Andy Murray admits he made huge mistake after split from Kim
'It wasn't really me," the two-time Wimbledon champion admitted
Murray opened up on his relationship with Kim as part of his stage show
Andy Murray has opened up about the big mistake he made in the wake of his brief split with his partner Kim, admitting that it "wasn't really me".
The two-time Wimbledon champion has been married to Kim - the daughter of tennis coach Nigel Sears - since 2015, having met at a party during the US Open a decade earlier. The couple tied the knot in Murray's hometown of Dunblane after dating for nine years, but their relationship was not always smooth sailing.
In 2009, they shockingly split up, with Kim 'winning custody' of their dog Maggie as they looked set to go their separate ways,
However, they got back together six months later, with Murray admitting at the time that he "works better in a relationship".
But while they rekindled their relationship and went on to have four children together, the split saw the tennis star act highly out of character as he splashed the cash on a sports car.
Recalling the brief break-up during his Centre Stage show at the New Wimbledon Theatre earlier this week, Murray admitted: "'I bought a Ferrari. I called it Barry the Ferrari.
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"I thought it was cool, but it didn't last very long. The first day I took it out to drive, it got pulled over by the police because the insurance hadn't cleared.
"I got rid of it over a couple of months, because it wasn't really me.'
After getting back together with Kim, Murray admitted at the time: "I work better in a relationship. At the end of the day, especially if I've lost a match, I don't like talking about tennis, so it's nice to have someone to talk to about other stuff."
Since 2013, the couple have owned their wedding venue, the five-star Cromlix House Hotel, while Kim is also a talented artist and had a website called Brushes and Paws where she would share her portraits of animals and flowers.
Murray has frequently praised his wife for her love and support, as he told the New York Times during his playing career: "She doesn't like being in the newspapers, and people commenting on what she's wearing and how she looks, and those sorts of things.
"That's one of the things that I guess she's also sacrificed, a little bit, for our relationship, and I appreciate that a lot.
"You're in these huge cities meeting new people all the time and it would be easy to get your head turned," he added.
"But Kim's always been there for me. She really cares about me and helps with so many things. She always has. That's why we have such a great relationship."
However, while Kim has been Murray's number one supporter through his playing career and now in retirement, she has taken her passionate support too on occasion.
During her husband's Australian Open semi-final win against Tomas Berdych in 2015, the camera panned to her in the stands and she was infamously caught on live TV saying: "F****** have that you flash Czech f***".
Murray defended her following that match, saying: "When there's a lot of tension surrounding something, which you [the media] created [by referring to the fact his former assistant coach Dani Vallverdu then coached Berdych], then it's completely normal.
'The whole first set everyone was tight. My physical trainer, physio, I'm sure for Dani it was uncomfortable. Even Tomas, who very rarely says anything on the court, there was tension there for him, as well. Yeah, in the heat of the moment you can say stuff that you regret. And, yeah, that's it.'
Kim later poked fun at the moment as she appeared at the final in a t-shirt that read: 'Parental Advisory: Explicit Content'.
After Murray was awarded a knighthood in the Queen's New Year Honours the following year, he joked that his wife would have to mind her language upon becoming a Lady, as he laughed: "She's going to have to [do] no more swearing during my matches any more, for any of you who saw that a few years ago."
However, it appears Kim has not entirely abandoned the bad language, as Murray revealed a text exchange between him and his wife while on stage during Sunday night's show in Wimbledon.
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'At one of the shows we did a few nights ago, I messaged her during the half-time interval, asking, 'Is everyone OK?'," he said, as he revealed that Kim had been looking after their four-year-old daughter Lola at the time.
"She replied, 'It has been a f***ing shambles. Lola's being a t***. Hope the show's going better than this!".
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