Richard Keys’ wife insists she is ‘100 per cent positive’ that her ex-Sky love-rat husband’s affair with daughter’s pal caused disease to return
Julia Keys, 59, said she first had suspicions during research for a book on cheating husbands called Manscript
THE wife of TV love-rat Richard Keys said yesterday she fears his affair made her cancer return.
Julia Keys said blood tests found cancer markers last year — after she hoped a 2009 neck tumour op had beaten the disease.
Julia, 57, who has filed for divorce, said: “I think stress played an enormous part. Richard knows this.
“He’s said he’s extremely sorry his actions may have contributed to my recent diagnosis. But I remain 100 per cent positive.”
She discovered the ex- Sky Sports host’s fling with Lucie Rose, 28 — a pal of daughter Jemma’s — last May.
Romance counsellor Julia also told yesterday how she posed as her hubby, 59, to swap texts with his lawyer lover.
One message from Lucie while Richard slept read: “Are you OK?”
Mum-of-two Julia, of Berkshire, revealed: “I wrote, ‘No’, I’m not’.
“The response was, ‘You sound sad. I wish I was there to give you a cuddle’. We went on messaging.”
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Julia felt betrayed after standing by him over his 2011 Sky axe for sexism — and moving to Qatar with him for his £420,000 TV job.
She said: “I was angry, upset and hurt that he would do this knowing how I’d torn myself in two to be everything to him.”
He pledged last May to end the affair.
But Julia learned last December he was still seeing Lucie.
The lovers were pictured leaving a London hotel together in January.
Julia said she first had suspicions during research for a book on cheating husbands called Manscript and how they tend to guard their phones.
She told on Sunday: “They behave in a very predictable way. I thought, ‘Hang on, I think something’s going on with Richard’.”