My Fight to the Top by Michelle Mone

Author:Michelle Mone
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910536186
Publisher: Blink Publishing

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BREAKING POINT

Sometimes you gotta fall before you fly.

Michael and I had been fighting for years. But it came to a head on a flight to Miami in 2005 for our third shoot with Rachel Hunter. It just so happened that my company secretary, David Kaye, was also flying out to see his daughter. He was sitting in front of Michael and me in upper class when a sexy Virgin air hostess came up to us.

‘Would you like me to wake you up with a hand massage or a neck massage?’ she smiled. She asked Michael first and he started flirting with her. ‘I’ll wake you up, sir,’ she flirted back. I was ginormous at this stage. I felt like I was about to burst. I felt like I was living in a body that wasn’t mine and I was so unattractive.

Michael went for a massage that was supposed to last 15 minutes. He disappeared for 45 minutes behind the curtain with her. Nothing happened, obviously, but he shouldn’t have been gone for that long. Michael then went to the bar and he talked to the hostess for hours. No exaggeration. Every time I glanced over I felt a knife stab into my stomach. Michael always used to say blondes weren’t his type and that he preferred dark-haired girls. The hostess was dark-haired. Michael’s comments churned around my head. I hated the air hostess but not as much as I hated myself.

I couldn’t take it any more. You fucker, I thought. So I marched up to him. ‘That’s enough,’ I snapped. Michael got the message and came back to his seat. No sooner had he sat down than the hostess appeared again.

‘Sir, I’ve got some extra time, would you like another massage?’ she said, smiling sweetly.

‘Oh, that would be great,’ Michael beamed. I glared at him. What the fuck?

He disappeared again and I couldn’t take it. I turned to my company secretary for support. ‘This is a joke, David,’ I fumed. ‘Michael has been at that bar getting absolutely steaming drunk and now he’s gone for a second massage.’ I fought back the tears.

‘Never mind him. He’ll fall asleep,’ David said, trying to reassure me.

Michael came back to his seat, and I just stared at him.

I had to bite my tongue because our marriage had deteriorated to the point that Michael would blow up every time I said anything to him. It was as if I’d become his worst enemy. So I just looked at him.

He started shouting at me.

I burst out crying and he gagged me with his hand. I swear to god I thought he was suffocating me. I can’t breathe. I lashed out with my nails to get him off me and he bit my right ear. I clasped my hand over the ear to stop the pain and when I pulled my hand away I saw it was covered in blood. ‘Oh, god, help me,’ I cried. David jumped out of his seat and carried me to the toilet.

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