Mitchell Pearce’s ex finds love with another footy great after the NRL bad boy’s sexting scandal ruined their wedding

Mitchell Pearce’s ex Kristin Scott has moved on with another Aussie footy great after her wedding to the former Roosters NRL star was ruined by his sexting scandal.

Scott – who is a successful Pilates and yoga instructor with her own studio – is now in a relationship with former Wallabies star Bernard Foley, who played 76 Tests for his country.

On Tuesday, the glamorous health influencer posted an Instagram shot of her in Tokyo with Foley, who currently plays for Japan’s Kubota Spears rugby team.

‘Sushi, shopping, morning runs, plenty of matcha, getting to see @bernardfoley do his thing and even a day with Mum and Dad,’ she captioned the post, which featured two shots of her embracing the footy veteran.

Scott previously posted a shot of her exploring Nozawa – a village famed for its hot springs – with her man.

In April, she called Foley ‘my cowboy’ as she treated her followers to photos of them attending a picturesque Aussie bush wedding, complete with Foley wearing a Stetson hat.

The couple’s obvious happiness stands in stark contrast to the way Scott’s romance with Pearce fell apart in December 2020.

He was forced to call off their Byron Bay wedding at the last minute after it was revealed he had sent ‘flirty’ messages to a woman who worked for the Newcastle Knights, the club where he was skipper and starting halfback at the time.

The incident cost Pearce the captaincy as well as his relationship with Scott.

He initially claimed the nuptials were cancelled due to Covid before reports of his sexting emerged.

Scott – who had flaunted her $40,000 engagement ring prior to the scandal – ditched the jewellery after the news broke.

It was revealed some senior Knights players were furious with Pearce at the time.

Hard-running second rower Lachlan Fitzgibbon admitted he was ‘angry’ as he was a close friend of the club staffer’s long-term boyfriend.

A teary-eyed Pearce later fronted the playing group to say sorry.

He relinquished his captaincy to spend more time in a doomed effort to mend his relationship with Scott.

‘For me it’s been a traumatic few weeks for my personal life and those I love,’ Pearce said at a media conference in January 2021.

‘Unfortunately my actions have impacted the team and more importantly the people I have closest to me, Kristin and my family.

‘I’m taking steps now to address these issues and I feel it would be in the best interests of the club for me to step down as captain this season.’

The 37-year-old opened up about the impact of the scandal again in November 2021. 

‘It was the worst year of my life,’ he said.

‘Stuffing up your wedding, all the shame that came with that. It’s not easy. 

‘The noise around the wedding and the families was hard. Super hard. 

‘It did make me tired by the end of it.’ 

Scott put the episode behind her and opened her Scottie’s Pilates studio in Wollongong in 2024.

She also won the grand champion title at the Australian Physie and Dance Association national finals in December 2024.

Pearce has transformed his life since finishing his playing career with the Catalans Dragons in France in 2023.

He is now a teetotal practising Muslim after marrying his wife Lila. The couple have a daughter, Aliya, and Pearce is learning to speak Arabic.

Foley first played for the Spears in 2020, after his eight-year stint with the NSW Waratahs finished.

He played in the 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cups, helping steer the Wallabies to the final in 2015, where they were defeated by the All Blacks.

Foley played 119 Super Rugby matches, all for the Waratahs, scoring 29 tries and landing 244 conversions.