Simone Callahan breaks down over her split with Shane Warne after he ‘gave into temptation’ and cheated with multiple women in England – as his daughter admits ‘her image of him was broken’

• Simone was humiliated by tabloid stories about her husband’s affairs in 2005
• She had flown to England with her three children to join the spin bowler, but left two weeks later in the wake of the revelations
• Shane, 52, confessed he was loyal to his wife in Australia but strayed on tour
• The affairs broke his marriage and shattered his image as a hero to his children

Shane Warne has revealed how his marriage disintegrated during the 2005 Ashes series after he was caught cheating on his wife with multiple women.

The legendary cricketer, 52, admits in the Amazon Prime documentary Shane how he drowned his sorrows alone in his hotel room, drinking until he was ‘crying on the floor’ after his family fled England in the wake of his tabloid sex scandals.

Warne’s ex-wife Simone Callahan also spoke about her own heartbreak after landing in the UK to find stories of her husband’s numerous infidelities splashed across newspaper front pages.

Remorse: Shane Warne has revealed how his marriage disintegrated during the 2005 Ashes series after he was caught cheating on his wife with multiple women

Callahan said she and the couple’s three children, Brooke, Jackson and Summer, ‘were going to set up a life in England’ and had uprooted their lives in Australia to do so.

Warne revealed that ‘unfortunately there was a story that broke of me with two women just before they landed… Simone read that story.’

Callahan described the litany of newspaper articles about her husband’s affairs as: ‘Shane’s with this [woman], Shane’s with this [woman], Shane’s with that [woman].’ 

Ex-files: Warne’s ex-wife Simone Callahan (left) also revealed her own heartbreak at landing in the UK to find stories of her husband’s numerous infidelities splashed across newspaper front pages. Pictured right: Warne admitting to giving in to ‘temptations’ in a 2005 interview

‘My life was pretty much turned on its head,’ the former model-turned-yoga instructor said. ‘It wasn’t even a two-week turnaround before I came back to Australia.’

The spin bowler ultimately owned up to his mistakes, confessing in an interview at the time: ‘I gave into temptation, gave into opportunity.’

Warne and Callahan’s children were not oblivious to the negative press, with their daughter Brooke admitting in the documentary the saga was ‘like my whole image of [dad] had been broken’.

Happier times: Callahan said she and the couple’s three children ‘were going to set up a life in England’ and had uprooted their lives in Australia to do so. Pictured here on their wedding day

Fairytale: Accompanying the walk down memory lane was a series of images from the couple’s lavish 1995 wedding

Left alone without his family, Warne turned to the bottle to drown his sorrows.     

After each day’s play, he would ‘go back to the hotel room, raid the minibar… sit in my room by myself and just drink’.

‘[I’d be] in my hotel room, crying on the floor… Just berating myself for some of the things I did,’ he admitted.

First love: Elsewhere in the Amazon Prime documentary, Warne made the stunning admission that his family was his second priority after cricket. Pictured in 2005

And criticism followed him to the pitch during the Ashes series where Australia would eventually lose to England 2-1 in what many regard as the greatest test series ever played between the two eternal rivals.

England’s rowdy cheer squad, the Barmy Army, taunted Warne during games with chants like, ‘Where’s your missus gone? Far, far away!’

It was a far cry from the fairytale beginnings of Warne and Callahan’s romance. 

‘We were very, very young,’ he recalled of their early days.

‘We were happy, we were in love. There was no drama, there was no high maintenance, everything was really easy.’

Accompanying the walk down memory lane was a series of images from the couple’s lavish 1995 wedding.

Casualties: Warne and Callahan’s children were not oblivious to the bad press, with their daughter Brooke admitting the saga was ‘like my whole image of [dad] had been broken’

Elsewhere in the documentary, Warne made the stunning admission that his family was his second priority after cricket.

‘Cricket was always my number-one priority. That doesn’t mean I didn’t value my family, but they were second,’ he said.

However, he chalked the mindset up to a necessary sacrifice for the good of his own game. 

‘To be as good as I was, I had to be selfish at times, and most of the time I was,’ said Warne, who bowled 708 Test wickets at an average of 25.41 during his career.  

Former spouses: Warne and Callahan were married from 1995 to 2005. They briefly reconciled after their divorce, but split for good in 2010. Pictured here in February 1995 in Melbourne

Exes: Warne later became engaged to British actress Elizabeth Hurley, but they called it quits in late 2013. Pictured together on November 8, 2013, in Sydney

During his years as a top-tier cricketer, Warne faced multiple sex scandals. 

Many of these incidents took place during his marriage to Callahan, to whom he was married from 1995 to 2005.

The pair, who share children Brooke, Jackson and Summer, briefly reconciled after their divorce, but split for good in 2010. 

Warne later became engaged to British actress Elizabeth Hurley, but they called it quits in late 2013.

Before and after: It was during his first trip to England in 1989 that Warne stacked on the kilos through a combination of beer and unhealthy eating

It was during his first trip to England in 1989 that Warne stacked on the kilos through a combination of beer and unhealthy eating.

‘Every day was ten pints, chicken and chips and playing cricket, for six months,’ recounted the father of three.

‘I went over [weighing] 79 kilos, six months later I went home [weighing] 99 kilos.’

But at the end of the day, Warne said he wouldn’t change anything about his life.

‘I like loud music, I smoked, I drank, I bowled a bit of leg spin, that’s me. I don’t have any regrets,’ he said.

Shane is available to stream on Amazon Prime from January 25

Family: But at the end of the day, Warne said he wouldn’t change anything about his life. Pictured with son Jackson and daughters Brooke and Summer 

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