Andrew Johns’ ex-wife spills on marriage with rugby league legend

The ex-wife of rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns is opening up about her relationship with the Newcastle Knights legend.

Andrew Johns’ ex-wife Cathrine Mahoney has written a new book.

Cathrine Mahoney, the ex-wife of rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns, has opened up about her relationship with the Newcastle Knights legend in a new book.

Johns met Mahoney, his second wife, in 2002, with the couple tying the knot in 2007 and sharing one child together — 13-year-old son Louis.

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They separated in 2011 before reconciling and then splitting again in 2014.

Mahoney, a former publicist who hosts the podcast So, I Quit My Day Job, has penned a new memoir titled Currently Between Husbands that comes out this week and, at times, delves into her relationship with Johns.

Andrew Johns’ wedding with Cathrine Mahoney on Shark Island in October 2007.

“When a marriage ends, you shove it all in a box and stuff it in the back of your wardrobe and don’t want a word of it,” the 47-year-old said in an exclusive interview with Stellar.

“But unpacking it six years later, you realise time heals and you look at things differently. I was bonkers crazy in love with Andrew, and he was with me. It just didn’t last the course.”

Referencing her experience as a publicist, Mahoney knows the attention celebrities have to deal with — and what that means for the people they are in relationships with.

“I’d get exhausted sometimes being with Andrew because you’d have to smile all the time – usually when you were in the middle of a big argument,” she said.

“Even the most amazing high-end celebrity still goes to the toilet, still gets a period, still fights with their boyfriend and still has to get up with their kids, but they have to be ‘on’ the whole bloody time.”

Andrew Johns with Cathrine Mahoney.

Mahoney is a former publicist for Sony Music, Nine and Nova who also co-hosts the Not Another Parenting Podcast.

Johns is currently raising a three-year-old daughter with his new partner, yoga instructor Kate Kendall.

He split from his first wife Renae Chapman in 2002 after two years of marriage.

The 48-year-old represented New South Wales in 23 State of Origin matches and Australia in 26 Tests, winning three Dally M Medals and two premierships with the Knights.

Read Cathrine Mahoney’s full interview with Stellar