Alex dumped me for A MAN AND A WOMAN... from the same footy club!
The heartbroken Bachelor has fled to Bali after discovering his ex slept with not one, but two others!
Once the happiest man in Australia when he found love on The Bachelor in 2016, Richie Strahan went into hiding last week – packing his bags and flying to Bali – as news broke that his girlfriend Alex Nation had dumped him for a woman.
But that isn’t the only shock revelation heartbroken Richie has had to contend with. As fans reeled from the news that Alex, 26, is dating fellow Frankston Bombers footy player Maegan Luxa, 31, Richie was recovering from a second bombshell – that she also slept with a man from the same football club!
“Alex was dating our coach’s son Dale White for two months prior to dating Maegan,” a fellow player reveals exclusively to Woman’s Day. “Dale plays for the Bombers, too, and she dumped him at our mid-season footy ball last month and went home with Maegan, instead. They’ve been joined at the hip ever since,” says our source, adding that Dale, 22, just like Richie, was crushed by the betrayal, after he had introduced Alex to his family.
Friends of Alex and chef Maegan say it was Alex who made the first move, despite previously only dating men.
“Alex was telling everyone she had a crush on Maegan and then they shared a shoey [drank beer out of a shoe] and the rest was history,” our source tells.
Now Richie, 32, feels like a fool after meeting all of Alex’s footy friends and even cheering her team on from the sidelines when he visited her in Melbourne in May.
“Richie was awesome when he came to watch us,” says our source. “He was chatty and just really normal. When they were together you could see they really cared about each other.”
After the news broke about Maegan, Richie fled to Bali, seeking solace on a solo surf trip.
“Bali is Richie’s happy place – he can escape all the fanfare and go unnoticed as he wraps his head around everything that’s come to light in recent weeks,” reveals a close friend.
While it’s been rumoured for months that Alex and Richie had split, our source says the decision definitely wasn’t mutual and Richie is devastated. “He’s shattered it didn’t work out and that Alex has been able to move on so quickly.”
To make matters worse, a few weeks ago Richie put his Perth home on the market and joked about moving somewhere colder, which many took to mean he was moving to Melbourne to be with Alex and her son Elijah, six.
Now, in a cruel blow, Alex and Maegan are planning to set up a home together. “They’re both living at home and have decided to get a place of their own. They’re moving into a flat in three weeks’ time,” our source says, adding that Maegan has even met Alex’s young son.
“The three of them are like a little family and are together all the time. Elijah understands his mum’s new friend is actually a girlfriend and that he could soon be calling her Mum, too.”
‘Alex dumped Dale at the ball and went home with Maegan’