Retired Australian cricket star Shane Warne and his ex-wife, Simone Callahan, have split again.
Callahan told an Australian weekly magazine that her attempt at a reconciliation with Warne was over after he mistakenly sent her an incriminating text message meant for his lover.
But Warne yesterday denied having an affair while he and his former wife were trying to get back together after their 2005 divorce and said they had finally parted ways last month.
From England, where Warne is playing county cricket, Warne was reported to have mistakenly sent Callahan a message saying: "Hey beautiful, I'm just talking to my kids, the back door's open."
Callahan, who was in Melbourne, said she fired a one-liner back: "You loser, you sent the message to the wrong person."
She told the magazine the message confirmed her suspicions that Warne was again cheating on her and that his lover had been to their London home before.
"He confirmed there was someone else and told me he was sorry. I gave it to him big time -- I left him in no doubt as to what I think of him and that was it," she said.
Callahan divorced Warne two years ago because of previous relationship scandals, including one involving text messages sent by Warne to an English nurse in 2001.
Warne, in a statement issued through his management, denied his ex-wife's version of the split.
"Unfortunately, I now find it necessary to release a statement due to Simone's latest paid, factually incorrect interview," he said.
"Simone and I finally separated nearly two months ago on Aug. 5, 2007 when we left Spain and before Simone's planned departure with the children back to Australia. Simone did not want to release a statement because she thought it was nobody's business but ours, and I agreed," Warne said.
"We also agreed to sit the children down on my return on Sept. 25 and let them know that we had separated, we agreed they should know before anyone else. We gave our relationship a go in the UK but it just wasn't working, so we agreed amicably to go our own way," he said.
Warne, 38, retired in January as Test cricket's greatest wicket taker with 708. He now plays county cricket for Hampshire.
After he and Callahan divorced in 2005, Warne said his womanizing was something he did to ease the loneliness of long cricket tours.
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