Kate Greville broke down in a police interview where she described how Ryan Giggs twice 'dragged' her out of a hotel room and dumped her in the corridor naked in rows over him texting and flirting with women - including one occasion where he allegedly kicked her in the back and threw a laptop at her head, a court heard today.
The former Manchester United star, 48, is accused of headbutting his former girlfriend, 36, during a row at his £1.7million mansion after controlling and abusing her for three years.
Today the court was played Ms Greville's 105 minute interview with detectives in November 2020 after the alleged assault, where she described how they started having an affair having bonded over their unhappy marriages.
The PR woman said they were 'soul mates' and 'best friends' but the relationship would later become 'toxic' and 'coercive'.
The 'cycle of abuse' included an email titled 'blackmail' with a video 'we had done' and a threat to share it, she claimed, adding: He'd say: "I'm going to send these messages to people if you don't reply".'
Ms Greville also said: 'He wouldn't leave me alone, there was never a time when he didn't want to have sex'.
She alleged that in a London hotel room Giggs once 'kicked me in the back so hard that I flew off the bed and landed on the floor'. She then claims he 'dragged' her while naked into the suite area of the room.
'He got my bag with my laptop and threw it at my head', she told detectives, alleging that Giggs then locked her out of the hotel room naked, before letting her back in about 10 minutes later before having sex.
Ms Greville told police it happened when she accused Giggs of flirting with other women in her presence. She said: 'I don't know whether he did it to make me jealous. He would completely ignore me and he would speak to everybody else. He would also flirt with my friends'.
She claimed he told her that he would ask whether it 'bothered' her when she flirted with them. Later she challenged him and claimed that Giggs told her it was 'over' and that she should apologise.
'I ended up saying sorry because he made me feel that bad,' she said.
After challenging him about the alleged back throwing, she claimed Giggs replied: 'He was like 'yeah, because you accused me of flirting'.
'He didn't say you deserve it, but you made me do it. And then I felt like it was my fault'.
Recalling a row when they were staying in an Abu Dhabi hotel, she said: 'I asked him 'are you messaging a girl?' She said Giggs threw her out the room while she was naked and said: 'He flipped, went right up to my face and said 'how f***ing dare you, it's my daughter. We're done, we're over'.'
'He grabbed me by my wrist, so hard, literally dragged me to the lounge and dragged me off the floor. He threw all of my stuff, all of my make-up in the corridor and shut the door and wouldn't let me in', she said.
