Inside Leigh Anne Pinnock’s rollercoaster relationship with Andre Gray from recent ‘betrayal’ to ‘waking up hating him’
LITTLE MIX star Leigh-Anne Pinnock recently opened up on the ‘betrayal’ from her husband Andre Gray in a heartbreaking confession, admitting ‘he was selfish’.
The couple married in 2023, but their rollercoaster relationship at times appears to have taken its toll on the pop beauty.
The couple first started dating in 2016 and the pop star, 34, shares her four-year-old twin daughters with footballer Andre.
Leigh-Anne recently shared that the pair are now in a ‘beautiful place’ but their relationship hasn’t always been plain sailing.
Speaking in a candid chat with fellow music star Paloma Faith on her Mad Sad Bad podcast in January, Leigh-Anne detailed a “weird time” in the couple’s relationship which saw her “lose trust”.
She told how her spouse had left her “heartbroken”, she said: “I went through a bit of a weird time with my husband actually and I think that sort of not being totally honest and losing trust and that kind of betrayal.
“I think heartbreak is wild, it’s awful and especially someone that you’re so madly in love with and that they can hurt you.”
She added: “Well, I think that person has to want to change and he did.
“And I think you can go through things in a relationship, but if they aren’t willing to change for you, forget it.”
“They have to do the work and they have to turn it around because again it’s not you, it’s not on you.”
Leigh-Anne had just come out of an on-off three-year relationship with footballer Jordan Kiffin when she met striker Andre.
The couple’s first blip happened after happily navigating their way through relationship milestones, from first holidays as a couple, to meeting each others’ families and moving in together.
Plus, he even had a starring role in the video for Little Mix’s Think About Us video.
In the beginning, Leigh-Anne would admit he just needed a bit of encouragement to bring out his romantic side.
And then in 2019, the Brit Award-winning artist admitted that she had suffered from repeated nightmares about the football ace that had left her “hating him the next day”.
“I don’t really dream that much but I’ve had the same nightmare a couple of times; that my boyfriend has cheated on me. I wake up hating him the next day,” she said, whilst speaking to Grazia magazine.
Things got even rockier for the pair in 2021, when she confronted Andre on TV after admitting that her other half’s old tweets has made her “feel sick” in her BBC documentary, Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power.
Viewers watched as the hitmaker challenged Andre over colourist tweets he had shared in 2012, in which he compared dark-skinned black women wearing red lipstick to “burnt toast with jam on it”.
Leigh-Anne hit back at her partner, she said: “I will never know what it feels like to be a dark-skinned woman but seeing those tweets really made me feel a bit sick.
“I was really upset because I was just like, ‘Who is this person? This is horrible’. That wasn’t the person I knew.
“When they surfaced, my heart sank. Because I was like, ‘That is not the person I met. It sounds like a child, like a silly child’.”
Andre swiftly responded and put his actions down to becoming a “product of your environment” adding that he had now educated himself and “learned from his mistakes”.
Leigh-Anne, has even detailed the hardships of her relationship through her music.
Just last year she shocked fans when she took a swipe at her husband during a solo show.
Most, if not all, of the tracks from her EP No Hard Feelings have been inspired by her rocky relationship with Andre.
During one spoken word interlude, as she got changed off stage, Leigh-Anne made no secret of the hurt he had caused her behind the scenes, as he watched on from the crowd at the show.
She said: “Exciting but dangerous. Six months of bliss and hell. A stolen kiss becoming pure as us together. But how do you say serves me right?
“The images, the thoughts. The phone that once connected us, now a constant reminder. What are you doing? What is going on? Why would you do this to us?”
A year prior, the star made a cryptic admission to Glamour Magazine confessing that Andre “still had a lot of growing up to do” in the beginning of their relationship.
“I think people often think that if something bad happens in a relationship, if you get cheated on or whatever, that it’s automatically done, it’s over, and that’s fair enough, but in my case, I chose to work at it, and I am so happy that I did,” she said.
The striker plays for Turkish club Fatih Karagümrük and spends vast amounts of time away from the family’s UK base.
And back in October, Leigh-Anne told of how “hard” her family dynamic has become since Andre has been away.
On the Sh**ged, Married, Annoyed podcast with Chris and Rosie Ramsey the singer said: “Even now with my husband living abroad… we probably see each other, maybe if we are lucky, three days in a month.
“It’s so s**t.”
She then confirmed that he was living in Turkey and added: “We have been doing that for three years.
“They [the twins] have just turned four.”
Rosie then interjected: “That’s hard, that must be hard for him as well though?” to which Leigh-Anne admitted: “So hard.
“He’s struggling a little bit to be fair.”
On Paloma’s podcast she went on to say how her spouse even went to therapy to seek help.
The My Love songstress said: “He went to therapy and I think what really helped for us, he started playing abroad and he had more time to himself to kind of look and realise that everything that he was doing was not how you make a relationship work, it’s not. It’s selfish.”
Leigh-Anne told how she believes it is “OK to forgive” someone as part of a “healing” process – and that it should not be seen as a sign of weakness.