Nancy Dell'Olio: 'I slapped Sven the moment I found out about Faria Alam affair'

Nancy Dell'Olio slapped her partner Sven Goran Eriksson when she learned he was having an affair with Football Association (FA) secretary Faria Alam, she admitted today.

The Italian property lawyer, who had already had to put up with the then England soccer coach having an affair with TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson, reacted angrily to the "ridiculous" news about Ms Alam.

Ms Dell'Olio laughs during a TV interview to be shown tomorrow night when former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan reminds her that Ms Alam had been having affairs both with Eriksson and FA chief Mark Palios.

Nancy has spoken about her former partner Sven Goran Eriksson's affairs in a television interview with Piers Morgan

She said: "I mean it's still really ridiculous and a - very, very poor story."

And she added: "The truth was he'd been with this person, but again having sex and nothing else. And he was definitely very desperate. But this time I've been ask him to go."

Morgan asks: "This is when you hit him. Slapped him?"

Ms Dell'Olio replies: "Well, yes."

Nancy says she slapped Sven after she found out about his affair with Faria Alam

In the interview she confirms she had the best sex of her relationship with Eriksson when the Jonsson story broke in the Daily Mirror, then edited by Morgan, two years earlier, in 2002.

Morgan asks: "All the time that Ulrika's people are saying to me, he's going to leave, you're having the best sex of your entire relationship with him."

Sven had already had an affair with Ulrika Jonsson before Faria

"I think's yes," she agrees.

She calls Jonsson "stupid" for having been "scathing", as Morgan puts it, about her.

"How how poor - how so silly and completely disgraceful, say for anyone to talk about somebody else, that you don't know. And very I mean, is no style, no class, and very - I mean we're talking very, very, very low level here."

She says she went back to him after the second affair, when the Swede begged her to do so.

"I was still in love, and I know that he was in love with me."

However, when she published her autobiography, Eriksson split up with her, for invading his privacy, although she barely said anything bad about him, the programme says.

She confirms Eriksson was "very generous" to her when they split up.

Morgan interviews Ms Dell'Olio at 10.35pm on Monday night in The Dark Side of Fame, on BBC1.

Slapped: Sven Goran Eriksson