The ex-wife of Jordan Belfort - better known to audiences as the Wolf of Wall Street - has revealed how accurate the movie's depiction of their relationship was.
Nine years after the release of the Martin Scorsese film adaptation of the 60-year-old businessman, his second wife Nadine Macaluso, formally known as Nadine Caridi, took to TikTok to speak about her past relationship.
Portrayed by Margot Robbie in the film under the name Naomi Lapaglia, Nadine was married to Jordan Belfort during the time the critically acclaimed film spanned.
While the flick wasn’t supposed to be a true-to-life depiction of Nadine - who is now a licensed marriage and family therapist - the comparisons are still evident.
Watch her TikTok video below:Belfort launched a career that included drugs, women, and white-collar crime over the time of his marriage to Nadine. It didn’t end well for him, as he was convicted of his financial crimes and spent a number of years in prison.
Since her split from the stockbroker, Nadine has moved on with her life and is able to reflect on some of the things that originated the movie's storyline.
In her video which was posted on August 22 and has amassed 569.5K likes and 5.8 million views, she said: "So, can you imagine having a movie made about your life, about your love life, that was a Greek tragedy?"
"It’s not fun, but guess what - I had that happen," she said. "How accurate was the movie? I think that if you look at it through Jordan’s lens it was really accurate."
"I think that if you look at it through my lens it wasn’t, and that makes sense because that was actually how our marriage was," she said, before explaining that she became a therapist, got a Ph.D., and became an expert in "relational trauma".
"And so, I am able to discern his truth, my truth, and everything in between, so stay and watch," she concluded.
In a follow-up video on her page, Nadine shared some accurate scenes from the movie, including the "love bombing" scene when Robbie was sitting in a chair with flowers all around her.
"Oh my God that scene where Margot [Robbie] has all the flowers around her apartment, that’s love bombing," she said. "I actually came home to an 800 square foot apartment with 1400 square feet of flowers, and that’s love bombing, and that’s what made me fall so in love with Jordan."
Love bombing is when someone tries to attain someone's affection through different displays of attention and has been identified as a possible part of a cycle of abuse.
The overwhelming display of affection is meant to influence and manipulate someone into doing whatever you want or get them on your side. "That’s what happens," she said. "It’s also love conning and idolization - he just adored me."
After her divorce, Nadine enrolled at the Pacifica Graduate Institute and earned her Masters in counseling as well as a Ph.D. in Somatic and Depth psychology.
