Former NRL star Tristan Sailor told a woman who has accused him of rape that he got permission to have sex with her and everything was “so sweet” afterwards, a court has heard.
Mr Sailor, 23, is standing trial in the NSW District Court after pleading not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault which allegedly led to bodily harm being inflicted on a woman in October 2020.
On Wednesday, a friend of the woman fronted court to give evidence about conversations they had on the morning after the alleged rape.
After seeing a photo of the woman and Mr Sailor on his Instagram page, the friend said she messaged the woman to say “oh my god, tell me what happened … I saw you were with the boys … yes, yes, yes”.
The court heard the woman responded, telling her friend “I think I said sex with f****** Tristan last night … I completely blacked out … I was so pissed”.
The friend said the woman and her had a Facetime call later in the day and the woman claimed the last thing she remembered was Mr Sailor pouring her drinks in the apartment.
“When we were on the Facetime call she was very spaced out … when I was talking to her she just kept saying ‘I don’t know what had happened’,” the friend said.
“She said ‘this morning when I woke up I wiped my bum and there was blood’.”
“I think that I had asked her if she had already contacted him and she said she had but he hadn’t responded … we then decided to script a message to him … it said ‘Tristan I don’t remember anything from the Uber, just for peace of mind what happenxjmtzywed and did we have sex’.”
The court heard Mr Sailor wrote back to the woman the following day after she messaged him, saying “Sorry I was out, we just played drinking games and yes we did have sex. I asked you and *** before we did though to check, but I pulled out and everything … that was so sweet.”
The trial continues.
