Helen Thorn
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Nothing big.
It's happening in China.
Could have changed our lives at all.
But it was during that time, my children were eight and 11 and it was a World Book Day and I was getting my daughter ready to get a costume.
And I said, oh, you can wear your dad's blazer.
And when I picked up his blazer, there was something hard in it.
And I was like, oh, it's like a card.
And I opened it and it was a letter.
On the back of it, there was a name I recognize, a lady's name.
And the reason I recognize it is that she was our internet troll.
This woman had been trolling us.
writing horrible things on scummy mummies leaving like zero star reviews on things and I was like oh my god that's that woman and when I opened the card it revealed that my ex-husband or husband at the time had been having an affair with her and it turns out for four years so everything
It's a sitcom.
It was like an episode of Black Mirror.
Like it was mental.
And then all this sort of stuff got revealed.
Like they'd been on all these holidays, which I thought were work trips.
There was a secret bank account in Australia.
It got bigger and bigger and messier and messier.
And I had, even though I'd been together with him for 22 years, even though we had no, there was no indication that we were going to split up.