With two beautiful children and a devoted fiancé, Charlotte Dawson appeared to have it all. But her world came crumbling down earlier this month when she discovered her partner Matthew Sarsfield had been sexting another woman behind her back.
And while she struggled to come to terms with the betrayal, attempting to make sense of Matthew’s “bizarre” actions, the reality star has been keeping a closely guarded secret – she’s pregnant with his third baby.
“It’s been a crazy time,” Charlotte, 31, tells us through tears from her beautiful home in Blackpool. “Having to deal with the heartache, the hurt, the disappointment and being pregnant on top of it all… it’s been absolutely horrible.”
After finding out she was expecting their “surprise” baby in July, Charlotte and Matthew were getting their heads around their new addition, a sibling for brothers Noah, three, and one-year-old Jude, when a woman went to the press with suggestive messages Matthew had sent her. Upon finding out, at the beginning of August, Charlotte immediately kicked him out of their home and has been torn over their future ever since.
“Matthew has been really trying to make this right,” she tells us as she delicately cradles her stomach. “He’s told me how sorry he is and how he can’t even explain what happened, he was so drunk when he sent the messages. It all happened before we were pregnant. We’re considering couples’ counselling, but the bottom line is, he has to work on himself first.”
As we speak to Charlotte, daughter of the late comedian Les, it becomes clear that Matthew is back in the family home, but he is far from forgiven. “I made him go and say sorry to the life-size cardboard cutout I keep of my dad,” she says. “And he has a lot of making up to do with my mum, too.”
But ultimately Charlotte’s decision to have Matthew, 32, back in the house comes down to Noah and Jude.
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