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Gerrard Kaonga
A British TV personality has spoken out about her reaction after learning her ex-husband was a pedophile.
Lynsey Crombie is popularly known online as the ‘Queen of Clean’ for her many cleaning tips, tricks and videos surrounding clean homes.
First finding fame on the British reality TV show Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners, she has since built a popular social media following.
However, while she has found success in this, her personal life has had some dark moments, most notably when she discovered that the father of her two children was a pedophile.
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Crombie has previously discussed this horrific discovery on This Morning in 2021, where she said she had 'no idea' about her partner's criminal past before their marriage and only learnt months before his arrest.
She said: "I had no idea. I had gone back to visit my parents for a few days, and I just thought, ’ What’s gone on while I was away?”
While details weren't provided about the nature of his conviction, it was said that he is a 'schedule one sex offender', which means 'he’s convicted of an offence against a child'.
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Crombie was 28 weeks pregnant with her twin daughters at the time and described grabbing bleach to clean everything, including herself.
In an interview with The Daily Mail, the cleaning expert said: “I remember pouring it all over the work surfaces, and over my own hands and arms, and I scrubbed. I scrubbed everything – myself included – with a scourer. I remember thinking that this man had touched me physically and I want all his germs to go.
"I still remember the fumes and how I felt afterwards – not good. It was a coping mechanism rather than normal behaviour, but when you are married to a paedophile…’
While Crombie was completely unaware of her ex-husband's crimes, of which she didn't go into detail about, she says that she can now see the signs.
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She said that her ex would often not be in bed in the early hours and instead was 'in his office, at the computer', and that when she went in a few times, she remembers him 'actually pulling the plug from the wall, not just shutting down the computer'.
She also detailed a similar experience in 2021 on the Life, Interrupted podcast, saying: “I used to go into the office and he used to always pull the plug out of the wall where the computer was.
“So rather than just closing the laptop down or letting me see the screen, he’d actually pull the plug out of the wall.
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“And it’s only when I look back – and I spotted this three or four times in the relationship – I think “what was he doing on the computer to actually physically pull it out of the wall?”
After finding out, she initially thought that she 'can’t have his children', however, she went into premature labor five days afterwards.
"And thank goodness that when my girls arrived, I looked at them and felt nothing but love. They actually saved me because I had to rebuild my life for them. I don’t think I’d be here without them," Crombie said.