Lachie Neale, Jules Neale and Tess Crosley drama reignites as Caroline Wilson questions explosive tell-alls

Veteran AFL journalist Caroline Wilson has taken aim at Jules Neale and Tess Crosley over their duelling tell-all interviews about the Lachie Neale cheating saga, questioning why either woman decided to air the messy details publicly.

The two women separately broke their silence last week about the scandal that engulfed the Brisbane Lions star and the breakdown of his marriage to Jules during the off-season.

Jules went first, sitting down for a candid interview on the Pretty Sure podcast where she alleged her estranged husband had cheated on her with not only Tess, but at least two women.

“You just question everything. You’re like, who knows about this? Am I the only person that doesn’t know? Does everybody else know, and did the other players know? Did the other partners know?

“You kind of question your trust with everything and everyone at that point. It’s not a good feeling. But after talking to the other partners at the club, they all seemed very shocked, so I don’t think it was a known thing among them all, which is good because that would have been more salt in the wound to know everyone knew before you.”

Tess then gave her version of events to the Daily Mail’s The Debrief podcast, admitting she had made decisions she “deeply regrets” while claiming Lachie had “lovebombed” her during their affair.

Now Wilson has weighed into the very public airing of dirty laundry, and she is less interested in picking sides than questioning why it is being aired at all.

Speaking on Channel 7’s Agenda Setters on Monday, Wilson said she could not understand what either woman hoped to achieve by sharing such personal details, particularly on the eve of the AFL finals.

“Jules Neale and Tess Crosley both gave so-called tell-all interviews last week on the eve of the AFL finals campaign — a campaign in which Jules Neales’ estranged husband Lachie is expected to feature heavily,” Wilson said during her regular Caro’s Call segment.

“For the purposes of this ‘call’ I watched, read, listened to both of these interviews and I cannot understand why either woman chose to do it, who is advising them and what they thought it would achieve.

“I make absolutely no comment on the deeply private details that went so very public last week with all that extraordinary influencing detail.

“Nor do I have any clue on whether this will affect Lachie Neale or whether I care whether it affects Brisbane’s finals campaign. Nor do I have any particular sympathy for Lachie Neale at this stage. Nor am I taking sides in any way at all.

“But I say again to these two women, who by increments last summer broke the story themselves on social media of this big marriage break-up — why, in an era, where social media and their hits reign supreme, why they chose to communicate their private lives in this way.”

Wilson’s take certainly got people talking — although plenty online were not buying what she was selling.