Mark Croft: Kerry's used goods..divorce is inevitable
Kerry Katona's ex tells all about sex, rows & lies
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KERRY Katona's dumped husband Mark Croft today spills his venom over her romance with a Royal Marine she met at a fitness camp.
In an astonishing interview with the News of the World, the ex-taxi driver portrays himself as the blameless VICTIM in their squalid on-off marriage.
Layabout Croft - who romped with lapdancers behind Kerry's back in Majorca only last year blasts the former Iceland TV ads star for falling for "Popeye" - his nickname for muscular fitness instructor Kevin Green.
And he mocks her efforts to lose weight and clean up her image, saying "the old Kez" would never have dumped him.
Scrounger Croft, 38, also reveals how he:
* CASHED in on her fame by tipping off the paparazzi about her whereabouts - even directing them to her emotional meeting with her long-lost family.
* SNATCHED her engagement and wedding rings back as soon as he suspected it was over.
* MADE her swear on her children's lives that she wasn't cheating - despite claiming to be a caring dad.
* CONFESSED to goading the bi-polar sufferer into blazing rows.
Croft - who says he still loves Kerry but admits he's had a "few dates" with another woman since the split three weeks ago - stormed: "There is no going back.
"I believe that she is now used goods. Divorce is inevitable.
"She went to boot camp as my Kez and came back two weeks later a completely different person. Suddenly it was all herbal teas and getting up at 5am to jog.
"The old Kez wouldn't have lied or betrayed her kids. It's as though she has been brainwashed."
One minute Croft was keen to tell all about his wild sex with Kerry and how they still do it "every other night" - the next he snapped: "I would like to wring her neck. I f***ing hate her."
Croft moved out of the family home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, after discovering his wife's relationship with dad-of-three Kevin, 31.
Kerry, 29, fell for him at the GI Jane boot camp in Kent in January on a two-week fitness regime to lose a stone and get her weight down to 8st 7lbs.
The fallen reality TV star had sold the story of her attempted comeback to a magazine and hoped the deal would revive her fortunes after her cocaine habit led to her losing her £130,000 a year Iceland contract.
Croft - whose wild spending on cars, luxury holidays and shopping blew much of Kerry's fortune - encouraged her to go.
"I was pleased for her - she hadn't had work," said the jobless cabbie.
After five days at the camp, Croft claims she begged him to visit her with their youngest child Max, one. "We only had three hours together but we made love and she was crying when I left," said Croft.
"She'd already lost 4lbs and I told her not to go too skinny."
Kerry asked him to return the following Friday for her passing out parade - but he said: "Suddenly she stopped answering my calls claiming she was working out or in bed, tired."
Kerry told him not to return to boot camp but to meet her in London the following day.
Croft snarled: "I later found out why. Her muscleman was at the camp. In London I asked if I'd done something wrong. She turned her back on me. It was like a different Kez."
They stayed at a hotel with Kerry's daughters Molly, nine, Lilly, eight, and her kids with Croft Heidi, three, and Max.
"I tried to cuddle her but there was no love there," said Croft. "On our way home next day we stopped for tea. We all had Burger King but Kez wouldn't eat wheat so she had chicken popcorn from KFC. That's all part of her new diet.
"The next day I got a text from her saying, 'Mark we need to talk. I am not happy'."
Croft returned home to confront her. It was Lilly's birthday party so the pair left the children playing and went to the bedroom.
"She told me 'Mark I don't love you any more. It isn't working'," said Croft.
"I said, 'Fair enough, there's nothing I can do about it'. I didn't think it was another man.
"But I had to ask her. I said, 'Swear on the kids' lives you haven't met somebody else'. She said, 'I can't do that'.
"My stomach sank. She said it was a fitness expert called Kevin. I felt sick. She said, 'I swear on the kids' lives that nothing more has happened than a couple of kisses'. "I believed her because she swore on the kids' lives.
"She said I should sleep on the top floor in the nanny's room while we got money together for a deposit for me for a new place. I thought maybe we could work things out."
But, just in case, caring Croft went for the valuables. "I took her engagement and wedding rings off her. I hoped she was on a bipolar downer and it would be OK. We even continued to have sex."
Two weeks later, when the News of the World revealed Kerry had secretly met up with Kevin, she denied it. Kevin's wife Sarah, 29, was so devastated she left her husband.
"Kerry said it was rubbish and I believed her," said Croft.