My fiancé died on our wedding day — and then I discovered his secret life

Death did Kaitlin Palmieri and her late fiancé, Eric, part on the morning of their August 2020 wedding day. 

Rather than walking down the aisle toward forever, a mourning Palmieri, then 35, became paralyzed with grief upon learning her dream lover suffered a fatal heart attack at 33, just hours before they were set to say, “I do.”

Despondent, the New Yorker spiraled into a seemingly endless cycle of despair — until she uncovered the sordid secrets of Eric’s double life. 

“I wanted to explode with anger,” Palmieri, 38, from Long Island, told The Post. 

On November 20, 2023, which would have been his 37th birthday, she learned that Eric, a traveling financial consultant, had been cheating on her with a woman on the West Coast for more than a year before his demise. 

“It felt like I’d been emotionally trapped and I couldn’t run anywhere,” Palmieri recalled. “I had so much frustration and nowhere to put it. He was gone.