Bec Hewitt breaks down

Isolated and raising three young children virtually alone while her famous husband tries to resurrect his tennis career, a heartbroken Bec Hewitt is at breaking point.

As the always “sunny” Bec watches her invalid, and increasingly depressed, husband limp around their luxury compound in the Bahamas, she is privately seething at his latest betrayal. The gorgeous mum-of-three cannot help but support the man she fell in love with seven years ago but she is terribly worried – and hurt – that he is even contemplating a return to tennis.

“Bec sees it as a real betrayal,” confides one close friend. “She had already started planning their new life back home in Australia when Lleyton decided to delay his retirement once again, this time to chase Olympic gold at the London Games in August.” Bec is also humiliated that he “deliberately” kept the extent of his injury from her, yet confided to his parents, Glynn and Cherilyn, that he needed painkillers to even walk.

A close family friend says hiding this really “burned” her, taking the gorgeous former Home And Away actress back to the early days of their marriage when Lleyton’s moods were black and often almost unbearable. He says they almost split up then, because Lleyton often confided in his parents before his bride.

“His parents had the prime roles in his life and decision-making, and he resented having to communicate with this person who had just become his wife,” the friend says. “Like now, they never had fights, but just suffered along in silence when times were tough – and that sort of pressure kills Bec as she’s bubbly and up-front, and what’s happening now is pushing her to the edge. There was a very real chance they would split back then and I think she is struggling once again.”