2020 was a difficult year for everyone, but for Dominique Nugent, she was also suffering through heartbreak. The popular Irish influencer had always kept her relationship very private from her followers and slowly began sharing more and more of the behind the scenes of her wedding planning.
However on the big day she instead shared a heartbreaking post; “To the wedding dress I’ll never get to wear. Today should have been our wedding day. It should have been the happiest day of my life.”
“I dreamed of this morning, getting ready with my bridesmaids, putting on this dress and my dad walking me up the aisle to meet you to start the next chapter of our lives together. We had it all mapped out, the wedding, the house, the kids, the growing old together. I was so excited for our future.”
Continuing she said; “The past few weeks have honestly been the hardest of my life and at one stage I just wanted to not be here at all. I have never felt such intense sadness or been so blindsided by anyone, to be betrayed by the person I loved the most was the most heartbreaking thing.”
“I never thought I’d have to write a post like this to explain why we won’t be getting married. To have a relationship I kept private from here discussed so publicly only days after my world crumbled down around me was really tough for me. It still doesn’t feel real and I don’t know that it ever will.”
“6 years of my life gone in the blink of an eye and my best friend now a stranger to me. Right now I feel like I’ll never be able to get over this or trust anyone again but everyone tells me times a healer so I’m wishing the time away to hopefully feel normal again.”
“I’m so thankful to be surrounded by such strong women in my mam and sisters even down to my 5 year old niece who have all helped me so much more than they will ever know the past couple of weeks.”
Now, in a new interview with our sister mag, Stellar, she has shared what life has been like since revealing that awful news.
“It was a really, really bad time and a very low time, but looking back on it now I have no regrets in sharing my story, because at the time I kept saying I wish I knew somebody who went through something similar that I could speak to that I could see that they’re okay now.”
She also added that it was a blessing for her relationship to break down when it did, before they took anymore of life’s big steps together; “I was actually so blessed that it was before the wedding, before we bought the house or had children. I feel really grateful.”
“I had the respect for myself to walk away from the relationship straight away, it was never a question for me to stay in that situation where I felt disrespected or humiliated.”
The 31-year-old also revealed to Stellar that she has since moved on, and is now seeing someone else.
“If you had said to me this time seven months ago that I would have met somebody new I would have never thought it would happen. And now I think it was maybe supposed to work out this way.”
Continuing she said; “It’s obviously very hard at the minute but I have met somebody new, or rather rekindled something with somebody and it’s exciting. It wasn’t me going online, it was just someone getting in contact after so many years so it kind of felt natural and normal.”
“It is a little scary because I never thought I’d meet anyone again or have these types of feelings again, so it’s mad but its exciting.”
Fo the full interview, pick up the latest issue of Stellar magazine, out now!
