Snooker ace Ronnie O’Sullivan breaks my heart, says the star’s teenage love child
— Love child: Ronnie O'Sullivan shunned me — Only SEVEN meetings with snooker legend
SNOOKER legend Ronnie O’Sullivan’s teenage love-child blasted the star for cutting her out of his life — and leaving her with “no one to call Dad”.
Despite repeatedly begging the reigning world champion to be the father she longs for, heartbroken Taylor Magnus claimed they met no more than SEVEN times in her 17 years.
She said the multi-millionaire had tried to stop paying child support and accused him of abandoning her while he chased fame.
The tearful youngster — who bears a striking resemblance to Rocket Ronnie, 38 — admitted she recently sent him a text pleading: “Does my dad love me in any way?”
Now, after years of rejection, letdowns and “broken promises”, she has vowed to turn the tables on Ronnie and cut him out of her HER life.
Tearful Taylor said: “I’ve tried so hard to build a relationship with him, but he doesn’t want to know.
“He’s the most selfish man I’ve ever encountered. I wanted to call him my dad but now I am ashamed to.
“I think he’s a let-down. I think nothing of him. I don’t think he’s done anything decent in his lifetime.
“The amount of times he’s tried to get out of pulling his weight and helping Mum with money is a joke.
“At the end of the day, I don’t want any of his money. I’d much rather have someone to call my dad and to have a father who loves me. All I’ve ever
asked is to arrange to meet up and to try and get a relationship out of him.
But I didn’t get that and I’ve accepted it now.”
Taylor’s mum, Sally Ann Magnus, met Ronnie at the start of his stellar career,
when she was 16 and he 20.
The romance blossomed and when Ronnie’s mum Maria was jailed for a year for tax evasion, he asked Sally Ann to move into the family home.
Taylor said Maria booted out Sally Ann when she was released from prison. The couple broke up soon afterwards as Ronnie’s life began to “spiral out of control” with drink and drug binges.
But a month after the year-long relationship ended, Sally Ann, now 35, found out she was pregnant.
Business student Taylor, who lives with her mum in Ongar, Essex, said: “Ronnie didn’t want to know. He was young and selfish. Plus Maria didn’t want Ronnie to get involved.
“At first they said I was not his child. He only acknowledged I was his daughter after a DNA test when I was six months old.”
Ronnie, now engaged to actress Laila Rouass, 42, has two other children — Lily, eight, and Ronnie Jnr, six, by ex-girlfriend Jo Langley.
Taylor said: “He repeatedly stopped paying child support to my mum, telling her, ‘I’ve got a family of my own, I can’t afford it’.”
She remembers first meeting Ronnie when she was four. One time they went to a park. But another meeting ended in tears.
Taylor said she was due to spend a night with Ronnie — but he tried to leave her with his mum and go out.
She recalled: “I didn’t want that. I was child. I was so anxious that my mum wasn’t there.
“He got really angry because I didn’t want to stay with his mum, who I didn’t know.
“He wanted me to call her ‘Nanny’. He wanted what he had lost.
“I cried my eyes out and screamed, ‘I want my mum, I want to go home.’
“So he took me home. My mum told me he just threw the bags in through the door and said, ‘I ain’t got time for this’.”
Taylor said she saw Ronnie so infrequently she sometimes didn’t recognise him when he called on the phone. But she vividly remembers her excitement aged five when Ronnie promised to wave to her if she watched one of his snooker matches on television.
She said: “I sat by that TV and waited for him to wave — but he didn’t. That really upset me.”
The estranged father and daughter had another meeting when Taylor was 11. She decided to confront the snooker supremo when he switched on the Christmas lights in Chipping Ongar, Essex, near his Chigwell home.
She said: “Everyone told me not to bother but I wanted to see my dad, despite the way he treated me. After he turned on the lights, I walked up to his girlfriend and said, ‘I’m Taylor-Ann’.
“She called Ronnie over and said, ‘It’s your little girl’. He held my face and said, ‘You’re beautiful’. He gave me a hug and we had a little walk round
together.”
Two weeks later Taylor was thrilled when she got to meet up with Ronnie, Lily and Ronnie Jnr.
But she said: “After I went home, I didn’t hear anything from him for three whole years.”
In 2011, Ronnie invited the then 14-year-old Taylor to his mansion. She said: “I was hopeful we could become close and excited that he might want to get to know me.
“We just had an hour together — a cup of tea, then I helped him write an email. When I was getting ready to go, he gave me a hug and said he’d see me soon.”
Taylor was then invited to spend Boxing Day with Ronnie’s family but her dreams of a father-daughter relationship were soon dashed. She said: “When the day came round, I kept calling Ronnie’s house but he refused to pick up the phone. It was Christmas and he didn’t want to know me.
“I felt totally abandoned and decided to stop making any effort.”
But last Christmas, Taylor sent Ronnie a heart-wrenching text.
She wrote: “I always wondered why you have never wanted a relationship with me and even more so because you have a normal relationship with Ronnie and Lily.”
She added: “This sounds a bit full-on, but I always wonder, ‘Does my dad love me in any way?’”
Taylor said Ronnie suggested a face-to-face chat. They met at the Larder café in Wanstead, East London. She said: “He promised to buy me a car then said, ‘I don’t want to promise you anything but I’ll do what I can’.
“I thought, ‘All you’ve ever done is promise me stuff and it’s fallen through’. I thought, ‘I don’t want a car. I want you’.”
She added: “I asked him why he did what he did. In a nutshell, he said, I abandoned you and your mum because I was in a bad place, with drink and drugs and being in and out of rehab. He said he couldn’t be a father figure.”
Taylor thinks that is a decision Ronnie will regret. She said: “My dream is to become a recruitment consultant — and show Ronnie what a great daughter he could have had.”
I tried but have never been part of her life
RONNIE has twice spoken openly about his relationship with eldest daughter Taylor.
In a 2003 autobiography he said the pregnancy “hadn’t been planned” and Taylor’s mum Sally decided to move away soon after giving birth.
He had no contact for four years but later began visiting, only for this to peter out because he felt unwelcome.
Ronnie then said in his 2013 book: “I’ve never really been part of Taylor’s life.”
Yet he insisted that “family has always been important to me” and pledged to fix things up between them.
Ronnie’s family life has always been turbulent. His dad, Ronnie Snr, was jailed for life for murder in 1992 — the year the ace turned pro. Ronnie
Snr, who served 18 years, had become a millionaire from running sex shops in London’s Soho.
The star’s mum Maria also served time for VAT fraud.
Ronnie has attended Alcoholics, Narcotics and Sex Addicts Anonymous. He has described bingeing on 15 pints of Guinness a night and smoking pot yet performing brilliantly with his cue.
He wrote: “I don’t like alcohol, just the effect. It obliterates everything nicely for me.
“Any old drink, it didn’t matter. Throw in a few spliffs. At 7am the sun would come up and I’d think, ‘Oh, Jesus, I’ve done it again’.”