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The comments landed in waves.

Cheated for thirty years and made his wife raise the mistress's baby. I genuinely didn't think it could get worse than this.

And he's been living in her inherited brownstone the whole time. Made her quit her career and then mocked her for being dependent.

Want it both ways. Didn't the mistress claim she was anti-marriage? I guess 'anti-marriage' means 'lay eggs in someone else's nest and come back to collect once they've raised the kid.'

This couple is somehow even grosser than I thought humanly possible.

Strangers dug up Vivienne's Brooklyn address and started showing up. Some wanted a look at the villains. Some wanted to confront them.

Richard and Vivienne didn't hold up. They couldn't.

Caroline filed a formal HR complaint against Ethan with his employer, attaching screenshots of his public posts and the threads. Carrington Hedge Fund, image-sensitive as every fund is, cut him loose within a week.

Three people. One small apartment. Round-the-clock blame games.

Vivienne blamed Ethan for posting them online in the first place. Ethan retorted — you two did it, how is it my fault people know?

Richard got blamed by both of them — the original architect of everything.

At some point, the two of them — Richard and Ethan — decided Josephine was the solution.

If she came out publicly and said she'd forgiven them, the online rage would die.

They started blowing up my phone.

I didn't answer a single call.