Lover of alleged killer children’s grief author breaks down as couple’s gushing texts exposed in court

Utah children’s grief author Kouri Richins’ handyman lover broke down sobbing in court Wednesday as their secret gushing texts were exposed during her murder trial.

Robert Josh Grossman, 43, testified about the slew of messages he exchanged with the mom-of-three just weeks before she allegedly poisoned her husband with a fatal dose of fentanyl in 2022, KSL reported.

“If I was divorced right now and ask you to marry me tomorrow, you would?” Richins texted Grossman less than a month before her husband, Eric Richins, died.

Grossman, an Iraq war vet, responded: “Yes. In Love with Y O U! Of course I would.”

In another message just days later, Richins mused about a future with her lover — if only her husband would “go away,” the court heard.

“If he could just go away and you could just be here! Life would be so perfect!!!” she allegedly texted Grossman.

Grossman broke down sobbing and wiped away tears as the slew of messages were shown to jurors on Wednesday.

Richins is on trial for allegedly killing her husband by slipping four times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a Moscow mule cocktail she prepared for him.

Following his death, Richins then self-published a children’s book about grief to help her sons and other kids cope with the loss of a parent.