Man faces divorce after faking deafness the last 10 years of his marriage

PENNSYLVANIA | ALLENTOWN A gentleman from Allentown faces divorce this week after his spouse found out that he may not actually be deaf, allegedly faking it for the past 10 years of their marriage.

In 2008 Michael Keegan suffered a debilitating ear injury in a down town steel mill that rendered him unable to hear, and slowly, the ability to speak along with it. So why is his spouse, who says her husband has not spoken to her in over 10 years, suddenly filing for divorce?

Michael Keegan’s wife Kristen was very distraught when she spoke with the Tribune today. Apparently after years of working with her husband, Mrs Keegan eventually learned to communicate with him again through sign language, but over time she cited issues that were problematic for her:

Three years. Three years for me to successfully learn sign language. As soon as I get to the point where we can have a conversation he tells me that he’s having problems with his vision. I bet it was all just a bunch of bull s*&%.

But it all came crashing down when a video surfaced on Facebook and it Mr. Michael Keegan can be seen on a fishing trip laughing with his buddies, telling joke after joke with no signs of any disability. The couple’s marriage was rock solid up until 2019, three children and five grandchildren, all of whom were raised in a loving two family home.

That a**hole spent 10 years pretending to be deaf so he doesn’t have to listen to me. I’m going to rake him over the coals. How could anybody do this, or a total pig. Good luck finding another woman to put up with his s%*t. Everything I’ve done for him and this is how you repay as me. I don’t care if you get hit by a f$%^ing bus. You are dead to me, you hear me? This time tomorrow you better be….

[Mrs. Keegan’s rant continued for 37 minutes but for the sake of the articles length we have omitted most of it]

While Mr. Keegan was not available for comment his lawyer Richard Goldstein had this to say:

My client faked his injury for all of the right reasons and should not be punished in the form of spousal maintenance or alimony. His actions were because he is in fact a family man. As you can see my client is not very talkative, while the spouse is the exact opposite. My client feared that if he hadn’t faked being deaf his marriage would of ended a long time ago. Everything he did, he did for the love of his family. If he had to endure the verbal barrage of nagging on a daily basis from Mrs. Keegan, his children surely would have became a product of a broken home. God bless mr. Keegan.

Both parties are scheduled to appear in divorce court next Monday in front of a very Stern Judge Fisher. Mrs. Keegan is demanding financial compensation for neglect and stress endured from her husband’s misleading spousal wrongdoings.

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