Jules Neale was spotted back in Brisbane on Tuesday in the wake of the split from her AFL star husband Lachie Neale.
After loading her car with moving boxes, the WAG dropped into a Norman Park café for a coffee.
And now a painful detail has emerged about her dramatic public appearance – with staff members at the eatery reporting they saw the 35-year-old blonde beauty fighting back tears.
A worker told the Advertiser that Jules was ‘crying’ inside the café, before making a hasty exit.
Video shared later to TikTok shows the hairstylist covering her eyes before escaping in a car.
Rumours broke in December that her marriage to the Brisbane Lions star was on the rocks, with Jules taking to social media to write that she had been ‘betrayed’.
Jules Neale (pictured) was spotted back in Brisbane on Tuesday in the wake of the split from her AFL star husband, Lachie Neale
After loading her car with moving boxes, the WAG dropped into a Norman Park café for a coffee, where workers say she broke down in tears
Jules reportedly returned to her native Western Australia to be with family over Christmas, ahead of returning to Brisbane this week.
Meanwhile, the garage of her Brisbane home was packed to the rafters with moving boxes while a box trailer sat outside the house, waiting to cart the boxes away.
The sighting comes after the heartbroken WAG’s car was filled to the brim with moving boxes on Monday as she was seen for the first time since news of her high-profile marriage breakdown became public.
Accompanied by her father during a trip to a Carindale, Queensland shopping centre, Jules appeared tense – and her wedding finger was notably missing a gold band.
Jules’ father helped her load her sizeable cases into the back of the SUV, which was already heaving with freshly taped-up moving boxes and large stuffed toys encased in protective plastic bags.
The boxes were marked with ‘fragile’ labels and the logo of Ben Moves Brisbane – described as ‘Brisbane’s most trusted furniture removalists.’
It comes as the Mormon missionary at the centre of AFL golden boy Lachie’s marriage split has stunned her conservative church by openly embracing the media glare.
Married mother-of-one Tess Crosley, 29, was seen without her wedding ring on Monday as she collected some possessions from her family home in Brisbane.
Pictured: The Grumpy Monkey Coffee Nook in Norman Park Brisbane
Pictured: Jules and husband Lachie on the red carpet in September in happier times
She is understood to be staying with her parents at their Gold Coast home as the row rages over her role in the love split between Neale and his wife, who was previously best friends with Crosley.
Rather than retreat from view, Crosley posted bikini shots on Instagram, stunning devout members of her Church of Latter-day Saints faith.
Her Christmas Day ‘thirst trap’ snaps from an exclusive retreat in Byron Bay’s hinterland have sparked outrage among traditionalists.
Jules recently revealed the breakdown of her marriage – denying news reports she was ‘working through’ issues with Lachie and instead alleged that she had been ‘betrayed in the most unimaginable way’.
She did not specify what that entailed.
‘I want to make it very clear that I am not ‘working through’ anything,’ she wrote. ‘I have been betrayed in the most unimaginable way.
‘All I can do now is to heal and do what’s best for my children,’ she continued.
Within hours of posting the statement, Jules deleted every photo of Lachie from her Instagram account. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Tess.
Neither party has made any public comment on the situation.
Jules and Lachie share two children, four–year–old daughter, Piper, and son Freddie, born in December 2024.
