The accused said he phoned Ms McHugh to ask her to tell the truth on April 20, 2012.
“I wanted to know what Toni’s position was,” he said, adding that it was not his belief they were still involved.
Baden-Clay told the court his wife never asked him how many people in his office knew about the affair.
He said Ms Baden-Clay did not ask him whether he would be able to “live with the guilt”.
The jury was shown another page from Ms Baden-Clay’s diary.
Mr Fuller asked the accused to read the next line.
“I couldn’t go back to her even if I wanted to,” he read aloud.
He said he did not know why his wife had written that.
Baden-Clay said his wife and her friend Kerry-Anne Walker went away together for her 40th birthday in 2008.
Mr Fuller took him to a line she had written near to her dot-point marked “40th birthday”, which read “4 weeks later started”.
“I was never asked the question but she’s obviously referencing that’s when the affair started,” he said.
Baden-Clay said he did not know why his wife had written in her diary: “Why so mean?”
“I don’t know and if she had been able to ask me that question she would have been able to expand upon that. We had recommenced our sexual relationship in about February that year after the best part of nine years with hardly any … and it was very awkward initially,” he said.
“There were a couple of occasions at the beginning where Allison was very self-conscious and very self-aware of what we were doing and I think she thinks that I laughed at the underwear that she was wearing and that’s not true.”
He said he did not tell his wife she smelled.
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