- ♪ MTV ♪
- I'm Tami Roman.
I have been cheated on before.
- You [bleep] my man when I was married to him.
- I even wrote a book about it.
And I've made it my mission
to help suspicious lovers
catch their cheating partners in the act.
Hold up. - Man, you brought this
to my place of business? How dare you?
What is this? - Ooh.
- Oh!
Together with my relationship coaches...
- You gotta tell about the insecurities
that you have.
That's how y'all work through it.
- This is a situation where you have to say,
"I'm gonna step up and do what's right."
- And stealthy investigation team...
- They think they slick, well, we slicker.
- We won't stop until we find the truth.
Cheaters beware.
- I'm [bleep] torn. I love 'em both.
- You gotta fundamentally say, "I'm gonna be different."
- Who the [bleep] you think you are?
- Why the [bleep] y'all got cameras in my crib?
What the [bleep] is wrong with you?
- [screaming]
- Nobody should think they're better
than anybody else,
'cause y'all all [bleep] been played,
and that's just the truth.
This is "Caught in the Act: Unfaithful."
- ♪ OK, puff and I'm fly, I have to believe I will die ♪
♪ If I hit the pen I'ma fly ♪
♪ Yeah, I'm sliding ♪
♪ I'm gliding ♪
♪ I got my incense lit so ♪
- Lexi, oh, it's such a pleasure to meet you.
- You too.
- Oh, my goodness.
You're beautiful.
- Thank you.
How are you?
- Oh, thank you.
So Lexi, you reached out to me because you
feel like your partner Joe may be unfaithful.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
- Listen, girl, I'm gonna try to get to the truth.
That's what I do around here, but I need to know
about your relationship.
- Well, you know what? I met Joe in 2017.
It was just so organic.
It felt so good, genuine just energy.
And I liked the fact that he was listening
to everything I was saying. - OK.
- For that year, he was very respectful.
I got to know him a lot as just a friend.
Like it's giving me goosebumps right now.
- I love that. Me too.
I feel something popping up on me because I stand by creating
a friendship first because that's what
the foundation is made of.
- Yeah. He seemed just so interested in me.
And then I'm a good listener, so I'll
sit there and listen all day.
- So he gave you the attention that you needed.
- Yeah. - And it was genuine.
- Yes.
- And what do you guys do for a living?
- He works in construction and he's
an influencer on social media.
People pay him to put stuff on his page and stuff sometimes.
Me, I model and I'm also a nursing assistant.
But more so taking up on the modeling more now.
Before it was very, very lovely.
Like, I loved it, the support, everything with my modeling,
like I didn't have support, really, like a lot of support
from my family like that.
But he was like, you know, always wanted to volunteer
to record me when I'm working out in my
workout fitness videos.
He's come with me to my shoots.
He used to shoot all my behind the scenes videos.
Like, I love him. I want kids.
- With him?
- I mean, I've invested this long,
and I feel like it's meant to be.
But all of this stuff, you know, if something comes
out of this, like I can't.
- Because you think he might be cheating.
We don't know for sure.
- Yeah, I don't know.
But it's just, you know, when you have a gut feeling--
- So what happened?
- Well, too many red flags is what happened.
Things have been way off recently.
And then he won't answer his phone.
He'll literally be out.
He'll come home late.
Take my car, pick me up late.
- Take your car?
- Yeah, well, he'll take my car because I
allow him to take the car.
But he'll come back too late. - Where his car at?
- He don't got a car?
He got a call one time at like 2:00 or 3:00
in the morning.
And you know, it be sitting like this
and you know how you just waking up, you're like,
oh the phone's ringing, you just looking,
and he just put it right back down.
I ended up looking at his phone after that
and you know what I saw was his whole call log was cleared.
- That's bigger than a red flag.
- He says it was memory that he needed to clear.
- And so now we have to wonder, have we been really
dealing with the real Joe?
- It triggers things from the past.
And I've been cheated on before.
- Yes, haven't we all. - Yeah.
You know how I told you he was a very good listener?
- Mm-hmm.
- Now it's just completely different.
Because he'll just be on his phone,
you know, just being on Instagram.
He's been adding like these girls to his lives.
And they've been like butt-naked.
OK.
Let me show you.
He also has his face in women's breasts
on top of that in a strip club where he was booked
to host something, he says.
But this is the stream recording.
Look at him. He doesn't do this.
Like he doesn't like the clubs.
- Wait, this is Joe? - Yeah.
- I ain't got my glasses. Is he-- is he a little person?
- He is.
He's like 4'7", 4'8".
And I still wear my heels.
We have gotten made fun of and stuff.
You know, people stare at us all the time.
- And you don't feel any kind of way?
- I'm not bothered by it.
I think he more so though, there's been times
where he's actually gotten very emotional.
That kind of gets in the way, the insecurity
is a little bit-- you can't tell until he really,
really got--
I guess he felt comfortable.
- He opened up to you.
- Yeah, he said that he has never really opened
up that quickly with someone.
- And that's probably what made you feel comfortable enough
to open up to him.
- Yeah.
- How's sex?
- Before we had sex every day.
- Every day?
- And he's very much man down there.
And it's very, very good.
- OK.
- I love him to death.
I don't really see my life like without him.
- Wow.
- If it is another woman, would you
know who that person might be?
- No. - Do you have any--
- I don't know like--
Sorry.
- Let it out.
- Well, in the beginning, I feel like I wasn't
like, threatened by anyone.
And even now I don't feel that way, but--
the idea, like is making me think about it.
- If we uncover something or he just flat out says, you know,
I think it's run its course, are you
gonna be able to handle that?
- I don't know.
- With your permission, I can get my investigation team
to surveil Joe, follow him as long as necessary
to see if there's anything going on.
But you have to give me permission to do that.
- Well, I really want to know, so yeah, I want to do it.
- OK.
Hopefully, he ain't doing nothing.
- So you go ahead on.
And I'm gonna thank you for coming on then.
I'm gonna call my team.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you, thank you so much.
- Oh, you're so beautiful. - You're beautiful.
- No, you are.
We're gonna find out for you.
There's-- there's the front door.
Take your time. - Thank you.
- All right, baby.
- ♪ Work ♪ ♪ - Working me ♪
- ♪ Work ♪ ♪ She working me ♪
- ♪ Work, work ♪
- ♪ Urging me ♪ - ♪ Urge ♪
- ♪ It be urging me ♪
♪ Fill it up the top and close the curtain, please ♪
♪ ♪
[tense music]
- All right, today's day one of surveillance.
We're gonna be on Joe for a good number of days, unknown.
It's just really gonna depend on what
Joe decides he wants to do and how he wants to play.
Before I became a PI, I was a police officer.
I love being a private investigator.
I wouldn't change it for the world.
♪ ♪
Joe works in construction.
He works in a building somewhere down
in this alleyway.
♪ ♪
We did confirm Joe is at work.
He's working out of the back of the house.
That's Joe's car right there that he's driving.
It's actually Lexi's car.
Joe's driving her car.
So right now we're just gonna go ahead and wait and see
what Joe does when he leaves.
I was able to outfit Lexi's car with audio and a camera.
Now I got front-row seats.
I'm gonna hear everything that Joe
could do while he in her car.
Joe is on the phone.
We're gonna go ahead and hook everything up.
We're gonna see what Joe talking about.
- There he go.
- Yo, this is some good stuff.
- Joe got a little swag as he's walking
in like he getting ready to go in there and meet somebody.
We're not gonna be able to surveil him from here,
so we have to go inside and get some covert video of him.
I'm gonna use covert glasses.
Picks up all audio.
Picks up good video.
So I'm gonna be wearing these inside.
It's gonna show everything that Joe is doing.
Joe, who dat?
I see you looking at the merchandise.
Hey, come on.
What the hell is this?
Don't tell me you came all the way up here
to meet a bunch of hard heads.
Man, this is an epic failure.
All right, Joe, you got me tonight, bro.
Really haven't gotten anything good on him.
But right now we're pulling up on a location
that I found out he's gonna be at tonight.
So we follow Joe on social media.
Tonight this is where he's gonna be at over here.
My decoy Mika, she's already inside.
Me and Mika going to communicate via text on
his arrival and his departure.
All right, I see Joe car.
Joe just arrived.
Let me go ahead and send Mika a text real quick
that he's here.
Jackpot.
I got Joe and that little swag walk that you like to do.
Unknown female.
Mika gonna go ahead and capture all the video on the inside.
All right, Joe just walked out the club.
They're leaving in two different cars though.
So we're gonna see where Joe touch down.
Joe pulling up to a house.
All right, playboy.
That's the lady that was at the club.
We'll need to identify her.
Right now, I'm using my OD green military
issued binoculars.
They NVGs.
NVG stands for night vision goggles,
which mean I can see into the darkness, get clear pictures.
Let's see what I can get.
Look like she's kissing on Joe.
Uh-oh, where you going?
- ♪ Whoa, big ting, man ♪
♪ Everywhere I go, yeah, I run the town ♪
♪ When I touch down, better hand me my crown ♪
♪ Hand me my crown, yeah ♪
♪ Hand me the crown ♪
♪ Uh ♪
- Hi, Lexi. - Hi, how are you?
- How are you?
It's good seeing you again. - I'm OK.
Good seeing you.
- Thank you for coming in.
This is my relationship expert, Morgan.
- How are you, Lexi? - How are you?
- I'm great. - Please have a seat.
- As you know, I had my investigation
team go out and surveil Joe.
And they were able to capture some imagery.
We're gonna watch it, all of us together.
- Tammy is here to help support you.
I'm here to support you in the midst of whatever happens.
- Are you prepared to see this footage?
Because it could alter your relationship going forward.
- Yeah, just-- yeah, let's just do it.
- OK.
- ♪ Call me when you want, call me when you need ♪
♪ Call me in the morning ♪
♪ I'll be on the way ♪
♪ Call me when you want ♪
♪ Call me when you need ♪
♪ Call me out by your name, I'll be on the way like ♪
- Are you prepared to see this footage?
Because it could alter your relationship going forward.
- Yeah, just--
Yeah, let's just do it.
- OK.
So there is Joe.
As you said, he does construction work.
That's your car, correct?
- Yes.
That is my car.
- And now he's headed off.
- In my car.
- Now the next evening, we continued to surveil him.
Here's Joe meeting with someone outside of a nightclub.
Do you know who this person is?
- I need to see closer.
- Well, get on up, girl, and go look at it.
- 'Cause...
We had a decoy go into this particular club
so that we would be able to surveil.
- Is that-- this is my ex-best friend.
- This is who?
- This is my ex-best friend.
- What?
- But they're just-- they're chilling, right?
They're just chilling?
- That's your ex-best friend?
- That's my ex-best friend.
- What's her name?
- Umil.
- Umil?
- I called her Umi. - OK.
- I don't even know why he was hanging out with
her either because I don't--
I'm not even friends with her anymore.
And she's really putting her ass on him.
- You said ex?
Ex-best friend?
- Yeah.
Since high school.
- How did y'all become ex-best friends?
- In 2019, me and her stopped talking.
You know, she was sick.
She was sick a lot.
She went to the hospital a lot.
I had-- I was going through my own crap.
And the reason why we had a falling out
is because she was in the hospital.
She was going through something way worse than what
she was been going through before.
I'm like, I understand where you're coming from,
but I felt like I could not really do--
I don't know-- - Be there for her.
- I was like--
Yeah, like I couldn't even be there kind of for myself
at the time.
I had booked an out of town modeling job that time.
And I really, really needed the money.
I was in such deep [bleep] financially.
- Right.
- Maybe I underestimated how freaking deep
it was for her because she has sickle cell.
- Just for clarity, sickle cell is
one in five killers of African-American
people in this country.
That's a big deal.
- At the time like, I tried to plead my case
and I tried to tell her I was sorry and stuff.
And she just literally deaded that whole thing.
- I know you were going through what you were going through.
But if you look through her lens,
can you see how she may have felt that you abandoned
her or you didn't support her?
- Like maybe, you know, I should have just dropped
all the things, you know, and went over there
and just disregarded whatever I was going through.
And I don't know, I can't--
I can't change the past.
- That was technically a faux-pology.
That was like a fake apology. - No.
- Maybe I should have dropped everything.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- And just came and handled you.
- I'm saying that now, but I didn't say that like that
to her at the time, but--
- OK, well, let's see what else is going on.
Now we continued to follow him.
- Is that the ex-best friend still?
- That is my ex-best friend still.
- Still? OK.
- I'm really just [bleep].
I'm so confused right now.
Oh my God.
Oh my [bleep] God.
Is she on top of him?
- So there's a lot of intimacy here.
- OK.
- We also found this clip when we
were going through the footage in your car.
- He is using my car to do what?
- Let's see what they're talking about in his car.
- Oh my God, this [bleep] guy, I swear to God.
- How does hearing him say I love you to her make you feel?
- Oh, I feel like fricking throwing my phone at him.
- This relationship is more than just,
you know, we're just banging.
She's emotionally connected to him.
And what he's doing is, he's feeding that connection.
- When you spoke to me when you first came into the office,
you talked about support, right,
and how he paid you so much attention,
how he was such a great listener.
And now his attention has shifted to Umi.
- Has he ever talked about insecurity issues
with being a little person?
- He has.
I mean, he's gone through like, with his ex-girlfriends
and stuff in the past, he would tell me like, you know,
when it did end, he would say I feel like it's me.
I never really came at him about it because I
don't-- it doesn't phase me.
- Right.
You accepted him for who he was.
But I imagine in him there was a part of him
that deals with that silently.
If Joe has an emotional connection with her,
are you still willing to take him back?
- I don't know.
Like, am I supposed to?
Like I don't know.
Like we were talking about the future and stuff, you know?
- Right.
- I mean, I don't even know like why anything even drifted
like with us, with me and Joe.
Like what did I do?
Like did I even do anything?
But she's just as wrong.
I guess all the rules, or all those unspoken,
like, rules, you know, in a friendship or something,
they just go out the fricking window.
- There's still a lot of unanswered questions
that you have.
So I have to ask you how do you want to proceed?
We have two options.
You can sit down with Umi and then you guys can team up
and go talk to Joe together.
Or you can wait till they together
and we catch him in the act in what
we like to call a Takedown.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Take a pic, take a pic ♪
♪ I like that freaky shit ♪
♪ Freaky shit ♪
♪ I love ♪
- We have two options.
You can sit down with Umi and then you guys can team up
and go talk to Joe together.
Or you can wait till they together
and we catch 'em in the act in what we like
to call a Takedown.
[dramatic music]
- Well, I want to do the Takedown.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah, I need to do that.
I need to catch him in the act.
I need to talk to her though.
Like, I need to talk to her.
I don't know though, I might be really angry
though, seeing her in person.
- We're going to be here to support you.
So you get to speak your truth.
- The next step is, I get my investigation
team back out on the streets.
And once we catch them together,
then I will call you.
And Ken and I will accompany you to the Takedown.
In the meantime, act normal.
Do not let on that this process is going on.
[Audrey Mika's "Fake Heartbreak"]
Listen, you gonna be all right because you're strong.
You know how it is.
- ♪ And I find it hard to breathe ♪
♪ These conversations ♪
- We're gonna support you.
It's gonna be OK. - Thank you.
- ♪ I'm reminiscing on the thought you ♪
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
- ♪ Yeah, this fake heartbreak ♪
[funky music]
♪ ♪
[line trilling]
- Hello? - Lexi.
- Hey, I just got off the phone with my investigator.
We're on our way to get you, because it's going down now.
- That's what I need you to do.
Me and Ken are on the way, OK?
- I'm in the mood for a Takedown.
How about you?
- I'm in the mood for a Takedown.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
All right, here we go.
- Hey, Lexi, how are you? - Hi.
- Lexi, come on in.
- How are you holding up?
- I'm ready to like, blow up.
♪ ♪
- What is it that you want to say?
- First of all, what are you doing?
Did you really love me?
Was any of it the truth?
- You have every right to feel what you feel.
Now what you do next, how you handle it is what's
going to make the difference.
- My investigator called me and told me that they
were somewhere having lunch.
When we pull up to this place, my investigation team
has been surveilling them.
And the way my ride is set up is we're able to see
everything that they're doing.
Once we land, I'll turn it on.
You can watch some of the interaction
until you feel it's time for you to go in
and address the situation.
♪ ♪
OK, here we are.
- Let me turn it on.
- Now let's take a look.
♪ ♪
- [scoffs]
Oh, now she's getting up.
- Oh!
That's like a whole freakin' kiss.
Can I just go?
- I know you want to get out. Here's what I want to say.
Remember what we're here to do, OK?
We are here for you to get answers to your questions.
- I have a lot of [bleep] to say.
- All right.
- We're sitting right here.
If you need me, call me.
- [exhales]
- You know it. You know--
- Hi.
What are you doing? - What you mean?
- What are you doing?
What are you doing? What are you doing?
- Why are you following me?
- I swear to God, for real.
- You hired people to follow me?
Where did these cameras come from?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Oh!
That's like a whole freaking kiss.
Can I just go?
Hi.
What are you doing? - What you mean?
- What are you doing?
What are you doing?
- Man, for real, Umi, I swear to God, for real.
- Where these cameras come from?
- What are you doing with her?
- Like we can't friends? - What are you doing?
- We was old friends.
- Why would you do that to me?
- We was old friends.
- Brown, you [bleep] kissed her, you idiot!
I swear to God, bro.
- Don't [bleep] play with me. [bleep] stop playin'.
You [bleep] kissed her. - [bleep].
- You still have an emotional connection.
- A kiss! A kiss!
- You still have an emotional connection.
- How is a kiss an emotional connection?
- He's gaslighting her right now.
- You saw a kiss. You saw a kiss.
- You know why? Because this whole [bleep] time,
the whole time you were trying to talk to me and I--
- [bleep] this.
- So much for a civil conversation.
Let's get in there.
- Why are you really mad though?
'Cause all you care about is yourself.
- I'm mad because you were my best friend, you dummy.
- Was, was.
- Dummy.
Where is the [bleep] loyalty?
So why aren't we friends no more?
- Where is the [bleep] loyalty?
- Why are we not-- explain that.
- I swear to god, somebody's gonna lose [bleep] patience.
Hey hey hey hey wait, hold up, hold up.
My name is Tami Roman.
And you are on "Caught in the Act: Unfaithful."
- Lexi came to us because she felt
like there was some infidelity in your relationship.
So I had my team surveil you and we found out
that you were involved in a relationship
with this young lady Umi.
- Yeah, we kissed, but like it's the vibe and energy.
But it doesn't mean like we together.
- But Joe, if you're in a relationship with Lexi,
do you understand that you can't go around just being
involved with other women?
- Oh, that's totally understandable.
- Especially someone who's--allegedly
used to be her best friend.
- But ask her why we not best friends no more.
- Brah, oh my God, who ghosted who after
I [bleep] tried to apologize?
- You didn't try to apologize. - I tried to apologize.
- You didn't.
I wrote you a [bleep] long ass paragraph.
- You didn't. No, you didn't.
- Yes, I [bleep] did. Yes I did.
You made it about yourself like you always do.
- Yes, I did. Yes, I did.
- You made it about yourself. - Fix your lip.
You got something on it.
Yeah, on you're dead, bitch. - So what? So what?
You act like I don't know you by now.
You ain't gonna do [bleep]. You stunting.
- You, you're not [bleep] saying nothing either.
Why you look so dumb?
Why you got that dumbass face on?
- Because you know me and her are friends.
- You have a dumbass-- - We was friends.
- How are you upset with her, OK,
when you, who are supposed to be her friend, right,
violated in terms of the relationship
that she felt she had with someone she was involved with?
- She violated first.
- First off, come here, Joe, come here for a second.
Lexi, tell Joe exactly how you feel.
And Joe, do not interrupt her.
- Why would you do that?
I really genuinely want to know why.
There's [bleep] a thousand bitches on this planet.
More than that.
Why the [bleep] would you go for her?
- So I saw that status her in the hospital.
So I reached out-- how you doing, how you feeling?
Me and her started conversating more, "I'm good.
How are you doing?" "I'm good, can't complain."
Regular conversation.
And so long story short, you weren't
giving me the conversation or communication, she was.
- I was in the hospital for like a good two weeks.
I was in the ICU. - Yeah, she told me.
- It was bad. Right?
And I've been in the hospital, but this was like, this was
different than any other time.
Because I'm always there for you, like no matter if you
call me at 2:00 a.m., 4:00 a.m., 5:00,
I'm there for you no matter what.
And I listen, I don't make it about myself.
And you're not there for me when I need you most?
- And I'm not saying that what she did is right.
Because it's not.
But how does that justify that you end up with someone
she's in love with?
- When I'm looking for a conversation,
I don't get it from her.
Every time she come home from work, "How's your day going?"
"It was all right." Go to the bathroom.
- OK. - I say, "How are you feeling?"
Nothing.
- Bro, you said you love her.
Right? - The energy because--
- Did you say you love-- no, said--
- I didn't say I love anybody. - Bro, you said I love her.
- I can say I love anybody.
- Tell me what you [bleep] said.
- I can say I love anybody. - Hey!
OK, OK, so if I hear you correctly,
wait a minute, what he's saying is I can talk to her,
I can communicate with her where I
couldn't communicate with you.
Does not make it right though.
- At all.
- My question to you is this.
What kind of connection do you have with Umi?
- He was there for me through like, my toughest moments.
Like, you know what I mean?
I went through so much [bleep].
- But if she did what you are doing in this moment to you,
how would you feel?
- I would understand.
I'm not gonna act like I don't care.
But I would understand that like, you know,
because like we know each other inside and out.
- Do you want your friendship with Lexi more--
- Umi.
- --than what was kind of established with Joe?
- Umi? - What?
- I want to know why.
- You know why. - I want to know.
So it is to get back at me? So you don't like him then?
- It's not about to get back at you.
- But do you love him or something?
Do you love him?
- Bro, answer.
- You always make everything about you.
- He was there for me when you weren't.
- Come on, ladies. - You didn't call me back.
- Let's go to the patio.
Come on, let's go to the patio. Let's go to the patio.
- I'm about to take my ring off.
- What I'm simply saying to you is this.
Look, you've got to take responsibility for your part.
She would not be doing this if she did not love you.
- The way I feel this whole situation is, me and my girl,
she's a model.
I'm the one that do the behind the scenes footage.
I'm the one that take her photos.
She stopped calling me to do the behind the scenes footage.
So the way I'm feeling is you got either a tall guy that's
taking care of your photos because you don't
bring me nowhere no more. - A tall guy?
- So that's where my-- that's where my insecurities
kick in because like, I'm a half of a person,
a little man.
I know a lot of people that'd like to have
a big, tall strong guy. - But Joe,
it is still your responsibility
to tell the woman that you love that loves
you about all of that.
- You get right here.
You get right here.
And I'm gonna get in the middle of y'all.
- I can't believe you and that [bleep] did this to me.
- She's lying.
- Where were you when I needed you to listen?
- You decided to [bleep] ignore me--
- No, no, I didn't. - --after that.
- No, I didn't. - Yes you did!
[bleep] you.
- You better [bleep]. Ooh. - Windows and [bleep].
- You decided to [bleep] ignore me--
- No, no, I didn't. - --after that.
- No, I didn't. [bleep].
- You better [bleep]. Ooh.
- Windows and [bleep].
- You--you were supposed to be my friend, too.
- You were treating me all wrong.
- You're wrong. - You're wrong.
You're very wrong.
- All of that, everything you see is because of you.
- I don't understand how because it's like I
said, it's--
- What do you mean you don't understand how?
- Ladies, we need to be able to have
a conversation without you guys doing this, right?
Because we're not gonna get anywhere.
So I did speak with Umi.
And she was sick.
She was going through something.
And you openly admitted, I was going through something too,
and maybe I wasn't the best of friends.
- If I can be there for you through all your tough times,
why can't you support through my tough time?
- I couldn't do it, OK?
OK?
I was going through my [bleep].
- When two people are friends and they really been friends
a long time and there is that element of loyalty,
there are certain things that go with that.
Y'all had each other's back.
That's a part of being loyal to each other.
You're respectful of each other.
You're able to keep it real and have honest communication
with each other.
All of that is a part of being loyal to each other.
And what happened with you guys was
when you were going through something, you felt abandoned.
That moment of like I just said, we stick together,
we stand by each other.
That moment was violated for you because she
wasn't there for you.
But then after that, you didn't keep it real with her
and have honest communication with her to tell her
exactly how you were feeling.
- Because it was revenge, wasn't it?
Was it revenge? - I'm talking.
I don't need your help.
So you didn't tell her exactly how you felt.
- She made it about herself,
about her video shoot.
She didn't make it about no--
I'm going through some--
[bleep]. [bleep].
- So let's just say only Umi that it
was about a photo shoot.
What if that photo shoot was a way
that she needed to make money?
Do you understand that sometimes when we as people
are going through some [bleep] we don't always
handle things properly, right?
And so in the moment, maybe she didn't handle it right,
but that doesn't mean that she didn't care about you.
- Maybe I shouldn't have talked to him.
But he was there when I was going through my--
going through a lot.
- I wish you had stopped yourself.
- Number one, you gotta tell her
how she made you feel because she wasn't communicating.
And number two, you gotta tell her about the insecurities
that you have.
That's how y'all work through it.
- Let's do it. I'm ready.
- Let's do it. - Let's do it.
- I feel like--
I feel like you're better than that, I really do.
- Oh, come on.
Come on, let's talk. - Listen.
- Let's have a little convo.
- Let's sit down and have a seat.
Let's sit down and have a seat. - Here's a table.
- OK, let's sit down.
Everybody get a chair.
You there.
We're talking in circles now, all right?
Everybody's yelling.
All of you guys are saying the same thing,
that there has been a lack of emotional support.
And I think the only way we're really
gonna get to the bottom of stuff
is if everybody just really laid
their stuff out on the table.
- I understand it's ladies first,
but I'm gonna go first since I'm the cause of all of this.
- I wish you would.
- Now behind this whole situation is me
and her were close.
I was the person that doing her modeling and all that.
I be the one doing the recording behind the scenes,
everything behind the scenes.
Next thing you know, I'm not behind the scenes no more.
"Yo baby, you need me for this modeling shoot?"
"No, I'm good right now."
But then when I start seeing the footages,
I see she's modeling but there's
somebody else recording her.
Why you ain't tell me that, that you
got somebody else doing it?
So that when I find out who it is, I see it's an average guy,
is 6 foot, 6'2", 6'5".
And I look in the mirror, I'm only 4'9".
Me, being a little person, that bothers me.
Because like, for me, a little person
to get somebody as beautiful as her, it's like half.
I can't hold you or protect you the way like another guy can.
So when I start feeling like, oh, like this is stuff for me
that's going to make me feel like oh, like, you know,
I'm losing her, especially as a little person.
- It's a human emotion to feel threatened by that.
- It's like, I see a post, a picture of her
in the hospital. How are you doing, gang?
How you feeling? What's going on?
What's up with you?
We drink, have a conversation.
How's your family, how you feeling, how you doing?
Every time I wanted to talk with you,
you didn't give it to me. She gave it to me.
So the vibe and the energy, it started picking up.
So yes, I said, oh, I love you.
No, it wasn't, oh, I'm in love with you.
I love your vibe. I love your energy.
You're sitting here listening to me.
You're sitting here talking to me.
You're asking me what's wrong?
- I'm happy that you're relating this information out
in front of her because the way it came to me was you changed.
- He admitted to me that he was jealous
that there were other people shooting behind the scenes.
But I said you're busy and I still need to get work done.
- What you didn't do, you didn't
tell Tami what was going on that
led to his behavioral change.
And because you didn't tell her,
you led us to believe that he changed on his own.
- What I'm saying is when you came in,
you did not say he is jealous or insecure
because of things I'm doing.
- He gets jealous because he's too busy--
- Tell you something.
That's not why he gets jealous, baby.
He said why, he say it.
- Yeah, not that tall?
What am I gonna do?
- But that's a big [bleep] deal.
- If it was a shorter person, would you care?
- Nope. - What?
- Listening to him tell his side,
there's some validity there.
Because you mad that she didn't tell you that
she had someone else taking videos for her.
So you got offended, and you wasn't woman
enough to tell him, so y'all just stopped communicating.
That pushed him to her, who's wrong in this as well.
- But the one person at this table
who admitted that they was foul--
- I admit it.
- --was her.
Y'all two are not doing that.
- Just let me say something real quick.
Like thinking about it now, I feel like we trauma bonded.
He was going through his own [bleep].
I was going through my own [bleep].
And he was there to listen.
Was it wrong? Yeah.
In the moment, did it feel wrong?
No.
But it shouldn't have got to the way it got.
I'm sorry.
I should never have did what I did.
And you mean a lot to me.
I'm not gonna sit there and act like you
don't mean a lot to me. And you already know that.
We've been through a lot.
A lot.
And I miss what we had.
Like, I just think things would have went differently,
that's all I can really say.
I wish things would have went differently.
- I'm sorry too.
And I'm sorry that--
maybe I should have reached out.
And up until now, maybe it was easier for me
to convince myself that it's right that I just take
care of myself at the moment.
But that was very inconsiderate of you,
knowing especially that you've been in a hospital for months
at a time.
Sorry.
- I'm sorry too.
- And how do you want to go forward with Joe?
What are we doing right here?
Are you going to try to work things out or are
you gonna go on without him?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- How do you want to go forward with Joe?
Are you going to try to work things out or are
you gonna go on without him?
♪ ♪
- I love her.
I know she loves me.
- I don't know.
I need to-- I need to like think.
I need a break or something.
- You keep telling me I don't got
a reason for the way I feel. - Oh my God.
Nobody said that, Joe.
Nobody said that. - That's how you make it seem.
Where's that communication at? - We've done our job.
We gave her the truth.
Now it's up to them to go forward past this moment--
- At the end of the day.
- --with a trained person.
OK, y'all.
All right, y'all.
- I'm not staying here with him.
I'm out.
- If it came down to me being friends with Lex
and me letting Joe go, I might have to let Joe go and just
pick up that friendship.
Because that friendship was like a long--
we were friends since like high school.
- With Lex, it's like I'm in love with her.
Like I got a connection with her.
Like she understand me, I understand her.
So it's like, we really get each other.
And I can't find that with other people.
I can't find that in Umi.
Like, my insecurities, I gotta talk to her more about it
and I actually gotta work on it more personally.
But it's like the way I feel is I need
to start talking to her way more than what
I was doing, honestly.
- I really do not like Joe right now.
I love him; I don't like him.
What do I want to do?
Like, ask myself, instead of being angry,
sit down, breathe, and what do I really want to do?
[gentle music]
- With Joe, him opening up about,
hey, I'm looking out at you, a beautiful woman with all
these average height guys, yeah, I'm a little insecure,
you know?
- That was a breakthrough.
- It was really different.
- Right.
- But good to see the ladies--
- Right.
- --make up.
- That was surprising to me.
- You ready to get out of here?
- I'm ready to get out of here.
- Let's do it.
- Ooh. - We're out.
- ♪ Please stop calling ♪
♪ You've been dishonest ♪
♪ I've been through enough ♪
♪ Two-faced promise, scars and traumas ♪
♪ You put me through enough ♪
- Hey Lexi.
- Hi Tammy, how are you?
- I'm doing well.
You look beautiful.
I wanted to check in with you to find out how everything's
going with you and Joe.
- Well, me and Joe aren't together right now.
I love Joe, but I needed to kind of isolate myself,
take the time to concentrate on my mental health.
Romantically, I can't get back to that space right now,
you know?
- How about Umi?
How's that relationship going?
- We did speak.
And we even met up.
- And what did you guys determine
that you want going forward?
- Um, yeah, we're going to see where it goes.
You know, we want to be back like this, but you know,
it's hard to do that.
- Well, listen, I feel like you have
learned through this entire experience
some valuable lessons.
- I mean, I did learn that maybe I
could be more supportive, OK?
And you know sometimes when you're going through things,
you might not remember other important things,
other things that are dear to you, like Umi.
- There's some bond there that none of you should give up on.
And you should continue that.
Good luck with your modeling career
and everything that you've got going on, OK?
Bye, sweetie.
Good talking to you.
- Thank you so much.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Cheaters, beware.
- You [bleep] kissed her, you idiot!
- Next time you want to be unfaithful, think again.
- Hey, let me tell you one mother[bleep] thing!
- Oh lord. Oh lord.
Oh lord. Oh lord!
- Because I just might--
Oh God, she's running.
Catch you in the act.