Nicola Sturgeon has revealed the bombshell moment she knew her decades-long friendship with Alex Salmond was over for good - and why his 'truly disgraceful' behaviour meant she could never forgive him.
The raw admission, revealed in the latest extract from her soon-to-be published memoir, Frankly, centres around how Salmond reacted to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against him in 2018.
Two years later the ex-SNP leader and Alba Party founder was cleared of 13 sexual offence charges, including attempted rape, though he conceded during the trial he could have been a 'better man'.
Salmond died of a heart attack in North Macedonia last October, aged 69 - but before his death he maintained there had been a 'conspiracy' between his accusers to bring him down.
'What he never did was show any contrition,' lamented Sturgeon, who added that she felt 'sick' over the allegations.
