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You know that scene in Love Actually, when Colin Firth discovers his wife with his brother? Sure, it leads him to learn Portuguese and find love again, but in the moment it was pretty jarring. Gayle King<\/a> lived it. The newswoman went on Call Her Daddy<\/a> and shared the story of when she caught her husband sleeping with her one of her best friends. Not her best best friend, mind you. Oprah would never.<\/p>\n King had been traveling, and when her flight was canceled she unexpectedly returned home. That was when she discovered that her now ex-husband, William Bumpus, had set the security alarm for the house. \u201cYou\u2019re a big ass grown ass man. He never sets the alarm,\u201d King said. \u201cAnd next thing I know, he comes flying out of the room and he\u2019s got a towel on.\u201d Bumpus tried to tell King she couldn\u2019t enter her own home, but she wasn\u2019t having it. She suspected he had a girl there. \u201cI start searching the house because I didn\u2019t believe him. I didn\u2019t believe him,\u201d she said of the close friend her kids called Aunt. \u201cI get down and there she is, cowering behind the door in my towel, Alex. It was a nice bath sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018I can\u2019t believe that you are here and you are doing this,\u2019\u201d King told Cooper. \u201cI even said, \u2018I thought we were friends.\u2019 I sounded so pitiful.\u201d King eventually told her ex-friend\u2019s husband about the affair (who she names Richard for the sake of the story), but he was in deep denial. \u201cHe said to me, \u2018You are delusional and out of touch with reality and I suggest you get some help,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI said, \u2018Okay, you think I should get some help? Does your wife have a pink satin pajama top? Does she have some green mint panties that go with that? And oh, by the way, Richard, there are semen stains in my bed. Go fuck yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n The final slight? If you don\u2019t disarm a home security alarm, the cops come. And the cops indeed came, recognizing King and asking for her autograph. \u201cI wanted to say, \u2018Could you take out the trash?\u2019\u201d King said, referring to Bumpus and the ex-friend, \u201cbut I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n