Caroline Wozniacki bashes ex Rory McIlroy: Shut up and ‘move on’
Caroline Wozniacki wishes ex Rory McIlroy would just let it go.
Following McIlroy’s candid comments in the Irish Sunday Independent, in which the golf star sniped about his high-profile romance with the former tennis No. 1, Wozniacki admitted she was baffled by his remarks.
“I don’t understand why he keeps bringing it up,” Wozniacki said Thursday at the Australian Open. “Was I surprised? Yes, it’s a little dead by now. It’s three years ago.
“He looks like he’s doing well. And if he’s doing well, he must surely then look to move on.”
After announcing their engagement on New Year’s Day 2014, McIlroy famously dumped the tennis ace over the phone, days after the couple mailed out wedding invites.
“I thought at least, you know, I would get a face-to-face or something, but there was nothing,” Wozniacki revealed on “In Depth with Graham Bensinger.” “It was just a phone call and I did not hear from him again.”
Wozniacki, who faces Johanna Konta in the third round on Friday, has since moved past their surprising split. The 26-year-old was briefly linked to NFL stars J.J. Watt and Ryan Kerrigan.
McIlroy and former PGA employee Erica Stoll got engaged in November 2015 after several months of dating.
“The thing I love about it is that we were friends before anything romantic happened,” McIlroy told the Irish Independent. “We met when she was working for the PGA of American and renting a condo in Palm Beach, and I found it refreshing being with someone who was living a normal life rather than, ‘Oh! My jet is 30 minutes late!'”
Though the couple have yet to announce a wedding date, McIlroy appears determined to make it to the altar this time.
“I thought at the time that being with someone that was in a similar position to you was the obvious answer,” McIlroy said, referring to Wozniacki. “But it isn’t, because you can never get away from it. You can never detach yourself and try to come back to the real world. And that’s why I feel in such a good place now. I don’t feel Erica wants to change me in any way. I can be myself around her; there’s no bulls–t, no acting, no show.”