A woman has opened up about her daughter having a child with her husband – and has revealed they’re now on good terms.
Julie King, 47, thought she’d found her true love in 41-year-old Vince Bienvenu, and the two wed after a whirlwind romance.
But after a few months, Vince started an affair with Julie’s 25-year-old daughter Leanne Taylor, and soon after, she fell pregnant.
When Julie learned the news, she was beyond hurt, but she said she doesn’t blame her daughter. On the contrary, Leanne doesn’t feel any guilt for taking her mother’s husband. She says she was grieving after having lost her baby daughter Mia to cot death three months before Julie and Vince wed in December 2012.
She also says that Vince was there for her and that’s where the relationship began.
This behaviour was noticed by Julie’s other daughter Christine.
Julie says: “She told me, ‘I don’t like their body language when they’re together, Mum. He’s always touching her knee.”
Julie confronted Vince but he denied it, saying: “Why would I have married you if Leanne was the one I wanted?’”
Leanne confessed she’d slept with him when Vince stormed out of the house after an argument with Julie over money.
Julie told her daughter to leave, and when Vince returned, he caved and told her the truth. He said he was sorry and he was “weak”.
Vince
Vince was desperate to save the marriage and tried to put them through counselling but it didn’t work.
But despite this betrayal, Julie told Daily Mail she has no ill will against her daughter.
“They were both to blame,” she said. “He preyed on my daughter. He’s a player and even before this happened, he’d been cheating on me with someone on Facebook who he told me was ‘just a friend.’”
“I don’t blame Leanne for breaking up my marriage. I blame Vince. Leanne is my daughter and I’ll always love her, no matter what.”
It took many months of silence between the mother and daughter to reconcile and when they did, Leanne was eight months pregnant.
Leanne shares no guilt over her actions, saying: “Life does go on, that’s it isn’t it? There’s two sides to every story. There’s her side, there’s his side, there’s my side. I don’t see why it should keep getting brought up.”
Julie, who is still waiting for a divorce from Vince, said: “I had to let it be between them. I bonded with the baby although it was hard at first because she looked a little bit like him. All I could see was him.”
“Thank God, she looks nothing like him now.”
“What Leanne did was unforgivable but I understand that she was vulnerable – she was grieving for her baby daughter,” said Julie.
“Vince, on the other hand, should have known better. He ripped our family apart but we won’t let him beat us.”
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