These past few weeks must have been beyond heart-breaking for England footballer Kyle Walker’s wife and childhood sweetheart Annie Kilner.

Kyle, Annie and their three young sons spent Christmas together, a happy time no doubt, full of laughter, presents and games. Happy that is until Annie received a phone call the day after Boxing Day from her husband’s on/off mistress Lauryn Goodman.

She knew that model and ‘influencer’ Lauryn was the mother of Kyle’s love child, a son called Kairo, conceived after a brief fling in 2020 when Annie and he were separated.

Amanda Platell writes: It is a tawdry saga by any measure, but what bothers me most is Lauryn Goodman’s (pictured) conduct.

She knew, too, that he’d bought her a £2.5million home.

Yet Annie had forgiven him and believed him when he told her the fling was over. He vowed that he loved her and she’d taken him back.

Then came that phone call. A call in which Lauryn confirmed Annie’s suspicions that Kyle was the father of her second child, too, a daughter, just five months old. And she had DNA evidence and legal documents to prove it.

Lauryn sent Annie pictures of Kyle with her two children on a secret play date. She said she wanted to be publicly acknowledged as their mother.

Kyle’s behaviour is appalling – serial love cheats like him deserve no sympathy. Annie rightly threw him out of the family home, said they needed time apart, and has now employed a lawyer who helped Coleen Rooney during her High Court ‘Wagatha Christie’ battle with Rebekah Vardy.

‘Pregnant’ Annie Kilner, 31, was seen with estranged husband Kyle Walker, 33, for the first time since announcing their split on Monday

On Monday, when she was pictured handing over their son Roman, 11, to his father in a car park in Cheshire, she was not wearing her wedding ring – although he was still wearing his.

That photograph also revealed that she is heavily pregnant with her fourth child by Kyle, due in March.

It is a tawdry saga by any measure, but what bothers me most is Lauryn’s conduct. What kind of woman has two brief flings with a married man, falls pregnant both times – and then taunts his wife with the details.

That Christmas phone call was malicious. It suggests to me that Lauryn is a manipulative individual who is seeking to break up Annie and Kyle – perhaps in the hope of becoming the next Mrs Kyle Walker. She denies it, insisting she just wants everything in the open so people can ‘make their own adult choices’.

However, a former friend of Lauryn’s was so disgusted by her actions that she revealed text messages Lauryn had sent her in which she appeared to be vowing to destroy Kyle’s marriage just weeks before getting pregnant by him for a second time.

‘Ready to finish them’, Lauryn messaged, adding laughing and heart emojis. Another read: ‘Ask him if he wants to go with me again? I’m down for baby number 2’, followed by five laughing emojis.

Kyle Walker, pictured, is braced for an expensive divorce, sources told Mail Online yesterday

Kyle Walker and his wife and childhood sweetheart Annie. She is the wronged party here, and Lauryn’s behaviour towards her is unacceptable, writes Amanda Platell

In those messages, Lauryn revealed what she is – a publicity-seeking, marriage-breaker.

Let’s not forget that she’s an ‘influencer’ after all. This scandal this will no doubt boost the number of her followers on social media and so increase her value to advertisers.

For those readers who feel I am being harsh on a woman who has been badly treated by Walker, too, let me point you to the interview Lauryn gave to a Sunday newspaper. She claimed that she and Kyle had an instant sexual connection after meeting, before going into more gruesome particulars.

Model and influencer Lauryn Goodman had a £2million home bought for her by Kyle Walker

Again I ask, what kind of individual does this, gleefully rubbing salt into the wound for Annie.

And yet it is Lauryn who is appealing for sympathy.

‘I’m typing this in tears,’ she wrote in an Instagram post, ‘and breaking down in front of my children. I’ve apologised to Annie. I’m not trying to claim to be the victim, but I’m hugely struggling with my mental health right now, I’m at breaking point.’

As with all narcissists, there is no acknowledgement of Annie’s tears or those of her children – at least one of them old enough to know what is going on. Kyle Walker deserves everything that’s coming to him – and if that means losing a chunk of his £30million fortune in a divorce settlement, so be it.

Annie is the wronged party here, and Lauryn’s behaviour towards her is unacceptable. She might be seeking sympathy, but I’m afraid the sisterhood has only one verdict. Lauryn doesn’t deserve it.