A woman sought revenge on her cheating boyfriend after creating a fake dating profile online. Kendel had been with her now-ex for four and a half months and had reached the 'official' stage where they called each other 'girlfriend' and ' boyfriend' . The 32-year-old says the couple had an 'agreement' to tell each other if they had sex or started seeing other people.
But while watching the iconic film Fatal Attraction , Kendel, started becoming suspicious of her partner. The 1987 hit follows the story of Michael Douglas' character Dan Callagher who gets involved with another woman in spite of being married. "He felt bad for Douglas' character and said he had gone through that, despite previously saying he'd never cheated on his ex-wife before," Kendel said.
"When I asked him what he meant he said he misspoke. That made me suspicious." Unable to shake the feeling, Kendel, from Illinois in the US, re-downloaded the dating app Bumble to see if he was still active on the site.
She created a profile using fake pictures and the name 'Jessy' and ended up matching with her partner. The catfish only spoke to her real-life boyfriend for one day before her allegedly asked her to meet up. "I felt really sad because at that point he wasn’t just the guy I was dating but also one of my best friends," she recalled.
"We'd talked about anything and everything, including how we'd been hurt by lying and cheating in the past. On that day we spoke on the phone about our relationship positively." .