Lauryn Goodman texted Annie Kilner shortly after Christmas Day to inform her that Kyle Walker was the father of her youngest child, it can be reported for the first time today.
Ms Kilner was six-months pregnant and home alone when Ms Goodman messaged her with the bombshell news on December 27 last year.
‘Hey it’s Lauryn I just wanted to quickly tell you that Kyle is the father of our daughter’, the text sent to Annie said.
Annie, who has four sons with the England and Manchester City defender, immediately evicted Walker from the family home for a second time in their relationship.
The first time the Premier League star was thrown out by his childhood sweetheart was three years earlier when Goodman had her first child, Kairo, and publicly named Walker as the father.
Goodman claimed in court that she had messaged Ms Kilner to out Walker as the father of her second child Kinara Storm ‘to sort things out’ and ‘to calm things down’.
This an artist’s impression of the WhatsApp message that Lauryn Goodman sent to Annie Kilner last December that led to Kyle Walker being thrown out of the house. He and Annie are now back together
Kyle Walker faced Lauren at the High Court this month (both pictured outside) in a child maintenance case
Kyle Walker and his wife Annie Kilner (pictured together in March 2023) have been together since their teens in Sheffield
Lauryn Goodman pictured with her two children in Brighton today
But Judge Edward Hess, who today ruled in the extraordinary legal fight over maintenance support to the children Walker fathered with influencer Goodman, rejected her explanation for the text.
He said he did not accept this was ‘an attempt to create a good working relationship between the two women’, concluding instead that it it was part of a longer campaign to ‘undermine’ Walker’s marriage.
In the days leading up to Christmas last year Lauryn all but outed Walker in a series of social media posts, including a picture of the daughter on Instagram with the caption: ‘I’m a lion’.
Then, knowing Annie – then pregnant with her fourth child – was home alone while her husband was playing football on December 27, messaged revealing the secret.
Goodman claimed that her ‘friend’, Walker’s neighbour Jasmine, had already told Annie but Walker ‘made it so she didn’t believe it’.
Lauryn had been contact with Jasmine for at least 16 months – and had asked her to spy on the couple and even record them, the judge was told.
Nicola Saxton KC, who represented Kyle Walker at the High Court, asked Lauryn: ‘You sent a text to Annie on 27 December when she was six months pregnant to say you had two children with Kyle.
Ms Goodman replied: ‘My friend sent her a text to say [the child] was Kyle’s. The message was from me through a friend.’
Lauryn claimed that Annie already ‘had an inkling’ and ‘had asked [Walker] several times’. But on December 27 she sent the text message through Jasmine.
Lauren and Kyle’s two children watch their father play ay Euro 2024 at home in England kits with ‘daddy’ on the back
Kyle Walker, his wife and their sons at Euro 2024
She claimed she was ‘losing weight’ and ‘wasn’t eating’ as Walker had been ‘lying’ to her and did not confess that Annie was pregnant again.
Asked if she ‘acted in anger’ when she sent the text, Goodman said: ‘I wanted to sort things out so all the boys could have a relationship. If we could sort it out maybe we could move forward. We had a normal conversation. That’s how it felt.’
Miss Saxton KC said: ‘You knew Annie was on her own with her three children, six months pregnant, and you sent that text, when Kyle was away at football.’
Judge Hess ruled: ‘This was intended to, and did, cause distress to the father’s wife.
‘I do not accept the mother’s explanation that this text message was sent in an attempt to create a good working relationship between the two women in the father’s life.
‘In my view this text was written in the same spirit as the series of text communications with the father’s next door neighbour in Cheshire in which the mother sought to persuade the neighbour to record conversations over the garden fence with a view to gain material to undermine the father’s marriage.
‘When the mother texted the neighbour to say “Ready to finish them”, she had in mind causing irreparable damage to the father’s marriage.’
The love triangle began in 2020 when Goodman had her first child, Kairo, and publicly named Walker as the father.
His childhood sweetheart Annie, who he’s been with since they were teenagers at school, furiously threw him out of the family home.
A financial application for Kairo ‘painfully and expensively’ went through court over two years.
Walker was ordered to buy Goodman a £1.85million home, though within a 60-mile radius of a Sussex town to prevent her being near his family, and to pay £8,000 per month child support.
Lauryn Goodman wore a necklace with Kyle Walker’s initials
Reality star Lauryn Goodman tried to smuggle herself into the High Court under a coat for the first day of the hearing in July. When she left when the case ended she told journalists: ‘I won’t be back here again.’
Kyle went straight from the Euros to the High Court
The footballer also paid over £600,000 picking up both sides legal costs, cleared £40,000 of her debts and put over £100,000 in total towards a nanny, furniture and a car.
Walker cut contact with his ex-mistress and moved back in with Annie, with whom he has four sons: Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, and Reign, five, and Rezon, three months.
This was a ‘source of disappointment, anguish and anger’ for Goodman, who threatened to move near his family’s Cheshire pile – which would be in breach of the order – and made enquiries with nearby estate agents.
In August 2022 the influencer saw Walker at his solicitor’s office and, remarkably, contact between the two was resumed.
Then, after travelling to London for groin surgery that October, they met once again and nine months later their second child, a girl, was born.
Within 48 hours of giving birth, Goodman made a ‘financial remedies application’ asking for maintenance, already at £110,000 per year for their son, to be increased to £177,000.
Knowing Walker wanted to keep their daughter’s birth secret, she made demands while ‘hinting that she would go public’.
It saw the England Vice Captain agree to buy her a £2.4million Sussex property and spend over £120,000 on walk-in wardrobes, blinds and curtains, sofas and garden furniture.
This, however, was seemingly not enough to buy Goodman’s silence who, the judge said, ‘plainly had no intention of keeping the matter secret’.
Kyle and Annie have been together for more than 13 years, through his glittering football career. Although they have only been married for around three years
Today Judge Hess sided with the footballer on nearly every point of contention saying he found him ‘sensible, honest and reliable’.
After the two-day court fight came to a close, Goodman made a hasty getaway as Walker addressed journalists gathered outside: ‘I hope you enjoyed yourselves – I won’t be back here again.’
Following the case, a spokeswoman for Walker said today: ‘This judgment speaks for itself in laying bare Lauryn Goodman’s insatiable greed and relentless pursuit of money.
‘The judge made it clear: she used Kyle as an open ended cheque book and repeatedly threatened him in order to get what she wanted.
‘She then orchestrated a media campaign to feed intolerable and wrongful intrusion into the private lives of Kyle, Annie and their young family.
‘Throughout each court proceeding the judge stated that Kyle adopted a fair and generous stance.
‘These proceedings were never necessary. Kyle’s offer should have been accepted months ago and would therefore have eliminated the need for added stress to all involved.
‘In light of this judgment and the truths it makes public, my client and his family now ask that the media fully respects their rights to a private life as they navigate their next steps.’
