Kurtley Beale of the Wallabies. (Photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

The text messages included two images of overweight, naked women – and they were sent to a female colleague with the words “Di” and “Would you hit it?” and “Di who wants a go f….. this?”.

The ‘Di’ in question is Di Patston, the only female on the management staff of the Wallabies Rugby Union team.

And the texts came from one of the team’s stars, Kurtley Beale, 25, who sent the messages to Patston in June.

Those texts lie at the heart of a scandal currently rocking Australian Rugby.

After receiving the messages, Patston said she couldn’t stop crying and asked Beale “This is how the only female staff member is treated?,” the Daily Telegraph reveals in an exclusive report.

Beale pleaded for forgiveness following the incident, but Ms Patston eventually told officials about the messages after the rugby star verbally abused her on a flight three weeks ago.

Ms Patston took sick leave and, on Friday, resigned due to stress — after enduring intense media scrutiny about her personal life, with coach Ewen McKenzie having been forced to deny rumours of a relationship with her.

After receiving the messages, Patston said she couldn’t stop crying and asked Beale “This is how the only female staff member is treated?”

The string of text messages between Beale and Ms Patston following the incident were published in TheDaily Telegraph today — and they reveal Ms Patston initially agreed to give the Rugby star a second chance despite her significant distress.

“I can’t stop crying I am so humiliated by this,” she texted him following the incident.

“Do you realise the situation you’ve put me in? I have earned this job and I am proud of being a female at this level,” she wrote. “If I complain then I make it hard for women in Rugby and it puts the reputation of the entire squad at stake.”

“I just do stupid things for no reason,” Beale texted back at one point. “I just don’t know what to do. I’m so sorry.”

Beale has been stood down pending the outcome of an investigation and will face the ARU Conduct Committee this week, The Daily Telegraph reports. Yahoo! News reports Beale’s ARU contract is expected to be terminated.

It is understood Ms Patston has not sought compensation.

The whole exchange, as reported by The Daily Telegraph :

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