The estranged spouse of Australian ladies’s cricket vice-captain Ashleigh Gardner has gone nuclear after our exclusive about their break-up, naming one other Aussie participant because the supposed ‘different lady’ of their cut up and declaring there’s extra to the story.
Monica Wright has recognized Georgia Voll, 22, as the girl her 29-year-old spouse allegedly cheated with whereas Australia contested the ICC Women’s World Cup in India from September to November final 12 months.
She made the allegation on her public Instagram on Monday, posting an unflattering photograph of Voll alongside the phrases ‘that is who my spouse cheated on me with’.
Her declare has since been repeated broadly throughout social media and Reddit, and by media retailers resembling Yahoo and The Occasions of India, reaching an viewers of thousands and thousands. Neither Gardner nor Voll has denied the allegation within the 24 hours because it was made, regardless of the Every day Mail’s makes an attempt to achieve them for remark.
Cricket Australia additionally has not denied the affair allegations, regardless of the Mail’s repeated efforts to get a press release. Late final week, after we first contacted Richard Hinds, the revered former Fairfax sportswriter who now serves as Cricket Australia’s senior communications chief, he merely mentioned: ‘Yeah, no touch upon that.’
The Mail’s world-exclusive revealed on Monday had included particulars about Wright and Gardner’s cut up, together with how a dialog that they had at their Northern Seashores dwelling after the India tour successfully marked the top of the couple’s marriage.
Aussie cricket star Ashleigh Gardner (proper) is pictured along with her estranged spouse Monica Wright. Their marriage cut up was completely revealed by the Every day Mail earlier this week
On Monday, Wright took to her public Instagram account to sensationally accuse Gardner of dishonest on her along with her teammate Georgia Voll (pictured)
Wright linked to our story concerning the cut up however remarked that it was ‘too obscure’. The Mail had made the choice to not establish Voll on the time as a result of she and Gardner had not commented
Nonetheless, we omitted a number of key allegations on the time, having determined to not establish Voll as Gardner’s alleged affair associate as a result of neither occasion had publicly commented.
On condition that Wright has now recognized Voll, the Mail has determined to publish a few of these beforehand undisclosed claims, which had been relayed to us by a staff supply with data of the cut up.
Our insider alleged that in October final 12 months, simply months after Wright and Gardner’s wedding, Gardner and Voll started a relationship whereas in India for the World Cup.
‘Monica then visited to see her spouse for the World Cup,’ they mentioned.
‘It was just a little bit bizarre. Like, Monica sat subsequent to Georgia in some unspecified time in the future in time. She was being pleasant as she usually is.
‘It was like one thing was just a little bit off with Ash, however we thought it was due to the strain of the World Cup.’
The supply alleged that Gardner confessed to Wright concerning the affair after they returned to their Northern Seashores dwelling in Sydney following the World Cup.
‘After they received dwelling, [Gardner] goes, “Hey, look, can we speak?” And she or he sat her down and she or he goes, “I f**ked up,”‘ the insider claimed.
A supply informed the Every day Mail that Wright and Gardner (pictured) had been planning to start out a household earlier than the wedding fell aside after final 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup in India
Gardner (proper) is pictured with Voll (left) earlier than a match in 2023. The opposite participant pictured isn’t concerned within the interpersonal drama
Gardner allegedly didn’t wish to identify her affair associate, however after Wright pushed, the Sydney Sixers captain confessed about Voll.
‘[Wright] messaged Georgia right away. She did not reply ever,’ the supply mentioned.
‘It wasn’t a imply message or something like that, however she nonetheless simply did not have the balls to message Monica again.’
The insider mentioned Wright was ‘shattered’ and ‘distraught’ when Gardner got here clear concerning the alleged affair.
‘They had been about to go to the fertility clinic. That they had a reserving that Monica needed to cancel,’ the supply mentioned.
Voll, Gardner and Cricket Australia had been contacted for remark.
Voll (pictured ultimately 12 months’s Cricket Australia Awards) made her Take a look at debut for Australia in January final 12 months
Ashleigh Gardner and long-term associate Monica Wright had been engaged in 2024
Gardner is known to have moved out of the house the couple shared in November, with Wright nonetheless residing of their home.
‘Ash left at some point. Monica got here dwelling and the whole lot of Ash’s was gone, apart from the rings,’ mentioned the supply.
‘She left the marriage rings within the cabinet. Simply the field of wedding ceremony rings, and that was it.’
The Every day Mail understands that Gardner’s marriage breakdown despatched shockwaves by way of the Southern Stars as a result of Monica had been ‘across the staff for 5 years’ and ‘knew all of them’, based on the supply.
‘A few of them are actually good mates, and Monica has an excellent relationship with quite a lot of [players] nonetheless. A number of them are fairly upset,’ added the insider.
‘She had messages from practically all the ladies telling her how upset they had been about it.’
Our supply claimed a disclosure was made to Cricket Australia’s Nationwide Choice Panel (NSP) when Gardner was appointed captain of the Girls’s BBL staff Sydney Sixers in November, shortly after her cut up from Wright.
She was later made co-vice-captain of the nationwide staff initially of the 12 months.
Whereas the captaincy conferences had been taking place, the insider says that Gardner had tried to easy issues over with Wright.
Nonetheless, it’s understood the connection couldn’t be salvaged.
Gardner and Wright met on a courting app in 2020, with the couple later proposing to 1 one other in April 2024.
They tied the knot in a country ceremony within the Blue Mountains in April 2025.
Voll broke into the Aussie Take a look at facet in January final 12 months after debuting for the Brisbane Warmth within the Girls’s Massive Bash League in 2020.
