Finding out your partner cheated on you is one thing, but finding out it happened to your best friend is a nightmare.

Sharing her story with the podcast Everyone Has a secretSteph opened the case with the evidence: “Last week my best friend confessed that she had sex with my husband at his bachelor party,” she said.

Oh dear.

After 18 months of marriage to her husband Tom, she made the horrific discovery during a night out with a group of friends, and it took her completely by surprise.

“I had absolutely no idea there were any problems in our relationship, let alone that he was capable of this level of cheating,” she shared in her submission.

Additionally, Steph believed that her best friend Maddie was also a loyal companion in her circle. “She was the maid of honor in our wedding,” she said. “We’ve been best friends for two decades.”

Steph explained that she, Maddie and a group of friends were out one night and the conversation turned to them sharing their ‘body count’ – aka how many people they’ve slept with.

As Maddie’s best friend, Steph already knew what that number was, so she pricked up her ears when Maddie said something different than Steph expected.

“Maddie has been with her partner for three years, so I knew hers hadn’t changed,” Steph said. “However, when it was her turn, she said 19 instead of 18.

“As soon as she said 19, I corrected her — ‘No, your count is 18,’ I said across the table. She said drunkenly, ‘No, mine is 19.'”

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Something was wrong, but Steph assumed Maddie had accidentally told Jack she had cheated on him.

“She clearly realised her mistake at the time because she tried to back down in a pathetic way, but she was too drunk to do it convincingly,” Steph said.

“At that point I thought she had exposed herself for cheating on her partner Jack and that she was ashamed.”

Steph couldn’t let it go and decided to pull Maddie aside and let her talk.

But she said it was ten times worse than Steph could have imagined.

“She burst into tears and it didn’t make any sense,” Steph said. “She kept saying, ‘It was a mistake, it was a mistake.’ And I was just so confused.

“Then she could suddenly spit it out. The person she was cheating on me with was my husband, Tom.”

Shocked, Steph slapped her in the face and walked away.

Steph, still reeling from the confession, began to piece together the missing pieces. She understands that the incident occurred on the night of her husband’s bachelor party. “She won’t tell me why or how she got there and I remember the night of his bachelor party clearly because I asked her to come over and hang out with me because I was feeling anxious,” she said.

“She clearly lied when she said she was busy and had to work that night.”

Since the girls’ night when everything came to light, Steph has made plans to cut both parties out of her life, but Maddie is still trying to repair their friendship.

“I would ask for more details but honestly I can’t bear to speak to her again,” Steph said. “Maddie has been blowing up my phone begging for forgiveness and most importantly not to tell her partner, Jack, what she’s done. I haven’t responded and I don’t ever intend to.”

Steph concluded her story by saying that she plans to leave Tom when he returns from a business trip. “I haven’t told Tom that I know,” she said. “This all happened while he was on an international business trip and I’m definitely not going to do this over the phone.

“I’m leaving him. I’ve already called our realtor to break our lease. I’m devastated, but I want to show him that in all his anger. He’s not going to get away with this over a phone call or a text message.”

Of course, it didn’t take long for people to respond in the comments when the story was shared on TikTok, with everyone giving their opinion on how Steph should handle the situation.

Someone suggested doing it via cake, which is equal parts brilliant, dark, and delicious. “‘I do. I did it. I’m done.’ Printed on a cake. A picture of a broken heart 💔 with a picture of his face on one half and his best friend’s face on the other,” one user wrote.

Another had some practical advice on how to end the relationship, saying, “Get a lawyer, transfer your money, pack his stuff, change the locks. Tell all his friends and family and the ex-boyfriend’s partner.”

Another suggested, “Have him come home to an empty apartment with papers on the counter and ghost him. Traumatize him back as a best friend.”

Whatever Steph decides, her next step, she said, is to move in with one of her friends, hopefully one who doesn’t make her as angry as her so-called best friend.

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