In 1990, the famous physicist Hawking and his wife Jane Wilder, who had been married for 25 years, divorced. Once the news came out, it shocked the world.
At the same time, a nurse named Elaine Mason began to come into the world. In the days that followed, she gradually replaced Hawking's ex-wife Jane Wilder, and finally became Hawking's second wife in 1995.
Hawking has made great achievements in the field of black holes, and has become a world-renowned celebrity with a series of popular science works such as " A Brief History of Time ".
What's even more rare is that Hawking is also a patient with " ALS ". As the disease progresses, his muscles all over his body are shrinking, and eventually only three fingers are left to move.
With such a physical condition, an ordinary person would not even have the courage to live, let alone make any great research results. This shows how inspiring Hawking is.
However, Hawking, who was extremely successful in his career, had a hard time describing his private life.
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Hawking's first wife, Jane Wilder, took care of him for 25 years and gave birth to 3 children for him. However, she was defeated by a "third party" when Hawking was at the height of his fame. Forced divorce.
His second wife, Elaine Mason, was the "third party" mentioned above. Although she married Hawking as she wished five years later, she did not accompany Hawking to the end. The two divorced in 2006 and ended Married for 11 years.
Elaine was only 44 years old when she married Hawking, and she was still young.
Hawking, who was 53 years old at the time, was already inseparable from a wheelchair and had lost the ability to speak due to a pneumonia operation a few years ago.
Why does a 44-year-old woman fall in love with a 53-year-old man who is paralyzed and unable to speak? This question must be puzzling.
But since the other party is Hawking, the answer is not difficult to think of.
One possibility is that Elaine admires Hawking so much that she is willing to commit herself; another possibility is that Elaine has taken a fancy to Hawking's tens of millions of wealth.
However, no one knows what the exact answer is to this day.
Because Elaine Mason has been missing since her divorce in 2006. Even when Hawking passed away in 2018, she did not appear.
But there is no definite answer, which does not mean that we cannot use the past events of Elaine and Hawking to speculate on what the real answer is.
Fortunately, as a famous celebrity, there is still sufficient information about Hawking's private life, and we can get a glimpse of it.
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Elaine Mason's appearance in Hawking's life began in 1985. At that time, although Hawking had not published his masterpiece "A Brief History of Time", he had already become a star physicist with his amazing discoveries in the field of black holes. Not only that, Hawking also became the "Lucas Professor of Mathematics" at the University of Cambridge in 1980, which was the seat where Newton once sat.
However, as Hawking became more and more successful in his career, his health became worse and worse, which made his wife Jane Wilder, who had been responsible for taking care of him, unable to do what she wanted.
In order to reduce his own pressure, Jane Wilder offered to hire a caregiver, and Hawking agreed.
Soon after, several nurses, including Elaine, moved into Hawking's home, and they took turns providing around-the-clock services to Hawking.
With the help of the nurses, the burden on Jane Wilder's shoulders was relieved, and she could spend more time with her three children and further develop a relationship with her close friend Jonathan Jones.
What is unexpected is that it was this opportunity that allowed nurse Elaine to successfully intervene and destroy their marriage.
Elaine is a scheming woman who is not willing to be a nurse her whole life, so from the first day she came into contact with Hawking, she tried her best to please him.
Of course, at that time, Elaine may not have had the desire to be a "third party". She might just want to use Hawking for her own benefit.
Like Hawking, Elaine was also married at the time. Her husband, David Mason, was an engineer and she had two sons with her.
While taking care of Hawking as a personal nurse, Elaine also found a job for his engineer husband - to customize a special personal computer for Hawking, so that he who could not speak could "speak" with the help of computer programs. .
Hawking's world-famous "machine accent" was the masterpiece of David Mason. He helped Hawking solve the problem of being unable to communicate, and naturally received huge rewards. Hawking even publicly praised the Masons.
However, what Hawking didn't know was that at this time, Elaine was no longer willing to use him for profit, but wanted to replace his wife Jane Wilder's position.
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Jane Wilder was Hawking's first love. They met and fell in love with Hawking long before he was diagnosed with ALS.
After Hawking fell ill, doctors determined that he could only live for 2 to 3 years. But knowing this result, Jane Wilder still married Hawking without hesitation.
After getting married, although Hawking was lucky to survive the "death limit" given by the doctor, he was not able to get out of the haze of the disease. The muscles in his body atrophied rapidly. From the beginning, he could only walk with crutches, and later he could only rely on a wheelchair to travel. .
No matter how sick Hawking was, Jane Wilder never regretted marrying him and even gave birth to three children with him.
Like Hawking, Jane Wilder also graduated from Cambridge University. If she had not married Hawking, she could have had an outstanding career. However, in order to take care of her paralyzed husband, Jane Wilder sacrificed her own future.
The amount she paid for Hawking was unbelievable. If this is not true love, there may be no true love in the world.
However, after so many sacrifices and efforts, many years later, they were no match for the care and concern of nurse Elaine.
In 1988, Hawking's masterpiece "A Brief History of Time" was published. This book made him a popular science writer in the world and brought him generous royalties.
As Hawking's wife, Jane Wilder could have shared this joy and had better material enjoyment from now on, but what people didn't expect was that at about the same time, she was ignored by Hawking.
The culprit who caused Hawking to neglect Jane Wilder was nurse Elaine.
During that time, Elaine often refused others to approach Hawking, including Hawking's wife and children, on the grounds of Hawking's health.
In order to further gain Hawking's trust, Elaine also focused on Hawking in everything, showing her bottomless admiration for Hawking, which gave the physically disabled Hawking great satisfaction.
But even so, it was impossible for Hawking to abandon Jane Wilder for Elaine. After all, they had been together for more than 20 years and had three children. Their relationship was not ordinary deep.
What's more, Elaine also has her own husband.
However, the "smart" Elaine discovered a huge rift between Hawking and Jane Wilder - a conflict of faith.
As a physicist, Hawking is a firm "atheist", while Jane Wilder is just the opposite, a devout religious believer.
The beliefs between husband and wife are so diametrically opposed that it is only a matter of time before communication problems arise.
Elaine deliberately fanned the flames, often causing arguments between Hawking and his wife, which put their relationship in crisis.
Jane Wilder was upset by Hawking, so she inevitably went to confide in her confidant Jonathan Jones. When Elaine found out, she fanned the flames again, claiming that Wilder and Jones had an affair.
In fact, Jane Wilder had confessed her relationship with Jones to Hawking a long time ago, and told Hawking that she would abide by her marriage commitment and only maintain a special relationship as friends with Jones.
But with Elaine fanning the flames, Hawking no longer believed in Jane Wilder's promise.
Trust is the foundation of the relationship between husband and wife. Once doubts arise between husband and wife, the breakdown of the marriage is inevitable.
Finally in 1990, Hawking took the initiative to file for divorce, and Jane Wilder was forced to accept it.
After the news of Hawking's divorce from his ex-wife came out, it caused shock in his circle of friends.
Because everyone knows that Jane Wilder sacrificed a lot for Hawking, and she was completely sincere towards Hawking.
What is even more unacceptable to everyone is that Hawking and Wilder divorced in order to be with the nurse Elaine. In order to change Hawking's decision, relatives and friends stepped forward to dissuade him.
Some colleagues with good relationships spoke ill of Elaine directly in front of Hawking, telling him that Elaine was a "very controlling and extremely narrow-minded" person.
Hawking, who was addicted to "love", turned a deaf ear to these advices.
However, although Hawking was divorced, he could not marry Elaine immediately, because at this time, Elaine was still married to her ex-husband David Mason.
Perhaps realizing that Hawking had completely accepted him, Elaine also divorced David Mason a few months later, but after the divorce, she still bore the surname "Mason".
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In 1995, Hawking, who had been in love with Elaine for five years, once again entered the marriage hall. On the wedding day, he said to the wedding guests: Elaine is my beloved.
Elaine was 44 years old that year. Holding a bouquet, she leaned against Hawking and smiled happily.
At that time, many people questioned that she married Hawking for money, but Elaine refused to comment on this statement.
I think that at the beginning, Elaine intervened in Hawking's marriage as a "third party", but now she got her wish and became "Mrs. Hawking". Her desire to control Hawking will of course be stronger than before.
So since then, it has been difficult for Jane Wilder and her three children to see Hawking again. Even those friends and colleagues who have close contacts with Hawking have to seek Elaine's permission if they want to see Hawking.
Hawking's life gradually fell into Elaine's full control.
In 2000, Hawking's eldest daughter finally met her father and found many scars on Hawking's body.
At this time, Hawking could barely move only three fingers on his body. How did these scars appear?
The eldest daughter immediately turned her suspicion to her stepmother Elaine.
But Elaine firmly denied that she had abused Hawking, and Hawking himself excused his wife, claiming that the injuries were caused by him personally.
In 2004, Hawking was suddenly injured and hospitalized.
Just like 4 years ago, doctors also discovered many unexplained wounds and scars on Hawking's body.
Because Hawking was so famous, the media soon followed and reported on the incident, and the outside world naturally listed Elaine as a suspect.
Hawking is a paralyzed ALS patient. If Elaine was really domestically violent to him, it would be a serious criminal case, so the police quickly intervened in the investigation.
But in the face of police investigations and outside concerns, Hawking once again excused his wife, claiming that Elaine loved him very much and would never do anything to harm him.
However, just two years later, Hawking quietly announced the end of his 11-year marriage to Elaine, and did not explain the reason for the divorce.
If Elaine really loved Hawking as much as Hawking said, why did the two end up divorcing after just two years?
It can be seen from this that the "domestic violence" rumors that the outside world was concerned about at the beginning were probably not groundless.
As a great figure in physics, Hawking has won numerous awards in his life. These awards not only brought him great honors, but also brought him huge income.
In addition, popular science works including "A Brief History of Time" have also brought him millions of pounds in royalties.
Most of this income was generated during his marriage to Elaine. According to the law, Elaine should share half of it.
So even if it ended in divorce 11 years later, Elaine still got at least millions of pounds of wealth from Hawking, which for an ordinary nurse could not be earned in several lifetimes.
I don’t know if it was because she got enough money. After divorcing Hawking, Elaine Mason disappeared.
Later someone said they found her at an insurance company and said she was working there, but after verification it was discovered that it was just another person with the same name as Elaine.
Actually, if you think about it, you will know that Elaine, who has millions of pounds in her hands, definitely does not need to work to support herself.
Today, she may be hiding incognito in a corner of the world, living happily with the money she received from Hawking.
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After divorcing Hawking in 1990, the helpless Jane Wilder finally married her close friend Jonathan Jones, who generously supported her in continuing to bear the surname "Hawking".
Although Elaine prevented him from visiting Hawking often, Wilder has always been concerned about Hawking's health.
In 1995, after learning that Hawking was divorced again, Jane Wilder persuaded her husband to move together to a place close to Hawking's residence, so that they could take care of Hawking, who was unable to take care of himself.
In 2018, Hawking completed 76 years of life, and the person who accompanied her to the end was her first love and first wife, Jane Wilder.
