This is the woman who today blows the whistle on Ulster soccer's one-goal wonder Matty Burrows. She's Claire Rees, his former partner, and mother of the couple's baby boy.
And today she reveals that the ex-Glentoran striker who shared the world sports spotlight with global soccer superstars like Ronaldo and Messi:
- Filmed himself having sex with Thai hookers.
- Regularly cheated on her and hit the booze.
- And played Russian roulette with the lives of her and their unborn child - because she believed he may have caught a sexually transmitted disease because of his wild sex life.
ONE SHOT wonder Matty Burrows played Russian roulette with the health of his unborn child. Today the Sunday World strips bare the one time pin up boy of the Irish League and unmasks him as a seedy sex tourist, prepared to expose his partner and unborn son to sexual disease.
We can reveal the 28-year-old from Bangor was a regular visitor to the fleshpots of Thailand, even filming himself have sex with Thai hookers. The former Glentoran star had rubbed shoulders with the glitterati of world football - Ronaldo, Messi and co - after being nominated for a wonder goal scored while playing for the Glens.
But the reality of Burrows's life lies a million miles from the top table of the beautiful game. In an exclusive interview former partner Claire Rees lifts the lid on living with a man who could have put their unborn son at risk by exposing himself to the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease.
She also reveals he filmed himself having sex with Thai hookers, regularly cheated on her, and waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against her forcing her to take out a non-molestation order. And she is convinced he contracted an STD and kept it from her.
Burrows got a glimpse of the big time when in October 2010 he scored a spectacular 18 yard back-heeled goal for the Glens, earning him international recognition and a nomination for the Puskas Award, for the "most beautiful goal of the year." He shared the stage with some of the world's greatest stars during a glittering ceremony in Switzerland.
Burrows lost out to Turkish midfielder Hamit Altintop, but he was convinced this was the beginning of the mega money football career he had always dreamed of. When the big money offers failed to materialise Burrows took the rejection hard, and Claire claims that's when his four year relationship with her began to falter.
It ended with the ultimate betrayal of sleeping with his young and gullible girlfriend, knowing he had had sex with sex workers in Thailand. Details of the 28-year-old's sordid secrets emerged as the couple battled for custody of their son.
Breaking her silence last night the mum of Burrows's one-year-old son said she would never forgive him as she believes he put both their lives in danger as Claire was forced to have an emergency caesarian section after suffering a serious kidney infection late in pregnancy.
It was only when Burrows admitted to his sordid sex trips abroad that Claire suspected he may have contracted an STD. She was so concerned that she underwent tests for any diseases but fortunately she was given the all clear.
"That goal was the worst thing that ever happened to him," she said. "You could see the change in him instantly and it wasn't a nice change. He thought he was going to be someone after the goal. "He thought he was going to get a call from Manchester United and be a star and he started partying like mad on the back of it.
"That's when his drinking got out of control, that's when he lost all respect for me and began treating me like dirt." An increasingly concerned Claire ended it with the wayward footballer, but soon after discovered she was pregnant with their son.
The couple had moved to Spain where Matty had a trial with Torrevieja, but as his drinking spiralled out of control Claire called time on the relationship again and came home. It was then she discovered she was pregnant.
On finding out she was pregnant she again gave the Irish football league player another chance, something she says she will regret forever. "The infection sent my son's heart rate through the roof and doctors feared that I would go into premature labour. I was terrified for him, but Matty left me there to go out and get blocked with his mates.
"When I got home from hospital I had developed a rash, I was convinced he had an STD "I could have killed him, he didn't even show any guilt about his trips to Thailand and the risk he was putting us at," she revealed. Their son was born with fluid on his lungs due to the emergency section. Claire was only 18 years old when she met Burrows.
"He asked me out and I said yes straight away. It was the worst thing I have ever done. "The first year was fine, it wasn't all roses, we had our ups and downs like any relationship and I thought there was nothing to worry about because I could see nothing of the man he would become.
"There were no alarm bells but after about a year, when we moved in together his true colours started to come out and I hated what I saw." She started to receive Facebook messages from girls claiming Burrows was chatting them up while out drinking with pals but most disturbingly was the discovery of a box he had hit under the bed.
She said: "He told me never to open the box but I couldn't help it. I felt sick when I saw what it contained.There were filthy pictures of Matty and pictures of Thai and local girls. I was so upset I confronted him as soon as he got home. "I demanded to know what was on the DVD because I couldn't get it working so he put it on.
"I felt sick to the stomach. There in the video was Matty partying with girls, threesomes, everything you could imagine. "I knew what I was watching was part of his past but it upset me so much that he kept them under our bed and still must have looked at them."
He admitted to his secret trips to Thailand and how he paid for sex. "I was young, silly and gullible. He told me he loved me, he made himself out to be a decent bloke and I ignored my instincts and gave him another chance.
"I should have never gone back to him. He was nasty to me, he made me feel awful all the time. I spent my pregnancy at home alone while he was out drinking and cheating on me.
In the wake of their split Matty Burrows sunk to a new low falsely claiming Claire suffered from mental health problems. Claire has now been given full custodial rights to their son and has changed his surname to include her own.
"He tried to paint me as some sort of nutcase, someone who was unfit, but it was him who did this to us. "I do admit to sending him crazy texts in the past but it's all on a whim and most of it was out of humiliation and to annoy him.
"Some people may think I am lifting the lid on this story to be spiteful but am telling my side, the truth! I want people to know that and that I have never had any problems with social services and the bringing up of my son. My son is my life; Matty could never say that."
When spoken to by the Sunday World Matty Burrows, who now plays for newly promoted Irish League Premiership side Ards, reacted angrily to the claims and was abusive but refused to comment.