Stuart Hogg's ex-lover reveals abusive rugby star's double life - including worrying calls and texts

Jilly O’Donnell, the erstwhile woman of rugby subordinate Stuart Hogg, has travel guardant to picture her ordeal and however she came to larn her spouse was inactive happily married

An ex-girlfriend of abusive rugby prima Stuart Hogg said helium led a treble beingness for 3 years by pretending to beryllium happily joined portion secretly seeing her.

Jilly O’Donnell said she recovered retired helium was inactive with his woman erstwhile the ex-Scotland planetary skipper gave a TV interrogation to uncover they were expecting their 4th child.

The household antheral and rugby ace, 32, was outed past week arsenic a controlling and manipulative abuser aft helium pled blameworthy to a azygous complaint of home maltreatment against present estranged woman Gillian.

If the lawsuit had gone to trial, the ex-British and Irish Lions prima would person besides faced a complaint of bombarding Jilly, 47, with hundreds of messages and a barrage of repeated telephone calls implicit a 17-month play contempt her begging him to stop.

Jilly has present decided to talk retired astir the torment she suffered astatine the hands of Hogg successful the content that galore different women person fallen unfortunate to him.

Jilly, a pupil caregiver from Newcastle, said: “His actions and behaviour person caused truthful overmuch wounded and choler to truthful galore women. He knows that but somehow, helium volition inactive extremity up being the victim.”

She met Hogg erstwhile helium started liking her photographs connected Instagram during the pandemic successful 2020. A azygous genitor to 3 big children, she said she was successful a susceptible presumption during lockdown but was flattered by the attraction from Hogg who was 15 years younger than her.

Hogg, who was a full-back with Premiership broadside Exeter Chiefs astatine the time, told Jilly that helium was separated but inactive surviving with his woman for the involvement of their 3 young children.

She said: “We confided successful each other, became champion friends. He became everything to me. He would often archer maine helium liked that we had tegument connected tegument contact, helium missed that interaction with different quality being. Over 3 years, we would conscionable up for walks, spell hiking crossed Dartmoor, message, call, Facetime each the time.

“We would spell swimming each greeting earlier helium headed to work. He would telephone maine from the dressing country and instantly aft a large Scotland game. He would enactment retired drinking for hours and I’d prime him up astatine 5am with a portion successful his hand. I had nary crushed to judge helium had anyone other to spell location to and that helium was inactive happily married. I was naive.”

In March 2023, Hogg announced his volition to discontinue from nonrecreational rugby aft the upcoming Rugby World Cup. He aboriginal revised this and successful July 2023 announced his contiguous status from the sport. Hogg has since emerged from status and present plays for French nine Montpellier.

Jilly said the brace parted ways romantically erstwhile Hogg and his woman returned location to Hawick, successful the Scottish Borders, successful April past year. Hogg told Jilly they were lone surviving unneurotic successful Exeter for the involvement of their children - but they were nary longer together.

It was successful a tv interrogation that Jilly learned Hogg wasn’t separated and his woman was really large with their 4th child. Jilly said Hogg inactive tried to person her that they had a aboriginal unneurotic but she told him to instrumentality to his family.

Jilly said: “I was truthful shocked, I had nary idea. We had been seeing each different plentifulness of times earlier helium had moved. But helium told me, ‘you cognize what I’m similar erstwhile I’m drunk’ and said helium wouldn’t enactment maine done each this if helium didn’t deliberation we had a aboriginal and wanted to beryllium with me.”

The brace chopped interaction erstwhile Hogg began a narration with his existent girlfriend, jockey Leonna Mayor.

Police interviewed Jilly arsenic a witnesser but and aft reviewing the couple’s communication, brought a complaint against Hogg for a people of behaviour which caused her fearfulness oregon alarm betwixt April 2023 and August 2024. Prosecutors filed six charges against Hogg, spanning from January 2017 to July 2024 with 1 against Jilly betwixt April 2023 and August this year.

Hogg pled blameworthy astatine Selkirk Sheriff Court, successful the Borders, to 1 azygous complaint of abusing Gillian betwixt 2019 and 2024. He admitted shouting and swearing astatine his woman successful an assertive manner, and would impeach her of “not being fun” for staying upstairs with their children.

He bombarded her with much than 200 messages implicit the people of a mates of hours arsenic good arsenic monitoring her movements done a telephone app aft they had divided up successful 2023 and, astatine 1 point, caused her to person a panic attack.

Hogg declined to comment.