EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison has revealed all about her previous marriage and the way she discovered her husband was having an affair.
Cheryl Fergison, greatest identified for her position as Heather Trott in EastEnders, has launched her new tell-all autobiography, Behind The Scenes, the place she reveals her life off-screen was usually extra dramatic than her plot traces on the BBC cleaning soap.
The actress, who courageously revealed she suffered a stroke earlier this 12 months that left her reliant on a strolling stick, mentioned: “I’ve at all times worn my coronary heart on my sleeve, so I hope my story is relatable.
“I’ve needed to come to phrases with numerous stuff. I needed to course of it earlier than I might speak about it. Now the time is true.”
A dramatic turning level got here when Cheryl, who portrayed Heather between 2007 and 2012, realised her first husband, Jay Saddiqi – dad to her son Alex, 25 – was dishonest, after climbing into the automobile, the Mirror reviews.
In an extract tailored from her e-book, she recalled: “I pulled the seatbelt throughout my physique after which it hit me. A scent. Mild, candy, floral and powdery, however undoubtedly not mine.”
“Jay, why can I scent girls’s fragrance on the seatbelt?” I mentioned, sniffing it once more like a bloodhound. He snapped his head spherical, a flicker of annoyance flashing in his eyes. ‘You’re imagining issues, Cheryl.’”
“‘I’m not. It’s robust. I can scent it proper right here,’” I held the strap as much as my nostril once more.”
“Jay set free an exaggerated sigh, drumming his fingers on the steering wheel. ‘It’s in all probability one of many lads from work. Their aftershave or one thing. You’re being paranoid,'” the extract continued.
“‘Oh, come off it. Since when do the boys at your safety agency scent like a duty-free fragrance counter?’ He turned away, staring out of the windscreen. “Are we going purchasing or what?”
“To at the present time, each time I get right into a automobile and pull on a seatbelt, I sniff it. I started to suspect that my husband was dishonest on me, however I attempted to persuade myself I used to be improper.”
Nevertheless a cellphone invoice arrived within the put up, itemizing calls to a quantity Cheryl did not recognise. When she known as the quantity, a mysterious girl reply. However when she rang again, the voice on the road was now Jay’s.
After some ‘strong detective work’ she discovered the place he and the lady have been assembly and went there to confront her then-husband.
She describes what she noticed as a “dingy, makeshift love nest.”
She writes: “And there, perched on the soiled mattress she shared with my husband, was a thin blonde girl, sipping a vivid blue WKD prefer it was essentially the most pure factor on the planet.”
“Jay stood subsequent to her, caught within the headlights, however nonetheless silent, nonetheless unwilling to present me something. Not an apology, not an evidence, not even an oz of disgrace,” she continued.
“That evening, I packed up the automobile, strapped Alex into his seat and drove to London. Leaving my marriage and Jay behind.”
Cheryl divorced Jay, an Afghan refugee, in 2008, eight years after tying the knot.
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