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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ellie Muir

‘My dad started dating a woman I went to elementary school with. I’m disgusted by it’

In Hollywood, the list of male celebrities with younger girlfriends is endless. Brad Pitt, 62, with his girlfriend, the jewellery designer Ines de Ramon, 33 - (Getty)

Sarah* was having dinner with her father when she caught sight of his cellphone lock screen. A glowing photo of a young blonde woman smiled back at her. For a split second, Sarah, then 28, thought it was a photo of herself. It wasn’t. It was her 57-year-old father’s new girlfriend — the 27-year-old he left her mother for.

And to add insult to injury, Sarah knew the woman — they were at elementary school together, just one year apart.

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