Tess Crosley turns tables on Jules Neale in first comments about Lachie Neale cheating scandal

In her first public comments, Tess Crosley — the woman at the centre of the Lachie Neale cheating scandal — has accused Jules Neale of breaking an agreement.

The bombshell affair between Crosley and Lachie was made public at the end of 2025, sparked a high-profile breakup between Lachie and Jules, an endless stream of headlines, and forced Lachie to step down from his captaincy role at the Brisbane Lions.

Those headlines are continuing on the eve of the AFL finals with Jules speaking on a podcast this week and Crosley hitting back just hours later.

Jules said Crosley was her best friend and had a four-month affair with Lachie “behind my back”.

“I thought we sort of made the unanimous decision not to make any comments publicly at all,” Crosley told the The Debrief podcast on Wednesday.

“Only a couple of months ago, I also learned that somebody from the parties was sending private information to the journalists. And that was really hard.

“There’s so much more to this story that people don’t know, but I’m not going to bring others down just to make myself look better either.

Earlier, Jules had said she only found out that the affair had gone on for four months after she moved back to Perth.

“I was (first) told it was a kiss and that’s all it was,” Jules said on the Pretty Sure podcast.

“I actually packed up and left because of that and then when I got to Perth, it all came out and I found out that it was a lot more than that, and it had been going on for a lot longer.

“It was probably a good thing that I was interstate when I found out that had happened because it wouldn’t have been good if I was in the same town.

“The worst part of it is not even the cheating, it’s the lying after the lie. You question your whole reality after that.”

Jules called it “the worst feeling in the world’’ and revealed she first found out through a good friend.

“It came from another partner at the club to her. She called one of my close friends at the club. ‘This is the information I know and what I’ve seen. I don’t want to have to call Jules and tell her, can you do it? It would be better coming from you’.