RYAN Giggs joked that his partner was a “bully” after showing her a photo of an injury she’d given him during “rough sex”, a court heard today.
The Man Utd ace – who has admitted he “never” stays faithful, either to former wife Stacey Giggs or other partners – said he and ex-girlfriend Kate Greville had a “mutual” interest in adventurous sex.
Messages between the couple were shown to jurors today. In one from 2019, Giggs showed Kate a photo of a mark on his neck. He captioned it: “Bully.”
She replied: “Oops, sorry baby. I had a bruise on my arm but you can’t see it because I was so brown.”
The former player said today that his remark was light-hearted – adding: “I was calling Kate a bully because I had a scratch on my neck from when we had sex.”
Another exchange from 2017 was also shown to the court. In one message, Giggs told Kate he was “scared of hurting her” when she asked for rough sex.
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The complainant had written: “I want you so badly. Rough xx.”
Giggs replied: “Do you? I’m scared of hurting you.”
Kate then messaged: “I want it to hurt a little, not in a weird way, I just want you to shock and surprise me.”
He said today: “My concern was just that I didn’t want to hurt her… We were going to have rough sex and there’s a fine line between rough sex and hurting Kate.”
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Giggs has previously told the court that while he is a “love cheat”, he has never behaved violently towards a woman.
PR exec Kate, 36, alleges Giggs headbutted her during the breakdown of their relationship after she learned he was cheating with 12 different partners.
The defendant admits his head may have “clashed” with hers during a “tussle” when she wouldn’t give his phone back.
However, he told cops: “I did not consciously try to hit Kate.”
The 48-year-old said tensions began to rise on a night out at Manchester’s Stock Exchange. He claimed Kate pushed a phone “in his face” to show him messages between himself and another woman.
He said she’d accused him of infidelity before, and admitted some of the accusations were “justified”, although claims she was wrong on the night of the incident.
‘BULLY’
Giggs then returned home to his £1.7million mansion in Worsley, Greater Manchester, but refused to let Kate and her sister Emma, 26, leave the property with their shared puppy Mac. He asked the sisters to go – but alleged they refused.
A fight then began as he believed Kate had his phone.
He told the court today: “As I went to grab the phone – I’m facing the cloakroom door, Kate has her back to the cloakroom door – we both slipped on the bags and I fell on Kate into the cloakroom.”
Asked if it was deliberate, he said: “No, we just totally lost balance because we slipped on the shopping bags.
“Kate ended up on her back, I was on top of her, rather than falling forward I went down… my head was on her waist.
“Then Kate just proceeded to kick me in the head.”
Yesterday in court:
- Giggs admitted he’s a “love cheat” who has NEVER stayed faithful
- He claimed he and ex Kate Greville would have “rough sex”
- The former footballer said he’s “unable to resist” an attractive woman
- However, he says he has never behaved violently towards any of his partners or any other woman
- He said he did not deliberately headbutt Kate, but their heads may have “clashed” during a “tussle” when she took his phone after allegedly learning he was cheating with 12 people
He said he was kicked about six or seven times before getting up and walking away.
But moments later the row began again after he grabbed Kate’s phone, believing she had his.
The situation became “aggressive” as she tried to wrench his hand from his pocket and the pair “clashed heads”, he said,
“It got more and more aggressive, a sort of tug-of-war, and we clashed heads,” he said.
“I could quite clearly see she was hurt. She sort of fell backwards.”
He said he hadn’t intended to cause Kate harm at any stage, and had never deliberately put his hands on her shoulders before headbutting her.
Giggs denies actual bodily harm, controlling and coercive behaviour, and assaulting Emma by beating her.
Kate alleged last week she’d been plotting her escape from their “toxic” relationship by secretly signing up for a new flat after learning of his affairs.
The couple were both married when they met each other and began an affair.
Kate left her husband six months after their romance began – but Giggs said he wanted to “have his cake and eat it” by maintaining a family life and continuing the affair.
He finally split with Stacey in May 2016 when she learned about Kate.
‘TOXIC’
But the pair didn’t last, and began to struggle last June before finally ending things in November after Kate accused Giggs of violence.
The complainant has claimed living with the footballer during lockdown was “utter hell” as she faced a “cycle of abuse” and became a “slave to his every need and every demand”.
Elsewhere, jurors have heard allegations Kate had told Giggs she was having “cancerous cells” removed in hospital – when she was instead getting her contraceptive coil taken out.
In one message, she said: “They couldn’t get it all in one go so need to go back on Tuesday.”
His lawyer Chris Daw QC asked: “Did she tell you the real reason she was going – to get her contraceptive coil removed?”
He replied: “No, she didn’t.”
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The pair “continued to have unprotected sex” up until Giggs was arrested on November 1 2021, it was said. At the time, he had no idea Kate’s coil had been removed, he said.
The trial at Manchester Crown Court continues.
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