“SURPRISE! I’m Still Alive!”: Wife Crashes Her Own Funeral, Stuns Husband Who Plotted Her Murder

“Surprise! I’m still alive!”

That’s not necessarily a phrase that anybody would plan on having to say—especially at their own funeral. But by the grace of God, such was the case for Noela Rukundo.

Just five days prior, the Australian woman was back in her homeland of Burundi attending her stepmother’s funeral. Little did she know, a few days later she’d be attending her own, after her husband, Balenga Kalala, plotted her murder.

Kalala thought she had been cheating on him, but it’s a claim that Rukundo denies.

While his wife was on a trip to her native country, the jealous husband back in Melbourne hired a couple of hitmen to kill her outside of her hotel room.

According to a report by BBC, Kalala called while she was in her hotel room telling her to “go outside for fresh air.”

That’s when a group of masked man attacked her and told her that her husband had ordered them to kill her.

“I knew he was a violent man,” said Rukundo. “But I didn’t believe he can kill me.”

She thought they must be joking. Rukundo couldn’t possibly believe that the man she loved would order her death…until she heard her husband’s voice echo from one of the hitmen’s cell phones.

“Kill her,” he demanded. “I heard his voice. I heard him. I felt like my head was going to blow up,” said Rukundo.

Her life and the eight children she would leave behind flashed before her eyes.

“I said to myself, I was already dead. Nothing I can do can save me,” she told BBC.