"What sort of woman would do something like this to another woman? My marriage wasn't perfect but I thought it could be saved, until this happened.
"Of course I'm angry at her. What she did is unforgivable. And I'm angry at him too. What they did destroyed my entire world.
"Did either of them think about the children and how this will affect them? They're the innocent victims in this. And so am I."
And last night she branded the photographs "brazen", adding: "It's all been so public. They weren't even trying to be discreet. I've been publicly humiliated, which makes the pain so much worse."
In her interview with The Mail on Sunday, Melissa reveals how:
She thought that her husband was away promoting a holiday resort in Turkey when the pictures of him and Chloe were taken;
Her errant husband begged for her forgiveness after returning home to Los Angeles, saying: "I didn't mean for this to happen";
But she and Meeks, nicknamed "the blue-eyed bandit" after his police mugshot went viral on social media, have now agreed their relationship is over and are set to divorce.
Softly spoken and reserved, brunette Melissa, a nurse, could not be more different from the designer-clad heiress who proudly boasted about her burgeoning relationship with Meeks on social media.
Miss Green, a self-styled fashion "expert" whose father is worth $6.7 billion, posted a picture to her 128,000 followers of herself with the male model with the caption: "Just the beginning. We appreciate all the love and all the hate."
Melissa says she has barely slept since learning of the affair when an Instagram user she did not know sent her the now infamous image of her husband kissing the heiress, with a note saying: "Look at this."
Twisting her hands nervously, Melissa, who has lost half a stone through stress, said:
"The first I learned of it was when I woke up and checked my phone.
"Some random person I don't know sent a direct message with the photograph of my husband kissing that woman.
"I went into shock. I felt nauseated. It was like a bomb had gone off and my whole world had been blown apart.
"I'd never heard of Chloe Green. I thought Jeremy was working.
She says she immediately tried to reach her husband, who four days earlier had left their home in sleepy Manteca, northern California, supposedly on a trip to Turkey to promote a holiday resort.
Her texts and calls went unanswered. She says: "I was angry, hurt and very, very upset. I couldn't get hold of him."
Meeks would later tell his wife that his phone did not work in Europe despite the fact he was able to post images from his romantic sojourn aboard the 164ft yacht Hazar Yildizi on social media, along with a clip of him waterskiing in the clear Mediterranean waters off Bodrum.
According to reports, Meeks first met Miss Green at the Cannes Film Festival in May, prompting his wife to question how long their liaison has been going on: "Who knows when it started?" she says. "I doubt I will ever know the truth."
Melissa says the first contact she had with her husband was when he landed in Los Angeles last Monday. He texted her from the airport to ask if he could pick up their two sons, his biological child Jeremy Jr, seven, and Robert, 11, Melissa's son from a previous relationship. She also has a daughter, 16-year-old Ellie, and says both stepchildren consider Meeks a father figure.
"The worst thing about all of this is the children. They adore their daddy," she says.
Incredibly, she agreed to allow him to pick up the children to spend Tuesday's Fourth of July holiday with him while she was at work as a nurse in a local jail.
"I didn't want my pain and anger to hurt the children," she says. "I am very hurt and angry but those children love their daddy. He'd been away and they missed him."
The pair finally had a showdown on Wednesday when Meeks brought the children home. Melissa says: 'We had it out on the doorstep. I told him how devastated and angry I am.
He kept apologising - not for the affair, but for the way I learned about it. I feel humiliated, not just because my husband was caught with another woman but for the fact they were so brazen about it. He told me, "I didn't mean it to happen like this." Those pictures will haunt me for ever.
- Daily Mail
