- ♪ 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.
- Hey, you brought this to my place of business?
How dare you? What is this?
- What the [bleep]? - Oh!
Together with my relationship coaches...
- You got to tell her 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 them both.
- You got to fundamentally say, "I'm gonna be different."
- Who the [bleep] do you think you are?
- Why the [bleep] y'all got cameras in my crib?
What the [bleep] is wrong with you?
- Tami! Tami!
- 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."
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Say I'm crazy ♪
♪ Words can't make me feel ♪
♪ What your body language shows me ♪
- Hello, there. - How are you?
- I am doing well. How are you?
- I'm great. It's so nice to meet you.
- It's a pleasure to meet you as well.
Have a seat. - Thank you.
- Get comfortable.
Oh, my goodness, very handsome young man.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Very icy in the building today.
- [chuckles]
- Even though the sun is shining,
I'm feeling all the chilly right here in this moment.
[laughter] - Thank you. Thank you.
- So I want you to tell me a little bit about you.
- Well, my name is Cortez.
Growing up, I was a hothead, you know,
'cause I was very insecure.
- You felt like you didn't have confidence before?
- No, I didn't. I had a--
- Really? - Big gap,
wore big, huge, Coke-bottle glasses.
I was skinny as hell. - Really?
- Very insecure. Yeah, so, you know,
end up growing up, end up going to college.
That's when, you know, I started to gain
a lot of confidence in myself.
- What, you got some-- some contacts?
- Got some contacts. - Got your teeth fixed?
- Got the teeth fixed. - Ow.
- Body right, you know?
- OK, so you worked on the body.
- Yes. Now, I'm a personal trainer.
You know, end up being a heartthrob, heartbreaker.
- Broke a lot of hearts? - Too many.
I wasn't-- I wasn't trying to settle down.
- OK.
Did you then say, "Now, the next time
"I meet somebody that I really care about,
I'm gon' do the right thing"?
- Yeah, that's--that's how I feel with Kiyana.
- How did you guys meet?
- I was training for-- doing a cycle class at a park.
And after the cycle class, she came up to me,
and she was like, "well, can you train me?"
I said, "better yet, let me take you out."
I really impressed her, like,
and damn near almost went broke.
- And was she one of those type of girls--
you know, because there's--
there's two type of women, right?
There's the girl that's like, you know, but I'll just have
a little appetizer. - Nah.
- That wasn't her? That wasn't Kiyana?
- No, no. She wants the finer things in life.
- So that's-- that sounds to me--
correct me if I'm wrong-- like materialistic things?
- I mean, she-- she love nice things.
- So you had to scale back on your meal, probably.
- Look, I had one drink. - [laughs]
- I was like-- she like, you ain't hungry?
No, I'm good, baby.
- This all for you, boo. - Just eat.
- OK, so what happened after the dinner?
- So, after the dinner,
we ended up getting up to the house, and you know.
- Same night? - Same night.
- Was it good? - It was amazing.
She called me back the next day.
- OK, OK, OK, all right. - [laughs]
From there, it's just been history.
We'll talk on the phone-- - Look how much you smiling.
- Yeah. - [laughs]
- I mean, you know, we'll stay on the phone for hours.
It's just magic.
Like, she my best friend, you know?
- OK.
- She's real close to her family,
and family is very important to her.
And that made me fall in love with her even more.
- Mm-hmm. So you really and truly love this woman?
- Yes, ma'am. We've been together for five years now.
- Have you guys talked about marriage?
- We have. I actually got a ring.
- You got a ring?
You gonna propose? - I'm gonna propose to her.
We talked about kids.
We talked about building a life together.
- OK. Well, did I ask you what she does for a living?
- She's a singer-songwriter. - Oh, OK.
- And she also started get into, like, real estate,
flipping houses. - OK.
- So that's been going on for, like,
eight months to a year now. - So that's new.
So was she taking care of you, or you were taking care of her?
- Well, I mean, she was more the breadwinner.
- OK. - She was more the breadwinner.
- Did she make you feel like
she expected you to be that person?
- After a while. - Mm.
- You know, started to kind of belittle me a little bit.
- Really? - Yeah.
You could be paying for this more.
And, you know, you slacking.
All you do is in the gym.
That's not really making you no real money.
So it kind of brought me back to childhood
a little bit. - Mm-hmm.
- So, you know, I'm being a man for her.
And, you know, I'm hiding my insecurities.
- Well, ultimately, what's your end goal?
- I want to own my own gym. - OK.
And you've actually been actively working towards that?
You've been doing the research? - Yes, ma'am.
- Most women can handle being with somebody
that they see potential.
Probably in her mind, it's like, you know,
when you gonna get it together? - I get it.
I get it. And it's gonna happen.
I'm busting my ass, Tami, to make this work.
- Mm-hmm.
- She's telling me that, you know,
she's still in it. She's all in it.
She still want to be with me, you know,
but things is a little different now.
- Why do you feel things have changed?
- As of lately, I schedule all these reservations for dinner.
Every time, she cancels.
Something came up, or I got to fly out,
or I got to do something.
- Now, what is she flying out to do?
- Supposedly something with real estate, flipping,
and all of this.
And she end up meeting someone who--to help her,
you know, show her the ropes. - OK.
- It's this one guy, Clifford. - Clifford?
Do they travel together?
- They travel together, yes. - They do?
Have you met Clifford?
- I have not met him, but they have to meet up
and talk business or whatever like that.
He pulled up. - OK.
- But I never really met him. - OK, mm.
- And when I'm around her,
he calls at the weirdest [bleep] times.
Then she leaves out of the house
to talk on the phone to him. - Mm-hmm.
- So I said, OK, something don't look right here.
Like, you know when something wrong?
I just know something wrong. - Mm-hmm.
How's your sex life?
- We don't even have sex anymore.
- How long?
- Been about a year now.
- You know she [bleep] somebody else, right?
[dramatic music]
- Huh?
- I say, you know she [bleep] somebody else, right?
- Do we know that?
- I feel like we know that.
We may not have proof of that.
You don't think so? - Nah.
Not my baby, nah. - A whole year?
- I get where you going with it.
But she loves me.
And I believe our love will bring us back together.
- So I'm gonna help you figure out the truth.
I absolutely am.
I'm going to talk to my investigation team.
They will start surveillance on Kiyana.
What I would like for you to provide me with is
her address and wherever you think she frequents.
- OK.
- And should we uncover something,
I will call you back into the office
so that we can discuss it.
- Thank you so much.
- You're welcome so-- come on.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - Come on. Come on.
- ♪ I be grindin', I be timin' ♪
♪ I understood the assignment ♪
♪ You can't find it 'cause I designed it ♪
- So this is day one, top of the day.
Subject name is Kiyana.
We're right here pulling up to her house.
So now we're just gonna sit tight.
♪ ♪
We've been out here for about a good hour.
And right now her garage is opening.
I've got to haul ass to go catch her.
[dramatic music]
I followed Ms. Kiyana from home to her place of employment.
I want to get the video of her going into the building.
This is gonna be a good position to sit at.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
I've got refer back to my notes real quick.
The gentleman that I'm looking for is Clifford.
All right, Instagram.
Yep, this is him,
the kingpin of real estate.
♪ ♪
Oh.
♪ ♪
OK, we've identified him.
But they at work, damn.
That's Mr. Clifford.
♪ ♪
I'm gon' stick it out and see what she do.
We done followed Kiyana from her employment.
But she's at a place, I guess, where you go buy stuff
for rehabbing houses. She just got out the vehicle.
Oh, hold up.
How the hell Clifford beat us here?
[dramatic music]
All right.
So now the objective, go and get some covert video.
I'm gonna wear a sports jacket.
Inside of the lapel right here,
there is a hidden camera with a microphone.
Looks normal, nobody's gonna notice anything.
♪ ♪
- I'm just kind of disappointed right now.
I didn't get anything on them today.
I just knew we was gonna get something.
There go my subject.
I really don't know where she's going,
but we gon' find out.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[bleep].
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- [bleep].
[horns honking]
She's in my sight.
I see her vehicle there.
That's common in this line of work.
You just got to be prepared
and got to be able to maneuver real quick.
She is pulling back up to her house.
So...
we'll just break it off and see what happens tomorrow.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Pulling up to the studio.
Got word from the client that Kiyana is gonna be here.
So he wants to see if she's actually here recording,
or is she here doing something else?
All right, man, is that her?
Damn, sure is.
She with another guy.
He wasn't expecting nothing but a hug.
The adventure begins.
♪ ♪
Right now, destination unknown.
She's going to an entertainment center.
All right.
Oh.
Ken and Barbie. Come on, now.
Not gonna be able to surveil it from here.
So let me get inside.
This one here is a key fob.
You know, I can keep that in my hand.
I can sit that down and see what's going on in there.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
- Got a lot of information while inside.
There they go.
And it's gonna be a long night.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Jackpot.
I don't have to tell anybody what they about to do.
[upbeat hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- Hey, Tami. - Hey!
How are you? - Thanks for having me.
- Oh, my goodness. Thank you for coming.
- I feel like I'm a relationship expert.
- Yeah. [laughs]
- I've been with my wife 28 years.
- 28 years, this is true. - Married 22.
We've been through ups, downs, left, right.
- That's the important thing... - Absolutely.
- That life experience. - That's right.
- So you looked at the case? - I did. I did.
- You know, here's this guy, not attractive when he's young,
Coke-bottle glasses, messed-up teeth, real skinny.
- You know that was me, right? - It was?
- Yeah, I had glasses, braces. I was 5 foot 2.
And I was insecure.
And then, senior year of high school, I shot up.
- And you got it together? - I got it together.
- OK. - That's right.
[laughter] - You gonna be ten toes down?
- I'm ten toes down with you. You there, I'm there.
We there together. So I'm excited about this.
[door closes] - Oh, that sounds like him.
Hey, Cortez.
- How are you? - How are you?
- It's good to see you again. - You look nice today.
All smiles. - You, too. Thank you.
- How are you? - I'm great.
- Let me introduce you to DJ Envy.
- What's up, man? - How's it going, man?
Pleasure to meet you, brother. - All right.
- Have a seat on the other side.
- Thank you. Thank you. [sighs]
- I have DJ Envy here with me today because
sometimes when I show people the surveillance footage,
they have different reactions.
And I think that Envy would be a good person
to come from a real-life place
to help you navigate through
those emotions. - OK.
- Now, you gave my investigation team
permission to do this surveillance.
But I want you to know, if I show it to you,
it could change your relationship with Kiyana.
So I need to make sure that you definitely want to see it.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- OK.
Day one, we started off at Kiyana's house.
She ended up at her office,
which I'm sure you're familiar with.
- That's the office. - Mm-hmm.
She comes outside with this gentleman.
Do you know who that is?
- That's Clifford. - OK.
- That's the [bleep] that was helping her
flip the houses and real estate.
♪ ♪
- Looks like they just having a conversation.
It didn't feel--
- She didn't play into that.
- Yeah, she did not play into that at all.
- She didn't play into that.
She held it down like she was supposed to.
- Have a seat. Sit down. - Bruh, she held it down.
- Sit down because she did not give him any action.
- She didn't give him any play. No action at all.
You can't be mad at that.
- We continued to surveil Kiyana
at what is, like, a home improvement store.
And then, there's Clifford again.
A little more PDA at the start.
So we decided to go inside.
They're laughing and having a good time.
I did see a little cupping of the ass cheek.
And that was the end of that.
Not horrible.
- Disrespectful as [bleep].
- Disrespectful.
- So we continued to surveil her.
And then she ended up at this location with Clifford.
This was a pool hall.
She was with those two ladies,
which we found out were her friends.
- What the [bleep]? [sniffs]
- The thing that bothers me the most
is because I know how females get down.
Sitting up having that conversation about you,
and Clifford being able to say commentary on you
means she's had conversations with him
about your personal relationship.
I still have more to show you. - Oh, my goodness, Tami.
- And I want to make sure that you're OK with seeing it.
- Yeah, it already hit me now. - You all right.
Let's watch this together.
- They leave, her and Clifford.
We follow them and they end up back at her place.
They go inside.
And we sat outside for four hours
before Clifford came back out.
[dramatic music]
I don't know what happened within those four hours.
- What the [bleep]? - But he was definitely there
for those four hours. - [indistinct]
Let's cut the [bleep]. We know what happened.
- We need to have a conversation.
We need to have a conversation. - [knocking on table slowly]
- Are you willing to have that conversation with her, bro?
- Both of them.
- I want--hold on a second.
Listen to me. - [sniffles]
[indistinct shouting]
- Cortez.
- No!
[bleep] her!
♪ ♪
- I'ma go talk to him.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- [sobbing] [indistinct shouting]
[bleep] her!
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
I'ma go talk to him.
- [sobbing] I tried to change my [bleep] life for her!
- Bro, talk to me for a second. - No!
- Talk to me for one second. - No!
- Talk to me for one second 'cause I know who you are.
I know you're the guy that did the same thing
when you was in high school and college.
I know you changed your life.
I know you looking for better. I know you are.
Stand up for a second, man. Stand up, man.
We brothers, man. We brothers.
- [indistinct]
- No, no, no, no, no, come on.
No, no, no, no. Look at me. Look at me.
I'm serious. Look at me.
I know what you going through, brother.
I was 5 foot 2. I had glasses and braces.
Changed my whole life around.
And I know what you going through.
I know what you feeling.
You got to decide if you want that
or if there's somebody better for you.
You change, you evolve.
Who you are right now,
as a Black man, a brother, I'm proud of.
- Yeah. - No, look at me.
Keep your head up.
You a good brother.
You're not that same dude anymore.
- Yeah, yeah.
- You with me? - Yes, sir.
- Give me a hug. - Yes, sir.
Thank you, for real, man. Thank you.
- Come on in, Cortez.
I know this was a lot, but thank you...
- Keep your head up, brother. - For speaking with Cortez.
- We gonna get through this together and we gon' help you.
- All right.
- I think the real reason why you're so hurt,
you feel this takes you back
to that dude with the Coke-bottle glasses
who you felt was inadequate.
But, in this moment, Cortez,
that's not the case. - Absolutely.
- And everything needs to be uncovered.
So what you trying to do?
- I want to get it uncovered.
- Now, the way we do that,
you have one of two options.
You can go and sit with Clifford
independently of Kiyana
and have a conversation with him,
or you can wait
and let my investigation team continue to surveil them.
When we catch them together,
Envy and I'll come scoop you,
and then you can go talk to them
and catch them in the act.
- I want to do that.
- That's called a takedown. - A takedown.
- The minute they catch them together,
I will reach out to you.
- Please. Thank you. - OK?
You gonna be all right? - Yes.
- Do not call Kiyana and do not try to reach Clifford.
- Yeah, don't blow this up. - Yeah, I ain't. I got y'all.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thanks, man. Appreciate it. For real.
Thank you. - Love you, brother.
- ♪ I've been getting mines, everything on sight ♪
♪ I sway to left, she sway to the right ♪
♪ She sway to the right, right, right ♪
♪ And I'm taking my time, doing everything right ♪
- The investigation team told me that
they have found Clifford and Kiyana together.
- Really? - So I'm waiting on--
hi. - Hey, let's do it.
- Let's do it. - Thank you.
- Thank you, kind sir. - You got it.
- ♪ And I'm taking my time, doing everything right ♪
♪ Right, right ♪
- So I had my investigation team get on it right away.
They have found Kiyana and Clifford together.
So we're gonna head over there.
♪ ♪
Now we just need to give you the opportunity
to have a conversation. - Yes.
I want to know why.
I want to know, was it-- did you really love me for me,
and why we couldn't fix it.
- Then I would definitely ask--
the part that really bothered me and Tami is,
you know, why embarrass me in front of your friends?
- Right. - Why take me as a joke?
Why try to belittle me?
Why, when he was talking down to me,
you laughed, you know?
- I just--I just want to ask and get my questions answered
so I can just leave this whole situation.
- So you're definitely gonna leave?
- Yeah, I'm done. I saw the videos.
I saw the way she looked at him
like how she used to look at me.
- Wow.
- So we are here, OK?
Now, there are cameras on the outside of our sprinter
that show you everything that's going on inside.
When I turn this monitor on,
you'll be able to see everything that's going on.
But there will be no audio, all right?
Are you ready? - Yeah, I'm ready.
♪ ♪
- Tell me what's going on, Envy. I can't see it good.
- Ah, well, she's sitting on a desk.
He's rubbing and caressing her leg.
- Mm. - She's giggling,
and it looks like she's wearing
a see-through top, it looks like.
- Not a see-through top. - Very busty.
Very playful. His hand is too far up her thigh.
- Now, they seem very comfortable
up in the workplace.
- Very comfortable. - Oh.
- There's a kiss. There's a kiss.
There's tongue. - Let me--let me out.
Let me out. Let me out. Let me out. Let me out.
Let me out, let me out let me out. Where he at?
- OK.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Where--where--where we at? Where we at?
♪ ♪
Where we--
- Oh, my God! Cortez! - What the [bleep] is going on?
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God! Cortez! - What the [bleep]?
- Get off me, [bleep]! Get the [bleep] off me!
- What you trying to do?
- What the [bleep] is you doing?
[both shouting at once]
- Let me get out. Come on, let's get out.
Kiyana! - Oh, my God.
- Where you going? Listen here.
- Why does he got these cameras?
- Well, let me explain to you what's going on.
You are on a show called... - What the [bleep]?
- "Caught in the Act: Unfaithful."
- Cortez came to TV?
- What the [bleep]? - Why the [bleep] you got
these cameras in my office, my [bleep]?
- Get the [bleep] off me.
- I was waiting for this moment.
She don't want you no more.
She don't want you. It's over.
You ain't having sex with her, [bleep].
You ain't having sex with her. - My [bleep], [bleep]--
- She's sexing me. - [bleep], let me go!
- He wild for this. Cortez did all this?
- I'm going inside. - He did all of this.
Once he found out that you were being unfaithful,
he went ballistic.
- What's up, [bleep]? - You broke, too.
- Yeah, no. - I'm hiring.
[indistinct] - So what's up, [bleep]?
- I'm hiring. - Come and see me, then.
- Let's go. Let's step outside. - [bleep] off me!
- Come on. - Here we go. He gone.
Let me go.
- I've been trying to have this conversation
with Cortez for months. - Really?
- I don't understand why he had to do all this.
Why he couldn't just come and talk to me?
- What's up, brother? - 'Sup, bro?
- I'm Envy, man. I'm here with the show.
How's everything, brother? - I'm good. I'm doing good.
What's going on? - All right, so, you know,
Cortez called the show,
and he wanted to approach her because he feels like
he been trying to talk to her. She hasn't been real with him.
- Let's go back inside and
you can have this conversation with Cortez.
- [bleep] all this [bleep].
[screaming] That's my girl!
- He's--he's-- he's very distraught.
- [screaming] That's my girl!
- Cortez, are you [bleep] kidding me?
- He said that... - [sobbing]
- He was gonna ask you to marry him.
- You [bleep]-- - Cortez, look at you!
Are you [bleep] kidding me?
You are embarrassing me! - I [bleep] loved you!
- Cortez, you ain't got no money!
You ain't got no [bleep] money! - This about money?
This about money right here? - Cortez!
- Kiyana. - My family!
- Cortez. - Money?
- How you gon' take care of a family?
- Like, how close are you and Kiyana?
Is it one of those things where that's your girl?
- That's my lady. - That's your lady?
- I love her. I want to build with her.
I want to build with her, you know what I'm saying?
- Because I think Kiyana's telling him the same thing.
- I'm gonna go find my lady right now.
- I think y'all should have that conversation.
- All right. - Cortez, please.
- Cortez, here's the thing.
If you want to have a conversation with Kiyana,
you've got to calm down. - [shuddering]
- Do you want to go in there--
- How do you do this to me, baby?
- Come on. - Baby, please.
- Cortez. - Come on, come on, Kiyana.
Listen, listen.
You've got to calm down.
If you're incapable of doing that,
then we're leaving. - No.
- OK.
- Let them have their conversation because,
obviously, she's playing two sides of the fence, right?
- I love the [bleep] out of you, [bleep].
- Can you talk to me without disrespecting me?
- I loved you. - You stop--you stop yelling.
Hold, please. - Everything!
- This-- - The TVs, [indistinct].
- I'm [bleep] tired! I'm [bleep] tired!
Now, if you want answers to your questions,
I need you to be quiet and calm down.
And let's try to talk this out.
- Now, Cortez, explain to Kiyana
why you came to me in the first place.
- You been-- you been canceling our dates.
You not showing up like you say you gon' show up.
I love you, girl.
- You brought these cameras 'cause I canceled out
on a couple dates? - Kiyana.
- 'Cause I had to go--
'cause I had to go check on my homegirls?
- This is my lady. I'm not-- - You called these cameras
'cause I canceled on a couple dates?
- Kiyana, you are the love of my life.
- Yeah, words-- - I wanted to marry you.
We were supposed to have a child!
- I know about the bro. - Right.
- The conversation was he was broke,
you know what I'm saying, and that he was complacent.
He ain't want her to have more,
you understand? - Right.
So let me ask you a question. How long y'all been together?
- Over a year now.
I'm just getting ready to put her name on my business.
So that's how serious I was taking the relationship.
- Now, how did it change from business to romance?
'Cause at first, you were her mentor, right?
You was helping her run the game.
- Right, right. My thing is, we started spending a lot of time
with each other, and it just genuinely happened.
- This man was a different man when I met him.
Cortez, you keep telling me you love me.
Your actions, they ain't weighing out to them words.
- I did have a honest conversation with Cortez
when he explained you guys, how you met,
how you instantly fell in love.
- And that I've been with him for five years
and I'm tired of paying for everything.
I'm tired of doing everything by myself.
- But the whole thing is, what she's telling you,
it's not what she's telling him.
So that's the reason why he's so upset
'cause he had no clue.
This is--this is smacking him in the back of the head.
What's to say that it won't happen to you?
Like, yeah, you doing fine. Real estate is booming.
But let's say we get another crash, and that crash fall.
And you become broke. - Right.
- Don't you want a rider that's gonna be there
whether you eating McDonald's or you at Nobu?
- For a year, I've been trying to break up with Cortez.
- And when you say trying to break up with him,
what actions were you taking to do that?
- When?
- When you are with somebody as emotional as Cortez,
I didn't have no way to tell him that,
baby, I don't think this is gonna work out.
Can't talk to him. Look how he acting.
- You a whole different female than when I first met you.
Just like the female-- - I don't need a horseman.
I don't need a knight! - I can't do it. I can't.
- I don't need a castle. - I can't.
- Just like the female I used to know.
- Kiyana, let's go outside and try to talk.
- No. Go that way.
- Look--look-- look how they acting now.
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[tense music]
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- Cortez, let me talk to you for a second, man.
- Man, and you know what's crazy?
He want to talk to you, right? - OK.
- 'Cause I just had a conversation with him.
- Yes, sir.
- I--I'm glad I came because I wanted Cortez to--
to get the answers that he was seeking.
- I wish it didn't have to go down like this.
- Exactly. If you don't want to be with somebody,
you don't let years go by, baby.
- So let me ask you a question.
You knew who I was, right, to her, right?
- I knew that she-- you know, y'all had
y'all's relationship going on. - So--so my thing is,
from another man to another man, bro,
I wouldn't have even disrespected you if I was in--
if I was in your shoes, bro.
- My thing is, from what I'm hearing,
she telling you one thing,
and then she on my end telling me something else.
I kept asking her, yo, did you tell the bro?
Did you tell the bro what we got going on?
- Let me ask you a question. - You know what I'm saying?
- How long this been going on, bro?
- Bro, this been going on over a year now.
- Over a [bleep] year,
and I'm trying to marry this [bleep].
- But at the end of the day, what it sounds like to me
is that she was playing you
and you. - Right.
- When he met you, he wasn't financially stable.
He tried to impress you,
give you everything that he thought you wanted.
He was wearing a mask.
- Like most men do. - Yeah, like most men do.
- 'Cause this is some wild [bleep].
- You want to sit down? Top of that. It's OK.
- Tami, I got into the relationship with Cortez
because I just wanted to love somebody
for who they were. - OK.
- I--this is me trying to not be the girl
that's all about the guys with the--
with the bling and the-- - Mm-hmm, OK.
- And this [bleep] didn't work out for me.
Every single day, my dad go to work.
And that's what I've been trying to explain to Cortez
without explaining to Cortez.
You are not prepared to be a father.
You're not prepared to be a husband.
- Mm-hmm. - You've got to work.
If I want my husband to be like anybody,
I would want him to be hardworking like my father.
- Like your dad. I get it.
But regardless of him being emotional,
you didn't come flat-out and tell that man.
- The next [bleep] who got more money than you,
[bleep], she leavin'.
- See, and now you being emotional
'cause he's trying to be real with you,
telling you what he knows.
Now, you can listen and take it,
or you can say "F that" and be emotional.
He's telling you what it is. - I'm listening.
- Guess what? I just figured out some [bleep] today
that she ain't been keeping it a hunnid with both of us.
So now I got some [bleep] to think about.
- OK.
- So what is it about Clifford that you feel is
different than Cortez?
- Clifford, the number one thing, Ms. Tami?
- Mm-hmm. - The man work hard.
He a hustler. He teaching me things.
I'm trying to get into real estate.
- Bro, I'm--I'm good.
That's your girl, bro. Go ahead, keep her.
- Clifford, not for nothing, you should go talk to Ki.
- See, I'd rather be single. - That's OK.
You should have been single.
It's just that Cortez did not know that that's
what you wanted to do.
- I didn't know that's what I wanted to do.
- Well-- - I didn't know that.
- Excuse me, I'm sorry. - Mm-hmm.
- No disrespect.
Me and you need to have a little conversation as well,
know what I'm saying?
Some things that you need to answer with on my behalf.
- Boy, what? - Look, for over a year now,
I've been telling you to just talk to him and tell him
so that we don't even get to this point,
but you playin' two sides.
- Do I tell you that I love you?
- [scoffs]
You never told me you loved me? - I don't think so, no.
- [scoffs] You funny.
- So you don't love Clifford?
- I mean, we're building.
I [bleep] with Clifford. He's a smart man.
He's inspiring. He's motivated.
He got some good [bleep], you know what I'm saying?
But here's the thing.
Do I want to get married to Clifford today? No.
- Right, and guess what? I'm cool with that.
If I got to go my way, that's what I'm doing.
[rain pouring]
- Playin' a dangerous game. She ain't happy.
She keep telling me she ain't happy with him.
She told me she was over him.
That's it, she ain't want nothing else to do with him.
- And I am over Cortez.
- So that's why I was pursuing, you understand?
- But I still was in a relationship,
so why you pointing the finger at me?
The finger goes back to you, too.
- [scoffs]
- Yeah. - You something else.
- He could have left it as business,
and you know you could have.
- So what you're basically saying is that
you have no self-control.
- What do you mean?
- So if you wanted to keep it business,
then you could have kept it business.
If you don't create that line of delineation,
then he doesn't know he's not supposed to step over it.
- This man probably only wanted to build me
so he could [bleep] me.
And I used that to my advantage.
- OK, so you played him?
- That's what exactly what it sounds like.
- Maybe I did.
- You did. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- What's wrong with that? Guys play girls all the time.
- I want you to take accountability
for the part that you played in this.
- OK, I said that I'm taking accountability for
not telling Cortez that I no longer want to be with him.
- Correct. - But guess what?
Now I don't want to be with him, either.
So I don't want to be with nobody.
- [chuckles] - Hmm.
And you made that decision right here on the spot?
- Right here, right now.
- Well, let's go back in here and tell Cortez that.
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- Go that way so we can keep y'all separate.
OK, Cortez is over there.
Perfect. - Oh, boy.
- OK, Cortez.
So, basically, I wanted everybody
to be able to have the opportunity to go around.
And so he wanted to be able to ask you some things.
- First of all, let me say this.
I love you so much.
We talked about having kids, building a family.
[sniffles] I wanted to marry you.
I got a ring for you and everything.
[sniffling]
[somber music]
[voice breaking] Tried my best, anything to try to keep you.
[indistinct]
I saw that [bleep] in the beginning.
Just take time.
You couldn't just be real
and just tell me you ain't feeling it no more?
- Cortez,
my parents been together for, like, 25 years.
Every single day, my daddy go to work.
I never see my daddy at home chilling, watching TV,
sleep in the bed. He go to work.
Cortez, you don't get it, baby.
Where is the drive? Where is the growth?
I'm gonna need my man to go a little bit harder for me,
especially if he want a family.
- Course, she's absolutely right.
- He's not processing it. - She's absolutely right.
But... you cheating on him was foul.
- OK. And guess what?
As a woman, I 'bout to accept responsibility for that.
- If you're gonna try to operate from the space of
being a mature woman--
- I'm trying to operate in that space.
- Well, what you give out is what you gonna get back.
When you get in a relationship with somebody,
it's not about finances.
It is about the integrity,
the foundation, the trust.
- He's wilding out because he felt like y'all had a future,
that y'all had something, that he wanted to propose.
He wanted a family, build a bond.
- OK, I got a question, though.
We haven't had sex in, like, a year.
So if we haven't had sex-- - Now, I did say that.
- Who you been having sex with?
- My left hand. - Boy, bye.
I don't believe it. - I believe it.
- [bleep] you mean, [bleep]?
- What? - What that mean?
- That's what I'm trying to figure out.
- What that mean? - I'm saying that
I don't think that you stepped out, bro.
That's what I'm saying. - Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, oh, my bad. My bad, bro. - That's what I'm saying.
- My bad, bro. Let me-- - I bet.
- You want to start having some network these days?
- Oh, now y'all friends? I don't give a [bleep].
- I wanted to marry you. - I'm with it.
- This is the ring that I was telling you about earlier.
- That little bitty ass ring? Boy, [bleep] you!
You don't add value to me and you barely add value to me.
- The conversation over. - Petty.
- Thank you, Envy. Thank you, Tami,
for so much. Let me go.
- ♪ Man, I'm on top, way up, ooh ♪
- So right now, we know you and Cortez are no longer.
You and Clifford are no longer? - Totally not.
- OK. - We're no longer.
- Now, do me a favor. Get out my office.
♪ ♪
- OK. - Thank you.
- You know I don't give a [bleep].
- Thank you. - [sighs]
- Thank you for allowing us in, Clifford.
- Oh, boy.
- I looked at Kiyana as more than
what I actually heard today, you understand?
She sounded like she just had no morals as a woman.
I just know where I went wrong
by pursuing someone that was already in a relationship.
That's not the type of people I need around me, you understand?
- I'm embarrassed. I am shocked.
As of today, Cortez is a opp.
Clifford is a opp, too.
I'm trying to grow and progress with my head up, focus on me,
'cause that's the kind of time that I'm on, 2023.
- I'm glad I dodged that bullet.
I'm not happy the way I came in,
but at the end of the day, I'm emotional person,
I love hard, and that's what that was.
Be yourself.
Don't change for no-[bleep]-body.
Love you.
I'ma get my money up, definitely,
but it ain't gon' be with her.
- ♪ You ain't the one I fell in love with ♪
♪ No, the one I fell in love ♪
♪ I thought I'd take some time just to let you know ♪
♪ Don't be mad, don't take it personal ♪
♪ Love me or leave me, let me go ♪
- Hey, there, Cortez. - How are you?
- I'm doing well. How have you been?
- Oh, amazing. - Oh, my goodness.
You know what? I am excited to hear that
because the way you tore my office up...
[laughter]
I almost sent you a invoice.
But I understood because
when you give your heart to somebody,
you're not expecting that they mishandle it.
- I guess I needed to see that,
you know what I'm saying? You think you know a person...
- Yes, yes. - And you don't. [chuckles]
So I needed that.
- So are you single or you're dating?
- I'm still single, but I'm open to things,
just differently. [laughs] - You--
well, what does that mean, child?
You open to things differently?
- Well, you know, like,
I don't care about gender anymore.
It's about who makes me feel good.
- Oh! - I've always had that desire,
but I never went out with it.
And I think now that I came on,
you helped me open up so many doors about myself,
even reaching into my past.
- So the interaction with Kiyana done caused you to
see the other side of things?
- I mean, I'm more of being around people
who give me life, and energy, and love.
But, yeah, I am dating men now.
- OK. - Yeah.
And you helped. Thank you.
- You are so welcome. I love it.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your journey, Cortez.
- You were everything. Thank you so much.
- All right, sweetie, it's been good talking to you.
- Have a good one. - You, too.
[chuckles] Bye. - OK.
Cheaters, beware.
- You [bleep] kissed her, you idiot.
- Next time you want to be unfaithful, think again.
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.
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