A 30-year-old woman with a bizarre obsession of collecting puppets has told how she dumped her fiance after he gave her an ultimatum: “It’s me or the puppets.” dumped her fiance for one of her dolls, she now lives alone with her 16 puppets in an apartment in New York City.
Single April Brucker works 60 hours a week as a singer, promotional model and freelance writer so they can have the
best of everything – even if it means she goes short.
MirrorUK adds that she has spent £134,000 over the past ten years on the dummies, who have their own bedroom.
“They are like my children,” she said. “Yes, they are expensive, but if they need things, they need things. I will go without clothes for them. I’m a parent – that’s what you do.”
She said her relationship failed when her ex said her dolls were “weird”. April, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said:
“I was not allowed to date growing up. My parents were strict and when I met him I fell in love. He became my boyfriend. He was very romantic.”
After their third date he proposed.
“My parents were engaged after their third date. And they’ve been together 40 years. He got down on one knee. I thought he was the one.”
But things quickly become sour.
“He started becoming jealous of the puppets after four months. He started saying the puppets were weird. He said, ‘no wife of mine will ever have a puppet’. Ultimately he felt jealous of the puppets.”
That is when he gave her an ultimatum.
“He said, ‘It’s me or the puppets. I wanted to be with him, so I stayed with him. But after eight more months, I realized I had to stay with my puppets. In the end, my puppet children are all I have. They have never disappointed me like men have.
They have their own room. They are like my family. We all do shows together. Sometimes I think, ‘yes, I dumped my boyfriend for a puppet. But then I think, ‘puppets are better’. I love my puppets.
April said she now couldn’t date a man who did not appreciate her puppets.
“I spend so much on them after all. I spend $20,000 (around £14,000) a year on them. That’s for clothes, airfares, hair. I’ve been doing that for about ten years.
April first developed her bizarre hobby when she was just 13.
“My first puppet was Groucho Marx. And it just went from there. My dream is to tour the world with my children. I might not have love with a man but I have 16 children and they need me.”
CS says
To the first commenter: I don’t know April outside of Facebook, but whatever the truth is, spewing all that venom only makes you look like the nasty snake that you claim she is. Actually, I take that back. In comparison to you, that’s an insult to snakes.
Darlinton Omeh says
Wow, that’s some serious info. Thanks for sharing and baring out your mind, we’ll look into all you’ve said.
April Is A Liar says
This woman, if you can call her that, clearly has issues. Her puppets don’t have their own bedroom, she doesn’t even have her own bedroom. She lives in a filthy studio apartment as you can see in the background of her many half naked disgusting pictures. She is so gross she even had bed bugs and she has STD’s. She uses people to create drama for her stale comedy act. It’s so pathetic it’s almost sad. If she wasn’t so calculating and manipulative you could almost feel sorry for her. But the truth is she is down right mean. She makes stories up about people, exploits men, she is very mentally unstable and jealous. She thrives off drama and causes a lot of trouble. She claims to have had a fiancé but no one has ever come forward to verify this story. She claims to spend all this money on her dolls but she is in fact broke. The stories just don’t add up. If you watch her YouTube channel it’s just one contradiction after the next. Hopefully some day she will realize that her behavior and all of this negative attention is not healthy and hopefully she will get some mental health help that she so desperately needs.