The public’s hatred turned me to drink... I wanted to kill myself
Posted Saturday, April 07, 2012 by The Sun
Abuse ... Imogen was heckled in the street over Giggs
Giggs was swiftly named on Twitter as the mystery married man, then outed in the House of Commons by MP John Hemming under the legal protection known as parliamentary privilege.
Giggs eventually gave up his anonymity in the High Court in February. In a shocking twist, it was revealed that the dad of two had also betrayed his wife Stacey Cooke by having an eight-year affair with his brother Rhodri’s wife, Natasha.
At the height of the drama, a despairing Imogen was pictured sobbing on the pavement.
Ironically, although she was single and the footballer was married and cheating, she was the one who got the worse abuse, suffering taunting on the street as well as online.
She says: “I’ve had a lot of abuse in the past year and I still get it now sometimes. I’d get called ‘sl**’ when I was out.
“People can say what they want on Twitter when they’re sitting behind a laptop. It’s people who haven’t got lives.
“I had death threats. I had people saying, ‘I’m going to shoot you in the head, I’m going to shoot your mum, I’m going to cut up your nephew’. It was really scary. I don’t know how anyone can be so vicious.
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