Troubled AFL star Bobby Hill's partner breaks her silence on their split as she lashes out at 'beyond disgusting' fan abuse

Bobby Hill's ex Georgia Devlin has made her first public comment on her split from the Collingwood AFL star - after she was subjected to the worst kind of online trolling.

Devlin uploaded a story to Instagram on Tuesday evening, showing the disgusting message a troll had sent her regarding the situation with Hill and their two sons.

Hill has separated from Devlin, who is the mother of his two children. The Daily Mail understands she has taken the boys and is now living in Perth while Hill remains in Melbourne.

The troll's post - which the Daily Mail has chosen not to publish - criticised Devlin, a white woman, for having kids with an Aboriginal man, and blamed their split on the fact Hill is Indigenous.

She lashed out at the troll in a furious message.

'Let's make one thing clear, my kids' nationality has never and will never be the cause of any issues in anyone's life. How dare someone speak on innocent kids this way. It's beyond disgusting,' Devlin wrote.

Hill has played in just one game since Round 15, with the club saying he has been dealing with 'personal issues', no doubt relating to his split from Devlin.

While coach Craig McRae dismissed talk that Hill intended to travel to Adelaide for last Saturday night's match against the Crows, it later emerged that he had planned to join the trip, raising fresh concerns about the forward's wellbeing. 

On Wednesday, McRae said his star is unlikely to play for the rest of the year as the split takes its toll. 

'There's high performance and there's love and care, and I've just sort of left the high performance for now and I'm just making sure the young lad's OK,' McRae said. 

'Time's running out in the season and maybe the high performance might be a bit far at the moment, but we'll just take that off the table for now.

'Hopefully he can get back in the club and be happy, and then we'll see where we go from there.'

McRae specifically asked Hill how he should answer inevitable questions about whether he will play again at AFL level this season.

'He goes, "Please just leave a little bit of hope there for me",' McRae said.

'But he's well aware that time's running out for getting enough load and then to be available.

'I stepped straight back into love and care and said, "Nah, let's just get him right day by day".'

Hill's absence from the Collingwood team has been a huge talking point for the club's supporters and the game in general.

Last month, Daily Mail uncovered a trail of evidence that he and Devlin had gone their separate ways.

Hill removed nearly all photos of his partner and their two young sons from Instagram, which many fans interpreted as confirmation they had split.

Devlin likewise deleted all images from her Instagram dating back to five months ago, while the young couple also unfollowed each other on the social media platform.

On August 13, the Collingwood small forward, 25, shared a throwback photo on Instagram with his two sons, from a recent skiing trip in New Zealand.

'Gonna miss you guys. Dad loves yous,' he wrote alongside the image.

Hill, a 2023 premiership-winner, is a loving father to his two boys and regularly brings them to Collingwood training and into the sheds after games.

'When the kids come to sing the song after a game it feels like a country footy game - the club say I can have the kids in with me whenever I can so it's good, it feels like a big family,' Hill said in May.

The break-up with Devlin has reportedly led to a rift in Hill's family.

St Kilda star Bradley Hill is Bobby's cousin and Wilson said he had reached out to try and help, which had created a division in the family ranks.

'One person he's always been really close to is his cousin, Brad Hill; I understand there's been a falling out there between the two families,' footy commentator Caroline Wilson told Channel Seven.

'Partly, I think, because Brad Hill attempted to perform some form of intervention, and actually reached out to the Collingwood Football Club, he was so worried about his cousin,' she said.

'I don't think that went down too well with Bobby Hill.

'And I think that there's been days where he's just been uncontactable by anyone. Days leading to even a week at some point.'

Drafted by GWS in 2018, Hill debuted aged just 18 and made his mark as a lightning‑quick forward with strong marking and a rare knack for kicking majors.

He made the move to Collingwood in 2023 and later that season kicked four goals in the grand final.

Devlin has featured prominently beside him through his journey to the top, most notably when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2022, aged just 22.

He underwent surgery and said at the time that she was his rock.