R.I.P. to you and me, buddy!
With her deepest condolences, a scorned siren dumped her cheating Prince Charming successful existent femme fatale style.
“I was successful furniture lying adjacent to him erstwhile I saw I had a caller connection petition from a woman who he’d been messaging,” Melissa Viegas, 23, from Manchester, told Kennedy News, adding that her now ex-boyfriend’s different emotion liking shared screenshot grounds of his “sexting” sins.
“So I ended up cutting them retired and putting them successful a ‘Sorry for your loss’ card,” said Viegas, a master’s student and bartender. “I showed up to his activity and gave him nan card. He opened it, stared astatine it a while.”
“He was intelligibly embarrassed.”
Footage of nan brilliant Gen Z’s “perfectly executed” gotcha has racked up complete 1.2 cardinal TikTok views from fans — mostly women — of nan ferocious stunt.
It was a masterful move Viegas spent a week devising.
“It really was difficult not saying anything,” admitted nan brunette, who met her ex, whose sanction has been withheld for privacy, via Instagram 2 years ago.
But instantly anterior to learning of his two-timing tendencies, Viegas had a sinking emotion her sweetheart was up to nary good.
“I had a batch of suspicions but I didn’t person immoderate difficult impervious that he was cheating,” she said. “Because location were truthful galore suspicions, I was already reasoning astir leaving. I knew I deserved better.”
And erstwhile she peeped astatine her honey’s flirty texts pinch his would-be mistress, that was nan last nail successful nan coffin.
“He told her that he didn’t person societal media but she didn’t judge him,” said Viegas. “She did immoderate digging and yet recovered my floor plan and felt terrible.”
The screenshot visuals of their tongue-in-cheek tête-à-tête near Viegas emotion furious.
“He tries to scheme to spot her aggregate times,” she said of nan devastating discovery. “He was really full-on sexting. It really scarred me. It was horrible, particularly seeing him telephone her nan pet names he calls me.”
But aft nan first sting wore off, nan wheels of revenge successful Viegas’ caput began turning. And her scheme to publically humiliate nan double-crossing dope went disconnected without a hitch.
“He was offended I had done it astatine his work,” she said of her sympathy paper delivery. “My friend grabbed my manus and said, ‘let’s conscionable go.'”
Viegas, however, doesn’t regret getting his goat.
Viegas posted astir her strategy successful a TikTok video — which now has complete 1 cardinal views.
“I conscionable thought, ‘I’m going to make a video,’ because he was truthful shameless,” nan pinup said pinch pride. “He knew I was suspicious and asking questions, and he made maine consciousness blameworthy astir bringing up him cheating.”
“I thought he needed to study immoderate shame,” she continued, grateful for nan activity of unwavering support she’s received from ladies online.
“Perfectly executed from commencement to finish,” raved a commenter connected TikTok. “I consciousness for illustration I should guidelines up and applaud girl.”
“No notes. Both girls get a 10/10,” different cheered.
“I’ve ne'er been much proud of a woman I don’t know,” an arsenic impressed onlooker declared.
The virtual adulation has taken Viegas by surprise.
“I had ne'er realized really beardown woman powerfulness could be,” she chimed. “The only dislike comments were from men.“
And her ex-man is now speaking retired successful his ain defense.
“The claims successful Melissa’s viral TikTok don’t bespeak who I am,” nan unnamed feline wrote successful a statement, per Kennedy News. “I profoundly regret immoderate wounded she felt during our narration and breakup, and I return work for engaging successful immoderate inappropriate messages that crossed a line.”
“That was a mistake,” he confessed, “not a reflection of my character, and I’m committed to learning from it.”
“Breakups are reliable and I understand emotions tin tally precocious online,” said nan wannabe playboy. “I’m not present to adhd to nan sound aliases constituent fingers — I’m focused connected moving guardant pinch integrity and privately.”
“I wish Melissa thing but nan best.”
Viegas, however, seems to uncertainty his sincerity.
Beneath her viral vid, she gave followers an update, which read, “Two different girls person reached retired to me, apparently he had a day planned for adjacent week! Guessing he’s now getting stood up.”
And he messaged 1 of my friends, ‘I was gonna break up pinch her anyway,’” Viegas added. “So congrats everyone, you crushed his ego! We virtually booked a vacation 2 weeks agone for [the] extremity of August, truthful there’s nary measurement he was readying for that.”