I’ve suffered the same anger and agony as Kyle Walker’s betrayed wife

STILL seared in my memory all these decades later is the moment my husband told me he’d been having an affair with a colleague.

The moment he pleaded, sobbing, that she ‘meant nothing’ to him, that he only loved me. Before adding that the girl was pregnant.

I can remember every detail; the time and place — late evening in the kitchen of our tiny flat; what we were eating — spaghetti Bolognese, his favourite, with extra Parmesan. We’d only been married four years. It is impossible to explain the devastation I felt. I simply could not forgive him. He had thrown a million daggers at my heart. My life had changed for ever. If I’d stuck with him, I would have had to wave my man off to play dates with the kid at a time when I was desperately hoping for our own family. The thought was utterly unbearable.

Which is a round about way of saying I feel I understand what footballer Kyle Walker’s wife Annie has gone through, the betrayal she’s suffered, after learning he’s had two children with on-off mistress Lauryn Goodman. And of saying I have zero sympathy for Lauryn, especially after her shameless attempt to appear the victim in this unedifying saga.

The fact is she had a choice. And she chose to have unprotected sex with a very rich, married man who pathetically could not keep his zipper up. She got pregnant not once but twice, then taunted Kyle’s wife Annie with DNA proof that the footballer was the father of her son and daughter.

And she can’t stop telling the world about how wronged she’s been.

‘None of this has been my finest hour,’ she admits — before saying she’s had sleepless nights in the £2.4million home he bought her and adding: ‘. . . and he did completely poison me.’

He poisoned her? What about Lauryn poisoning Annie’s family life? Did she never once think of the Walkers’ three, soon to be four, children? Lauryn says she’s been subjected to a vicious social media onslaught, which must be awful. But what did she expect?

I make no apologies for Kyle’s despicable behaviour. But it really sticks in my craw when Lauryn claims she never intended to hurt Annie.

‘When will this end?’ she cries. ‘I need this to end!’ The answer is only when betrayed women truly believe she is no longer a homewrecker — and that could take for ever.