Isaac Heeney’s former fiancée, Steffie Waters, appeared to take a pointed swipe at the Sydney Swans star after returning to their Maroubra home over the weekend.
Heeney was photographed leaving a Thai massage parlour in the suburb last month, appearing relaxed after his treatment.
On Sunday, Waters posted a photograph of herself walking past the same business.
Her pose and outfit appeared to echo a paparazzi image of Heeney leaving the premises.
She added a cheeky caption: ‘If you know, you know.’
Waters appears to have returned to the former couple’s shared home after enjoying a music festival in Texas with a friend. Her trip followed the end of her relationship with the AFL star amid a scandal involving several Swans players and strippers at a Melbourne hotel earlier this year.
Isaac Heeney’s former fiancée Steffie Waters appeared to take a pointed swipe at the Sydney Swans star after returning to their Maroubra home over the weekend
The blonde shared a series of photographs showing herself partying with her friend Miranda Rack at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Zilker Park, Austin.
Heeney, meanwhile, appears to remain overseas. He was most recently seen attending the Hong Kong races during a trip with friends.
The 30-year-old appeared to be in high spirits at Happy Valley racecourse last Wednesday, celebrating after his horse, Brownneedsfurther, won a race.
His appearance at Happy Valley came on the same day Waters returned to Sydney after leaving the United States amid the fallout from the Sydney Swans scandal.
Last month, the Daily Mail reported that Waters had quietly ended her engagement to Heeney.
Heeney, together with teammates Chad Warner, Nick Blakey, James Jordon and Riley Bice, was stood down by the club after attending a late-night gathering at the Pullman East Melbourne with three strippers following the Swans’ August 16 victory over Essendon.
The three dancers later made police complaints alleging that they had been sexually assaulted. No charges were laid, and the women have since engaged civil lawyers.
The Daily Mail does not suggest that any of the named players are personally under investigation. Their suspensions concerned alleged breaches of the club’s code of conduct, including drinking and bringing women to hotel rooms, and were separate from the police investigation.
Heeney was photographed leaving a Thai massage parlour in the suburb last month, appearing relaxed after his treatment
On Sunday, Waters posted a photograph of herself walking past the same parlour
In the weeks since the incident, Waters is said to have struggled to forgive what she viewed as Heeney’s betrayal after he attended the gathering with strippers.
Within hours of the hotel scandal becoming public, she left the couple’s $4 million Maroubra home and travelled interstate to Noosa to escape the media attention.
Heeney is understood to have spent weeks trying to repair the relationship and remained in regular contact with Waters in the hope she would reconsider.
However, friends said that after weeks of reflection, Waters ultimately could not move beyond what she regarded as an act of infidelity following the party with exotic dancers.
‘She is dealing with the breakdown of her relationship, which has nothing to do with the allegations [to police], only the fact that Isaac has been unfaithful [in her eyes],’ a source told the Daily Mail.
Friends said the ongoing investigation was also why Waters had mourned the end of the relationship away from the public eye. She reportedly felt unable to make a public statement about the engagement while the official process continued.
The Daily Mail does not suggest that Heeney acted unlawfully. The issue was that Waters viewed his decision to party with strippers as a breach of trust within their relationship.
Waters and Heeney had been together for several years before becoming engaged during a holiday in French Polynesia last October.
On September 19, in what was believed to be her first tentative move towards starting over, Waters deleted several photographs of the pair, including the post announcing their engagement.