My Husband Told Me He Wants a Divorce and Asked Me to Speak to His Lawyer, so I Did. — Transcript

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1. 0:00"Good that you found out, Sophia. I no
2. 0:02longer have to hide my beautiful
3. 0:03girlfriend."
4. 0:05My husband, Xander, said it with pride,
5. 0:07like confessing an affair was a relief.
6. 0:10I'm Sophia, a lawyer.
7. 0:12I discovered a secret Facebook account
8. 0:14proving Xander was cheating. When I
9. 0:16confronted him, he didn't apologize. He
10. 0:18blamed me.
11. 0:19"You're not that interesting anymore.
12. 0:21You're not a supermodel. I'm done with
13. 0:23you. I've already hired a great lawyer."
14. 0:26What he didn't remember, we had an
15. 0:28ironclad prenup. If he cheated, I was
16. 0:30entitled to half his business. If
17. 0:32someone has ever humiliated you over an
18. 0:34affair while forgetting the legal
19. 0:36consequences they'd signed away, comment
20. 0:39below where you're watching from,
21. 0:41because this story is about to get very
22. 0:42satisfying. Xander wanted to drag out
23. 0:45the divorce hoping I'd give up my claim
24. 0:47out of exhaustion. I moved into my own
25. 0:49childhood home, hired nothing but
26. 0:51patience, and arranged a meeting with
27. 0:53his lawyer, Jake, at a cafe. Jake had no
28. 0:56idea I was Xander's wife. Our surnames
29. 0:58didn't match since I'd kept name
30. 1:00professionally. He also had no idea
31. 1:02about the affair and no idea about the
32. 1:04prenup. Xander had told him neither. I
33. 1:07laid it all out calmly. The evidence of
34. 1:09infidelity, the prenup documents,
35. 1:11everything. Jake studied it, visibly
36. 1:14deflated, and told me he needed a
37. 1:16serious conversation with his client
38. 1:18before proceeding. He quit the case
39. 1:20within a day. Xander called me furious
40. 1:22demanding to know what I'd told his
41. 1:24lawyer. "I guess you should have been
42. 1:25honest about who you'd be fighting
43. 1:27against," I told him. He threatened to
44. 1:29find a better lawyer and destroy me in
45. 1:31court. "Good luck," I said. "Just
46. 1:33remember to tell your new lawyer about
47. 1:35the affair and the prenup." He couldn't
48. 1:37find anyone. Word spreads fast in legal
49. 1:40circles, and no one wanted to represent
50. 1:42a client who'd lied about both
51. 1:43infidelity and an ironclad prenup
52. 1:45against a known attorney. Weeks later,
53. 1:48Xander showed up at my door, desperate.
54. 1:51He begged me to reconsider the marriage,
55. 1:53swore he'd cut off his mistress,
56. 1:55insisted it had all been a mistake. I
57. 1:58laughed in his face. "I know exactly you
58. 2:00want me back," I told him. "You don't
59. 2:02want to split your business."
60. 2:04He wasn't fighting for us. He was
61. 2:06fighting for his money. I told him
62. 2:08plainly, his mistress was already losing
63. 2:11interest now that word was spreading
64. 2:13he'd soon be broke. I was right. She
65. 2:16stopped taking his calls the moment she
66. 2:17realized there'd be no fortune left to
67. 2:19enjoy. With no lawyer willing to
68. 2:22represent him and no leverage left,
69. 2:24Xander eventually caved and requested a
70. 2:26mutual split. The pre-nup made the rest
71. 2:28simple. He was legally required to hand
72. 2:31over half his business. He had no cash
73. 2:33to buy me out instead, having spent it
74. 2:35all trying to keep his mistress happy.
75. 2:37He ended up selling his mansion and
76. 2:39downgrading to a rental condo. His
77. 2:41earnings cut in half, his reputation
78. 2:43among local lawyers in tatters. He tried
79. 2:46one more time to win me back, hoping to
80. 2:48regain full control of the business.
81. 2:50That was never happening. As for me, I
82. 2:52appointed someone to manage my share of
83. 2:54his business, upgraded to my own new
84. 2:56mansion, and built a life entirely on my
85. 2:58own terms, combining my law practice
86. 3:01income with my business stake. He spent
87. 3:03a decade undermining my career,
88. 3:05convinced I'd never amount to anything
89. 3:07without him. In the end, the pre-nup he
90. 3:09insisted on writing to protect his ego
91. 3:11was the exact document that cost him
92. 3:13everything.