Nicole Paultre grasps a photograph of her, Sean and their children. She was photographed for exclusively for ESSENCE.
In Her Own Words
In a heartbreakingly honest interview Nicole Paultre speaks exclusively with ESSENCE about her fiancé's death, their last words to each other and what she told their children
By Cynthia Gordy and Tatsha Robertson
Photo Credit: Peter Chin
The day before Nicole Paultre and Sean Bell were to get married, life was good. There was none of the petty bickering that goes on between most nervous couples. Nicole’s dress, a white sleeveless gown she had purchased just weeks earlier, was pressed and ready. She had even prepared her own version of a song—Mary J. Blige’s "Be Without You"—to sing to Sean, the father of her two girls.
That afternoon Bell kissed Nicole and their little girls goodbye before dropping them off at her mother’s home on Long Island, where she was holding the bridal shower that evening. He called her later that day, as he always did, still debating whether or not to bother going out for a bachelor party before finally resolving to go. For all Nicole knew, the day the two had been waiting for, the day her beloved had secretly planned by himself as a surprise, had come. She went to bed that night happily anticipating her special day. Then around 4:00 A.M., her mother, visibly shaken, rushed into her room.
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