.Sally Bercow has had an affair with her husband's cousin Alan Bercow
- .Speaker's wife admits she is now living apart from her 'best friend' John
- .She said: 'He's a great man and we will always be friends, I hope'
- .Mrs Bercow was 'f***ing heartbroken' after lover returned to his wife Erica
- .Erica said today: 'I think you have to have a heart to have it broken'
Sally Bercow today broke down in tears as she declared she would love her husband 'forever' despite having an affair with his married cousin.
The Speaker's wife admitted she and her 'best friend' John Bercow are separated after she was unfaithful and she 'just doesn't know' if there can be any reconciliation.
Sobbing outside her £1.2million mews house by the Thames in Battersea, South London she said: 'I will always love him, regardless of what happens. He's a great man and I wish him well and we will always be friends, I hope.'
It came as the wife of Sally Bercow's lover today condemned her as 'narcissistic' and 'egotistical' as she revealed she may still throw out her cheating husband.
Erica Scott-Young, whose husband cheated on her with Mrs Bercow, also hit out at the Speaker's wife's claims she was 'f****** heartbroken' after Alan Bercow went back to her, saying: 'I think you have to have a heart to have it broken.'
Upset: Sally Bercow today broke down in tears and declared she would love her husband John 'forever' despite having an affair with his married cousin
Row: Sally Bercow, pictured today, declared herself 'f***ing heartbroken' after having an affair with her husband's cousin Alan - but scorned wife Erica said today: 'I think you have to have a heart to have it broken'
Today Mrs Bercow admitted the blame for the affair lay with her.
She said: 'I'm living here, the children are here with me some of the week and with John some of the week and that's it really.
'I don't know how it's all going to pan out in the future, I don't know.
'All I know is that I'm not going back to Parliament. I just didn't like living there, it's oppressive, antiquated'.
Yesterday, in an astonishing outburst, the Speaker's wife admitted she had hated the six 'lonely' years living with John Bercow in Parliament, and vowed: 'I won't go back'.
Confessions poured out as she put on a bizarre display for photographers – posing without her wedding ring – outside her £1.2million mews house by the Thames in Battersea, South London.
Today she left her home again and broke down in tears on the same spot as she insisted she would 'love' her husband 'forever'.
She admitted all responsibility for the breakdown of their marriage but said ex-lover Alan Bercow was 'blameless'.
Initially, it is said, their affair started after meetings at a Balls Brothers wine bar in the City. A family friend claimed Alan 'became close' to Sally due to 'a mutual appreciation of fine wine', a subject on which he 'decided to instruct her'.
Cousins: Sally's affair with Alan Bercow (right today) apparently began at the start of the General Election campaign and continued while John (left) was campaigning in his Buckingham constituency
Confession: The Speaker's wife admitted all responsibility for the breakdown of their marriage but said ex-lover Alan Bercow was 'blameless'
Mixed emotions: Mrs Bercow poured her heart out to reporters for the second day running as she described her happiness at living away from 'antiquated' Parliament but her sadness at living apart from her husband
When asked if she may get back together with her husband, Mrs Bercow said: 'I just want my children to be settled and happy and so far they're loving Battersea and I hope that John is re-elected as speaker because he deserves to be.
'He's an amazing Speaker. We've all got weaknesses but as a Speaker, he's brilliant. I don't want to do anything that would compromise John's position as Speaker. He's a really good dad.'
Asked about the chances of a reconciliation, she said: 'I don't know. John liked living at Parliament, I never have done. I don't know. I just don't know.
'I don't know what I want, I don't know what John wants'.
He has been down to visit her in Battersea and asked if she would like a fresh start with John as her friend, she fought back tears adding: 'I don't know what I want at the moment. I really don't.
'It's too early. I'm just emotionally rather in turmoil at the moment.'
Upset: Alan Bercow's wife, Erica, (pictured without her wedding ring today) said she had never liked Sally or John Bercow
She said the children 'know roughly what has been going on' but she has been trying to protect them, especially as her oldest son, who is 11, is autistic and 'doesn't like change'.
It was initially believed Mrs Bercow started a relationship with Alan Bercow, a lawyer, at the start of the General Election campaign.
However close friends of hers have said the affair started up to a year ago.
Mrs Bercow said her former lover Alan was refusing to comment about their relationship but she had spoken to him about the revelations in the papers, adding: 'He's not commenting. He's the blameless party in all of this. I hold him in the highest admiration and he's still my great friend. I hope everything can always remain amicable.'
Sally Bercow added: 'I don't know how it got out. I wish it hadn't but I've just got to suck it up haven't I?'
The Bercow family is in chaos after the affair emerged and Mrs Bercow could not help crying as she described the breakdown in her marriage.
She confirmed yesterday she had a torrid affair with John Bercow's married cousin and said: 'I'm a terrible wife. I always have been. If John wants me back then he's crazy.'
Speaking outside their £3million house in Chiswick, west London, Mrs Scott-Young revealed her husband is hiding inside - but it was 'too early to say' if she would be able to forgive him.
She said: 'I'm a lawyer, I'm not interested in being a media whore. I have a son, I have a husband and I've always been brought up to do the right thing.
'Alan is home. He's home and I'm sorry but I just find this all very distasteful and I really don't want to make any more comments to feed this woman's ego and narcissism'
Controversy: Sally was pictured kissing professional dancer Clinton Oliver at a nightclub last year
Couple: Sally Bercow has confirmed she is not living with her husband and they are sharing childcare duties
The lawyer declined to say how she found out about the affair or how long it had gone on for.
She repeated that she wanted to get the marriage back on track, adding: 'Lots of people have affairs. I know lots of friends who have had affairs.
'Their marriages continue on, people actually work hard at fixing whatever fractures were in their marriage and they move on and, you know, when you've got children it's your duty as a parent to put them first and to not, you know, sell your soul to the media and that's I'm afraid probably the most I'm going to say.'
She added: 'There's innocent parties isn't there and again I've a child and Alan's got two other children. He's not going to make any comments at all.'
She said she had 'no idea' if the Speaker had spoken to his cousin over the affair, but did say yesterday: 'I've never liked that woman, I just never have. And I've never liked him (John Bercow) either.'
Yesterday she lifted the lid on her 'difficult' 12-year marriage, Sally, 45, who has three children with the Speaker, spoke of her hate for the couple's taxpayer-funded grace and favour apartment.
She said: 'I've always hated living in Parliament... all these portraits of politicians from the ******* 18th century.'
Together: Sally met John at a Conservative student conference in 1989 and they married in 2002
Official: Mr Bercow, who was re-elected as an MP this week, is pictured at the State Opening of Parliament but his wife says she won't go back to live there
Mrs Bercow has previously been accused of demeaning the office of Speaker by flirting with – and even kissing – other men, but now she stands accused of conducting a secret relationship with Alan Bercow, 57, who also has two grown-up children by a previous marriage, possibly lasting more than a year.
Alan Bercow visited a neighbour today and told reporters: 'I've got nothing to say.'
When asked if he would like to apologise to his wife or the Speaker he replied: 'I have absolutely no comment to make.'
John Bercow has repeatedly stood by his wife, but there was no comment from him today. A friend of the Speaker said he and Sally were still living separately.
City lawyer Alan Bercow is on his second marriage after his first ended in divorce.
He has two grown-up children with his first wife, who yesterday declined to comment on her ex-husband's behaviour.
Alan, 57, is a commercial litigation partner with the law firm Stephenson Harwood, and is co-head of the company's fraud and asset tracing group.
A description on the company's website says he is 'particularly experienced in obtaining and defending interim injunctions, including worldwide freezing injunctions, disclosure orders, anti-suit injunctions and gagging orders'. Alan is the son of Samson Bercow, who is the brother of John Bercow's father Charlie Bercow. Both elder men are deceased.
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