Veitch, 35, was fined $10,000, placed on supervision for nine months and ordered to do 300 hours of community work after pleading guilty in Auckland District Court to injuring Kristin Dunne-Powell with reckless disregard for her safety.
Six other charges of assault were dismissed when the Crown offered no evidence.
Ms Dunne-Powell said tonight she was not convinced that Veitch "really understands what he has done and really taken responsibility for that".
"I think his remorse is over what has happened for him in his life, as opposed to having any true remorse for me and what happened to me," she told TV3's Campbell Live.
When asked if she had forgiven Veitch, she said she did not feel the need to and had not been asked to.
Veitch's guilty plea came four days before the start of a planned depositions hearing on the seven charges and several months after he vowed to fight to clear his name.
Veitch closed his eyes in relief when he heard he would not go to prison, as sought by the Crown.
He stood beside the dock as Ms Dunne-Powell told the court she was still in pain, still not working and had not had a good night's sleep since the attack.
In her victim impact report she said the attack put her in a wheelchair and then on crutches for several weeks after she was kicked in the back by Veitch as she lay on the floor of his bedroom.
The attack left her with a physical deformity in her back and when she got married in 2007 she had to ask her dressmaker to alter her dress.
She was still having physiotherapy and her inability to return to sport and her job had contributed to her depression.
She said she constantly relived the experience and Veitch had made her feel "helpless, isolated, threatened and ashamed".
She had been harassed and hunted by some sections of the media and her life had been turned upside down.
She had aged prematurely and it had affected every part of her life.
During sentencing the court was told Veitch had paid $12,000 to Ms Dunne-Powell initially to cover her medical costs, then another $150,000 in compensation for lost income and other expenses. He also paid $5000 to a charity which worked at preventing violence in the home.
Veitch's lawyer, Stuart Grieve, QC, said the incident had also deeply traumatised Veitch who had twice tried to kill himself.
He said when he tried to leave his bedroom Ms Dunne-Powell was lying in the way and he cracked, kicking her in the back.
Mr Grieve submitted there was provocation but that was later rejected by Judge Jan Doogue.
Apart from the money he had paid Ms Dunne-Powell, Veitch had lost his income of $500,000 a year and had sold his house to pay legal and other costs.
When he kicked Ms Dunne-Powell it was a momentary loss of control, Mr Grieve said.
The judge told Veitch he was the author of his own misfortune.
"Nothing she did justified what you did that night."
She said Veitch got credit for an early guilty plea which meant Ms Dunne-Powell did not have to go through the trauma of a trial.
He also got credit for his remorse and the money he had paid in compensation and emotional distress.
