Police were called recently when Wayne Carey's now ex-fiancée Kate Neilson flew into a jealous rage outside the home the couple shared. She tells Ray Chesterton her side of the story.
It should have been the happiest time of her life, but Kate Neilson's engagement to Wayne Carey was destroyed when he committed the ultimate betrayal — apparently cheating on her just days after popping the question.
After a turbulent four-year relationship, it seemed the disgraced former AFL star was ready to settle down and change his wild ways when he surprised Kate with a stunning proposal last month.
Interrupting the model during a family dinner, Carey produced a bouquet of orchids and presented Kate with a choice of two elaborate engagement rings before begging her to spend the rest of her life by his side.
Swept off her feet, a besotted Kate readily accepted the unexpected proposal and rushed into the arms of her new fiancé. The romance, however, was short-lived.
Concerned by Carey's drinking and erratic behaviour following their engagement, Kate cut short a Melbourne business trip earlier this month to check on her beau, and found she had been locked out of the $3m mansion they shared on the Gold Coast — the home which she had helped to plan and decorate.
"When I got to the house at about 7am, my remote control wouldn't work on the garage and I thought that was suspicious," Kate says. "And when I went round to the front of the house, my key to the door didn't work. The locks had been changed.
"The whole house had been shut up, including closing out the view with the shutters. We never closed them. I rang the bell and the phone, but Wayne wouldn't answer."
But it was not until Kate scaled the property's fence and found another woman's clothes in the back of her car, which was hidden behind the gates, that her worst fears were confirmed.
