Alex tore my life to pieces
X FACTOR winner Alex Burke branded heartless marriage wrecker by wife X FACTOR winner Alexandra Burke was last night branded a “ruthless home-wrecker” —by a wife whose husband walked out on her and their daughter to live with the singer.
As 14 million Brits watched Alexandra being crowned the hit show’s new queen, Maggie West told how hubby D’andre fell under the songbird’s spell four years ago.
Maggie, 27, raged: “Alex is not Miss Perfect. She knew D’andre was married. She tore me apart.”
Last week we revealed how scumbag D’andre—nicknamed Junior—was trying to flog a filthy sex video of himself and Alexandra. Now Maggie has told how the rat turned his back on his family when he got together with Alex, then just 16 years old.
Maggie, who lives in North London with their daughter—who was two when this happened—said: “I was left all by myself with a baby to raise while Alex got what she wanted.
“She completely changed him. Before Alex, he was a great partner, he would cook and was cool and easy- going.
“Once the baby came he was amazing. He was the only one who could put her to sleep. He would be up in the night with bottles, changing nappies.
“But when Alex came into the picture all of that changed, especially after he left. He was a completely different person—totally under her command.”
Maggie’s revelations come after the wife of Alexandra’s only other serious boyfriend Russell Brooks, 29, claimed she had split THEM up.
Alexandra insists Russell had already left wife Tracie and their three-year-old daughter when they got together.
But Tracie, 33, said: “Alex comes across as a sweet girl but she must have known Russell was married. There’s nothing sweet about that.”
Recently Alexandra spoke of how her own home was torn apart by her dad David’s cheating.
And when Maggie heard judge Simon Cowell say Alexandra made him “proud to be British” she decided enough was enough.
She fumed: “I can understand why Simon Cowell would say that for her talent, but is a husband stealer what you want representing your country?”
Alex met odd-job man D’andre at a talent show in 2004, soon after he joined her mum’s band Soul Explosion on bass while she was one of the singers. Before long he was at Alex’s beck and call.
Maggie said: “He was spending all of his time with the group.
“And when he began getting phone calls and texts in the early hours and I would see Alex’s name flashing, that is when I got suspicious. Suddenly she would call and he would drop everything because ‘the band needed him’.
“It started to feel like there were three people in the relationship.”
Computer worker Maggie insists Alex, who is now rumoured to be in a romance with JLS singer Marvin Humes, 23, always knew D’andre was married.
“After the talent show we met her and were introduced as Junior and his wife Maggie. She knew who I was. We made small talk,” said Maggie.
She later grew suspicious about her husband’s relationship with the teenager but D’andre—who had cheated on her once before—insisted nothing was going on.
Maggie said: “I found out later Alex and D’andre had been together since before my daughter’s second birthday.
“It makes sense looking back. We had a birthday party for her in September 2004. D’andre said he couldn’t be there because it was Alex’s sister’s birthday and he needed to be there to perform.
“I asked if they could celebrate the sister’s birthday at our place instead and that was the second time I met Alex. I thought it strange when she didn’t even say hello to me.”
After the party, D’andre and Maggie had a furious bust-up.
“He had plans to go back out with Alex, which I thought was hurtful on our daughter’s birthday. He said, ‘I’m working, what do you want me to do?’ But his behaviour towards me had changed.
"It just felt different and sour. But he would keep saying it was all in my head.”
D’andre stormed out after the row, returning days later to collect his things. In tears, Maggie recalled: “I thought he was at his brother’s.
“But when he returned for his stuff Alex was in the car outside. She looked up at me. She was texting. I had our baby in my arms in the doorway and I asked him, ‘Why is she in the car?’
"Alex was always with him. She looked up at me, looked away, and carried on texting. I knew there was something going on but couldn’t prove it.”
D’andre told her he was living with his brother when in fact he had moved in with Alexandra’s family.
From then on, he began to cut himself off from his own family.
Maggie said: “At first he would call once a week to ask about our daughter. He would come round for ten minutes and then Alex would be beeping in the car for him to come out. He would say, ‘Oh I can’t leave her out there’.
“It went from him seeing his daughter all the time to him not seeing her for four weeks or more.
“He stopped taking my calls or when he did I would hear Alex in the background calling his name and he would be like, ‘I’ve gotta go’. I was so hurt.
“I felt there would be more respect there because I was the mother of his daughter.”
D’andre still refused to admit he and Alexandra were together. Then Maggie saw them as a couple on TV during her first X Factor appearance in 2005.
She was filmed with D’andre’s family during a “homecoming” after being axed from the show. Maggie said: “I was watching TV with my mum, my sister and my daughter.
“Then when D’andre came on my daughter said, ‘That’s Daddy’. I just started saying, ‘No it isn’t, no it isn’t’ and took her out of the room. I was in shock.
"I felt sick because of the images from the day I had seen Alex in the car and because I couldn’t believe I had let someone so young do that to me.
“We had mutual friends who had tried to warn me they were together, but I would take D’andre’s word for it, as I still loved him.”
Because of what happened, Maggie has hardly watched this series of X Factor, but has been sickened by some of the publicity about Alexandra.
“I read one article about her dad cheating on her mum and I was shocked that Alex would talk about it. I just felt like our faces were being rubbed in it because she had done the same to us.
"It obviously affected her, so why would you then do it to someone else?”
D’andre, who has tried to get back into his daughter’s life since splitting with Alexandra early last year, this week confirmed Maggie’s account saying: “It’s all true.”
He and Maggie are in the process of getting a divorce.
An X Factor insider said: “Alexandra dated D’andre West in the past, but she has put that all behind her now. Russell Brooks got together with her after he had split with Tracie.
“All Alex wants to do now is concentrate on X Factor.”
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