- * MTV *
- I met Chantel on a streaming app.
I really don't open up to a lot of people,
but her, she gave me that feeling like it's safe.
- How did she make this profile
if it makes you verify with a picture?
- Right. - Whoa.
Wow. - Are you scared?
- That's crazy.
- She's pulling in.
- Oh.
- Oh, I hear him, I hear him.
[tense music]
[dramatic musical sting]
[upbeat music]
- Kamie's on the wrong side.
How's it feel?
- I didn't even realize that we had switched sides.
- If you're ready...
- I'm never on this side, huh? - No.
Should we switch back?
- All right. - I feel uncomfortable.
- All right, and when you're ready, we'll starts.
- Right. - Are you ready?
- Yes. - Okay. Let's do it.
- [laughs]
- Here we go. Ooh.
"What am I fighting for?"
Interesting. From Cristian.
"My name is Cristian, and I'm 23.
"I'm from Memphis, but I go to school
"in Montgomery, Alabama.
And I think I might be getting catfished."
- Hmm.
- "Some crazy things have gone down
"with this girl Chantel,
"who I met on a social-networking app
almost a year ago."
- * All we are that we are from the stars *
- "She would go live, and that's how we started talking.
Chantel's 22 and lives in Rockville, Maryland."
- That's around the corner from me.
I don't know Chantel, so...
- Well, she's young.
- I know everyone in Maryland.
I've never heard of Chantel.
- "When I first saw her, I knew she was special.
"She's so hot, but her looks
"are the least interesting thing about her.
"She's cool and funny and can cook.
What a dream." - Too good to be true.
- * I swore to be somebody to love *
[upbeat music]
- "We were in love and exclusive
"pretty quickly into our relationship.
"We talked on the phone all the time,
"and I really started to think
"she was a long-term girl for me.
"However, she has not shown her face
on FaceTime or her Lives." - Oh, God.
- "But the more I pushed to video chat,
"the more she got really angry and pulled away.
"She has told me to leave her alone,
"but then she'll come back in the mix,
"calling and messaging me again.
I need to know if she is a catfish."
"Please help.
Best regards, Cristian."
- She hasn't even shown her face on her Lives?
- There's no question Chantel is exhibiting
some classic catfish qualities.
- Yeah. - But clearly,
something about her has him very much...
- Sprung.
- Yeah. Whatever that means. But still...
- [laughs]
- Having very strong feelings for this woman.
We gotta call him.
We need to get Cristian mingling.
- Yeah. In Montgomery.
- Hello. Is this Cristian?
- Hey! - Hello!
- It's your best friends, Nev and Kamie.
- What's up?
- Hey, good.
We just finished reading your email moments ago,
and I think your instinct that something's going on here
is probably right.
- And it's been almost a year you've been talking to Chantel?
- But you've never seen her face?
- But she was going live.
- I see. All right.
Well, look, we wanna figure this out.
- Mm-hmmm. - We will fly down there.
We'll meet up.
- Yeah, I think that's probably better.
Just tell us where to meet you, and we'll see you soon.
- All right. - All right.
- See you soon, bud. - Bye.
- Cristian sounds lovely. - He sounds really nice.
- And he sounds way too smart
to be dealing with this girl and her bullshit.
- What we need is to get this girl
to Chan-show and not just Chan-tel.
- That was good. - Thank you.
- All right.
[laughter]
- * I wanna tell you *
- All right.
Montgomery, lot of history.
Civil rights history. - Lot of history.
- For sure. And Christian.
- A lot of Christians. - A lot of Christians.
But we're only looking for one.
- [laughs] Yeah.
- * I want it all *
- All right, this is his friend's street.
Okay.
- Oh, he's outside. - Oh. Oh, there he is.
Hey-yo!
- Hey, how you doing?
- Cristian, what's up? - What's up?
- Oh, see, we look good. - Hello.
- We're coordinated. - Wow.
- You got that stuff on. I see you.
- [laughs] We're both prepared for the moment.
- Yeah. Man, how you doing, man?
Nice to meet you. - Got the money.
- Yeah. Hey. - Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too. - I'm Kamie.
- Should we go in, or...? - Oh, yeah, come on in.
- Okay, come on, let's go.
- Oh, my God.
Thank you. - Sure.
- What year are you at school?
- I'm a senior.
- Oh, okay, nice. - Oh, you're almost done.
- I'm almost done. - How does it feel?
- It feels great.
- Like, bachelor of the arts? - Bachelor's of science.
- Yeah. Business management.
- Oh, okay. - Mm-hmmm.
- And you came to Alabama from Memphis for school?
- Yes, yes.
Came all the way from Tennessee.
So I had a couple choices, but had to get away from there.
Yeah. - Why?
- When I was in high school, my brother went to prison
for 25 years. - Oh, wow.
- After that, my best friend got killed.
He was only 17.
It was just, like, it was a lot of tragic stuff
that happened, so it was like, I'm just trying
to go somewhere at this point.
I don't care what nobody say.
I just wanna go to school and play football.
Then that's when I came to ASU. - For football.
- For football, but when I first came here, got shot.
In the leg. - What?
Like, are you fucking kidding me?
- It was a house party.
Next thing you know, I see somebody getting to fighting,
then the bullet said fshew! - [gasps]
- Right there, and I'm bleeding,
and my friend see me, like, bro!
You just got shot, brah!
You know, I was limping and stuff,
so that's how I stopped playing football.
- Well, it sounds like football was not meant to be.
- Yeah, it wasn't meant to be, so I let it go.
both: Wow. - Mm-hmm.
- But you have new goals now. - Sure do.
- All right, so tell us how you met Chantel.
- Man.
So, when I met Chantel,
I was on a streaming app, and I seen her in a Live.
- When you saw that she was live...
- Mm-hmmm. - Was there a picture of her?
- Yeah, it was just a picture showing.
- You saw the picture and thought
this girl looks pretty. - Mm-hmm. Yeah.
So, when I seen her, I was like, ooh, she fine.
So I was like, you know, wanna get to know each other?
- In the Live. - In the Live.
She was like, yeah, we can take it slow
and get to know each other.
So I was like, all right, cool. Boom, got the number.
So then, you know, we started texting,
and she'll send me photos of herself.
And we started getting real, real close.
She was so, so funny.
Like, she just made my heart smile.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, you know, I like her. You know what I'm saying?
She loved me, and I loved her.
- So you guys say I love you...
- Yeah, we did.
- On the phone too.
- On the phone and, yeah, said it a lot.
We'll be on the phone sometime,
we used to sleep on the phone, you know, the casual.
I don't want you to get off the phone.
Let me sleep on the phone with you, you know, simple stuff.
I really don't open up to a lot of people,
but her, she gave me that feeling like it's safe.
- Yeah.
- But around I'd say April, I'm asking her,
you know, when am I gonna get to see your face on the video?
- Like, on FaceTime? - Yeah.
She'd be like, I'm trying to save money right now.
Like, I'ma get me a new phone.
So, at this point, she's starting to get irritated
because I keep asking her, when am I gonna see your face?
And then next thing you know, we stop talking.
- Lord have mercy. - We was on and off.
Like, it'd be times we wouldn't even talk no more.
I'd be like, all right, cool. Do what you wanna do.
So two months go by.
Then we started back talking.
So then...
So I got to talking to Cash because I seen him in her Live.
I said, I got a question, bro.
You talked to Chantel?
He was like, yeah, bro, I got her number,
and I done talked to her before.
I was like, oh. You ever seen her face?
He said, no.
So we started trying to get a little crew together
and do some investigation.
I'm asking everybody the same question.
Have y'all seen the face of this girl?
- Never shows her face in her Live.
- Nah, bro, nah.
- And what did she say she does?
- She told me that she cooks.
She makes plates, I guess.
- Does she ever send you pictures of her plates?
- No, but it was all on her Instagram under her--
the Stories. - Oh, she has Instagram.
- Yeah, she has Instagram.
- And you follow her. - I do.
- Well, can we see Chantel?
- Yeah.
- All right, so here's her Instagram.
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. - She's got five pictures up.
- She do look good in the picture too.
- That's what I'm saying. She look good as hell.
- She's got a necklace.
What does it say?
Doesn't look like a C-H. Looks like a J.
Have you seen this necklace?
You zoomed in on that?
- I didn't really pay attention to it for real.
- There's definitely no Ls at the end.
- I ain't never noticed it, honestly.
- I wanna see your messages.
Whoa, there's a lot here. Oh, my God.
I've only gone back a couple days, and it's, like, pages.
- [chuckles] All this lovey-dovey shit.
- [laughs]
- Yeah, kissies, hearts.
Well, all right, look,
clearly, there's a reason that she hasn't shown her face.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hard to imagine what that could be
other than she's not the girl in the pictures.
- Yeah.
- So you have her Instagram. We have some photos.
We have her phone number.
Maybe you can ask Cash--
- Yeah, I can talk to him.
- See if he has access to anything else.
- Access to--yeah, yeah. Yeah.
- And we'll do our investigation
tomorrow and see what we find.
- Yes, sir. Gotcha.
- We're gonna figure it out. - Pray to God.
- All right, dude. - All right.
It was nice to meet you, man. Thank you.
All right. - Good to meet you.
See you tomorrow. - All right.
Bye-bye. - Good night.
- See y'all later. - Bye.
I mean... - I know.
- She's definitely catfishing him.
- Definitely.
- If that girl in the pictures is the real person
that he's talking to, I will be shocked.
- I think he knows he shouldn't be talking to her anymore.
- Mm-hmm.
- And yet, despite all the red flags, he's still involved.
- Yeah. Cristian's gonna need a prayer.
- I think he's gonna need more than a prayer.
Chantel has Cristian wrapped around her finger,
and I don't see how this is gonna end well.
- All right. Do a little recap.
Cristian has sort of had a string of bad luck.
- He got shot.
- He got shot, stumbles into a Live with Chantel.
They start chatting, quickly become
exclusive in a relationship, saying I love you.
Cristian says, when am I gonna see you?
She gets more and more irritated, have a big fight.
But Cristian still doesn't want anybody else.
- Yeah. - Is what she has with Cristian
actually important to her and meaningful?
Or is it all just a game?
A sick, sadistic...
terrible game.
- [laughs]
- All right, let's see. Here we go, email.
"Here's the information I have for her--
"Chantel's Instagram handle, her streaming app name.
"The old phone number I have for her doesn't work,
but it was this."
- It's a 240 number. - Oh, is that...
- Yeah, that's the DMV. Mm-hmm. - Maryland?
"My friend Cash gave me a new number for her,
"but I don't have it.
"If you want to try reaching out, his number is this.
"I attached some pics, but they're the same ones
"that are on her Instagram.
I'm anxious to learn what you find out about Chantel."
- All right.
- I think we need to try to access
the whole Livestream app community,
because that's where they met. Let's see.
Let's download this. - Load it up.
- Oh, here we go. Create an account.
Let's make a profile.
Tell us about yourself. Sure, why not?
Birthday--"We need to verify that you
are the age indicated."
Okay.
Take a selfie.
- Oh, God.
They're ageist. [camera shutter clicks]
- I'm uploading a profile pic.
Age verified.
- We're in. - Let's see. Can we search?
- @ underscore Chantel.
- Let's see.
Just no results.
- I think because you're not her age--
- Oh, maybe she doesn't wanna see people that are older.
- Yeah. Sorry.
- I mean, it's her loss.
You wanna try?
- Let's see. - Show your face.
Take a picture. - Okay.
[upbeat music]
[camera shutter clicks]
Verify.
[gasps] That could be anywhere between 18 and 35.
- You could be up to 35, according to this app.
- It's because I'm mature for my age.
- Now search underscore Chantel.
- Boom. - Oh! All right.
So wait, this is her.
So she's got other photos. Oh, and some videos too.
Wait, so how did she make this profile
if it makes you verify yourself with a picture?
- Well, maybe she took a picture of this woman's face.
- Oh. Maybe.
- If I am Cristian, I'm not thinking
that this girl is fake. - Right.
- Where are her food videos?
Oh, delicious-looking salmon linguine
and blackened shrimp pasta.
- So the Livestream profile does seem pretty legit.
We can't rule out that it isn't.
But let's try the picture search.
- I guess.
- Let's see. I'm gonna start with this one.
- Mmm...nothing for that one.
- This is a pretty good face pic.
- I wanna know what that chain says.
- Let me reverse the picture.
Oh, yeah, what do we got? That looks like something.
[suspenseful music]
* *
- What are you doing?
- It sort of helps to step back a little bit.
- Does it?
J--J--J--
Janai?
- I mean, it's definitely not Chantel.
- It's not Chantel.
- One more.
- Oh. Oh! - Wait a second.
- Whoa! - Bingo!
- Johnnaa. - Johnnaa.
Heyitsjohnnaa.
- That's what the necklace says!
- Wow. Okay.
She's in Houston.
Some of the pictures he's seen, but obviously a lot more.
She's tagged in people's stories.
Feels pretty legit.
- Chef Jo.
She is a cook.
Look at that plate. Look at that plate.
Now, that's a plate. - Wow.
- The real girl is a chef
and really does seem to make plates.
So I think it's safe to say that Chantel probably doesn't.
She just got that as a part of the story
when she stole this girl's picture.
- Right. - Let's reach out to her.
"Hey, Jo.
"Looks like someone is using pictures of you.
"Let me know if you are free.
Thanks." All right.
- What if it is just her?
Is there a world where Johnnaa has this streaming app account,
where she pretends to be somebody else
but is really just herself?
- I mean, that's not impossible.
Maybe it's just like, you know--maybe she likes
to talk to guys and doesn't want them to know
her name and track her down.
Then why would she hide her face?
- Right.
- All right, let's run her phone number
just because we haven't done that yet.
No name associated with this number.
- Clinton, Maryland.
- Landline, that's not great.
Could be a text app.
Nothing really there. Let's see.
So the only other thing left to do is to call the friend, Cash,
and just sort of see what he maybe knows.
[line trills]
- Yes. Hey, is this Cash?
- Hey, Cash, this is Nev from "Catfish,"
calling on behalf of your friend Cristian.
- We're just curious, what do you know about Chantel?
What did she tell you about herself?
- Ship plates?
Sorry. Hi, this is Kamie.
- Oh, yes. Kamie's here too. So wait.
So she said, if you wanna buy, like, a plate,
we can send it to you via, like...
the mail.
- Okay.
But you have her current number?
- That's Detroit. - Detroit.
- Well, thank you, Cash.
I appreciate the help.
All right. Take care, bud.
- Bye.
- 313, that's weird. - That's Detroit.
- Let's run that number.
- We gotta figure out who Chantel really is.
- Give us a name. Give us a name.
Nothing.
- We could check Cash App.
- 313 [bleep].
[gasps] Harmony.
We got a name.
- Harmony.
No bueno. - Wow.
So we know the girl in the pictures
is someone named Johnnaa, who lives in Texas,
and is almost certainly not who he's talking to,
although we can't completely rule that out
because there is a chance that she's got
this alter ego that she uses on this Livestreaming app.
And it does seem tricky to make a fake account on there.
On the other hand, her new number is Detroit
and goes back on Cash App to someone named Harmony.
- Yeah.
Whoever this is, she's gotta be hiding something.
She's got some explaining to do.
- I think he's hoping that we're gonna tell him
that it is just her, and I could see how he would draw
that conclusion, because the app has
all these verification steps. - Right.
- But she found a way.
- There is still a very small chance
that it is the real girl.
- Here we are.
All right.
[suspenseful music]
[knocking] - Hey.
- Hey.
- How y'all doing? - What's up?
- Man, chillin', man.
- How are you feeling about the whole situation?
- I really just wanna know who she is.
Been nervous all day, so...
- Well, we gotta show you what we found.
- All right.
So one of the most important pieces
of this whole relationship
is the app you guys met on. - Mm-hmm.
- That's where the Lives started.
That's where you first met her.
So we actually made a profile. - Okay.
- Well-- - I made one.
- Well, I made one, and then it told me I was too old.
- Yeah, yeah. It's got, like, age restrictions.
- We were surprised.
It wants to take a picture of your face
to make sure that you're you and that your age
matches what you say it is. - Mm-hmm.
- So, when I realized that I was probably too old
to see her profile, Kamie tried it.
- I was able to see.
- She was able to click on the profile.
- Okay. - So we now have access.
So is this what it looked like when you...
- Yes. - First saw her a year ago?
- This is exactly what it looked like.
Damn, she fine.
- You remember if she had these plates up?
- Yeah, those are the same plates
she had up when we was friends.
I remember the little shrimp. - And these look good.
- They do. - Well, okay.
So the next thing we did was, we looked up the photos of her.
When we searched this photo, we did get a hit
for an Instagram whose name is Johnnaa.
- Oh, my God.
That is crazy.
Wow.
- That's probably what her necklace says.
- Mm.
- And there's a lot more pictures.
Some you've seen.
- Yep. Yep. - Some you haven't.
- Wow.
Yeah, that's her.
- It says Houston, Texas.
And Johnnaa has a whole highlights reel
of food she's cooked.
- Wow.
Why would you lie to me like that
instead of just being real with me and telling me the truth?
- Now, we're pretty confident that Chantel is a catfish,
using pictures of this girl.
But that doesn't answer how she was able to create the profile
on the streaming app.
So theory two, there is indeed a possibility that Johnnaa
wanted to get on the streaming app
but didn't want people to know it was her,
so she just used a different name.
- Right.
- So we can't completely eliminate
the possibility that it's her.
- Wow, that's crazy.
- It could be.
- But speaking of the streaming app, we did call Cash.
He remembered she had said something
like she could ship food to him, which seems so strange.
- Why would you ship food?
- You're not shipping that food.
- Exactly.
- The nice thing was that Cash had her more recent number,
a 313 number, which I immediately
recognized as Detroit because my wife's from Detroit.
Has she ever talked about Michigan or Detroit?
- She ain't never talked about Detroit, none of that.
It's always been Maryland.
- Just raises more questions--
- Maybe the 313 number has been her number the entire time
and she uses the 240 number as a text app number.
- Right, which would mean she probably lives in Michigan.
- Mm. - But check this out.
We looked the number up on Cash App,
and it came back to a profile for someone named Harmony.
- Hmm.
- You don't recognize the name Harmony.
- Uh-uh.
- Maybe this person's name is actually Harmony.
If she's lying about the pictures and the food
and where she's at, she could be lying about her name too.
- Right. That is true.
I don't even know what to say about it.
I don't know.
That's messed up.
[sighs] That's messed up.
So much emotions I'm holding back.
I already done been through hell in my past.
For you to just do that, like, nah, bro.
- I'm sorry.
- * No one said it would be easy *
- I genuinely have love for this person.
* *
Love is probably the only thing that I've struggled with
ever since I was a kid, never felt love for real.
Try to be a man and be tough and fight through it.
Like, it's like you're looking in the mirror.
You're smiling, but in your mind, you yelling.
Like, you mad.
And, you know, I try to hold it all in,
but, you know, it hurts.
- [sighs] Man.
- All right, so I think we gotta figure out
how to finish the story.
- Right.
- So I think we should reach out to her
and see if she'll agree to meet up.
- Yeah.
- Let's send her a DM.
We know this is her active-ish Instagram page, right?
"Hey, Chantel.
"This is Nev reaching out regarding Cristian.
"He tells us you guys are really close
"and share some deep feelings for each other.
"But we've found some things that are concerning,
and we'd love to discuss them with you."
It says delivered. - I'm terrified.
- It's crazy. - Are you scared?
- My heart beating. - [laughs]
Can't even look with both eyes.
- Can't even look up right now.
[phone dings]
- Whoa. Wow.
She said, "I don't know why he called 'Catfish.'
"I didn't lie about anything.
"He might wanna meet me, but at this point,
I'm not interested. Sorry."
- Wow.
- She knows we're on to her.
- "But what you can do is, next time you're in town,
you can support my business."
Her business?
Are you kidding me? - Smart-ass.
- You don't have no fucking business.
- I mean, we wanna meet this girl, right?
"Why don't I come to town and support
"your business right now?
"If we were to come get some food,
where would we need to go?"
[phone dings] Oh.
"I'm in Detroit right now,"
which makes sense, at least for her phone number.
"Okay. Well, how does it work?
If we come to Detroit, can you deliver us some plates?"
[phone dings] Oh.
"In order to book, you have to send $75 deposit.
No deposit, no food."
- Are you kidding?
- I guess we gotta play her little game.
"Okay, how should I send the deposit?
Cash App?"
Cash App. She said Cash App.
- What's your Cash App? - Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
- Oh. That's-- [laughter]
- Look, it was right.
She said Harmony.
She's giving--she doesn't even realize--
do you think she even realizes she's giving herself away?
- Thanks, Harmony.
We'll take a giant plate of catfish.
Wow. - You know what?
I'm just gonna send it. I'll hit pay.
Okay.
Well, I don't know if this is even all just bullshit
and she doesn't even cook, but we gotta play her game.
We gotta go up there. Hopefully she shows up.
- Yeah. Let's do it.
- Pack warm. It's a cold world.
It's about to get a hell of a lot colder in Detroit.
- I ain't never been on a plane in my life.
- This is gonna be your first time on a plane?
- Yep. I ain't never been on a plane.
- What?
- * I look good, I feel good *
- This is it.
The guy that we're traveling with, it's his first flight.
- We have a special guest on board.
This is his first time flying.
Can everyone say, welcome, Cristian?
- Welcome, Cristian. [cheering]
- All right.
- Hello, everybody.
Thank you. - Absolutely.
- Got my wings.
[singer vocalizing]
- Ah, ooh! - [laughs]
- * Every time the darkness crossed my mind *
* *
* I look to the sunshine *
- Here in Motor City, man. Let's do it.
Good morning. Good morning.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
- Chantel just wrote me.
She said she actually isn't able to deliver to downtown.
So production found us a place in the North End we can use.
And then I gave her the address,
and then she just wrote back, "I thought about it.
I'm willing to meet you guys, not Cristian."
- Too bad, so sad. Bring the plate.
Bring the fork.
We're bringing Cristian. - Right.
- I'm gonna text Chantel and just say, "Okay,
heading over to the address."
All right.
- Have you thought about anything
that you wanna ask her?
- The real thing I wanna ask her is, was the feelings real?
Like, did you actually love me like you say you did?
- Well, we should probably just head over there.
- Ooh, it's cold as shit.
[suspenseful music]
- Okay.
Here we go.
- [sighs] The closer we get, the more nervous I get.
- Up here is the house we rented for the drop-off.
Here.
We can set up and chill, and hopefully
she'll let us know when she's getting close.
- Okay.
- I was not prepared for this.
You look shook right now.
- I'ma try to hold my composure and not let
my anger get the best of me.
[phone dings] - Oh, here we go.
- What she say?
- She said, pulling up now. - Uh-oh.
- Oh, to the back? - I don't know. Maybe.
All right. She said she's pulling in.
Let's see.
- Ooh. Uh-huh. Yeah.
- All right.
- Someone's definitely coming towards us.
- Oh, I hear him. I hear him. I hear him.
* *
- All right. She said she's pulling in.
Let's see.
- Ooh. Uh-huh. Yeah.
- All right.
[tense music]
* *
- Hello.
Do you need a hand with that?
Wow. Okay. - No, thank you.
- How you doing?
- Good.
- Hey, why don't you come in here?
Just come right this way.
- Excuse me.
- Hi.
- Let me get inside.
- Thank you.
Wow, I'll put this down for a second.
How you doing? - I'm good.
How are you? - I'm Nev.
- Hi, I'm Mikayah. - Mikayah?
- Mm-hmm. - Mikayah?
- And you are Chantel--
- Friend. - Friend?
- Mm-hmm. I'm her friend. - Oh.
Not Chantel? - No.
- What the hell?
- Oh, okay.
Where's Chantel?
- She had a couple more orders, and she sent me.
- Stop.
She lying.
- She lying.
- I--so what did she tell you?
- She told me that she--that you owed her 35 for the food.
She also had a letter.
- Like, a note?
- Yeah, it said, "Dear Nev and Kamie,
"sorry I couldn't make it.
"I hope you enjoy the food.
"Thanks for supporting my business.
Chantel."
And she also said, "PS, sorry I couldn't
"make it to meet Cristian.
"I feel like it's no reason to meet because the feelings
aren't mutual."
- Huh.
- It's the same voice.
She lying. That's her.
- I'm texting Nev.
"Cristian says that's her."
- The voice sound the same.
[phone dings]
- Since you're here, do you wanna just come in
for a minute and have a plate?
We don't need four plates.
You wanna have a plate with us?
- I really was gonna leave.
- Come on, have a plate with us.
It's cold.
We got some delicious food here, right?
- Hi.
- I kind of have to go.
- I'm Kamie.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- This is Mikayah... - Mikayah.
- Who apparently is dropping the food off
on behalf of Chantel.
- So where is Chantel?
- She had a couple orders ahead.
- Your--your voice just sound a little too familiar.
Like, I can--like, word for word, bar for bar.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, anybody that's been talking to somebody
for that long-- you feel me?
- Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Okay. [laughs]
- You're really gonna stand on that?
- Absolutely, 100%.
- I just saw the way you looked at him when he came out,
and you looked gagged.
- So you're saying you're not who you--
you're not Chantel at all? - Absolutely not.
Yes, it's me.
- So why--why you sit--
why you sit up here and lie like that?
- Because I feel like it's no point for us to meet for real.
- But we've been talking for a goddamn year.
I'm just saying, like, you know,
you could at least just be real to a person.
You know what I'm saying? Like--
- What were you-- why were you afraid to just
come here and be yourself?
- I didn't have much time to, you know,
really sit and chat and stuff, so...
- You've had a year to chat to Cristian.
You guys have been talking on the phone.
You've been falling asleep on the phone.
- I'm not trying to hurt nobody.
I'm not trying to, you know,
lead nobody on and stuff like that.
So it's just strictly business.
If it ain't about business, I really don't wanna talk.
- What business?
What does your business have to do with Cristian?
- Okay, look, why don't we start at the top?
Your real name is... - Mikayah.
- It is Mikayah. - Mm-hmm.
- Because when we sent the money,
the Cash App account came up as Harmony.
- I don't know nothing about that.
- Okay, so if you're really just interested
in selling food,
why have pictures of this other girl?
- To promote my business.
- I'm not buying that.
- I don't--I don't know what to tell you
because that's the really the truth.
- You are pretending to be another girl to talk to people.
- Not to talk to people, for business.
- But the purpose of having that account
and using pictures of someone else...
- To promote my business.
- Is to get people to engage with--
- Attention. - Correct, to get attention.
But you knew he wasn't gonna be buying food from you.
- No, I didn't know.
Honestly, when I was in a vulnerable state--
- He lives in Alabama.
And he's a college student, with no money.
You think he's gonna fly you down there to cook lunch?
- They're paying for the food. That's it.
Just the food, my services, that's it.
- You're gonna fly down there on your own dime
to cook someone lunch? - That's--
- No, no.
- Those are poor business practices.
- It's not like I'm scamming people or anything like that.
It's more so, like, I'm bringing you the food,
so you're getting your money's worth.
- But the Chantel account is not really about selling food.
- It's most definitely is. It's strictly business.
- You guys were talking in a very real way.
That wasn't just, like, him asking about food.
Like, you were in a relationship with him.
- I wouldn't call it a relationship.
I always looked at him as a friend.
- Oh, okay.
- Was there a point at any point
that you had feelings for Cristian?
- My feelings was never that strong for Cristian.
- But you still told me you loved me, though.
- No, it wasn't--
- Bullshit, bro. You sound like bullshit.
- It's no bullshit. - Yes, it is.
- I knew I was a catfish, so why would I even--
you know? - You lying.
- Wait, you know-- - Man, this shit is bullshit.
I don't even wanna talk to you.
- So, that's just me personally, that's how I feel.
- Fuck you, bro.
* *
[tense music]
* *
- All right. [sighs]
How are you feeling?
- I tried-- I tried to hold my composure.
It's just the lies.
It's pissing me off.
You literally was on the phone with me every single day.
- Woman-to-woman... - Mm-hmm.
- I saw your face when he came outside.
You don't have any feelings for that man?
- Honestly, it was just because I was promoting my business.
- The messages say something different.
Those look like somebody that's in a relationship
with somebody that likes them.
This isn't about selling food. You know that.
- We're just trying to get some answers
and keep talking to her.
You should be able to ask questions too.
- Yeah.
- So if you want, maybe we can invite her to come in,
and we could sit and--
- We could sit.
- Listen, it's cold out here. - Mm-hmm.
Sd Let's get inside and talk to Cristian.
* *
- All right.
Let's start over.
- Okay.
- We've cleared up that it's you.
You've been the one talking to him.
I think now we need to kind of just
get back into the origin of all this.
- So, when I made my Chantel account,
I just casually made the account
to bring attention with my food,
the food that I make in my business as Mikayah.
I put my food in my media, and I just, like, showed it around.
And, like, I just went live one day,
and everybody just came into my Live.
And it was like, oh, who the hell is this?
You know, stuff like that.
- [sighs]
- On the Livestream account, they require, like,
ten different steps of verification.
- Apps update.
It may have told you, like, you have to verify or anything.
I happened to catch it at the right time,
so I didn't have to verify.
- Let's just clear something up.
If you told me you were selling specifically your services
in Detroit and that was a part of your profile,
that would make sense.
But you then weirdly told him you were in Maryland.
- The profile was Maryland because I had
most customers from there. - You lying. Stop lying.
- There's no version of an explanation
that you can give me that's convincing
that you created the Chantel account
just to promote your business.
- You don't have to believe it.
Honestly, you could-- you could go whatever--
whatever--whatever I say.
You could honestly go with whatever I say.
But, honestly, that's my intention.
I was making money.
- Okay, put it like this. - Cussed you the fuck out.
- Did you have feelings for me?
Be honest. Don't lie to me or nothing.
Did you have feelings?
- Yes. - All right.
That's all you had to say. - Okay.
I had feelings for Cristian.
- You said have or had? - Had.
But once it started hitting rocky road,
it was just like, yeah, I'm done with this shit.
Like, what the fuck? Like, no, I'm not dealing with it.
- Okay.
- Look, you did have feelings for him.
- Yeah.
- That was one of your main questions.
Because you didn't want the whole thing to have been fake.
- Right. - So you do cook.
You did have feelings.
But at the moment, you're not interested in Cristian.
- Not romantically.
- All right, let's put all this in the past,
maybe say whatever else there is to say,
whether it's an apology. - I have nothing else to say.
I already apologized and--
- I didn't hear that.
- In the beginning, when I first came,
I was like, I'm sorry if I led you on or anything like that.
That was my first words. Yeah.
- Oh. I missed that. - I did not hear that.
- Oh, you want another apology?
Cristian, I apologize if I made you feel any type of way
and led you on in any type of way.
I didn't mean to do that. That was not my intentions.
- It don't feel sincere, but I'll take it.
- Okay.
- Glad we could make this happen.
- It was nice meeting all of you, honestly.
It was a pleasure cooking for both of you.
This was definitely an experience.
Thank you so much.
- Our pleasure. - You're welcome.
- All right.
Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- Thank you again for showing up.
- Good to meet you. - See you later, Cristian.
- Be safe.
- * I was lost in the world *
[upbeat music]
- Nothing that she just said made sense to me at all.
- She's young and... - She's definitely young.
- Isn't really clear about any of it.
- She's got some work to do, obviously.
- She's there lying, like, how you--how you gonna still lie?
- I think she probably made the page thinking maybe she could
use it to promote her business and then
was like, ooh, this is fun. Guys wanna talk to me.
Girls wanna talk to me. - She did it deliberately.
- She's not making a dollar off of...
- No. No. - Her food out of state.
All right, well--
- Get the hell up out this here...
- Okay. - Stanking-ass house.
- * It's a brand-new life *
* *
* It cuts like a knife *
* *
* Shut out the noises *
* Now I can feel its violent side *
- Well, you get your answers?
- I did. I feel--I feel better.
I feel so much better.
I do appreciate y'all for doing everything
y'all could to help me, and I'm glad we came out
finding the truth.
- * Now I can feel its violent side *
[computer chimes]
- Hey. - Here we go.
- Hey.
- Wow, looking fresh. - What's going on?
What's going on? - Looking fresh.
What's been going on since we last spoke?
- I've been really finding myself.
You gotta always have that time to yourself
to understand yourself. - Mm-hmm.
- So we pushing as much as we can.
- Any parties you've needed to have catering done,
fly Mikayah in?
- Hell, no.
- Fly her in to make some plates?
- Nah, bro. She can stay where she at.
- Have you talked to her at all?
- After, she kept blowing up my phone.
I didn't respond.
I just said, fuck it and just blocked her.
And I ain't spoke to her ever since.
But that's your fault for lying,
so ain't got nothing to do with me.
- And you're focused on your own things.
- Mm-hmm.
- I think you got a bright future.
- Thank y'all for everything. - See ya.
[computer chimes]
- Hey. - Hey.
- We're just very curious to kind of hear about what's
been going on with you.
And we just spoke to Cristian, and he filled us in
a little bit on your situation.
- I just blocked him, and, yeah, we just don't talk.
- Do you miss talking to him?
- No, absolutely not.
- Do you still have the fake page?
- So I still have access to it, but I don't use it.
Like you guys said, use myself.
So, like, I've kind of been ignoring them.
- Good.
- I'm glad that you have a fresh start.
- Keep it up. - Thank you.
- And let me just say,
everybody loves a woman that can cook.
- Yeah. - [laughs]
You guys have a good rest of your day.
- All right. - You too.
- See ya. - Bye.
- Kenya--she care about what I go through.
She wanna see me win.
- You're in love with Kenya? - Yeah, bro.
I love her.
- [screams]
- That's her friend, the friend from the video!
- What is she hiding?
[knocking] - Who that?
- What the hell?
Nobody ever knocks on our door. - Hello?