My mind was fogged with pain and emotion, as just two days earlier - on Christmas Eve - my beloved husband Bob had told me he wasn't coming home. I'd discovered he'd been having a long-running affair and, despite desperate attempts to salvage our year marriage, our life together had come to an abrupt and agonising end. New lease of life: Julia Johns pictured today two years after finding out her husband had an affair and was still married to his first wife.
It was all so fast,' Tracy said. Alarm bells clanged. I'd always believed Bob and Tracy had divorced at least two years before we married in May Nervously, I inquired about the date of their divorce.
She told me their decree nisi came through in June , and the decree absolute in September - four months after our wedding. I was dumbstruck. I suggested she may have got the dates mixed up, but she was adamant there was no mistake. Not only was my so-called husband an adulterer, he was a bigamist, too. I ran from the house sobbing. With increasing horror I began to question every element of our married life, which as far as I was concerned had been happy for over a decade.
It was nothing more than a sham. I met Bob at a New Year's Day party in He lived next door to my friend Jenny in Okehampton, Devon, and as we were both single thirty-somethings Jenny did a spot of matchmaking. I didn't need much encouragement.
The minute I set eyes on Bob I was smitten. He was tall, dark and very charming. Unsuspecting: Julia Johns with her bigamist husband Bob after renewing their wedding vows in When he invited me to a dinner and dance at a fancy hotel in Bristol the following week, I was delighted to accept.
