New York City heiress Belle Burden claims her cheating ex-husband had the gall to ask her to make him a sandwich — just moments after telling their kids they were getting a divorce.
The mom of three, who describes her hedge fund executive husband Henry Davis’ affair in her newly released memoir, revealed the eyebrow-raising exchange in a New York Times podcast interview on Wednesday.
Burden, the granddaughter of legendary Big Apple socialite Babe Paley, said the couple sat down with their children in early 2020 in Martha’s Vineyard to break the news — roughly a month after Davis packed up and left the home where they were quarantining together.
“I sat on the couch with the girls, my arms around them, and my husband sort of paced in front of them and said, ‘I have not been happy and I’ve decided that we’re going to divorce,’” she divulged to the “Modern Love” podcast.
“And my younger daughter turned, and I think she thought this was a joke. And then she looked at my face and saw how sad I looked, and she just screamed. My older daughter just sat very calmly with her arms crossed, just watching her father.”
She added, “And my husband looked at me and said, ‘I’m starving. Can you make me a sandwich?’”
The heiress went on to describe how she debated whether to fix him the snack before eventually going to the kitchen.
“I went with making the sandwich and I really tried to make the best sandwich I possibly could because I thought, if I’m going to do this, I will make the best sandwich he has ever had so that he will say to himself, ‘How could I possibly leave this woman who can make these incredible sandwiches?’” she said.
The bombshell is the latest tidbit to emerge after Burden — whose full name is Flobelle Fairbanks Burden — laid bare the details of her husband’s affair and the subsequent end of their 20-year marriage.
Burden, 56, claimed she learned of her 60-year-old hubby’s infidelity after his mistress’s spouse left her a voicemail.
At the time, Burden and Davis were holed up with their two youngest children at their $7.5 million second home in Martha’s Vineyard, while their son, the eldest, was spending time with a friend’s family in Long Island.
She claims in the memoir — “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” — that Davis later fled without saying goodbye to his kids and severed the final ties of his marriage to Burden over the phone after she confronted him over the cheating claims.
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“I thought I was happy but I’m not. I thought I wanted our life but I don’t,” Davis allegedly told Burden. “I feel like a switch has flipped. I’m done.”
She claims he then said, “You can have the [Martha’s Vineyard] house and the [New York] apartment. You can have custody of the kids. I don’t want it. I don’t want any of it.”
Shortly after their divorce was finalized, Davis purchased a two-bedroom apartment in New York City and converted the second room into a home office — leaving no room for their children.
The jilted wife acknowledged in the memoir that Davis still sees his children, years later, but only for the occasional tennis match or abridged family dinner.
Davis, for his part, has stayed mostly silent following his ex-wife’s scandalous revelations.
“While I disagree with many of her recollections, as well as her overall mischaracterization of my relationship with my children, I do not wish to comment in more detail in order to protect them from further violations of their privacy other than to say that I continue to lovingly support, and be lovingly supported by, my children,” he said in a brief statement.
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