Now cheating Sally mocks her ex-lover’s wife and says: More fool you for taking him back
It takes two to tango, you know. I don’t know why [Erica’s] just turning her fire on me
Sally Bercow yesterday
This woman has brought shame on Parliament – and badly hurt my daughter Olive Scott-Young,
Erica’s mother
CHEATING Sally Bercow mocked her love rival yesterday for taking back her philandering husband, sniping: ‘More fool her.’
The Speaker’s wife said that she was ‘sorry’ for stealing Erica Scott-Young’s husband – John Bercow’s cousin Alan Bercow.
But she added cruelly: ‘He [Alan] can do whatever he wants and she just sucks it up. She’ll put up with anything.’
Defiant Mrs Bercow said she knew ‘devastated’ Erica would be bitter, but insisted: ‘It takes two to tango, and her husband Alan is just as guilty as me.’
Last night mother-of-three Mrs Bercow – whose affair with City lawyer Alan, 57, lasted a year – was described as heartless by Erica, who has allowed her errant husband back for the sake of their ten-year-old son.
But Erica’s outraged 82-year-old mother is not nearly so forgiving, calling the Speaker’s wife ‘a nutter’ who ‘loves the limelight while my daughter suffers’. She said Erica’s two brothers – one an Australian rugby player – were flying to London to sort things out.
It emerged on Sunday that Mrs Bercow, 45, had been having an affair with her husband’s cousin, who moved into her £1.2million mews house by the Thames in South London during the election campaign while MP John was away campaigning.
Twice-married Alan, a commercial litigation partner with City firm Stephenson Harwood, is said to have wooed Mrs Bercow over their ‘ mutual appreciation of fine wine’.
After Alan returned to his wife a week ago, Mrs Bercow – who has confessed to being a ‘terrible wife’ – declared herself ‘****ing heartbroken’, although she went on to call her cuckolded husband John her ‘ best friend’ and vowed to ‘love him for ever’.
Erica, a tax lawyer whose dignified reactions have been in stark contrast to Mrs Bercow’s outbursts, said yesterday: ‘I think you have to have a heart to have it broken.’
She added: ‘I just find this all very distasteful and I don’t want to make any more comment to feed this woman’s ego and narcissism.
‘I did not leak the story, that is not my style. I’m a lawyer, I deal with US tax, I’m not interested in being a media whore.
‘I have a good job, I have a son, a husband and I have always been brought up to do the right thing.’
But in another extraordinary rant, Mrs Bercow retorted: ‘I understand that she’s very bitter, yes, of course, and I’m sorry about that, but I wish she would stop to hurling insults. I’m really sorry for the pain I’ve caused her but it does take two to tango, you know. I don’t know why she should be turning her fire just on me.’
Appearing for a second day without her wedding ring, Mrs Bercow on crutches after breaking her leg in a ski accident – added: ‘I think she’s entirely justified to feel bitter. But her husband Alan is just as guilty as me. ‘Alan Bercow is the luckiest man in Britain really, because he’s proved consistently he can do whatever he wants and she just sucks it up. She’ll put up with any- thing. She’s a saint. If she’s decided to take Alan back, more fool her.’ Her voice cracking with emotion, she continued: ‘ She says she doesn’t want to be a “media whore” but she’s the one who’s talking to – the media and prolonging it and I don’t understand why.’ In Brisbane, Australia, where Erica grew up, her mother Olive Scott-Young said of Mrs Bercow: ‘She’s obviously a nutter. She’s brought disgrace on the British Parliament, running around having flings with other men – and badly hurting my daughter along the way.
‘What a shocking state of affairs. This woman should stick her head down in the ground and keep it there. She obviously loves being in the limelight, standing there enjoying it as the cameras go off around her, while my daughter suffers.’
Mrs Scott-Young said her two sons were flying to London. One of them is Sam Scott-Young, a 6ft 3in former Australian national rugby player once described as the team’s ‘enforcer’.
She said: ‘Both Erica’s brothers have been shocked by the treatment poor Erica has received by this very sordid business. They are arranging to fly to Britain to give her all the support she needs. You couldn’t wish for two stronger men to be at your side in times like this.’
Yesterday the excruciating soapopera took another twist when unlikely heartthrob Alan emerged from his £3million townhouse and posed solemnly for photographs without offering any explanations.
On Sunday, Mrs Bercow ranted about her ‘difficult’ 12-year marriage to the Speaker – with whom she has three young children – saying she ‘hated’ living with him in his grace and favour apartment in Parliament with ‘all those portraits of politicians from the ****ing 18th century’.
Yesterday she said: ‘I don’t know what I want, I don’t know what John wants. All I know is that I’m not going back to Parliament.
‘I will always love him, regardless of what happens. He’s a great man and I wish him well and we will always be friends, I hope.’ John Bercow has made no comment.