A Canadian widow made a shocking revelation that she consumed her late husband's ashes after learning he’d had a number of affairs and sought the company of several high-priced escorts.
In her new memoir ‘A Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards’, Jessica Waite narrated her journey of grief, betrayal, and a deeply emotional reaction to her husband's chronic cheating.
Jessica’s husband, Sean Waite, passed away in 2015 while on a work trip to Texas, USA.
In the memoir, Jessica recalled how she stumbled upon the devastating truth shortly after his demise while using his iPad to search for the hospital handling his body.
Jessica writes that as she started typing Houston into the browser, it auto-filled with the words “Houston escorts.”
She also found searches for specific escorts as well as their prices and locations.
Over the following months, Jessica unraveled her husband’s secret life. She found that he had regularly seen escorts, cheated on her with several women, lied about working late, and downloaded a vast collection of pornographic videos, neatly organised into categorised folders. She also learned he had rented an apartment in Colorado where he met with escorts or women from his dates.
In the memoir, Jessica recalls how the emotional turmoil left her feeling "detached from reality." Struggling to cope with the betrayal, she admitted to desecrating her husband’s remains in a moment of anger.
“I’ve desecrated the remains of my partner in life,” she writes, recounting how she mixed his ashes with her dog's feces before, in despair and guilt, she consumed some of his ashes. “But then, in despair and guilt, took more of his ashes — and actually ate them. 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.”
