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A woman has claimed that her ex-fiancé left her with a debt of over £8,000 after they separated. Katherine Lemus was gobsmacked after she separated from her high school sweetheart to discover she had been slapped with huge costs, which had accumulated from credit card payments, including half the cost of her engagement ring.
Taking to popular video-streaming service TikTok, Katherine, 32, raked in over 2.7 million views after she detailed the tragic tale. The bakery owner from Toronto, Canada, explained how her former partner of nine years ditched her over the phone.
Katherine claimed that her fiancé cheated on her just five months into their engagement while admitting to racking up over £8,000 ($10,000) in debt.
Katherine was slapped with the cost of her own engagement ring (Jam Press)In an attempt to pay off the debt, Katherine tried to sell the engagement ring he had given her.
However, the shop worker allegedly told her that half of the cost was charged to her credit card.
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She said: "My ex broke up with me over the phone after confessing he was cheating on me. I was blindsided.
"I tried to pawn the ring and was offered pennies so I posted and sold it for basically $1,000 (£800) to someone off Craigslist.
"My ex also left me in around $10,000 debt from a credit card I gave him access to. My family and friends were livid. They were so shocked because it was a total change from the person they knew.
"I am still finding out things to this day, such as more girls he cheated on me with and he tried to be friends with my friends but clearly that didn't work out."
Katherine got married to her new husband in 2019 (Jam Press)
She says her husband is very 'supportive' (Jam Press)Katherine shared her story online, where people shared their disbelief at what happened to her, as well as horror stories of their own.
One user wrote: "When he sold his motorcycle to prove he loved me to buy my ring and then I remembered I bought the motorcycle…"
Another person said: "Mine wasn't even real gold. I went to sell it thinking I would get good money from it, imagine my embarrassment!"
"Mine was bought on a loan from his ex-wife, that she’s still paying off!" another user commented.
After nearly a decade together, Katherine split from her ex in 2014. Thankfully, however, something positive did come out of the debacle.
The incident inspired her to start her own business, a cake bakery called Sugar Snob, to repay the debt and boost her credit score.
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She's now debt-free and happily married to another man, who she met five months after the breakup, tying the knot in 2019.
Katherine added: "I have paid it all off and funny enough, it's the reason I started baking because I needed to pay it off and be able to boost my bad credit score to buy a home.
"He [my husband] knew about everything when we first met but he's amazing and supportive and the total opposite of my ex.
"I feel relieved it's over because it put me in such a bad place mentally and I'm only speaking about it now."
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