Helen Thorn

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.