Ryan Giggs ‘used psychological game’ from self-help book to ‘reel in vulnerable girlfriend’ – Daily Mail

Ryan Giggs ‘used a psychological game’ from the self-help book ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ to ‘reel in vulnerable girlfriend Kate Greville’, a court has heard.

The former Manchester United star, 48, is on on trial accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville and her sister Emma. 

Ms Greville told day three of the trial today that she was not happy and was stuck in a ‘controlling marriage’ when she notice Giggs was interested in her in 2013.

She said Giggs used her name a great deal, a technique she had read and learned about from the popular psychology book.

Chris Daw QC, representing Giggs, asked: ‘The impression you give is you only really had an affair with Ryan because you were unhappy and he basically reeled you in?’

Ms Greville replied: ‘I’m not saying it was all one-sided. I was fully involved in that. 

‘There was things about him that definitely were luring me into a relationship.’

The barrister added: ‘The truth is it’s a complete fiction Ryan was using psychological techniques on your vulnerabilities. It’s just rubbish?’

Ms Greville said: ‘Absolutely not. I felt like he was using techniques. I was vulnerable, that’s a fact. 

‘I was in a controlling relationship. That’s a fact.’

The former Manchester United star (pictured) is on on trial accused of controlling and coercive behaviour

Ms Greville told day three of the trial today that Giggs used her name a great deal, a technique she had read and learned about from the popular psychology book

She also today told jurors that she was initially attracted to Giggs ‘not because of his money and not because he was a footballer’ but because he was ‘very inspiring’.

In cross examination by the former Manchester United star’s lawyer, Chris Daw QC, Ms Greville was asked: ‘Did you tell your friend you weren’t going to walk away from Mr Giggs with nothing?’

Ms Greville confirmed: ‘Yes.’ However the PR executive said she was not after compensation from the former Wales midfielder. Asked if she was seeking damages from the 48-year-old, she said: ‘Absolutely not.’

Ms Greville, 36, also told the court how she and Giggs were both still married when the affair started, but, ‘if anything was put off by the fact that he was a footballer.’

The barrister asked her: ‘Did Ryan’s public profile and wealth have anything to do with your interest in him?

Ms Greville said: ‘He was very inspiring, I looked up to him in terms of a business sense, who had worked hard…’

‘He was more attractive because he was successful and had done well for himself, not because of his money and not because he was a footballer, if anything that put me off, him being a footballer.’

She admitted to having sex with the former Manchester United star two months before leaving her husband, who she alleged in court was ‘controlling’.

Ms Greville claimed initially her and Giggs’ relationship had been ‘amazing’, but had then deteriorated before becoming ‘relentlessly awful’ while they lived together during the Covid pandemic.

She said Giggs preyed on her ‘vulnerability’ and damaged relations with her friends and family and that she became ‘a slave to his every need and every demand’.

Ms Greville told the court Giggs would sometimes show her affection but was ‘aggressive’ a lot of the time and would sometimes use violence against her.

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs arriving at Manchester Crown Court today

‘He damaged relationships with my friends and isolated me from certain people. He had a negative impact on relations with my family. ‘

Asked about her claims of violence against her, Ms Greville, who today told the court she is now the mother of 12-week baby with her new partner, said: ‘It wasn’t consistent violence, he wasn’t regularly violent but there were times in our relationship when he was violent.’

Giggs denies all charges against him.

The trial continues. 

Ryan Giggs trial – A summary: What the jury have heard so far

• Jurors were today told how an email sent by Ryan Giggs to Kate Greville entitled ‘Blackmail’ that she believed was a sex tape actually showed her singing Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’. She told a court she had not opened the attachment.
• The court also heard how Giggs’s daughter discovered her father’s affair with Ms Greville after finding a digital Valentines Card sent to the soccer ace. Liberty Giggs found the Valentines message on her father’s phone in February 2018.
• Ms Greville, meanwhile, batted-off suggestions she was a ‘gold digger’ from the footballer’s legal team after it was revealed she told a friend she was ‘not going to walk away’ from their ‘violent’ relationship ‘with nothing’;
• In cross examination by the former footballer’s lawyer, Chris Daw QC, she rejected that she was seeking compensation from the star, saying: ‘Absolutely not’;
• Ms Greville admitted to having sex with the former Manchester United star two months before leaving her husband, who she alleged in court was ‘controlling’;
• Ms Greville claimed initially her and Giggs’ relationship had been ‘amazing’, but had then deteriorated before becoming ‘relentlessly awful’ while they lived together during the Covid pandemic;
• Giggs is accused of having ‘full-on’ relationships with eight other women during his his ‘toxic’ six-year on-off relationship with Kate Greville;
• Ms Greville told jurors she found evidence of his infidelity on an iPad and then confronted Giggs;
• Ms Greville said she decided to leave Giggs while he was away managing Wales – and would move into a new flat;
• She told the jury that when she attempted to leave the ex-Manchester United star over his ‘controlling’ behaviour, Giggs ‘bombarded’ her with up to 50 messages an hour and threatened to ruin her career;
• The court heard that in one instance when she stopped answering him, he flew out to where she was staying in Dubai and said to her ‘let’s start a family, you are the only person I want to be with’; 
• She told jurors that during two rows Giggs threw her naked out of their hotel room – and on one occasion threw a laptop at her head;
• Ms Greville also claimed the former Wales winger ‘randomly’ sent a naked photo of himself to her, that she feared he could post ‘something of a really private nature’ on a work WhatsApp group and that he would call her by the name of his ex-wife, Stacey, as his ‘ultimate insult’;
• She also claimed Giggs would treat her ‘like his housemaid or his mum’, telling her she was stacking the dishwasher the wrong way, making the beds incorrectly, or complaining ‘if his tea was not ready on time’;
• Ms Greville says that during a row in at his £1.7 Manchester home in November 2020 Giggs ‘come out of nowhere’ and ‘deliberately headbutted’ her;
• Giggs is in on trial accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville and her sister Emma. He denies all charges.

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