- Two years ago, DeJuan met Tynea on Tinder.
- She's an exotic dancer, so that really caught my eyes.
That was, like, the icing on the cake.
- I'm sure it was.
- Now, you do know that she has a twin sister?
- Whoa. Oh, my God.
- They look the same, though.
- 'Cause there's no pictures of them together.
- I'm not so sure there's even a twin sister.
- What are you hiding from me?
- Something ain't right. - Let's have at it.
[computer dings] - Oh.
- What the [bleep]?
[dramatic music]
[Sleepover's "Cactus Club"]
- ♪ Uno, dos, tres, come and say it to my face ♪
- We're back.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Say it to my face ♪ - Oh!
- Do you notice anything different?
- Okay, I love this game.
Your nails?
- Hair!
- Oh, I mean, I see your hair.
How is it different?
It's just straight.
- I had braids, remember?
- Oh, well, yeah,
but I'm used to your hair just changing
and looking great all the time.
- [laughs]
- Put your hair back, all right?
'Cause we're about to get into this.
- Hair change and an email.
Let's go.
- All right, we got an email here from DeJuan.
"Hi, Nev and Kamie.
"My name is DeJuan.
"I'm a 26-year-old pre-law student
in Greensboro, North Carolina."
- ♪ If you know what I mean ♪
- "My mind is spinning,
and I don't know what to do."
- ♪ Spinning in circles, spiraling downwards ♪
- "I met this girl, Tynea,
about two or so years ago on Tinder."
- ♪ Nobody else gets me like you ♪
- "Tynea lived in Atlanta, but I didn't mind.
"She is an incredible woman.
Goofy, beautiful, strong, and caring."
- ♪ All that I wanted was someone to hold me ♪
- "I could see us being together
for the rest of our lives."
- ♪ Spinning in circles, spiraling downward ♪
- "But recently, some things have been happening
that made me wonder if I've been fooling myself."
- Yes.
- ♪ I need you straight away ♪
- "About three months ago,
"Tynea ignored the latest video chat request
"I had made.
"I don't know what it was about that moment,
"but all of a sudden,
I started looking at things differently."
- ♪ ...wanted was someone to hold me ♪
♪ I never asked for you to control me ♪
- "I wasn't ready to end things over that,
"but the last couple of weeks have been crazy.
First, I was blocked from her Instagram."
- ♪ I need you straight away ♪
- "Then she dropped a huge bomb on me.
"I won't say what it is here,
"'cause I don't want you guys to judge her
before I get to explain everything."
- Oh, God.
- "If she's not the girl she's been saying she is,
"I need answers,
"and if she is the girl, then I need to know
"so that I don't start undermining our relationship
"with doubt and paranoia.
Help me get to the bottom of this."
- ♪ Walking in circles ♪
- "Thank you, DeJuan."
- I guess he just wants to know if she's "de" one.
You're just upset 'cause you didn't say it first.
- All right, well, let's get DeJuan on de phone.
- That's a good one.
There you go. You're coming back.
[laughter] - I'm back, I'm back!
"Yo, DeJuan!
We wanna help."
All right, text sent and delivered.
- I wanna know how they matched on Tinder.
increase your geographical location, but...
- I mean, that's a wide radius.
[computer dings] Oh!
- How y'all doing?
- Good.
- How are things over in Greensboro?
- Like, with the COVID and everything,
it's taking some time to get used to it,
but everything is going good.
- So is law school still happening?
Are you still... - Well, I'm actually undergrad.
I studied political science
with a concentration in pre-law.
You got the choice to go virtual
or go face to face,
and I just decided to go virtual so I could work.
- Oh, you work outside of school?
- I have two part-time jobs. - Wow.
- So I'm a very, very busy person.
- That's why you're chasing some girl on the Internet
who doesn't wanna video chat or meet up with you?
[laughter]
- I wouldn't say that's necessarily
why I'm chasing her.
I just love her, you know?
- So yeah, so explain how did you and Tyn-ia--
is that how she says it? - Ten-nay-ah, yeah.
both: Tynea. - It's Tynea.
We met off of Tinder.
We exchanged numbers.
It was very fast-paced.
We immediately got into talking to each other
and texting each other.
- Okay, so before you swiped on her,
you knew that she was in Atlanta?
- Oh, no.
Like, you don't know
until actually you match with them.
Like, when you match with them and you swipe right
and they happen to swipe right with you,
that's when you know.
- When you saw she was further away,
you were like, "Ah, that doesn't matter to me."
- It didn't matter to me at all.
I just wanted to get to know her.
- Aw. I'm trying to guess your sign.
- Let's see if you can guess.
- Are you a Gemini? - I am a Cancer.
- Oh, my God. [laughter]
- So Gemini--Gemini is close,
but I'm a Cancer.
- That's why we're here. Now I've got it, okay.
- And Tynea, what do you know about her?
What's her deal? - She works a lot.
She works at Taco Bell, and then she's an exotic dancer.
So that really caught my eyes.
When I found that out,
that was, like, the icing on the cake.
[laughter] - Oh!
I'm sure it was.
Wow.
- I support her grind.
I'm not a judgmental person at all.
- Me too.
- I support everything she does.
Everything is good between us.
We always talk all the time. - Wow.
- And when you talk, are you talking on the phone
or are you just texting?
- We talk on the phone more than anything,
but we do text from time to time.
- Aside from the Tinder profile though,
surely a 20-year-old exotic dancer in Atlanta
has an Instagram and a Snapchat?
- Actually, a couple of weeks ago,
I got blocked from seeing her on Instagram,
and I asked her about it,
and her response was that she lost access to her password
and her profile.
So that brought up some suspicion to me.
- Yeah.
- I also found out
some more disturbing news recently.
I found out that she had a kid.
We've been talking to each other for a long time.
I should know if you have a kid.
That's another thing I'm concerned about.
'Cause if we are gonna get married
and we are gonna live with each other,
I need to be ready for that.
'Cause eventually I'm gonna get close to your daughter.
- How old did she say the daughter is?
- She said the daughter is two years old.
- Did you ever talk about her daughter's father?
- We didn't get into that.
'Cause obviously, if she's dealing with me,
I'm assuming that he's not in her life anymore.
So that's not important.
The most important thing
is making sure she's good and her daughter's good.
Time is important thing with any child,
so that kinda gave me the insight,
"Okay, maybe when we first started talking,
maybe that's why she didn't wanna meet up with me."
Because one time, I came all the way to Georgia,
and she never showed up,
and I called her phone over and over and over again.
I was like, "You do realize, like, I drove four hours
to come see you?" And she's like, "I'm sorry.
I'm going through a lot right now at home."
- But you think it might be because
she was hiding a kid? - Correct.
- What was she going through? Did you ever find out?
- Well, she said she was going through anxiety
and depression,
and I was just like, "Okay, that's fine, I understand that,
"'cause I know it's a very sensitive thing,
"but I just would like for us moving forward
"to be able to trust each other,
"come forward with everything
about our life 'cause that's important."
- And you would say you guys consider each other
boyfriend and girlfriend?
- Absolutely correct. Yes, ma'am.
I love her, I appreciate her,
she's a good woman,
and I'm not going to
just casually dating anymore.
I wanna actually... - Wow.
- I wanna actually have a wife.
When I love someone, I love them hard, I'm not--
- Wait, so you've been exclusively dating Tynea
for the last two years?
- Yeah. - Wow.
- Southern boys. This is what LA needs more of.
- [laughs]
- So you have pictures of Tynea?
- I'm dying to see what this girl looks like.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Here we go. All right.
- This one. - She sent you this.
Wait, so this was on Instagram?
- That was, like, direct messages.
I took a screenshot.
- Keep going.
- I have this one.
- Okay, a little booty. - And this one.
- Aah! - [laughs]
- All right, you can swipe to the next one.
- And you have this one.
- What about your text messages?
- We got a few text messages.
- "Love you."
Okay, so you guys say "love you" to each other?
- All the time. Absolutely.
- You said, "I love you so much,
"and I want to be with you for the rest of my life.
I'm so glad we can be there for each other."
She said, "We've both had serious situations
occur in our life." Hmm.
What's that about?
- My brother passed away last year,
and my dad passed away in 2014.
So I've lost some really close family members,
and she always
made herself available
for me the way I needed her to.
So that made me fall for her way more
than I will fall for someone else.
- Well, I'm now I'm seeing
why you're falling so hard for this girl.
- Right, that's why I'm here today,
because I really care about her,
and I really, truly love her.
Meeting her would be the best thing
that ever happened to me.
- What if she doesn't look like the girl in the pictures?
- Uh, I think it would take me some time.
'Cause it's not like I decided
to wanna be with her just because
of how attractive she was.
That was always the plus.
It was more so the person she brought out in me,
but I have plenty of hope
that she is who I think she is.
- Oh, we're gonna find out. - Okay.
- Send us what you got.
We'll do some research, and we'll check back in
when we have some questions
or when we finally have some answers.
- Just let me know. - Right.
Thanks, DeJuan. - Talk soon, buddy.
[dramatic music]
- Lord, have mercy.
- DeJuan seems like such a catch.
Why do you think he's so into--
I mean, I get it, but like...
- Because he's a Cancer. Every issue with DeJuan
has everything to do with his zodiac sign.
- [laughs] - All I can say,
there's a lot of red flags in this story.
- Oh, wow.
♪ ♪
- All right, what's up, everyone?
Welcome back to "Catfish."
I thought we could do a little ASMR session
with me eating
a little breakfast sandwich this morning.
So listen and enjoy.
[lips smacking]
Mmm.
[computer dings]
- Did you get any libations
for this investigations?
- I got the broke special.
- Mmm, you gotta upgrade your package.
- [laughs]
All right, so what do we got?
We got DeJuan, 26,
lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Meets a girl on Tinder from Atlanta,
they start talking, things go very quickly,
They've been talking almost every day on the phone
for two years.
They say, "I love you."
Seem to be very serious
about being in a committed relationship,
and yet, somehow,
after two years of basically talking every day,
she says, "I have a confession to make,
I actually have a two-year-old daughter."
♪ ♪
All right, so let's see what we can find out about Tynea.
All right, here we go. Here's the email.
"Hey guys, here's what I got for you.
"My girl's name is Tynea Monet.
"Her Instagram was [bleep]diva1.
"Here is her phone number,
and then I attached the photos."
All right, so first things first,
I kinda wanted to see if her Instagram is still up, right?
- Yeah.
- All right, so let's see...
[bleep]diva1.
Oh, there it is.
- "Keep the fake [bleep]." How ironic.
- "Raising a princess."
But then, what's interesting,
910, 704.
- Is that the Atlanta area code?
704? - I don't know.
Let's see.
- She started with a 910. What is that?
- 910.
Oh, North Carolina.
Interesting.
- But look, it says, "People also search for 704,"
so that must be another part of North Carolina.
- Huh.
- Charlotte!
- I mean, it said right on her Instagram account
that she essentially is in North Carolina.
- But maybe she blocked him first
and then put that in after.
- And the baby girl thing, and like, "Raising a princess."
- Mm-hmm. She ain't in Atlanta.
She's right next door.
- Yeah. Okay, so let's see.
You wanna do an image search? - Yeah.
- I don't think we're gonna find any of these pictures,
but let's try.
All right, let's start with this.
- I don't think so either.
- This is the one which feels like a selfie.
- Oh!
- Ooh, oh, my goodness!
- This never happens!
- We got a hit on the first pic.
- The first image? [laughs]
- What is this? Twitter, Baddass[bleep].
♪ ♪
Whoa. Oh, my God.
- [gasps]
- Wait, is this her?
- Oh, my God.
- Wow.
- Oh, my God.
$50 video.
- She's got an OnlyFans. - Aah!
- Looks like she's got a man.
- He's in her videos.
Bro, look how many followers this girl has.
- Whoa. Oh, my God.
All right, so I think it's pretty clear
whoever Tynea is, she's using this girl's photos.
- We haven't tried searching for Tynea Monet.
- Oh, my God. Good idea.
Oh. - Ooh!
- Oh, oh.
Hello, who's this?
- With a baby! Baby!
The little baby feet in the bio.
- I know, I know, I know.
- But why would this girl
have a problem with showing herself,
and why would she be using fake pictures and videos?
- That's always the question, right?
But wait, hold on, there was one other.
Let's see this one.
Same girl. - [gasps]
- And that's what she says her name is.
I mean... - Greensboro!
- Oh, my God. - This is her.
- Yeah, this has gotta be her, right?
- Who is that?
That comment underneath it? - Promise.
All right, I'm gonna send her a message.
"Hey, Promise,
"this is Nev from Catfish.
Would love your help, please."
- Come through, mama.
- Come through. All right.
Sent.
- It's just so weird.
Why lie about your face? Why lie about your location?
Why lie about all of these different things?
- Right.
I mean, look, if... [cell phone rings]
Oh.
Hello?
- Okay, great. Let me explain.
So this is Nev from the show "Catfish."
- The actual show "Catfish."
In fact, if you'd like,
I'd be happy to invite you into my Zoom right now.
- I'm gonna text you the Zoom link right now.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Promise has to know something.
[computer dings] - Mmm.
- Hey, Promise. - Hi.
- Thank you so much for getting back to us so quick.
- Of course.
- So we're trying to help this guy
find out who he's talking to,
and the girl's name
that he's talking to is Tynea Monet.
When we searched it on Instagram,
we found your comment
on one of the recent posts.
So obviously, you know a girl named Tynea Monet, right?
- Yeah, we were high school friends.
I haven't talked to her in a while,
but I don't think she would catfish anyone.
You know, she's not known
for doing things like that.
- Right.
- Do you know anyone that Tynea was really close to
that you think she's still in contact with?
- Not really, but I do know that she has a twin sister.
- A twin sister?
- Like, identical?
- I'm not really sure, but they're twins.
- Interesting. What's her name?
- Her name's Tyneira.
- Tyneira Monet?
- No, Monet is her middle name.
- Oh, Monet is Tynea's middle name?
- Mm-hmm. - Do you know her last name?
- It's [bleep]. It's [bleep].
- Tynea and Tyneira [bleep]?
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, thanks so much, Promise.
Have a great night.
- You're welcome. You too.
- Bye. - Bye.
- We gotta find the twin.
- Let's look up "Tynea Monet [bleep]."
Ooh, I just got an Instagram notification.
Oh, from Promise.
Oh, oh, my God.
She sent the Facebook account
for Tyneira,
with an R.
Wow, they do look very similar.
- Plug it in. I wanna see.
[dramatic investigative music]
Whoa.
- They look pretty similar, right?
- Yeah.
Everybody is a fan of this baby, Santana.
- Whose kid is this? - This is Tynea's kid.
- But maybe it's actually her kid.
Should I message her?
- Yes.
- "Hey, Tyneira.
"This is Nev from Catfish.
"Could use your help.
"Please give me a call.
Thanks."
All right, here's what we know.
We know that there is a girl
who is either--certainly from
or has lived in Greensboro, North Carolina,
named Tynea, middle name Monet,
who has two Instagram accounts
which are a little suspicious
but seems to be a real person
according to at least one source
and could just simply be the girl he's been talking to,
which would be confusing, but potentially also good news.
Because if she had some strange reason
for either protecting her privacy
or changing her identity
when she went on Tinder for some reason
to avoid maybe someone or something.
- Baby daddy. - Maybe.
Maybe all that we need to do is just clear that up.
DeJuan will see and hopefully be attracted to her,
and they can still continue pursuing a relationship.
I mean, this could either go
really well...
Or it could be a huge disaster.
[dramatic musical sting]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- All right, here we go.
♪ ♪
- Bing.
- Hi. - What's the tea, Christine?
- We're still waiting to hear back.
Wait a second! I just got this message.
- [gasps] That's the twin!
- That's the twin.
She says, "I don't have a phone right now,
but you can call me on Facebook."
- Why doesn't she have a phone?
- Well, we don't know if she doesn't have a phone or not.
She may have just said that.
Why don't I just tell her to get on the Zoom?
"Actually, if you could join our Zoom,
that would be best."
All right, she's got the link.
[computer dings]
Oh. - Oh.
- Hi. - Oh!
- Hi. - How you doing?
- I'm good. You guys?
- Great. Thank you.
- Doing good. - That's good.
- So your familiar with the show "Catfish"?
- Of course. - Okay.
All right, so there's a guy,
DeJuan, in North Carolina
who's been talking to this girl for two years now
who says her name
is Tynea Monet.
- Okay.
- Now correct us if I'm wrong,
but is that not your sister's name?
- That's my twin, yes.
- That's your twin sis, right.
It's possible that
Tynea Monet is a name
that more than one person has,
but the fact that your sister
lives in Greensboro,
and this guy lives in Greensboro,
and that they met on Tinder,
makes us wonder if it could just be your sister.
- My sister doesn't stay in North Carolina.
- Oh, okay.
- She lives in Virginia right now.
- Oh. - Hmm.
Do you live in Atlanta or North Carolina?
- Oh. - Huh.
- Are you near Greensboro?
- Yeah.
- How long has she been in Virginia?
- Um,
probably for, like, five or six months now.
- Okay.
And do you know if she's dating someone or...
- Not that I know of.
- Okay. - But she has a daughter?
- I don't think it'd be best
to discuss family right now.
I just don't feel comfortable with doing that,
but if you guys need me to, like, reach out to her...
- Oh, okay. - Yeah.
If you could reach out to her and give her our number,
that would be great. - Mm-hmm.
- Well, thanks for getting back to us, and...
- Mm-hmm.
- Thank you-- Oh.
- I mean, I don't know anymore.
[laughter]
She knew her sister had something to do with it
the second she came on this Zoom.
- You know what we should do?
Let's fill in DeJuan.
"Hey, buddy. We gotta talk."
For all we know, maybe he knows this girl.
[computer dings] - Oh, DeJuan!
- There it goes. - There he is.
- What's going on? What's going on?
- It's been an interesting morning.
- Yeah, it sure has,
and we gotta figure this out because it's confusing.
- All right.
- All right, so check this out. So remember you sent us that?
- Right. - We did an image search.
- Yes. - And we got a hit:
this tweet posted by this account,
Baddass[bleep].
And the girl in the pictures looks like Tynea.
- Mmm.
- If you look up here it says it's posted from Georgia,
which is interesting... - Okay.
- Because that's where, you know,
she says she lives.
She's got an OnlyFans...
♪ ♪
And then if you look at this, she's got a video.
- Right.
Wow.
- There's a picture of her with a guy.
You know, I don't know who that is, but...
- It's not me.
- It's definitely not you,
but to not tell you
that she's posting on OnlyFans, like...
- Right.
This is overwhelming.
This is a very active - N Twitter account.ing.
It's got almost 150,000 followers.
- Right.
- Whoever Tynea is,
it's not this girl.
The girl in the pictures is someone else
who has a totally different life,
and Tynea's been stealing her photos.
- [sighs]
There's a lot more that I wanna say,
but I respect woman more
to actually speak on that, you know?
♪ ♪
'Cause I feel like my time was wasted.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- Are you gonna be okay?
- Whoo. Mmm.
- The next thing that we did was,
we just went on Instagram,
and we did search for Tynea Monet...
- Okay.
- Just to see if there was an account.
Have you done that?
- I have, and for some reason,
it doesn't show nothing up when I search on Instagram.
- Oh, really? Oh.
Mmm.
Well, look what we found when we searched Tynea Monet.
We found this profile.
[dramatic music]
Now I don't know if--
you don't know this girl, do you?
- Nah, I don't recognize her from a can of paint.
- Okay, well, so there's two profiles
that come up when you search Tynea Monet:
This one
and then there's this page.
Same girl, Tynea Monet.
And we obviously want to figure out who this girl is
because why would there be a page
for a girl named Tynea Monet
that you say that you can't see which means that...
- That makes no sense.
- Well, maybe she has you blocked.
If she has you blocked then, like,
get your phone out right now.
- And do a search for these accounts.
- Got you.
That one doesn't show up,
but for some reason the other one shows up.
- Interesting.
So that means she might have you blocked on this one.
- And that's crazy.
- Well, so here, check this out.
We saw that, on one of the profiles
in her most recent picture,
someone commented-- this girl, Promise.
- Right.
- We spoke to her,
and she said that Tynea also has a twin sister.
- Mmm.
- So she said that her twin sister's name is Tyneira.
- And then we went and found that twin sister's account.
Tyneira.
Looks like she has a daughter as well, possibly.
- They look the same though.
- Like, the girl you showed me before in the Instagram,.
and she looks like the same person.
[laughs]
I wouldn't even have noticed the difference.
- Is it the same person?
- Like, literally. - Right?
- She's very beautiful to me, in my opinion,
so it wouldn't make no sense
from my standpoint to--
why would you hide behind the screen of someone else,
and you're beautiful?
You're not ugly at all.
She's a very beautiful woman, so to me, I'm confused,
and it's just like, "What are you truly hiding from me
that you don't want me to know about?"
- Right.
- All right, so look. We messaged the sister.
She got in the Zoom, and we talked to her.
- Okay.
- And Tyneira told us they are twins.
- But she says that Tynea
has never lived in Atlanta, and that she lives...
- In Virginia.
- So now I'm confused.
- So then I say,
"Well, do you think your sister would catfish someone?
Has she ever mentioned talking to a guy online?"
And she said, "No, I don't think she'd ever do that."
- She was being sketch.
- Well, we left it with her. We said, "Okay, well,
"if you wanna let your sister know
"that we'd like to talk to her,
"and she can reach out to us if she wants, like,
that would be great." - Mmm.
- So that was the last thing we heard from her.
- I feel like I would be more inclined
to maybe believe Tyneira's story
about her sister not having anything to do with it
if you weren't conveniently blocked
on her sister's page.
- Oh, right, and then now, there's that.
- It's not a coincidence.
- Exactly.
- Unless Promise just played us.
- But she was a real girl.
- I know, but it must've just been a friend of hers
who was, like, trying to... - Cover?
- Now I'm thinking about it,
I'm not so sure there's even a twin sister.
- There's no pictures of them together.
- Right, I'm feeling the same way about this situation.
- Well, so what do we do now?
Do we hit up Tyneira and be like, "We know you're lying.
Your sister has DeJuan blocked."
Or do we go straight to Tynea,
who's potentially the same person as Tyneira,
and bust her?
Her?
- I mean, I guess the other option is,
we can send a text to Tynea.
- Sure. Why not?
Let's have at it.
- All right, so let me do that.
Okay, "Hey, Tynea. This is Nev from Catfish.
"We are making an episode now
"and have been talking to your friend, DeJuan
in the hopes that we could help you guys finally meet up."
- "DeJuan knows you haven't been
"completely honest about everything,
"but he's still very much looking forward
to meeting you."
♪ ♪
- All right, I'm sending it.
Sent.
[computer dings] - Wait a second.
I think I just got a Facebook message.
- Ooh.
- Oh, yeah. Oh!
- What?
- Tyneira just wrote,
"I saw you texted. Can I talk to you again?"
- [sighs]
How'd she see we texted if she doesn't have a phone?
- And if we texted her sister?
- There is no twin sister.
- What the [bleep]?
- Oh!
Tyneira just wrote,
"I saw you texted. Can I talk to you again?"
"Sure, jump back in the Zoom," I guess, right?
- Exactly.
- That was Tyneira, the sister. - The twin.
- The twin sister. - If there really is a twin.
I mean, it's got to be the same person.
[dramatic music]
Wait, hold on. Let's see if she wrote back.
She said, "Okay."
- Come on in, girl.
Make this happen,
because something ain't right.
- Come on in.
[computer dings] Okay, oh.
- Hi. - Hello, Tyneira.
- Hey, guys. Hey, dude.
- Hello.
- Hey, who? You guys know each other?
- [laughs] Yeah.
- Is that because you are Tynea?
- Yeah.
- So are you also Tyneira?
- I'm the one that's been catfishing him.
- What the [bleep]?
- And you're the same person we spoke to earlier?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- What the [bleep]?
- Yeah, do you wanna explain what's been going on?
'Cause we're all pretty confused.
- Basically, I've just been--
I've been the one catfishing him.
I didn't know how to come out about it, basically.
- And that's all you have to say?
- I've been going through stuff, like,
insecurities and stuff,
and my sister, her life was so great,
so I just wanted to use, like, her stuff
'cause her life was so great,
and mine was so horrible at the time.
- So you're trying to tell us you do really have a sister?
- Yes.
- So why hide behind the screen of someone else
and carry on this for the last two years?
- I know, because I just wasn't--
I didn't feel right with myself at the time.
♪ ♪
Let me just clear up - Ala couple things. on.
Your name is Tyneira?
- Yes.
- And you do have a twin sister
named Tynea?
- Yes.
- Okay, and where do you live?
- North Carolina.
- In Greensboro? - Yes.
- Okay, so that's what you told us earlier when we spoke.
- Mm-hmm.
- And do you have any children? - Yes.
- You do? Okay.
Just one daughter or more than that?
- Just one.
- I just--I'm a little confused
only because you said
that you were using things
in regards to your sister, Tynea,
because her life was going so great.
So even assuming if your twin is real,
your story still doesn't make sense.
You only used Tynea's name.
You didn't use her photos.
You didn't use anything having to do with her
other than her name,
and you could've easily used your name
with somebody else's photos.
That doesn't make sense to me.
- That's--I basically--
I mean, I didn't want to use my own name
because, like, a lot of people know me, so I used her name.
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- But what does that have to do with her life?
'Cause it seemed more like you were mirroring the life
of one of the girls whose photos you were using
a majority of. - No.
- And then she's so nonchalant
about this whole situation
as if it's not my life
that she was playing around with.
- I'm gonna be honest with you, Tyneira,
it still just feels, like, a little weird,
and I'm not entirely sure
we're getting the whole story.
♪ ♪
Are we? - Yeah.
- I don't think so,
because I don't think you have a twin.
I don't think you're telling us the whole truth.
[cell phone buzzing]
- Wait a second. Hello?
- Yeah? - Hi.
- This is Tynea. - Tynea?
Okay, 'cause I'm also currently talking to Tyneira.
Is that your sister? - Yeah.
- I just-- I got your message,
and I need to talk to you.
- Okay, I'm confused, but if I send you a Zoom link,
can you join a Zoom? - Yeah, I can.
- All right, we'll speak in a second.
- Okay. - Okay.
So who is that? Who just called me?
- You guys don't really have to, I mean, even talk to her.
Y'all don't have to talk to her.
She has nothing to do with this.
- Oh, oh, there she is.
Hi.
- Hey.
- What? There really is a twin!
- This [bleep] crazy as hell.
- Our heads are scrambled. We honestly really don't know
what the hell's going on right now,
so I don't know if you can help us clear this up.
Tyneira seems to be telling us
that she's been catfishing DeJuan this whole time,
but obviously, it's been from your phone number,
so I don't know how that would work.
I didn't think there was a twin sister.
So can someone help explain this?
- Can somebody tell the truth?
Please.
- My sister, she's just real, real overprotective of me.
So I guess she just felt like
it would be a good idea
to take the fall
'cause I did let her know,
like, right after you texted me.
Tyneira, thank you for doing that,
but I just feel like at the end of the day,
I just wanna be honest.
- Okay, so let me get this straight.
So Tynea,
you are the one
who's been talking to DeJuan the whole time?
- Mm-hmm.
- And your sister's trying to take the fall for you?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, so Tyneira, so you're just a stone-cold,
ride-or-die sister, who had nothing to do with this
and was just trying to help your sister?
- Yes, because she has a lot going on with herself.
I had told my sister not to call you guys back
because I handled it,
and my way of handling it
was telling you guys
that I'm the one that was doing this.
- Okay.
And are you guys actually twin sisters?
Tynea and Tyneira: Yes.
- This [bleep] is crazy as hell.
[scoffs]
- As a big sister,
I understand wanting to ride or die for your sister,
but at the same time,
you know, we're not here to gang up on Tynea.
That's not why we're here.
Our job here is just to facilitate the conversation.
- So let's just talk to Tynea now for a little bit.
Tyneira, nice to meet you.
- Okay, thank you, guys.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
Okay, so we're finally where we need to be, here.
Tynea, why don't you actually just give us
a brief introduction to yourself?
- Okay, I live in Virginia
with my step-mother and my father.
- Okay.
- Why put your location as Atlanta?
- When he told me that he was in North Carolina,
at the time, I was living in Greensboro, North Carolina,
and I just didn't want it to lead to the point where
he was constantly asking me,
"Oh, since we live in the same city, why not link up?"
So I just said Atlanta.
- Why did you let me drive all the way to Georgia
if you wasn't gonna show up?
- I guess, like, when you tell a lie,
you just gotta
keep telling lies and lies to cover it up.
It was very selfish and very, very insensitive
to let you drive all the way down there.
- And was you pregnant when we first met?
- Yeah, I was.
I was pregnant when we first met.
Mmm.
- Okay, so you do have a kid, right, a daughter?
- Yeah, she's two.
- Okay.
- I guess for me, I'm just trying to figure out, like,
you're obviously a pretty girl.
Why are using photos of another woman...
- Mm-hmm. - To portray yourself?
- I feel like we all have our own insecurities.
I'm not even gonna sit here and lie.
Honestly, there was plenty of times
where I wanted to come out and say, "Oh, yeah,
I'm not the person who's in the pictures," obviously,
but I just, like, I guess, like,
my pride and me being afraid
of your reaction
and I guess losing somebody
that I care about dearly.
I did not even expect it
to even go as far as it did
because I didn't expect me to
fall for him for real.
I was just looking for a friend
and someone to talk to.
Because when I had my daughter,
I was going through postpartum depression.
[somber music]
And to deal with it...
- I'm sorry that you had to go through those things
you had to go through.
- Is that something that you're still struggling with now?
- As far as me being depressed? No.
- You said that things have been
a little rough for you lately.
Are you comfortable telling us a little bit about that?
- I did kinda--
I did recently find out
that I'm pregnant.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Mmm.
Okay.
- Wow, okay.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, that's the only thing.
- This some bull[bleep].
- How far along are you?
- Two months.
- Well, congratulations.
- Thanks.
- Is the father someone that you're seeing
and in a relationship with?
- As far as me being in a relationship with him, no.
- Right, but two or three months ago
you guys did have sex.
- Mm-hmm. - Obviously.
- It wasn't intentional,
but, I mean, it happened.
♪ ♪
- That's a lot of new information.
- Yeah.
- And that's all you have to say, is, "Yeah"?
- He was under the impression
that you guys were in a relationship,
and, I think, an exclusive relationship.
- Yeah, and I mean, I was just...
I care about him, you know?
Like, I love him,
and I didn't expect to fall
for him at all,
but I did.
I mean, everything that I've said to him,
as far as me expressing my feelings
have been 100% true,
and things that I have not even told
anyone else, he knows.
So yeah, I do care about him,
I do want to be with him, and I love him.
I just--I really do.
You know, I can't change the past
because it's already been done,
but I mean, I can just fix,
you know, and mold the future.
- What do you think, DeJuan?
[tense music]
- [clears throat]
♪ ♪
- You know, I can't change the past
because it's already been done,
but I mean, I can just fix,
you know, and mold the future.
- What do you think, DeJuan?
[dramatic music]
- [clears throat]
♪ ♪
At this point, I'm done.
[somber music]
I don't know who you are, really.
- No, I mean, you know who I am.
I'm not the same person in the picture.
I'm not that.
I mean, everything else is true,
so what don't you know about me?
- I felt like we were in a committed relationship.
Maybe I was wrong about that.
- I mean, it wasn't specified,
so I just felt like the way everything went about,
as far as with my daughter's father,
you know, it wasn't-- it wasn't a good choice.
And I wouldn't want, you know,
you to do me like that.
I mean, like, over these years, like,
have you been faithful to me?
Like, have you not slept with anyone else?
- Of course not.
The moment we matched on Tinder,
I got rid of Tinder.
'Cause I felt like, if we're in a relationship,
we saying we love each other,
we saying we wanna see each other,
we saying we miss each other,
I don't feel like, in a relationship
I should be saying that same thing to somebody else.
- I mean, but if you felt so strongly,
why is it so easy for you to just get up and leave?
- Because I feel like
I haven't been getting the truth told to me.
It didn't have to come to this.
I just don't understand.
Why would you try to mislead me?
- Like, I just-- I don't know.
I feel like the thought of losing you was...
Worse than the thought of me telling you a lie.
I do apologize
for misleading you
and not being honest,
leading you on to think that I was someone else,
and laying you in my bed of lies.
- I accept your apology.
I believe that everyone makes mistakes in life,
and I'll always be here for you
if you need someone to talk to.
I feel like that's where we should go from there.
You have my number.
You can always Facetime me.
- [laughs]
- But as far as being in a relationship,
I don't think I can handle all that right now.
- [laughs]
- ♪ My love ♪
- Yeah. - Well, look.
I know it's not exactly what you had hoped for,
but it sounds like DeJuan is willing
to continue being a friend.
- If he just wants to be friends,
I mean, I'm open to that.
I just don't want all communications just to stop.
- Are you gonna be okay?
- Yeah, I mean... [laughs]
I mean, it'll be weird,
but you know, I love him,
and I care about him, so you know...
- It was really nice meeting both of you.
You're both lovely, beautiful people.
- ♪ Will you stand by me every night and day? ♪
- There's definitely some good that can come out of this,
and I'm sort of crossing my fingers
that we get there.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
- All right. - Good luck, guys.
- Bye. - Goodbye.
- ♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Every night and day ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'Cause I would do it all for you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Always ♪
- Michae with Julia,ty TV star a girl he met online.
- We talked about our future
and how many kids she wants to have,
but she said that she's a virgin.
- [gasps]
- Wait a second. 52 mutual friends?
- Aw. - There has to be a catch.
- What the hell's going on?
- I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack.
[computer dings]
[dramatic musical sting]