Woman admits to eating her dead husband's ashes after finding out he cheated on her for years

Do we ever truly know the person we share our lives with? Some people find out devastating truths after their loved-ones' death. One woman thought her husband was dead, until she ran into him on the street one day. Another woman, Jessica Waite, discovered her own husband's dirty secrets once he had died. Here's what she learned.

Jessica Waite found out her husband had been cheating for years

Jessica Waite, an author from the United States, lost her husband of 17 years in 2015. Sean died of a sudden heart attack while on a business trip to Houston, Texas, leaving behind a devastated wife, who had always thought her marriage was perfect. Jessica took her husband's iPad to look for the number of the hospital that held his body when she stumbled upon his dirty little secrets.

Indeed, she found several numbers of escorts, and evidence of meetings with different women over the years. She also discovered he had lied to her, saying he had to work late when in fact he was busy sleeping with other women, and downloading hours of pornographic footage on his computer. He also rented a secret flat in Colorado, where he would invite these women over.

She ate her husband's ashes out of revenge

Jessica wrote a book about her ordeal, entitled The Widow's Guide to Dead B*stards. In it, she reveals that she ended up tearing open the bag containing Sean's ashes, and mixing them with her dog faeces, out of revenge. She explains:

I’ve desecrated the remains of my partner in life. But then, in despair and guilt, took more of his ashes — and actually ate them.

Feeling extremely confused, angry and guilty, Jessica made the impulse decision to eat the remaining ashes of her dead husband. She says she felt 'detached from reality in the wake of Sean’s death' in that moment. The author writes:

The remains feel dry against my fingertips, coarser than baking powder, grainier than salt. They mix with the teary water, a mineral mud on the back of my tongue. I swallow.

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The Sun: ASHES TO GNASHERS I was devastated when my ‘perfect’ husband died then I discovered his awful secret, I took revenge by eating his ashes