An engagement celebration took a surprising turn when the groom-to-be got up and delivered a shocking speech to his fiancée and their guests — and it was all caught on camera.
Massimo Segre, 64, a millionaire banker, took to the microphone in front of 150 high-society guests at the engagement part in Turin, Italy, where he outed his 47-year-old fiancée, Cristina Seymandi, for cheating on him with a lawyer as well as an "industrialist acquaintance" prior to that. The bride-to-be stood by his side, literally speechless the entire time.
"I want to give Cristina the freedom to love," the banker started off the speech. "Specifically, to love another person; a notable lawyer, who she clearly cares about more than me. Dear Cristina, I know how much you are in love with him mentally and sexually."
“I know that before him you had a relationship with an industrialist acquaintance,” he continued. “Don’t think it pleases me to look like a cuckold in front of all of you.”
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“Cristina is so good at telling her truths, that I couldn’t leave her alone to narrate the reason why I’m ending [our] life together tonight,” Massimo said. “It’s a banal story of infidelity, even premarital. I am so disappointed, I am heartbroken.”
"I blame myself for not having understood how a woman can't really love you if a marriage puts you against your own children," the speech continued, "With who I have painstakingly tried to recover a relationship that has deteriorated in these three years."
"My dear Cristina, go to Mykonos with your lawyer, be happy with him, you know it's all paid for," Massimo drew near to the end of his speech. "Like how he paid for the trip to Vietnam with your daughter, a splendid young lady who I am very disappointed to have been involved in this situation."
"I confirm, if you want, when you return we could evaluate a how to continue a professional collaboration. However, our story ends today. I wish you happiness with your new partner and to continue shining in the world that you have done all these years."
Cristina, who stood by Massimo's side with a straight face the entire time, said absolutely nothing at the time about the speech. She has since called in her attorneys and has possible plans to sue for “reputational damage” and “very serious attacks on social media.” She has also appeared in multiple interviews about the speech, describing it as “psychological violence” and “meticulously planned revenge."
Massimo has since publicly accused her of stealing $760,000 from one of his accounts following the speech. But she claims that the funds were “consensually transferred” while they were still together.
