The health therapist is the other ­person at the centre of the Simona scandal — and when she briefly posted an angry message to Simona on Facebook in August 2016 it triggered a chain of events that led to him being kicked out of the NRL.

“So here I go again, having to teach you  a  lesson!!  simona   if   you   ever f*** with me this is what happens. ­Betting on your own games, cocaine, abortions and cheating! I’ve had enough of this sh**.”

She took the message down after a matter of minutes but it was long enough for someone to screen shot it and send it to Wests Tigers officials, who then alerted the NRL.

The post started an investigation that stalled when Simona lied to investigators and Ms Taki refused to co-operate. But as their relationship fell apart towards the end of 2016 she resumed contact with the NRL and she handed over her mobile phone, which included detailed and damning messages about Simona’s sins.

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Ms Taki says she talked to the NRL about the footballer’s ­gambling because she felt threatened by him and was devastated by an abortion he “bullied” her into.

She says she was grieving after the abortion, felt abandoned by him and the NRL and she wanted to hurt him.

“I never had the intention to ruin his career, (but) of course I wanted to hurt him,” she says.

“My main point by speaking out is not to bring down Tim but to speak out about the treatment of women and urge  the  footballers to take more responsibility when it comes to abortion.”

Ms Taki says she contacted the NRL integrity unit several times in 2016 but felt  she had not been properly sup-ported. The NRL has strongly denied her ­allegation, claiming it made several ­attempts to address all of Ms Taki’s concerns.

The Sunday Telegraph has seen ­extracts of text messages between Ms Taki and integrity unit boss Karyn Murphy highlighting the significant level of support provided to Simona’s ex-partner.

Ms Taki says that at a February 15 meeting with Ms Murphy, an IT professional took her phone and took thousands of WhatsApp messages between her and Simona, ­including personal videos and photographs.

Ms Taki says friends of Simona harassed and threatened her on social media, including death threats on Facebook after the NRL meeting.

She says she has shared her “traumatic experience” in the hope the NRL will implement a more stringent policy to punish footballers who mistreat women.

“I want people to be aware of this disposable attitude to women and their babies,” she says.

Ms Taki says she approached police after a threat from Sim-ona on Wednesday, February 15 but she ultimately declined to push ahead with charges because she didn’t want it to get into the media.

In one text message exchange in which she asks him not to lie about their situation, he says: “If you tell me I’m lying again I will f*** you up next time I see you c***. I know where you live c***.”

In February an angry Ms Taki sent a message to Ms Murphy: “How is it that he threatened me but you never did a thing about it but the moment he puts 10 dollar bets on you deregister him from the NRL? That’s a slap in my face.”

Ms Murphy responded by asking Ms Taki if she wanted to call or meet to talk her through the “processes” and ­reinforced that the NRL took threats against women “seriously”.

Ms Taki says the experience has left her feeling “discarded” and an emot-ional wreck. She says her mental health suffered as she is still dealing with the abortion she had on April 15, 2016.

Simona pleaded with her to abort their child as it would “ruin his life” and, in turn, his footy career.

Ms Taki said in the days after she told  Simona she was pregnant in March 2016, he told her: “You would only keep this baby to trap me and keep me around.”

Simona has confirmed he wanted Ms Taki to have an abortion and that he  wouldn’t  support  her  if  she  had the baby.

She says he refused to talk to her about the pregnancy and around the same  time  he  was  suspended  for three weeks.

“He would only talk about how his world was falling down because of the suspension,” she says.

“The only time he would talk to me about the abortion was when I was supplying dates for a possible abortion.

“He said to me, ‘I know you will do what I say. I know I am going to get my way’. I was mentally controlled by him.

“I begged him to consider having this baby. But then I gave up.”

She describes laying in a doctor’s surgery when the abortion was about to commence, wishing she could run away.

“I remember thinking, please, please, please I want to leave … I wanted to get off the table.

“I wanted to get out of there but I was too scared about what Tim would do. That was it. That was the final decision. It was done.”

After the abortion she said their once peaceful and “amazing” ­relationship dissolved.

Ms Taki says she was so desperate to win his affection she agreed to go along with his dodgy charity auctions but maintains she ­deposited her half of the money into her now deceased brother’s charity.

She claims she also created a Sportsbet account at his request and proceeded to bet on his behalf.

When they fought, she would threaten to go to the NRL and detail his gambling on games.

Ms Taki says it was disappointing the gambling and not her alleged ­mistreatment became the focus of the ­investigation.

“Until I brought forth the gambling stuff he was threatening me without anyone as so much calling the Wests ­Tigers and saying, ‘Hey this guy is threatening a woman’. Nothing was done. What had to be done? Did he have to come through with the threats?”

What did make her feel better is counselling from Sara’s Place, an ­organisation in Surry Hills which helps women through the emotional trauma of abortion.

“They have been amazing,” she says.

A spokesman for the NRL said: “This was a sensitive and very challenging set of circumstances. We are ­extremely comfortable with how it was handled by the integrity unit.”

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