“The former first minister also told a podcast she would not visit Peter Murrell, 61, in prison and she felt like a "mug" for continuing to care about him…
Asked at the fringe event if she would visit him in prison, Sturgeon replied: "No. I'm not going to speak to him, I'm not going to visit him."…
"Over the years, he never really levelled with me," she said…
Sturgeon continued: “I suddenly realised I had been living with somebody that I never really knew properly.
That’s something for me to come to terms with, and I don’t think I’m there yet, but also for my family to come to terms with. It’s a really difficult process.”…
Sturgeon also told Dale that she only discovered Murrell was due to plead guilty a week before his first public court appearance.
It later emerged he had been negotiating his plea for months, a fact which she said “hit me like a tonne of bricks”.
Sturgeon said: “He was still lying to me right up until the day he pled guilty.”
The former first minister added: “He was very isolated over that period, he very rarely left the house, he wasn’t communicative, I was a bit worried about his well-being and his mental health.
“And then, now I think: ‘What a mug, why were you worried about him?’ He didn’t worry about me…
“What he has subjected me to is beyond anything I could ever have comprehended.
I don’t understand why he did it… But whatever that motivation was, he could not have stopped and ever thought about me.”…
Meanwhile, the former first minister hit out at JK Rowling during the fringe appearance, in response to a social media post made by the Harry Potter author on Friday.
Writing on X, Rowling described the former SNP leader as a “world-class misogynist”.
She also accused Sturgeon of being “profoundly disloyal” to her party following criticism of its election campaign in a new foreword for her memoir.
Asked by Dale if she wanted an “amnesty” with Rowling, Sturgeon said she was not “at war”.
“She seems to be at war with me,” she said.
Rowling has been an outspoken critic of the former first minister, particularly since her attempt to reform gender recognition laws in 2022.
Sturgeon said: “We disagree on more than one thing - we disagree about independence, we clearly disagree on trans rights.
“My god, that woman is obsessed with me.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx8jxqxyw0o
