Used car dealer Carl Woods said he busted Katie speaking to the Premier League star moments before the accident in Turkey in 2020, which left her in a wheelchair.
Speaking from his home in Essex, Carl said: “Katie told everyone the accident happened at a theme park — and then she said it happened when she was mucking about pretending to be a horse.
“It actually happened because she went wild after I confronted her about cheating on me with a very famous footballer who plays for England.
“She was gutted that I’d busted her.â€
Carl, speaking extensively for the first time about their tumultuous relationship, said he caught Katie cheating on him with a total of four men — all younger than her.
And he claimed her behaviour wore him down so much that the best period of their four-year Ârelationship was when she was in a wheelchair following the accident — as she was unable to betray him.
Carl, 35, started dating mum-of-five Katie, 46, in June 2020 after meeting her at kebab restaurant Sheesh in Chigwell, Essex.
They went to Turkey the following month, where they had dental veneers implanted at a private clinic.
And Carl said things were going well until Katie got “really, really drunk†four days into the break and he caught her trying to send videos to the high-profile footballer.
Carl said: “It wasn’t so much a romantic break as I was in a lot of pain with my mouth.
“We’d only been together six weeks but it was her suggestion.
“Everything with Katie moves very quickly.
“You get wrapped up and it’s a whirlwind.
“You just fall madly in love.
“The night she smashed her feet she was really, really drunk.
“I had caught her messaging a Premier League footballer as she had tried to send videos to him while we were at the bar and was waving her phone around.
“She was very sloppy because of the booze and that’s how I found out.
“Before that night, I had seen him try to FaceTime her when we were out of the dental clinic and she had cancelled it.
“When I confronted her she went wild as she’d been busted.
“She ran out of the room and went down the fire exit stairs, across the reception of the hotel, and straight out of the hotel car park.
“She didn’t mean to do it but she was running like a lunatic and she went off the edge.
“She ran through the bush and the ground disappeared beneath her.
“That’s how she really did her feet.â€
Carl, who appeared on Love Island in 2016, added: “We spent all night in the hospital and she sobered up and told me that she didn’t think I liked her and that it wouldn’t happen again.
I had caught her messaging a Premier League footballer as she had tried to send videos to him while we were at the bar and was waving her phone around
Carl Woods
“That should have been enough for me to leave but I gave her the benefit of the doubt and stayed as it was so fresh and I thought OK it could be just a one-off.â€
Katie had to have an eight-hour operation to fuse the bones in her feet back together.
Doctors put both legs in plaster and she was forced to use a wheelchair for six months.
Carl became Katie’s carer and he said those months were the best of their relationship “because she couldn’t cheat†on him.
He said: “She was wonderful.
“I can’t say she wasn’t.
“She moved in with me straight away and my life went on hold so I could take her to her hospital appointments and look after her 24/7.
“I bathed her, carried her everywhere, I was doing everything.
“Then she got better and it all went downhill from there.â€
Carl, who proposed to Katie in 2021, said there were numerous times he thought she had cheated on him but he had no evidence to confront her so brushed it away.
She was wonderful. I can’t say she wasn’t. She moved in with me straight away and my life went on hold so I could take her to her hospital appointments and look after her 24/7
Carl Woods
He said: “We were in the middle of filming Mucky Mansion, a reality show about renovating her house.
“I was at hers building beds.
“She was meant to come back and she didn’t so I went home and I got a text in the middle of the night saying she loved me.
“A few months went past and I found out she had cheated on me that night.
“I got down on my knees and begged her to be truthful.
“I then got in my car and left.â€
Carl said Katie bombarded him with text messages pleading with him to forgive her.
He said: “She said she was so sorry and it was just a drunken s**g.
“I went back and I thought she was going to be remorseful but then she said to me coldly: ‘You knew I was sh****g him anyway.’
“We sorted things out and she said we would have a baby together and she was going to change.â€
Carl and Katie just before they split last December[/caption]
Carl said there were numerous times he thought Katie had cheated on him but he had no evidence to confront her so brushed it away[/caption]
Carl with Sun on Sunday Chief Reporter Scarlet Howes[/caption]
But last year Katie cheated again, this time with a 23-year-old footballer.
It was Katie’s ex-hubby Kieran Hayler, 37, who told Carl about it after she used a family member’s Instagram account to message him.
He said Katie promised not to see him again but he walked in on her FaceTiming him halfway through an OnlyFans shoot.
Carl said: “Katie lied and said it was her therapist.
“I asked her ‘Do you get naked for all your therapists?’â€
Carl said she even cheated on him in Thailand, a month after he found out about the second footballer, when he flew home following a row.
He said: “I found out about him because his wife messaged me on Instagram.
“He was a German guy.
“She liked to send OnlyFans pictures so no one could prove she was cheating.
“She did a lot to cover her tracks.â€
She was being unbearable. I couldn’t take it any more. It went from her telling me we are soulmates and we’ll be together forever to me getting in the car and never coming back
A judge reprimanded her for going to Turkey to get a £10,000 facelift.
But Carl said: “She doesn’t lose sleep over anything.
“It’s almost admirable how nothing affects her.
“She was at home and a bailiff turned up and handed her a bill for £600,000 and she still slept soundly like a baby.
“She would get it and think, ‘Oh well,’ and go back to sleep.
“She wouldn’t think anything about going to Turkey as she would say, ‘What’s the point in me coming back as I’m just going to get arrested?’.
Katie moulds herself into your perfect woman so that you’re always chasing that dream — but it’s a façade. I don’t know who the real woman is
Carl Woods
But Carl said Katie was still messaging him while she was dating JJ and left him WhatsApp voice notes telling him that they needed to be apart but she still loved him.
He said: “We watched that series of Married At First Sight and she asked me if I knew him as he was an Essex boy.
“She was lining him up.
“I wasn’t shocked when I heard they were together as she had made that comment.
“She went skiing with him on the day of my birthday in February but she was messaging me to the lead-up of the trip.
“Even on Valentine’s Day she sent me texts.
“Katie moulds herself into your perfect woman so that you’re always chasing that dream — but it’s a façade.
“I don’t know who the real woman is.
“She would sit there and Google herself looking at pictures of her younger days.â€
Katie recently appeared on Louis Theroux’s podcast and hit out at both Carl and Kieran.
She also discussed her time in The Priory, which she first checked into in 2020, saying she had “slowly been going off the rails for ten yearsâ€.
But Carl said he is “broken†by the relationship.
He said: “I wanted it to work so much but I became a shell of myself.
“I resented myself and I became so miserable.
“I really did love her but she broke me down.
“I do hope she does find happiness and I pray to God she finds the right man for her.â€
A spokesman for Katie said: “Another ex cashing in on Katie.
“For someone who didn’t want to be famous, he’s not doing a very good job at it.â€