Woman who found out her ex-husband was a pedophile reveals signs she should have noticed
A British TV personality has spoken out about her reaction after learning her ex-husband was a pedophile.
Lynsey Crombie is popularly known online as the ‘Queen of Clean’ for her many cleaning tips, tricks and videos surrounding clean homes.
First finding fame on the British reality TV show Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners, she has since built a popular social media following.
However, while she has found success in this, her personal life has had some dark moments, most notably when she discovered that the father of her two children was a pedophile.
Crombie has previously discussed this horrific discovery on This Morning in 2021, where she said she had ‘no idea’ about her partner’s criminal past before their marriage and only learnt months before his arrest.
She said: “I had no idea. I had gone back to visit my parents for a few days, and I just thought, ’ What’s gone on while I was away?”
While details weren’t provided about the nature of his conviction, it was said that he is a ‘schedule one sex offender’, which means ‘he’s convicted of an offence against a child’.
Lynsey Crombie had no idea of her ex-husband’s criminal past (ITV)
Crombie was 28 weeks pregnant with her twin daughters at the time and described grabbing bleach to clean everything, including herself.
In an interview with The Daily Mail, the cleaning expert said: “I remember pouring it all over the work surfaces, and over my own hands and arms, and I scrubbed. I scrubbed everything – myself included – with a scourer. I remember thinking that this man had touched me physically and I want all his germs to go.
“I still remember the fumes and how I felt afterwards – not good. It was a coping mechanism rather than normal behaviour, but when you are married to a paedophile…’
While Crombie was completely unaware of her ex-husband’s crimes, of which she didn’t go into detail about, she says that she can now see the signs.
She said that her ex would often not be in bed in the early hours and instead was ‘in his office, at the computer’, and that when she went in a few times, she remembers him ‘actually pulling the plug from the wall, not just shutting down the computer’.
She recalled him spending a ton of time in his office and ‘pulling the plug’ out of the computer when she came in the room (ITV)
She also detailed a similar experience in 2021 on the Life, Interrupted podcast, saying: “I used to go into the office and he used to always pull the plug out of the wall where the computer was.
“So rather than just closing the laptop down or letting me see the screen, he’d actually pull the plug out of the wall.
“And it’s only when I look back – and I spotted this three or four times in the relationship – I think “what was he doing on the computer to actually physically pull it out of the wall?”
After finding out, she initially thought that she ‘can’t have his children’, however, she went into premature labor five days afterwards.
“And thank goodness that when my girls arrived, I looked at them and felt nothing but love. They actually saved me because I had to rebuild my life for them. I don’t think I’d be here without them,” Crombie said.
A woman complained she was disappointed with the results of a weight loss drug used and explained what she wished she did differently.
Weight loss drugs have shot up to massive popularity in recent years and more people than ever are speaking to their health professionals about getting on to them.
However, some people have taken to social media to complain about the potential bad side effects, costs and end results in recent months.
Hospice nurse Julie McFadden remarked that she had actually lost 20 pounds in weight after going on the weight loss drug, but ultimately was ‘disappointed’ with the results.
She noted that she does not regret going on the drug but wish she did things differently when she was on it.
Speaking in a video posted in November last year, she said: “I lost weight, about 20 pounds, I used a GLP-1, it took about 8 months and what I found after I done that is I didn’t like my results.
Julie McFadden said she was disappointed with her results (hospicenursejulie/Instagram)
“I looked too skinny, in my opinion and I felt very, very weak, like noticeably weak.”
The 43-year-old McFadden admitted that she ignored the advice from multiple doctors about what she still needed to do while on the drugs.
She noted that she was told that she needed to do weight training exercises and needed to eat more protein, because of her age.
McFadden continued: “Because of my age and because I’m on this medication, I need to eat a lot of protein.
“Of course, they gave me a number of how much protein i should eat in a day but i can’t remember but i didn’t do that.
“They also said, you must weight train while you are on this medication but I didn’t do that.
Julie said her doctors now want to wean her off the drug (hospicenursejulie/Instagram)
“By the end other 8 months yes i lost 20 pounds but i was like ‘huh’, what is going on here.”
She remarked that she no longer liked her figure and was annoyed about the loss of her normal ‘curvy’ figure as well as her ‘bubble butt’.
She went on to share a recent picture of herself saying she looked ‘scrawny’.
McFadden remarked that her doctors have now said they think it is a good idea to wean her off the weight loss drug and have insisted she start eating 90 grams of protein a day as well as weight training.
She concluded that she still believes GLP-1 drugs are ‘amazing’ and she doesn’t have regrets other than not doing it ‘the right way’ with proper exercise and dieting.