Horror reason husband ignored wife’s texts while on a boys trip

A woman was enraged at her husband when he failed to reply to her text messages while on a boys trip, not realising the sad reason.

A young widow has admitted that she was enraged at her husband when he failed to reply to her text messages – only to later learn that he had died in a tragic accident.

Bonnie Caldwell, 26, took to TikTok to share her dark story earlier this month, with her now-viral videos garnering millions of views as of Thursday afternoon, the NY Post reports.

The New Zealander showcased her morbid sense of humor in the clip, which featured the caption: “Me getting sh*tty my husband was on a boys’ trip and wasn’t replying to me.”

Bonnie was seen sporting an annoyed expression in the video before it suddenly cut to a photo of her husband with the words: “He was dead”.

Bonnie Caldwell, 26, from New Zealand, revealed her frustration over her husband failing to reply to her texts while on a boys trip, only to find out he had died. Picture: TikTok/bonniec17

In a follow-up video, the widow explained how her husband, Matt Caldwell, 25, tragically died on August 8, 2021, while on an overnight trip with friends in a nearby city, according to his obituary.

Matt and his friends had travelled to the city to watch a rugby game, with Bonnie deciding to stay home on her own.

She last spoke to Matt over the phone on the night he went away, before sending him several texts the following morning saying “I love you” and “I can’t wait to see you”.

“He didn’t reply, which I thought was a bit weird of him,” the widow told her TikTok followers. “But I was also like, ‘He’s probably just hungover.’”

However, several hours went by and Bonnie started to worry, saying she knew her husband should be on his way home as he had to check out of his hotel at 10am.

Bonnie and her late husband are seen in a photo taken before he died after falling down an embankment near his hotel. Picture: Instagram/bigmattygram

“I started to realise something was really wrong,” she explained. “A couple more hours went past and I got a text from Matt’s brother to come over to their house right now, and I flew out the door.”

When she arrived at her brother-in-law’s home, there were police at the residence, who informed her that Matt had died.

Bonnie explained that her young husband died after tragically falling down an embankment located near his hotel.

Bonnie said she and her late husband shared a dark sense of humour, which has become a ‘coping mechanism’ for her following his sudden death. Picture: Instagram/bigmattygram

“He didn’t realise at the edge of the bank [embankment] it just dropped straight down and he misjudged it,” she somberly stated.

She went on to say that Matt had “died on impact” and that investigators believed he was distracted by his phone, as it was found upward near his body with a video still playing.

“It was a really horrific freak accident that none of us could have really prevented,” Bonnie explained.

She added that her and her late husband shared a dark sense of humour, which has been “a coping mechanism” for her in the eight months since his death.

Viewers flooded the comments section of the clip, sending their condolences to Bonnie.

One female follower even added some dark humour of her own, hoping to make the widow chuckle.

“Sorry for your loss,” the follower wrote. “But I still can’t forgive him for ghosting you!”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission