Moment ‘soul-destroying’ struggles between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Laila Rouass revealed in tense clip before split

RONNIE O'Sullivan and Laila Rouass discussed their "soul-destroying" struggles successful a resurfaced clip filmed earlier the brace split.

The snooker fable broke up with his fiancée 12 years aft they archetypal started dating.

Ronnie, 48, who has scored a grounds 15 maximum-147 breaks successful a glittering career, has been ­playing overseas and hardly seen 53-year-old histrion Laila.

The celebrated brace were unneurotic for 12 years and the mates had their narration ups and downs.

However Ronnie and Laila ne'er joined and friends accidental they person present breached up 147 months aft they archetypal met.

Now, a clip from Ronnie's Prime Video documentary The Edge Of Everything has resurfaced, which shows the mates during a terse speech portion the snooker prima discussed struggling with his "demons".

In the documentary, which was released successful November, Laila sat down with Ronnie after his 6-4 decision to Neil Robertson at the Masters in 2022.

She said: "I privation you to bash what makes you to beryllium blessed I don't archer you to halt oregon to transportation on. I would ne'er enactment you successful a concern similar that."

But Ronnie past chopped in, saying: "But I deliberation I americium overmuch much comfy with it present than I person ever been.

"If I didn't halt before, erstwhile I was truly uncomfortable, wherefore would I halt present if I consciousness much comfy with it? It is arsenic if I person flooded my demons successful a way."

Laila past added: "I deliberation that's your temper today. When you spot it successful a romanticist way. But the world is it's hard to ticker idiosyncratic spell done that emotionally.

"That's erstwhile the questions travel in. Jesus, wherefore is helium doing this? Why does helium enactment himself done it?'

"It's similar truthful soul-destroying. But that's due to the fact that I deliberation you bash emotion it, arsenic overmuch arsenic you possibly hatred to admit it."

Laila was seen contiguous loading bags into a car and was not wearing her engagement ring.

The histrion was antecedently spotted 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.

The glamorous Footballers' Wives star and snooker genius besides 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.

“They person been going successful antithetic directions.”

Meanwhile, Ronnie was spotted parking his Porsche at Woodford Station contiguous in Essex.

The sportsman, who has scored a grounds 15 maximum-147 breaks successful a glittering snooker vocation has been taking portion successful lucrative competitions abroad.

He's not had the champion tally though amid his narration breakdown - telling fans this week to FORGET about an eighth World Championship aft an "awful, embarrassing" decision astatine the English Open.

The pal went on: “Ronnie has spent months and months connected the roadworthy this twelvemonth doing snooker tours for big money in China and Saudi Arabia while Laila has been concentrating connected her acting career.

“There is simply a batch of emotion betwixt them but they person been going successful antithetic directions and conceded it is over.

“Ronnie and Laila marque a beauteous mates truthful the radical who cognize them champion are hoping this is simply a blip similar backmost successful 2022.”

Ronnie, who has 3 kids from erstwhile relationships, has spoken openly astir his mental health battles and regularly threatens to discontinue from snooker.

This week helium crashed retired of the English Open aft a daze first-round nonaccomplishment to China’s He Guoqiang, with fans criticising his determination to play left-handed.