The former Manchester United and Wales footballer said he was never loyal to any of his partners but denied using coercive or controlling behaviour. Giving evidence for the first time at his trial, Giggs, 48, was asked if he had ever lied to his ex-wife Stacey Giggs and ex-partner Kate Greville about his infidelity. He replied: “Yes. More than once. Many times.” Asked by his barrister, Chris Daw QC, if his reputation as a “love cheater” was justified, Giggs said: “Yes.” Asked if he could resist women if he was attracted to them, despite being in a relationship, he said: “No.” Giggs told jurors at Manchester Crown Court that he had never physically assaulted or used coercive and controlling behavior towards women. He has denied deliberately headbutting Greville and elbowing her younger sister in the face during a drunken row at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on November 1, 2020. The former Wales manager also denies manipulating Greville over a three-year period before their split. Greville, 36, has accused Giggs of making her life “absolute hell”, isolating her from friends and family and destroying her confidence during their “toxic” relationship. Giggs described how he “fell in love” with Greville after meeting her while she was working as a PR person for his hospitality business with Gary Neville. They were both married at the time, she said, but they began an affair and within three or four months she left her husband for Giggs, who left his wife several months later. Giggs told the jury: “My wife and I had problems. I cheated on my ex-wife, which was quite a public affair. “We got through it and things were good and it was a part of my life where I was finishing football and going into a coaching career which was more hours, more time away from home and away from family and Stacey. “I wasn’t giving Stacey the attention she deserved. Eventually we were more and more unhappy. It gradually became more and more difficult.” Giggs was questioned about an incident in which he allegedly threw Greville naked from a hotel room in Dubai in September 2017. Greville claimed Giggs dragged her across the floor of his hotel room before throwing her belongings down a hallway. Giggs denied any “physical element” to the row and said he started packing Greville’s suitcase after telling her she didn’t want to stay with him. He said he finally let her sleep in his bed. She said they then had sex. Asked by Daw what kind of sex they had, Giggs said: “Sex that we would have quite often, which could get rough – but not weird, just rough sex.” Giggs’ defense is that Greville suffered bruising to her wrist due to rough sex – not, as the prosecution claims, because he grabbed her arm during an argument. Earlier on Tuesday, the court heard that Giggs told police after his arrest for allegedly headbutting Greville in November 2020 that “during that fight my head collided with hers”. He added: “I’m not sure if it was the face or the head, but I’m sure it wasn’t intentional.” He told detectives in a prepared statement that he felt “extremely upset, hurt and emotional” that Greville had claimed he was coercive and controlling. Giggs claims to police that it was Greville who tried to “control our relationship”. She said: “He ordered me to text certain women he falsely accused me of having a relationship with… He dictated the content of the messages and monitored me while I was sending them.” The trial continues.
