Heartbroken This Morning star reveals fiance’s hotel hook up and ‘real reason’ she won’t take back grovelling love rat
THIS Morning life coach Michelle Elman has revealed the reason she won’t take back her love rat fiancé after he slept with another woman.
The heartbroken author said he begged her to take him back after she warned him she was due to appear on This Morning today.
She appeared on the ITV lunchtime show for the first time since breaking her split news to her family and followers and telling them her engagement was off.
Michelle told This Morning hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard the devastating moment she found out he had cheated, just 24 hours after he proposed.
Michelle, 31, lived with her fiancé for two years and they were together for three after they met on a dating app.
She posted very few photos of them during their relationship, but her engagement post was recognised by one of her 500 thousand followers.
Cat and Ben were gripped as Michelle said: “He was with me when I got the first message saying ‘is this person your fiance?’
“I thought it was a colleague, like this person knows you, and it took a while to figure out, my first reaction was shock.
“I was shaking and I kept saying please tell me first I don’t want to find out from her.
“Then it was screenshots of the dating profile and his number, I believed her from the get go, but I needed evidence.
“She told me the hotel, and I said put that in your email, and it came up, then he admitted it.
“This was meant to be the best weekend of my life.
“I went to be with my sister for a week, I had a competition to see who could cry the loudest with my two year old niece. I won.
“I don’t want his identity to come out, it’s not a story about him it’s a story about me and women who have been cheated on.”
The life coach admitted some relationships can recover from an affair, and explained why there is “no going back” for her.
She said she couldn’t face her family if she took him back.
Fighting back tears, she said: “How do you have a life together?
“You can’t, the first day I only told my sister who is 12 years older and one friend who is going through a break up.”
“Then it was 4am the next day and I said, I can’t stay.
“The lying is bigger than the cheating, and the nail in the coffin is 4am the next day I told my dad.”
Michelle gulped before she added to Cat and Ben: “You can’t come back from that.
“Also because he asked my dad for his blessing in September, and you really can’t come back from that.
“I don’t judge any woman who wants to stay and work it out, but you need the people in your life to also like him.”