Woman is stunned to meet her boyfriend in a restaurant years after being told he had DIED – before his mum rings her up to complain that she had made a ‘scene’
- Australian woman, Rachel, loaned her ex-boyfriend $1,000 as he could not work
- After they broke up she demanded the money but only received $300 from him
- She was then told that he was murdered because he owed money to a bikie gang
- Years later she was stunned when she saw him working in a local restaurant
An Australian woman got the surprise of her life when she met her ex-boyfriend in a restaurant, years after his family claimed he had died.
Rachel was just 18 when she started dating a 21-year-old chef at her local pub, and said the relationship was normal.
Trouble surfaced a few months into the relationship when the boyfriend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, returned from a night out with a broken hand.
As he couldn’t work, he asked Rachel to loan him $1,000 in order to make ends meet, the ABC reported.
An Australian woman got the surprise of her life when she met her ex-boyfriend in a restaurant, years after his family claimed he had died (stock image)
The couple decided to call it quits a few months later, and while Rachel received $300 back from him, he went silent on her when she tried to ask for the rest of the money.
She was then told that his belongings started to disappear from the share house he was living in with friends.
‘Furniture was gone, bed was gone, everything was gone. The initial story was he’d gone to rehab in Queensland,’ Rachel said.
She then figured out that her ex-boyfriend owed more than $2,300 to both herself and friends.
Rachel then received news from a mutual friend that her former boyfriend had died.
‘It sounds stupid in retrospect, but you don’t have any reason to question it. If I called you and told you my mum I’d died, you wouldn’t be like, ”give me a death certificate”,’ she said.
Her ex-boyfriend’s mother had been telling people that he was murdered because he was in debt to a bikie gang.
Rachel did not seek further details at the time, as she chose to grieve and then move on.
However, two years after the ‘death’ she was with a friend at a restaurant that she knew her ex-boyfriend’s brother worked at.
She asked a waitress if he was there that night, and the waitress responded ‘no, but his brother is’.
She asked which brother, and when the waitress responded with the name of Rachel’s old boyfriend, she said she ‘just went into shock’.
When she asked if she could see him, a manager came to their table and asked Rachel and her friend to leave the venue.
Her ex-boyfriend’s mother had been telling people that he was murdered because he was in debt to a bikie gang (stock image)
She went to the police and was told it was ‘her word against his’ that she had loaned him the money.
Later that night she received a text from her ex-boyfriend’s mother who was angry that she’d created a ‘scene’ which caused him to lose his job.
By this time Rachel had given up on confronting her ex-boyfriend and getting the money.
A few years later she saw him again working at a different restaurant in the same area and tried to start a conversation.
‘We made eye contact, and you could see he recognised me. I was like ‘Long time no see!’ And he went, ‘Oh yeah, it has been a long time’,’ Rachel said.
Rachel decided to ask him about the money and her ex-boyfriend then said he didn’t recognise her and denied everything.