Disgraced Joe Westerman’s wife reveals grovelling text messages he sent after vile sex act video went viral
THE wife of rugby league love rat Joe Westerman has revealed grovelling text messages she received from her cheating hubby after his vile sex act video went viral.
Lauren Westerman, 33, said the graphic seven-second clip, filmed in a darkened alley and uploaded to Twitter, had inflicted untold harm on her and their children.
The eldest two, aged nine and 14, have both tearfully endured the ordeal of watching the footage after cruel kids at school took delight in sending it to them on Snapchat.
Primary school teacher Lauren fears it will scar them all and revealed: “People used to look up to him but not any more.”
As Twitter erupted with news of her husband’s infidelity, Joe texted Lauren: “Words will never ever explain how sorry I am.
“I can’t explain what happened cos I physically can’t remember.
“It’s disgusting and I now have to live with it forever. Losing you and the kids is heart-breaking Lauren, you deserve so much better.”
Another message read: “You always said alcohol would f*** me up.”
Lauren replied to say it was a shame he had never listened, to which he replied: “Story of my life. I miss you like crazy. U was perfect.”
More followed, including: “I need you to know I can’t remember anything about that night. I look like a zombie.”
His club, who will play their Super League season opener against Hull on Sunday without him, launched an investigation into the video that concluded with him paying a “substantial fine” and agreeing to undertake community service to educate young people about the effects of alcohol.
Speaking of the day her husband disgraced himself, she told The Sun: “Everything between us was fine, he Facetimed me at 4pm on Saturday while he was out and then texted at 2.30am to say he couldn’t get in because he didn’t have his house keys.
“I was staying overnight at my mum’s house and he texted the next morning to say how rough he felt, but that was it.
“There was no inkling of what was to come.”
But by the end of the following day, Lauren’s world would come crashing down after Joe revealed the truth.
She explained: “Later that night, Joe was at our neighbour’s house and he said, ‘I need to talk to you’.
“His face just dropped and he looked totally different. He said, ‘I’ve done something last night . . . I’ve been videoed with a girl with my pants down’.
“I asked to see the video and he said he didn’t have it but that it was on Twitter.
“I went on to Twitter and saw it had been deleted and deleted loads of times and then about half an hour later it was posted again and that’s when I saw it.
“I just felt physically sick. My next thought was for my 14-year-old daughter and whether I could get to her before she saw it.
“But it was too late. She kept being added to these Snapchat groups from school and being sent the video.
“She left the groups but kept being added to more and it was sent to her again and again and again.
“Our nine-year-old was also sent a screenshot of the video in messages.
“That’s their dad and I feel so sorry for them that they’ve had to see something like that.
“Truth is, he only told me because it was on social media. But I’m glad it was found because the thought of kissing him after that just makes me feel sick.”
Lauren was also contacted by worried friends who had seen the video online and feared she was unaware.
She painfully told each one in turn: “It’s OK, I’ve already seen it.”
Lauren, who married Joe in 2014, revealed she immediately kicked him out of the family home but paused momentarily to show the awful memes featuring him that are now flooding social media.
Laura added: “She’ll never live it down. She’s lost her job and there are memes of her sweeping the internet. Her children are going to see that.
“I don’t know if our children will ever forgive their dad.
“There will be no more family dinners, no family days out.
“It’s all gone. The kids won’t be able to see him play again because of the chants he will now inspire.
“I just hope in time they can forget it.”