Sophie Cachia has come out swinging with a juicy Instagram rant after spicy details about her new relationship with AFLW player Sophie Van De Heuvel did the rounds in the gossip-sphere this week. And boy, she didn’t hold back.
The rant, which was posted to her Instagram Stories on Thursday night, was in response to a post by influencer sleuthing account @influencertea_aus. The post claimed that Van De Heuvel cheated on her last girlfriend with Cachia.
“Soph Cachia’s new gf Soph [VDH] cheated on her gf to be with Cachia,” the source, who is said to be a friend of Van De Heuvel’s ex-girlfriend, claimed to the Insta page.
“Soph [VDH] doesn’t like the image and doesn’t want to be public with Cachia and seems to still be playing both sides. Really sad to see how much Cachia is manipulating [SVDH] to go public!”
@Influencertea_aus ended the post by questioning why “Sophie Cachia is so desperate to go public” and “stay relevant in the scene.”
Naturally, Sophie wasn’t too happy to see these kinds of allegations swirling around so she defended herself in the comments section.
“I understand you are trying to bait me here and I’m taking it. I also understand you have a job to do and report on ‘tea’ – I acknowledge this is your platform and job and you have a right to do with that as you wish. But I ask of you to do so truthfully,” she wrote in her comment.
“I can handle scrutiny & false things written about me – unfortunately I’m used to it and i’ll cop that. But please be mindful of causing hurt when you’re impacting other people and their families with information that is not true.”
“I am trying NOT to be relevant in this scene – posts like this are what is creating it,” she said.
While Sophie made a pretty good point, the account wasn’t having it.
“At the end of the day, this is an influencer tea page. Take what you will from the information 🤷♀️ No influencer is ever going to read this and say ‘yep, you caught me. Thanks for exposing my gossip’,” wrote @influencertea_aus.
“No, you’re correct – no one would do that. But comments that I am trying to stay ‘relevant’ when in fact I’ve spent seven months since my painful breakup in October trying to do the complete opposite – I repeat – if you want me to be irrelevant, then stop posting about me. I’m sure it would make a lot of people very happy,” she responded.
With the fire of rage still burning within her, Sophie then took to her (now deleted) Instagram Stories to get some facts straight.
“I was never going to do this and people around me are going to be annoyed I’m doing this but I’ve spent 10 years having a lot of really false things written about me online. And I can handle it, like I’m just used to it,” Sophie said.
“I don’t respond, I don’t do anything and I have a rule of ‘don’t respond’ and I’m doing it now so I’m contradicting myself but when false things are written about other people in my life, whether it be family, friends, associates, just please be careful. Like these are real people with jobs and lives and families and Nannas who read things that are not true and it’s just not fair,” she continued.
She went on to explain how since her break up with Maddie Garrick last year, she’s been trying to keep her life more personal, rather than “staying relevant” like @influencertea_aus’s post alleges.
“I’m actually trying to do the exact opposite. I’m here to stay relevant with my work and my job and my community and my businesses because that’s my income. That’s how I, as a single mum, raise my children,” she said, trying to hold back tears.
Sophie explained how she knew how commenters would react to these videos, saying that it’s contradictory of her to retreat to privacy when she’s previously “shared every bit of her life” and wrote a book. But Sophie explains that she regrets this part of her past.
“There’s a lot that I regret and there’s a a lot of processes I’ve been going through realising that I’ve made some bad decisions,” she continued.
“I have made some questionable decisions for sure. There’s certainly things I look back and regret, hence why I don’t do it anymore.”
She concluded asking people to be “mindful” of the gossip they hear and how it’s not fair to implicate other people.
ICYMI: A pic of Cachia was recently released, showing her smooching Van De Heuvel, just weeks after her ex-fiancé Garrick debuted her spicy new Italian romance. Molte bene!!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq2fXp8PEDW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
Cachia and Van De Heuvel were spotted getting cosy via a screenshot of a BeReal post, leaked to @influencertea_aus.
The photo shows the pair locking lips in bed, although Cachia is the only one that can actually be seen in the shot.
Despite this, the account says that it’s just one of many photos of the pair on BeReal, alleging that they’ve received multiple DMs of the pair hanging out together. After much speculation, it looks like these two might ~officially~ be an item.
People are already starting to point out the uncanny likeliness between the Essendon star and Cachia’s ex, Maddie.
And uhhhhhh… just look.
I’m screaming, crying, hollering, hooting, etc.
Blonde — tick. Athletic — tick. Same eyes, same hair, same facial structure, same everything.
Damn. She really does have a type, huh?
Lord, whatever we did to deserve this unrelenting goss, please, never make it stop.
“Her new love interest is a spitting image of her ex Maddie,” the IG account wrote. “I guess she hasn’t [been] wrong the 1000 times she has told her audience she has a ‘type’.”
A fresh post from the Instagram account has also revealed the reason why Sophie is keeping everything around her new beau a bit hush-hush — and it has to do with the release of her new book, Then There Was You.
The account shared a screenshot of an anonymous DM that came through to her inbox, divulging that the silence had to do with the release of her (probs dreadful) new book, Then There Was You.
“Waiting for the launch of her second book to announce her relationship publicly,” the DM reads.
Cachia’s memoir is set to hit shelves on June 6, so if the goss is true, we might see her carefully biding her time and coinciding the hard launch of her relo with her new book. Capitalise, boo!
It follows a dramaahhh-filled few months after Cachia dropped a series of cryptic Instagram posts after her ex-fiancé debuted a new romance with WNBA player, Matea Atanasovska.
