A SENIOR Wallaby has weighed into the Kurtley Beale saga on the eve of his tribunal hearing at the ARU, claiming former staffer Di Patston described the player as “a pig'’ after the pair’s altercation on a flight to ­Argentina.

The player told The Daily Telegraph last night that on the morning of Monday, September 29, when the team arrived in Argentina, Patston asked him Beale’s age.

“She was extremely emotional and she said that it was too late for Kurtley,” the player said.

“She told me that with her 13 years of experience in psychology, it was her view that he will lose his best friend, then his ­marriage.”

media_camera Kurtley Beale and Di Patston won’t come face to face at Friday’s hearing.

FIVE-EIGHTH BERNARD FOLEY HOPES BEALE GETS FAIR HEARING

The senior Wallaby said she called Beale a “pig” for his sexist texts and that she and the coach, Ewen McKenzie had agreed that he was two different people.

And in another major development The Daily Telegraph can reveal the ARU have accepted that the alleged text exchange between Beale and Patston tended as evidence in the Wallabies star’s code of conduct hearing has been manipulated.

It is understood that a third party, and not Beale, is responsible for the most offensive text sent to Patston that has thrown Australian rugby into a state of turmoil.

Beale will face a tribunal at ARU headquarters today at which a three-man independent panel will determine his fate.

media_camera If found guilty on Friday, Beale may never play for the Wallabies again.

The Daily Telegraph understands that Beale’s phone records are at odds with those presented by Patston and that lawyers from both sides will be shown the results of forensic examinations of his phone.

Experts spent yesterday deciphering the messages sent from Beale’s phone on June 9. These do not appear to match Patston’s.

Beale will make a 70-page submission to the hearing and has ­requested that both McKenzie and Patston are present for cross examination. Neither will attend.

His legal team is expected to argue Beale should be allowed to join the Wallabies’ spring tour and be paid compensation for his considerable legal bills.

media_camera The fall out from the Beale scandal has cost Ewen McKenzie his dream job as Wallabies coach

The Daily Telegraph understands that new Wallabies coach Michael Cheika wants Beale on the spring tour of Europe, in the Waratahs team for next season and as a central figure in the Wallabies World Cup campaign late next year.

Beale’s hopes of joining the tour are in the hands of the three-person tribunal, made up of District Court judge Mark Williams, John Boultee (ARU) and Dominic Villa (RUPA).

The three-member panel will determine whether Beale breached the ARU’s Code of Conduct with the text messages sent to Patston on June 3, and if guilty, will then also determine what penalty Beale faces.

Beale’s past record can be taken into account if a penalty is required.

The last Wallaby to face a code of conduct hearing was Quade Cooper in 2012 over the infamous “toxic” outburst, and social media criticism of an ARU-endorsed video game.

He was fined $40,000 and hit with a suspended three-match suspension.