Francois Hougaard opens up about fallout after Reeva Steenkamp's death

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Former Springbok scrumhalf Francois Hougaard has opened up about the fallout after Reeva Steenkamp's death and the difficulties he had with the attention received during the trial of her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius.

Speaking exclusively to the, he described how he and Steenkamp dated for some time and that it had been a shock to receive the news from a friend that she had been shot dead.

It was widely reported after her death on Valentine's Day in 2013 that Hougaard had sent her an SMS shortly before her murder at the Paralympian's hands. "Everyone was saying I sent Reeva a message and that's why he shot her. I had nothing to do with her any more but it's all people were asking me about. Mentally, that was a really tough thing to go through," Hougaard said.reported that he and Steenkamp had apparently seen each other on and off between October 2012 and early in January 2013.

 

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So Reeva and this guy were making a fool out of Oscar

Stop acting like the victim. You were messing around with Reeva whilst she was still in a serious relationship with her ex boyfriend. You were the cause of that breakup & she might have still been alive today. You need more then a psychologist

Stop acting like the victim. You were messing around with Reeva whilst she was still in a serious relationship with her ex boyfriend. You were the cause of that breakup. You need more then a psychologist

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