‘Disgusting behaviour’: Sophie Cachia’s tumultuous relationship with Maddie Garrick revealed

Sophie Cachia once left her lover Maddie Garrick moments after they’d had sex, following a text she received while still in bed from another woman she desired.

Entrepreneur Sophie Cachia broke up with her partner, Maddie Garrick, in bed moments after the pair had been intimate.

That brutal break-up is just one episode in the passionate, dramatic, on/off, very public love affair between the two strong, independent Melbourne women — Cachia a social media force and businesswoman and Garrick, an international level basketball player.

The between-the-sheets split came a couple of years ago as Cachia juggled feelings for both Garrick, who she called “Blonde With The Bun”, and international soccer player Alanna Kennedy.

Cachia has now split again from Garrick.

Maddie Garrick and Sophie Cachia in happier times Picture: Supplied

Cachia charts the tumultuous and complicated course of both relationships in detail in her book, Then There Was Her, which was released this year.

“Blondie and I were lying in bed. We’d just had sex and I rolled over to grab my phone when it buzzed on the bedside table. ‘I love you, babe,’ read the text. ‘Please just come to me’,” she wrote.

“Ooft. This was it. I rolled back to face the girl I’d been with for over a month, the girl I’d just slept with. ‘I’ve got to go,’ I said, bursting into tears. ‘I’m so sorry. Nothing I can say right now is going to make any of this better, but ... I’m going.’

“She lost her absolute mind at me – rightly so, given my disgusting behaviour – and stormed out of her house.

“I grabbed all my stuff, snatched up my bag and scribbled out a short note for when she returned. ‘I’m sorry.’ I ordered an Uber to take me to the airport there and then.

“The phone rang. I didn’t want to answer, I didn’t want to face the horrible thing I’d just done. She wanted to talk but it was too late. ‘I’m sorry. There’s no easy way to do this, I can’t let you down slowly,’ I told her. ‘I’m going to her. I love her. And I am sorry ... That’s all I have to say,’ I finished, the ice in my voice shocking me.”

Maddie Garrick and Sophie Cachia at an Australian Grand Prix party.

Cachia and Kennedy’s relationship eventually faltered and she and Garrick then rekindled their relationship. They announced their engagement in March.

However Cachia suddenly and dramatically ended their romance in late October amid rumours that she was suspicious of Garrick’s friendship with other members of the Italian basketballer team she is now a part of.

The split came while Cachia was visiting Garrick in Italy.

Cachia has since posted a drip feed of social media stories referencing her emotional meltdown and 4am decision to head home to Australia.

Her latest post read: “Accountability and transparency will change your life.”

Garrick meanwhile has not directly addressed the upheaval in her personal life.