Roxy Jacenko confirms romance with ex while Oliver was in jail

Roxy Jacenko has opened up about her relationship with ex Nabil Gazal while husband Oliver Curtis spent a year in jail.

The 37-year-old Sydney PR queen has revealed that Nabil reached out to the mother-of-two just days after her shock breast cancer diagnosis in July, and from there a romance formed.

"Yes there was a relationship and I am not going to deny it,' she tells The Daily Telegraph .

Explaining she was "in my most vulnerable state" as she faced life without her husband who was behind bars for insider trading, Roxy says the comfort Nabil brought to her at a time of need was what she needed.

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"He was someone who was familiar to me, I was in a very bad place. Yes, we were together,' she says.

"You have to remember, my husband went to jail, my marriage was not intact, I had breast cancer and a friend [Nabil] at the time, reached out."

Roxy admits the pair, who had dated years earlier, spent several nights a week together, and the romance was on till just days before Oliver was released from jail in June this year.

Back in April, photos emerged of Roxy and Nabil kissing on his home's balcony.

Speaking to news.com.au in August, the Sweaty Betty PR founder admitted she "didn’t think there was any hope" for her five-year-marriage to Oliver at the time the snaps were taken.

"My marriage in my eyes had come to an end ... it had been a seriously tough 12 months," she said, explaining they had been drinking. "We were drunk and stupid and mucking around.”

Oliver was convicted of insider trading in 2016 and was serving out his sentence in Cooma Correctional Centre, five hours from their Bondi home.

Throughout the 12 months he served behind bars, Roxy appeared to go on without him, maintaining a normal life with their two kids, Pixie and Hunter, and being snapped with other men - including her multi-millionnaire ex Nabil.

“I’d spoken to a lawyer about divorce, and he knew that,” the mum-of-two told the publication. “I told him I wasn’t sure what was going to happen in the future ... it was without question the worst 12 months of my life.”

Admitting Oliver had seen the pictures, she said she'd been "candid" with her husband the whole time.

Since Oliver's return, their rocky marriage however appears to have become stronger, with the pair recently getting engaged to be married for the second time.

The couple are now committed to making their relationship work and are back to sharing loved-up photos on social media.

Be has reached out to Roxy for comment.

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