stupid aprils fool of my friends, now my wife wants to country

Hey,

I’m 29 years old and married to my 27 year old wife for 3 years now. Two weeks. A few days ago she went all across the country to visit and stay at her parents for some time. On the first day of April we had something like a meetup with friends and we drank a lot because the day after she would leave. On that evening our friends wanted to play us an aprils fool. With the help of my brother, they got our phones and changed the numbers we have of each other to theirs. They copied our profile pictures, forwarded our messages to each other and made it look like nothing has changed. Sometimes, they added a message to cause confusion. The next day they wanted to clear everything out again but they didn’t. In the evening my wife sent a picture of her in underwear in front of a big mirror at her parents house and it said something like “I miss you”. I wrote her a few really lovely and spicy messages as well and after a few minutes she wrote, that she would go to sleep. The thing was, that she actually didn’t go to sleep but my friends told that to me. Actually, my friends and my brother were sitting together and kept texting her. By impersonating me, they tried to trick her into sending more pictures. Since she had nothing to do and since she thought it was me, she did the whole evening what they told her to do. The next day all three met again and did the same thing, while I barely got any message from her. On the third day I decided to call her and did that. Since my phone didn’t have any battery I used my work phone, which had the correct number still. We talked on the phone and didn’t even realize what was going on until the end of the talk, when I told her she could text me a little bit more, since she has nothing to do all day. After some confusing moments we realized that someone was manipulating our conversation. I wouldn’t believe it at first but then she told me that she has sent me like a hundred pictures and videos in the last 2 days and the only picture that reached me was the underwear one. She was absolutely hysteric about it and told me everything she did. On the first evening they took what she sent, but on the second evening they talked her into a lot of degrading stuff. Since we both didn’t know who it was we did reset our phones. They next day I wanted to call one of my friends but I didn’t have any numbers on the phone so I went to my brother. He wasn’t in his room but his phone was, so I picked it up and went to the chat he had with my friend to call him. I could see the messages he received and guess what it was: everything my wife told me about. At least everything from the evening before and it broke my heart. She is really beautiful, moderating news on a little Channel on TV and not fearing cameras, but she usually isn’t too risky when it’s on sending spicy pictures. They were totally pushing her into all of that while impersonating me. Since my brother hadn’t replied or seen the messages yet I called my wife and she went crazy. She told me she doesn’t want to see anyone of them again and she wants to leave the country. I haven’t yet confronted my friends and after a few hours I sneaked into my brothers room to check his phone again. What he replied basically is proof that he took part in this. I am full of anger and hate and I can’t believe what they did to us. I knew they were always having an eye on my wife, but that is way too much and it destroys our emotional life. Does anyone have similar experiences or has any sort of advice on how I should react to all of that?

I’m thankful for any help. Excuse my mistakes in writing, I’m no native.