Content creator Izzy Armitage seemingly takes aim at ex-boyfriend and AFL superstar Bailey Smith
AFL superstar
apart with a stinging rant on her podcast.
Content creator Izzy Armitage didn't use Smith's name, but suggested that the 24-year-old heart-throb cheated on while in Adelaide for a football game, and that he had put her 'through the f****** wringer 100 times over'.
7NEWS is not suggesting any of the accusations are true, merely this is what Armitage said on her podcast Hear Me Out.
Armitage opening up on her past relationship comes just days after Smith's love life has been suddenly thrusted into the spotlight, following
a close encounter with fitness influencer Tammy Hembrow on the Gold Coast
.
Witnesses claimed they saw Hembrow and Smith holding hands and kissing for hours, while another report said they were seen together again after
Geelong
defeated Essendon last Friday.
Armitage said: 'Obviously I was previously tied to him and it is going to be something people are aware of and a lot of the time it's my search history.
'But I'm not out here regularly constantly making videos about this man.
'I spent a really long time trying to protect him in the sense of not being fully open on here about what he'd done to me. And how it all went down. Just because there is still that level of respect for someone you loved. When did I get any of that respect back even when we were together?
'The gloves are off. Game on.'
She also said she had been told that Smith believed that she was using him for 'clout'.
'It's been a really long time and I just want people to know it's not (about) clout for me, it's more just this is my experience of what I went through and, honestly, I think it plays a huge part as to why I'm still single,'' she said.
She said she wanted 'everyone to know that boy put me through the f****** wringer 100 times over ...
'Because I'm an empathetic person, they could just cry and apologise and you put it up to mental health (issues), them being in a bad place, and you're like, 'It's OK, I forgive you.' Because someone you love is convincing you of all these things.
'The manipulation was on a level I've never had.
'I'm like he's in a bad place, that's why he's done these things. OK I'll try again.'
And after friends convinced her that Smith had cheated on her in Adelaide, she said he heart sank and 'it's very much in denial at this point'.
'I could have probably just believed it at that moment in time, but I'm so in love at this point, I need more (time) to allow myself to believe this,'' she said.
'In hindsight never in my life growing up did I think I'd be in a relationship where I would potentially accept someone cheating on me until you're faced with it head on.
'It's a really scary moment for me that I wasn't as strong as I thought I was.
'(My friends) didn't want to tell me or call me because they know I would freak out.
'(I said to him), 'You f****** cheated on me,' (and) he's like, 'No I didn't'.
'It ends up being a 'me' problem. The way it ends up being spun, I'm in the wrong here, I ended up probably ... apologising. He just got angry, it was a sh**show, he ends up crying …'
She said he would claim that people lied about him 'all the time'.
'In my heart of hearts I didn't (believe him) but I didn't know what to do and I didn't yet know in that moment whether I was ready to let it go.'
Armitage said she had gone through 'two really hard relationships' where her partner was not loyal to her.
But she said she kept her dignity.
'Never once have I named the guy. Even now I'm still not saying his name,' she said.
'Even now all the submissions I get are what happened between you and so and so. That is constant and always will be.
'I only have so much give in me before I snap. After what I've done for that guy, there you go. That is exactly how it went down. This makes no difference in my life. Good riddance, wish you the best.
'Moving forward I have learnt so much in those relationships and I believe I will not make the same mistakes again. Everyone was like why would you date him. I knew him as kids, we grew up together. I've known him for so long, it's going to be different. It never is.'
Smith has had a history of mental health issues.
'It's (mental health issues) obviously very topical at the minute, and I think always is in sport and life in general. So it's good that we're starting to shed more light on it, even though it's probably coming to the floor because of some pretty tragic stuff happening,' Smith said in May this year.
'I've worked on myself a lot to where I sought out some professional help; I still see my psych to this day ... but yeah, it was a pretty tough time, especially when you've got (the) media burning some of your relationships, even though they shouldn't be burnt, and continue to be burnt.
'I wouldn't change anything (and) how it all happened, but it was a pretty lonely period (when he went through rehab after an ACL injury).'
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