15-Year Anniversary Shock Is The Fairytale Over?

With isolation pressures mounting, Bec and Lleyton Hewitt’s marriage is under more strain than ever

When tennis star and Home And Away fan Lleyton tied the knot with his leading lady at the Sydney Opera House, Bec promised to “love you until forever” in a poem she penned to mark the occasion.

Yet close friends reveal that their reportedly rocky marriage is at breaking point as germophobic Bec’s self-professed obsessive-compulsive disorder wreaks havoc in their household as they are forced to spend time together in their Melbourne mansion.

With Bec, 36, home-schooling their three children, Mia, 14, Cruz, 11, and Ava, nine, and Lleyton, 39, desperately missing the international tennis circuit, friends say tempers are fraying and raising contentious old issues between the couple.

“It’s a relationship that has certainly had more than its fair share of ups and downs,” says an insider, who insists the couple’s different parenting styles are once again driving a wedge between the duo.

KIDS IN THE MIDDLE