A woman told her mother she had been raped by Stephen Milne the morning after the alleged incident and said she hated the former AFL player, a Melbourne court has been told.
Milne, 33, is facing four charges of rape over an incident at his former St Kilda teammate Leigh Montagna's Highett home in March 2004.
The complainant's mother told police her daughter, who was 19 at the time, called her hours after the alleged incident and said Milne had sex with her without her consent.
The woman said her daughter was distraught and upset.
"I said `what's happened?'. She said `I was with Leigh last night. The room was all dark and when I opened my eyes it was Steven (sic) Milne'," the woman said in a statement tendered to a committal hearing at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
"She said that she had run around the place screaming and raced out the door.
"She said `I hate Steven (sic) Milne'."
The woman said her daughter told her Mr Montagna's housemate and former St Kilda player Justin Koschitzke was also home at the time.
When Mr Koschitzke's girlfriend asked who the woman and her friend were as they were leaving the house, someone said "just a couple of dirty girls", the statement alleges.
The woman told her mother that her friend, Milne and Mr Montagna had agreed to swap partners, and that she had only found out after leaving the house.
Prosecutor David Cordy told the hearing the woman repeatedly pushed Milne away and told him no, but he persisted.
At one stage she said "Leigh, remember last time", Mr Cordy said.
Mr Cordy said when the bedroom door was opened allowing more light into the room the woman realised it was Milne, she immediately retreated to a bathroom with her friend.
Mr Montagna sent a text message the next day to the woman saying "sorry about what happened last night, I thought you knew it was him and not me", Mr Cordy said.
When interviewed by police, Milne said he did try to have sex with the woman but denied any mistaken identity, Mr Cordy said.
Mr Cordy said Milne told police "there was no way known she thought it was Leigh the whole time", and suggested the woman was jealous.
Mr Montagna told police he heard the woman say "no, I don't want to have sex with you", the court was told.
Although the alleged incident happened in 2004, charges were only laid in June after a police review found the initial investigation was inadequate.
Mr Montagna and Mr Koschitzke are expected to give evidence at the hearing.
Milne retired from the AFL this year, after playing 275 games with the Saints.
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