn't casual for Ronnie to settee successful astatine first, owed to chaotic quality of the household.

"It was truthful comic erstwhile Ronnie and I archetypal lived unneurotic due to the fact that he'd enactment his hands implicit his ears and go, 'Whoaa, it's truthful noisy here!'

A twelvemonth aft their archetypal meeting, they got engaged.

Although, they person ne'er enactment a clip standard connected their marriage.

"I’d person to truly cogwheel myself up for a wedding," she told The Sun last year.

"At the infinitesimal we’ve enactment it connected the backmost burner and we’re enjoying our time. There’s nary rush."

Trouble successful paradise

However, contempt everything appearing to beryllium rosy successful their plot - the 2 temporarily divided successful 2022.

Laila took to societal media and wrote: "After astir 10 years of emotion and memories, Ronnie & I person parted ways."

The break-up seemingly ended wrong weeks, with O'Sullivan insisting things were happier than ever.

'It’s good," helium told the Mirror. "She’s great. I emotion her. She’s large institution and I emotion being astir her.

"She’s precise supportive. I person to behave myself. I cognize erstwhile to go, ‘Alright, you’re successful charge'.

"But she’s besides truly bully astatine going, 'Listen, you’ve got a engaged life, you’ve got a batch to do, conscionable get connected with it'".

He added: "Now it feels a batch amended – everyone’s conscionable successful a amended place. I conscionable privation to spot her and her girl happy, and her family, who are similar my family, happy."

Laila has been arsenic arsenic gushing astir Ronnie and the power helium has connected her and her daughter.

"Ronnie's had a truly calming effect connected america and helium tells me, 'Pick your battles'.

"He's taught maine a batch astir myself due to the fact that he's much unfastened and escaped than I americium and precise generous. I can't ideate him not being successful my life."

Support system

There was a hint that Ronnie and Laila were yet acceptable to locomotion down the aisle, erstwhile she listed her Essex mansion for £1.1million past year.

She has been credited with helping Ronnie flooded his demons, including depression and substance abuse.

In the Amazon Prime documentary Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything, Laila opened up connected the "soul-destroying" clip she has had watching his emotions fluctuate arsenic snooker's biggest icon.

But her relation arsenic supportive spouse has ne'er been questioned.

When helium accepted his OBE from Prince Charles successful 2015, Laila was proudly stood alongside him.

"He was overwhelmed by getting his honour. It's emblematic of his modesty that helium doesn't recognize wherefore he's truthful loved and wherefore helium deserved it," she said.

"I'm truthful arrogant of him and deliberation he's precise susceptible of handling his slump these days. He's been beardown capable to question help, and brave capable to speech astir the problem, and is truthful affirmative and upbeat astir life.

"I bash enactment him - conscionable arsenic helium supports maine - and it's casual to enactment idiosyncratic erstwhile you cognize what they're going through.

"You cognize what you should and shouldn't accidental - it's astir creating a information nett astir them.

"He's nether an immense magnitude of pressure, he's ever a favourite to triumph which tin beryllium hard, and we person to instrumentality that connected board.

"He lives a precise steadfast manner these days and uses exercise, particularly running, to assistance him support his slump astatine bay. It's inspiring being with him to beryllium honest."

Sadly, it wasn't enough. And present they spell their abstracted ways.