Natasha Gascoine: Why I"m giving my marriage to Andy Powell another go

The wife of former Wales rugby international Andy Powell, who trashed the star’s car and house after their marriage broke down, has revealed she has given him another chance.

Natasha Gascoine, 25 – who sprayed the words “scumbag” and “cheat” on the rugby league player’s home and pink Mercedes earlier this year – told WalesOnline she has decided to take Powell back and that things had been going “okayish” so far.

Pregnant Natasha says the former Wigan Warriors man is excited over the birth of their first child after she suffered three agonising miscarriages in less than a year.

She said: “After the whole thing with the press last time he was ringing me and texting me and I ignored it. I miscarried for the third time (at the beginning of April).

“A few weeks after we thought, ‘We’ll put everything behind us and move forward’. It took me a while to accept because I was still really angry.

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“He said he would do various things to make it up to me and we’d get back on track and see each other here and there and now I’m pregnant again.”

But Natasha said the 32-year-old rugby star has been busy “networking” either at “one end of the country or the other” and she has not seen as much of him as she would like.

Natasha and Powell got married after a whirlwind romance – they met in March 2012 and were engaged by June.

She said she had been in a four-year relationship before they met and was looking for someone “a bit spontaneous, crazy and wild”.

Natasha’s sister Nadia tweeted Powell, who replied asking for her number. She said the first year of their lives together had been blissful.

They were married in the church next to Natasha’s family home in Llantristant, Usk, in May last year and then flew out to Majorca with a hundred family friends for a blessing ceremony.

But their marriage broke down in March when Natasha accused Powell of cheating on her in March after she received a message via Facebook.

Natasha and Andy on their wedding day

“When I sent him that message he never acknowledged it,” she said. “He never said anything and just kept ignoring it and that’s when I got angry and vandalised his car.”

Natasha put up the pair’s wedding memorabilia and Powell’s rugby playing kit for sale on eBay, saying all the money raised would be going to Women’s Aid and the Samaritans.

And she said she had a mini-celebration with her sister as she burned Powell’s clothes.

In response, Powell said he “hated” her and “could never forgive her”.

The break-up saw her post what she called “pretty scummy” sexually explicit texts she had received from Powell on her Twitter feed.

Natasha, who claims Powell “wasn’t there for me when I really needed him” during her three previous pregnancies, said she posted the messages so he would know better than to send any more explicit texts.

Powell later said he sent the texts because he had “the morning horn”.

He said: “I gave her the dirty talk. It wasn’t much worse than what anyone else would give.”

Now six weeks into her pregnancy, Natasha says she feels “extremely stressed and nervous” over her latest attempt to have a baby.

Her anxiety is heightened by the uncertainty surrounding Powell’s future playing career, she says.

Powell has had a series of problems off the field. He left top side Wasps after a bar brawl in 2010 during which he was knocked unconscious.

He was arrested in 2011 for driving on the hard shoulder of the M4 in a golf buggy.

His move from rugby union to rugby league ended after just five games for Wigan Warriors when he picked up a neck injury.

Office worker Natasha, who is currently living at home with her parents in Monmouthshire, added: “He’s able to go on all these trips around the country while I’m at home stressing and worried and feeling really anxious. I’m just hanging onto his word all the time.”

But Natasha is hoping that Powell will be able to put his demons behind him.

She said: “Unless he was to get his career back on track – or some kind of job – I think he’s always going to be distracted. He knows a lot of people, he likes to socialise.”

She admits she still has “trust issues” with Powell, but insists he has never been attracted to rugby groupies throwing themselves at him.

“I have heard from a few good friends that he’s had women sitting on his lap and he’s been pushing them away. He’ll even leave a club, because he’s never liked women pestering him.

“If he was to react back on that and I found out about that then obviously I would be concerned.”

Wales on Sunday contacted Andy Powell but he didn’t respond to our messages.

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Natasha Gascoine: Why I"m giving my marriage to Andy Powell another go