- She helped me level up.
You can't put a price on what she did for me.
- "Hey, are you doing an episode on me right now?"
Oh, that's Lanise? - Ooh.
- So there's three people who are all connected to this.
- Are there a whole ring of girls in Houston
out to get Deonn?
- Maybe. - You weren't in a relationship
when you first started talking to her, were you?
- It's a long story.
- Deonn. - Oh, man.
- Deonn!
♪ ♪
- You know what's an underrate instrument?
- What? - The banjo.
Deedle-dee, do-dee, do-dee, do-dee.
- You know how to do the Cotton-Eyed Joe?
- This one? - Duh-neen, deen--no!
- Wait, oh. - The Cotton-eyed Joe.
Do-do, do-do. Do-do, do-do. Do-do, do-do.
- Hey! - Is that how it goes?
- Dee-dee, dee-dee, dee-dee, dee-dee, dee-dee, dee-dee,
dee-dee, dee-dee.
Deedle-eedle-ee. Leedle-duh-dee-dee.
Deedle-eedle-dee. Deedle-eedle-dee-dee.
- I think this is the Electric Slide. Whoops.
- Yeah, right? - [laughing]
- All right, all right, enough fiddling around.
- Well.
- Let's see what we got in the old email.
"Hey, Nev and Kamie, my name is Deonn.
"I'm 28, and I live in Houston, Texas.
"Just a guy who works hard
and is trying to provide for my two kids."
- ♪ Ever since I met you ♪
- "Two years ago, a girl named Lanise hit me up online."
- ♪ Running on my, running on my mind ♪
- "She's beautiful, to be sure, but she's not like other girls.
"Lanise is mature and caring. She's a single parent too.
"She's also smart and into business.
"I liked her right away. We messaged on Instagram
"for a bit and moved to talking and texting.
"But when we were supposed to meet up,
that's when things got strange."
- Of course.
- "We both stayed in Houston at this time,
"so there shouldn't have been any problems.
"But when I went to meet her, she ghosted me.
"Finally, she sent a text
"and said that she had to work late unexpectedly.
"She's a single mom, so I get that it's hard.
"I could settle for a video chat,
"but she won't let me see her on there either.
- ♪ Wanna try ♪
♪ Let's try it if the love is there ♪
♪ Why would we deny it ♪
"Despite all that, we still chat a lot.
"And we just vibe. I want to meet her.
"Recently, she moved to Dallas,
"which is about three hours from me.
"She wants to meet up again.
"But I've had enough of being stood up.
"Not sure if she's a catfish or just a flake.
"Her excuses always make sense,
"but I want y'all's help before I get played again.
Thanks. Deonn."
- Let's hit him up.
The fact that Deonn is saying
that he'll settle for a video chat,
he's already settling in general.
How many times are you gonna get ghosted
before you give up, sir? - Right.
- 'Cause for me, it's just once.
- Hey. There he is.
- Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. - Deonn, what's up, man?
What do you do down in Houston?
- I do security.
Sometimes I secure law firms, plants.
It just depends, honestly,
what shelf-- where they want to move you to.
- Cool. How old are your kids?
- Ten and five. - Wow.
- So you're 28. -you got two kids..
One's ten and one's five.
It's surprising to me, and I think Kamie too,
that, like, at this point in your life,
you're finding yourself in this situation-ship...
- Mm-hmm.
- With this girl. - Lanise.
- Take us back to that first message.
How did it-how'd it all go down?
- So she messaged me. She sent me the heart eyes.
I end up responding back.
We started talking a little bit.
She was just a cool girl to talk to.
- What do you like about her?
- First, I thought of her as,
she just look good.
Let's just be real.
But then, as we, like,
started talking and texting and stuff,
she actually made me, like, find new hustles to make money.
Because she actually have, like, multiple
sources of income.
She's an entrepreneur.
She, like, does hair and sell lashes on the side.
She put it in my mind to, like, you know,
find other sources of income, you know what I'm saying?
- You feel like she's investing in you as a person.
- Without being with me. - Mm-hmm.
- You see what I'm saying? - Mm-hmm.
- And so what could you do if you were with me,
and with the other things in life and money?
She helped me level up.
- So you genuinely feel like Lanise
has made you into a better man.
- Oh, facts. Facts.
I'm from, like, you know,
the very bad part of Houston, you know?
And if I ain't in the very bad part of Houston,
I hang around pretty much every area
that would be probably called poverty to other people.
When I meet Lanise, she kind of pulled me away from that.
Like, let you know, like,
there's other things in life than where you're from.
It's cool to, you know what I'm saying,
get out of your element.
You can't put a price on what she did for me.
It make you feel like maybe God sent you to be in my life,
you know, to help me out, you know what I'm saying?
So when Lanise came around,
she did something nobody could do
for 24 years of my life.
- Do you feel like you've ever had anyone in your life
like her before?
- Nah. Nobody don't care enough for, like, all of that stuff.
- That is all really nice,
that she really seems to care for you,
she sort of inspired you to start thinking
about your life differently. That's cool.
- Yeah. But have you talked to her on the phone?
- Yes. I've talked to her on the phone,
but when it gets time to, like, how we is--I can see
both of y'all--she's nowhere to be found.
It's always something like, "the Wi-Fi messed up,"
"the kids got my phone." I don't know.
- When you guys met, she was living in Houston.
- Right. She even told me to come to her house,
address and all. - Oh.
- We're messaging the whole way driving there.
Get there, nothing. She called or texted me
like 30 minutes later, like, "I'm at work."
She just always do the same thing.
So I got off of it.
We stop communicating periodically.
- When you guys took breaks, were you dating someone else?
I mean, I assume you're also dating in Houston, right?
- I've always been dating. But every time we stop talking,
she's gonna find her way to come find me,
like, no matter what, and it always instantly go to,
"You need to leave whoever you talking to.
Whoever you talking to, they not better than me,"
you know what I'm saying. - Wow.
- Are you telling her that you're dating people?
Or is she just, like, seeing it on social media?
- Both.
That's just me being honest. But I always date hood chicks.
I've been in some of the craziest relationships
you could think of. I had a girlfriend.
She literally had a tracking device on my car.
- So you've had your fair share of experiences with women
that have taken a turn for the worst.
- Yeah.
- Do you feel like you may have contributed
to any of that chaos by doing some two-timing?
Because this could be some crazy ex-girlfriend
out for revenge.
- Yes. I'm, like, playing around.
You know, I date here and there.
- Maybe you should keep it in your pants
so you don't have these crazy situations.
- You live and you learn. Like--but--
- You're saying you have all this drama
Now, here you are, two years into talking to Lanise.
She's being a little shady. She won't meet up.
She won't video chat.
I'm surprised that you're still pursuing her
and letting her kind of in-in and around your life.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I don't know. You want to get married one day, you know.
You want to put your past life behind you.
Like I said, I done been through some crazy stuff.
So with Lanise, if marriage supposed to be there, you know,
I'd probably get married.
If not, you know, back to the drawing board.
I-I would sure thank her, though, for what she,
you know, have done.
You can't really take that away, what she did for me.
- Wait, so you've thought about marrying her.
- I just think she a great girl.
- Let's see. I want to see what she looks like.
I want to see your conversation.
I kind of just want to get a sense of...
- Okay.
- Who we're really talking about.
Okay, there she is.
- See what I'm saying?
- Okay. Mm-hmm.
- Show us her Instagram. There's not a lot on there.
- Nope.
- Has there ever been more than this, or is that it?
- There was more pictures than that.
- Oh, there used to be a lot. Okay.
- Right.
- So you and Lanise have mutual friends?
- Yes. - Who are all these people that she follows that you follow?
- I don't even know.
I think we just follow each other.
- Show us the messages.
"Hopefully I'm the only ho you want."
You said, "Aw, man, you crazy still.
LOL. I be chilling out here. I don't have no hos."
Oh, she said, "A tad bit when I need you all to myself."
Ooh.
- Just hope she's real, man.
If y'all can find out, it would be a great help to me.
- Okay. Send us what you've got.
- I got you.
- All right, we'll talk to you soon, bud.
- Peace up.
- You think it's an ex.
- It's an ex. 1000%.
Deonn has been admittedly a bit of a player.
- Right. - It seems like,
as much as he wants to stay away from the drama
at this point in his life, he seems to kind of attract it.
- Something's going on.
- I'm just worried that Deonn
is about to get a taste of his own medicine.
- All right, we've got a live one, for sure.
- Mm-hmm. - Right?
Deonn has been talking to Lanise for two years.
She shot her shot, as they say, and started it up with him.
- Mm-hmm.
- Things were going well. They agreed to meet up.
Lanise invited Deonn to meet her at her apartment to go out.
Gets there. Doesn't heat from her.
Bails. Finally, Deonn backs off a little.
But every time she messages him, he engages,
and he can't say no to her.
- And it's understandable why he can't let her go,
because the other girls that he's dated
haven't really measured up to her.
- Right. All right, so let's go to his email now
and start digging.
"Nev and Kamie, so glad y'all are on the case.
Here's what I have on Lanise. Her name is Lanise Rynell.
Here's her phone number and her Instagram.
When she stood me up that time, she gave me an address.
It was something something something. Here are the pics."
All right, so let's save these pics.
All right, let's do a quick image search.
First picture, nothing. All right, next pic.
Negative. Nothing.
Last one.
All right, well no hits on the pics.
Let's go to the Instagram.
Okay. So on her Instagram right now, there's four posts.
Oh, she is tagged in a video posted by krazyyass.shayy.
- That's not Lanise. - That is not Lanise.
That must be Shay, who says, "Had so much fun this night."
And she tagged just one person, Lanise.
Hold on, let's see who Shay is.
Okay, so that's definitely Shay.
- In the video. - Right.
So Shay posted a boomerang of herself giggling,
and said how much fun she had,
and tagged Lanise, which to me suggests
that Lanise either took the boomerang
or was certainly there that night.
- Mm-hmm. Is that the story you're going with?
- That's one explanation.
- It's not the right one.
- What, you think that Shay could be Lanise?
- Yes! She has one tagged image,
and it's this boomerang. Why would she tag Lanise?
We have to message her, for sure.
- All right. Okay. Hey, Shay.
- Careful what you write. She could be Deonn's ex.
- This is Nev and Kamie from "Catfish."
Could use your help. Sent.
All right, let's run the phone number.
No name associated with this number.
- Bandwidth.com. It's a text app.
- Right. Whoa. Look at this. Houston's calling. Hello.
- Yes. Hi. Is this Shay?
- Hey, Shay. How you doing?
It's Nev, and Kamie's here too.
- Hey.
- Thank you for getting back to me.
- The reason I reached out was because we're working
on an episode of "Catfish" now,
and we're trying to help someone in Houston
who we think might be talking to your friend Lanise.
And we saw that she had been tagged in a video on your page.
And we were just wondering how you know Lanise.
- Oh. Great.
And so do you know the video I'm talking about?
I think it's, like, your most recent post.
- Right. And Lanise was with you.
- Oh. So why'd you tag her?
- Uh-huh. Are you still pretty close with her?
- Has she ever mentioned a guy
that she talks to for the last few years?
- Is Lanise single?
- Um...
- Yeah. Well, look, I don't want you to give us
anything--any information
on her you're not comfortable with.
I have one last possible request.
If I tell you the number that he has,
can you just confirm
whether or not that is the number you have?
- Great.
So the number he has already is 346-[bleep].
- Okay.
- Oh. Okay, great.
So that means he is talking to your friend.
All right. Thank you, Shay.
- Thank you. - Bye.
[tense music]
- No.
- But, if Shay were Lanise, why would you tag on your real
Instagram the fake page that you're using to catfish people?
It's like a trail of breadcrumbs right back to you.
So let's just assume for a second that Shay and Lanise
are different people. - Okay.
- Okay? Shay is friends with Lanise,
and knows she's talking to Deonn.
There could be something else Lanise is hiding,
and Shay is just covering for her.
- Unless Shay is Lanise and talking to Deonn.
Why don't we look up the address?
Maybe it comes back to Shay.
Syndi. S-Y-N.
Didn't he have a person follow him
named Syndi with an S-Y-N also?
She's one of the mutual friends with Lanise.
- All right. Let's see.
- Right there. "Syncityy."
- Wow.
- This Syn spells it S-Y-N, and this Syndi is S-Y-N-D-I.
Maybe it's just a coincidence. What's that first video--
- Oh, wait, what's this? - Entrepreneur.
- She's an entrepreneur.
- We know Lanise is an entrepreneur.
And it looks like Syn is also an entrepreneur.
Another coincidence?
Not so sure. So let's message Syn.
Hey, Syn. - Mm-hmm.
- Hi, Syn. This is Neve from "Catfish."
Wanted to talk to you about your friend Lanise.
Here's my info. - Mm-hmm.
- All right. So we've now sent her a message.
- I'm taking the official stance.
Deonn is getting catfished.
There's no way in hell
this Lanise person is who he thinks it is.
Are there a whole ring of girls in Houston
that are out to get Deonn?
Like, who did he [bleep] over?
- I mean, maybe.
- Request. We have a request. Request.
- Oh, request.
"Hey, are you doing an episode on me right now?
Can we talk?"
Who is this? Oh! That's Lanise.
- Ooh!
- That's the actual girl in the pictures.
- Ooh. - What the hell is going on?
- "Can we talk?" Who is this?
Oh! That's the girl.
- Ooh!
- That's the actual girl in the pictures.
- That's not the profile Deonn's been talking to.
- She goes by Lala. - Not Lanise.
- But here, this is the pic. - Mm-hmm.
- That's the one.
That-that's the pic on Lanise's page.
- Mm-hmm. - How did this girl find out
we were doing an episode that involved that picture?
Only explanation for her
reaching out to me is that she's friends with Shay.
- Or Syn.
We sent a message to Syn too. We got to talk to her.
- "Hey." - "Can you Zoom?"
- "Can you Zoom, so we can figure this out?"
Oh, she said yes. Yes. Oh. Wait, is this her?
- She's calling on Instagram.
- Hello. Hey.
Is Zoom doable, or is this the best way?
- Okay. So hey, I'm Nev, and this is Kamie.
- Hi.
- Okay, so-- and what's your name?
- Leetreon. But you go by Lala on Instagram.
- Okay, cool.
So how did you find out that we were doing an episode,
and that you were involved?
- Someone, like, hit you up on Instagram?
- What was her name?
- Like, S-Y-N?
- Basically, it said something like what?
- Got it. Okay.
So do you know a guy named Deonn,
who lives in Texas? Houston?
- So someone has been talking to this guy
and sending him these pictures,
and saying that that's who they are,
but that's obviously you, right?
- Have you had people use your pictures before?
Is this the person that messaged you?
- Okay. And then what about this person?
Do you know this person, Shay?
- Okay.
- Weird. - All right.
Well, we're not sure exactly what's going on,
and it looks like someone is using your pictures
to catfish this guy.
But we're gonna hopefully try to figure out
who this person is and get them to stop.
- It was nice to meet you. - Thank you.
- Bye.
- Okay.
Well, I feel pretty confident that she's not Lanise.
- Does Syn follow her? Syn follows her.
And she follows Syn!
- Who, Lala? - Yes!
- She might just follow Syn
and not even have any idea.
Follow for follow.
- Could it be--'cause listen, girls do this sometimes.
I'm not saying me.
But sometimes girls link up and make a fake page
so they can snoop and do things, you know--
- Sure.
- Could Lanise be a page that Syn and Lala created together,
that they've been using to talk to people or dig for dirt?
- Right. But then why would they use Lala's real picture?
We've got Shay, who claims that Lanise is very real.
- Mm-hmm.
- Now, we've talked to Lala... - Mm-hmm.
- Who is the girl in the pictures
that Deonn thought was Lanise,
but follows and is followed by Syn.
- Mm-hmm. And Syd follows... - Right.
- Lanise and Deonn. - Right.
- And has her own company. She's an entrepreneur.
- Right. So there's three people
who are all somehow connected to this.
- And bad bitches link up.
- I think there's a chance that Deonn's philandering
might finally be coming back to haunt him.
And look who showed up to work. Come over here.
- Biggie. - Look at this little guy.
Hey. Biggie came to the office today. You sweet little man.
- Biggie's on the case.
- All right, so what do we got? Yesterday was confusing.
- I think Shay and Syn are working together.
Some [bleep] going down,
and it's between the two of them.
- Well, the real question will be does Deonn know these girls?
So let's get Deonn back in this Zoom.
♪ ♪
- What's going on? - How you doing?
- Just chilling, really.
- You been talking to Lanise at all?
- She hasn't texted me at all.
- When was the last time you talked to her?
- Earlier yesterday.
- All right, well, look, we did some research yesterday.
We found some very interesting but also confusing information.
- Let's see who this is. Let's see what it's about.
- All right, so I'm gonna share my screen.
All right. So you sent us Lanise's Instagram account.
Interestingly, when we go to Lanise's tagged photos,
it's actually someone else.
Like, do you know who that is?
- No.
- Well, this was posted by someone named krazyyass.shayy.
And she said, "Lanise, she's my friend.
That's her profile. She's very real."
- Okay.
- Now, here's the really weird part, okay?
We ran the address that you went to.
It came back Syndi [bleep]. Does that ring any bells?
- Nah.
- So because the name Syndi came back with an S-Y-N,
I remembered that you had a follower named Syn,
also with an S-Y-N. Syndi, Syn.
Syn was somebody was another mutual follower
that you follow, follows you, and follows Lanise.
- Right. So you know who this is?
- No. Definitely not. We just follow each other.
- She's actually an entrepreneur.
Lanise is supposed to be an entrepreneur.
She's putting you on to really great business opportunities.
Could Syn be Lanise?
I don't know.
Has this girl ever hit you up before?
- Nah. Uh-uh. I don't think so.
- Now, here's what got crazy.
All of a sudden I get a DM, in Instagram,
from someone I don't know. And look, it says,
"Hey, are you guys doing an episode on me right now?
Can we talk?" So we get this girl on video.
And look who it is.
It's Lanise.
- Ah!
- But on this profile, she calls herself Lala.
Her name is Leetreon, not Lanise.
- ♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh ♪
- I asked her, "How did you know
we were doing this episode?"
She said, "Oh, some girl named Syn messaged me."
So basically what we found out from her is that the girl
in the pictures that you've been looking at
is not the girl you're talking to.
- ♪ Bags for eyes ♪
♪ You must be so tired ♪
♪ Better lie ♪
♪ You got so much to hide ♪
♪ Paralyzed ♪
- So--so who is it, then? Like, if that's--
- Who is behind all of this? The whole thing is so bizarre.
- ♪ 'Cause I'm the king of secrets, king of secrets ♪
- Oh, man. This is crazy.
- We're at a point now where we know enough
to determine that Lanise has been lying to you.
- Yeah, it do feel that way. Definitely.
- Now, maybe she's just lying about the photos.
Maybe she's lying about more than that.
- Yeah. Right.
- I think at the very least, we know that the girl
in the pictures is not who you're talking to.
Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that she's not
somehow involved.
- There's just something very off
about this whole situation.
I mean, how do you feel about everything?
- This is so crazy.
Whoever this person is, we got to find this out.
- I think at this point, we need to reach out
to Lanise, then, and just say, "Hey, here's what's up.
"We're trying to get you to finally FaceTime.
Can you do it?" And just see what she says.
- I think you should do it.
[dramatic music]
- So share your screen,
and we'll all kind of work on the message together.
- "Can we Zoom with you?"
- Oh, okay, he sent it. - Yeah.
- Say, "I want to see you." Heart eyes.
- I don't know if I want to send some heart eyes right now.
We ain't doing too much heart eyes.
- We have to play the role.
Sometimes, to get people to come forward, we have to...
- Oh, he sent the heart eyes. See, he-he knows.
- Massage it.
- Hey, look, Deonn knows how to butter a girl up.
- What? She wrote back.
"I'll video chat you. Are you single now?"
- Why would she say that?
- Man. [laughs]
That's so childish.
- You've been single. - Well, hold on a second.
Hold on. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
So-so just say, "Great. Yeah, I'm single."
Right? Just-just--
- He's been single this whole time.
- Or, "Still-still single." Yeah.
- "Still single. How about you?" Is she not?
- Well, we don't want to start asking questions in text.
She said yes to video chat. - Yeah.
- So just say, "Great. Yeah, still single."
And then a new sentence: "Here's the Zoom."
- Okay.
- What does she mean?
"Are you single now?"
You weren't in a relationship
when you first started talking to her, were you?
- It's a long story. It's a long story.
- Deonn. Were you single?
- Nah, I wasn't single. Like, nah, I wasn't single.
- So--oh.
"So you moved out with your girlfriend already?"
Wow, she's getting into it. - Yeah. Okay.
- Wait, so when you met,
did you tell her you were living with your girlfriend?
- Yes. But--no, I was not living with my girlfriend.
I was, like, I don't know what you'd call it--back and forth.
- Deonn. - Same...
- The past is the past. - Is it?
Who were you living with when you were talking to Lanise?
- His ex.
- Okay, when I first met Lanise,
truthfully-- this is God's honest truth.
When I first met Lanise, I was back and forth, right?
And she was not even my girlfriend yet, truthfully.
She was not even my girlfriend.
- Deonn, what's this girl's name?
- Oh, her name is Shanice.
- This girl's name was Shanice. - Yes.
- And the girl you're talking to's name is Lanise.
And you don't see the correlation.
- We don't call her that, though. We call her Tinky.
Like, everybody call her Tinky.
- So while you were talking to this girl, Shanice,
all of a sudden you get a DM from a girl named Lanise.
Is it possible that Tinky... - Mm-hmm.
- Wanted more from you, may have set this Lanise page up
to kind of distract you
and get some info on you and kind of wrap you up?
- Man.
- When was the last time you talked to Tinky?
- I talked to Tiny yes-- - Yesterday?
- Yeah. - Morning?
Around the time when you talked to Lanise?
- Like, 9:33 a.m. - Here's a better question.
When was the last time... - Wait a second. Well, wait--
- You hooked up with Tinky?
- Okay.
♪ ♪
- Probably, like, last-- - Oh.
- Hey. How are y'all?
- Oh, my God. It's Shanice.
both: Shanice!
- What? Wait, what?
- AKA Tinky. - Yeah, Tinky Pinky.
- Come on, now. We--no, no, no, no. Hell, no.
- You mean, you, you, you, you.
- What are you doing? That's so lame.
- I know, it's very lame that people look for people
on the internet that they don't know,
send them text messages, pictures,
call them, video chats.
And just, oh, they're having their time of your life, I bet.
And didn't you just tell the girl you still single?
- No. - You want to be single?
- No. What are you doing?
- You wanted to meet a woman you don't know
while you got a girlfriend that you been with.
- A girlfriend? - Yeah, I'm his fiancée.
- Ahh! What? Deonn!
- You wanted to meet a woman you don't know
while you got a girlfriend that you been with,
that you say you want to marry.
- A girlfriend? - Yeah, I'm his fiancée.
- Ahh!
- What? - What? Deonn!
- Marry? What--how you gonna marry somebody
that do stuff like this-- what are you talking about?
Like, that's what I be--why do I be running into,
like--y'all be crazy, girl.
- You could be babysitting, but instead you're sitting here
trying to meet somebody from the internet, from Instagram.
How many other people
have you met off Instagram, Deonn?
You're a dog.
- Do you guys live together? - No.
- Shanice, how long have you guys been dating?
- This is gonna be three years.
- No, we be off and on, like.
- But you're on right now. Technically.
- Technically, right? - Yes.
- Oh, boy.
- Yes. We both talked about, like, getting married.
- How often do we talk about getting married?
- So you-you don't want to marry me?
Is that what you're saying?
- I'm not saying I wouldn't marry you,
but I'm saying we don't talk about this--like,
this ain't no prime conversation?
- Deonn, we ain't here to homewreck.
How you drag us in your [bleep]?
The fact that you never mentioned Shanice to us
is crazy to me.
- It's a problem. That's a problem.
Like, I'm-I'm a ghost.
- She be crazy.
- I mean, the craziest thing is that she still talks to you.
Well, wait a second. So just to see
how he would respond to a girl flirting to him,
you sent him that message as Lanise.
- Yes.
- And when he responded and indicated
that he would talk to her, why didn't you then just say,
"Well, I guess he's not gonna be loyal" and move on?
- Because I want him to waste his gas and pull up on places,
just so he can make a fool out his self,
'cause he's making a fool out of me.
- For two years?
- What the [bleep] are you talking about, girl?
Come on, Shanice.
- He flirt with so many women.
I've seen him say some of the most craziest stuff.
- [laughs]
Have you had the twister turcolater?
- I definitely have had the triple
trip--it's a real thing.
[trilling]
[laughter]
- Oh, my God.
- And he delete his messages.
Look at them, just sitting down there looking.
"Yeah. Yeah, I do delete my messages."
- [laughing]
Do you know the girl Lala,
the real girl in the pictures that you were using for Deonn?
- Yeah, I met her on Facebook. She doesn't--she
shouldn't--she doesn't know anything about this, like.
- Well, she knows about it.
- Well, she knows about it now.
- She reached out to us,
because she said she was reached out to by Syn.
- Do you know who Syn is?
- That's a girl that I believe one of my other friends
has run a page with me.
She's somebody that they know.
- Who's running the page with you?
- Oh, it's three other women.
- Oh. - What?
- That's what I was talking about.
- On the Lanise page? - A lurking account.
Shanice, who else is running the account with you? Shay?
- Shay is one of them. I have a friend named Kay.
And [bleep]. And then me. I'm number four.
- Okay.
- So there's four people.
- And they're all using it separately to talk
to other--potentially to talk to their boyfriends...
- Or watch. Or watch. - And keep an eye on them.
Right. - Mm-hmm.
- But none of them have been talking to Deonn. Only you.
- Oh, no. That's--he's mine. - Right. Okay.
- You were talking on the phone to him.
Was that you on the phone talking to him,
or was that one of your friends?
- Yes, I always change my voice.
- What--y'all not listening to this?
Like, y'all don't hear this? Like, that's crazy, bro.
Like, she is crazy. Do you not see that?
- Deonn, you didn't think that
when you met a girl named Lanise, that was...
- Nah, like-- - A little weird?
- I just don't even, like--
- The math wasn't mathing?
- You wouldn't even think--like, come on.
Like, this--like--
- They stupid. And that's my point.
It's very amusing that somebody can be so stupid.
- Shanice, you were actually building him up
and making him feel really, really good as Lanise.
Like, he feels like he's changed
and become a better man because of this relationship.
Like, how were you getting back if you're just building him up
to go outside and have more confidence with other bitches?
- Because--'cause it's me.
Nobody else is gonna be able to get him to talk like that.
Everybody else is nasty.
See, this is a different conversation,
because it's still me. You get what I'm saying?
- We're obviously learning a lot about, well, you both.
But Deonn, you hadn't mentioned to us that you were
in a relationship. If you had told us,
I don't know that we would have helped you.
What if Lanise had been real,
and she finally wanted to meet up with you?
What-what was the plan?
- I don't-I don't know no more. I don't know.
Man, this [bleep] crazy.
Like, we be around each other, so you could have just,
like--you could have just been like,
"Hey, whatever you doing,
"I don't like it.
Stop," whatever.
Like, but you brought m--like,
I don't know. [mumbles indistinctly]
- His mind is flawed with his infidelity.
- Here's what I don't understand.
Okay, Deonn, obviously you're surprised,
and not happy to find out that Lanise is actually Shanice.
- Shanice. - If I were you,
and I saw this woman who I've been dating
and who's been taking care of you and loving you
and with you now for a long time,
and I found out that she just busted me,
I might be apologizing.
- [laughs] What? What?
- Deonn, do you feel...
that you owe Shanice an apology?
- [sputtering]
I don't know, bro. Like, this [bleep] is crazy.
All right.
- Deonn, if you walk away now,
Shanice may never take you back.
- I don't know, bro. Like, this [bleep] is crazy.
- Deonn, if you walk away now,
Shanice may never take you back.
- Crazy. What the [bleep]?
- We'll just talk to you
for a minute, alone, separately, if that's okay.
- Oh, I don't mind.
- So what's your relationship
and what are your feelings towards Deonn?
Like, do you--are you in love with him? Are you guys...
- I am in love with him, but I feel like
he have to respect me more,
because it's like I don't want to be in a dead relationship.
I don't want to go through the same cycles.
- Yeah. - After over and over again--
- As fun as you say it was for you, I can see,
from your face, and, like, just as a woman in general,
that you have probably been really,
really hurt by all of this.
- Yeah. It's like--it's repetitive.
You know, and it's like--it's a shame
that my heart have to be hardened.
Because what else do I not know?
- So why not just let him off the leash?
- I guess 'cause I-- that's why I said
I'm kind of hardened to it,
because I've seen it so much it doesn't shock me.
It doesn't even--my heart don't even beat.
- But I mean, he just walked out instead of apologizing.
Is he really someone you can save?
I don't want to break up whatever home you guys have.
I don't know if it's happy. I don't know if it's not.
- I think it's one of them little mutual standings.
- I feel like you deserve better.
- I do. I know it. I say that, but it's like, I do love Deonn.
We're very compatible, and we have fun.
I do want to be a wife. I want to have a baby.
- You think that Deonn's gonna forgive you?
- What is there to forgive?
I mean, I don't--I mean, look, nothing is gonna be perfect.
But it has to be boundaries and understandings
and leaning from your mistakes.
This is just growth that needs to happen. There you go.
- Well, let's try and bring Deonn back in.
And you guys don't have to figure it all out right now.
But let's just make sure you guys are at least just
talking and on the same page, so that there's sort of
a starting point to have a conversation.
- Yeah, get back on in here.
- All right, well, we are not relationship experts.
We don't propose any solution to this,
other than just now's the perfect time
to be honest with each other.
- I really don't even want to talk to her like that.
Like, I don't want to-- I don't have
nothing to say to her, really, right now. Like--
- Do you want to be with Shanice?
- Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes, hell nah.
- It seems like both of you have become accustomed
to toxicity with each other,
and that's why this is your normal.
It doesn't make it normal.
If you guys are going to try
to make this work together,
you guys are gonna have to change gears a little bit.
- I don't know. - Do you love Shanice?
- Oh, of course.
I w--yeah, of course. Of course.
- Maybe the boundaries and the conversations that you had set
in the beginning of your relationship
have ran their course,
and maybe it is time to have a different conversation
and set new boundaries to be able to move forward.
- You guys clearly both love each other.
Where are we going with this?
- Well, from how I feel, I feel like I should not have to think
that he's going to bang a woman
and then probably come back and bang me.
All you do is flirt. All I see you do is flirt.
- All right, so-- so Deonn needs to understand
that when he flirts with other women, it's upsetting.
- Yes.
- It's very obvious that Shanice is looking
for a different level of commitment
from you at this point in your relationship.
You don't have to give it to her.
But this is what she's telling you that she wants.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- All right. Well, maybe a little bit
more time and distance
from this will make it easier to communicate.
Shanice, I hope whatever happens,
whether it's with you guys or not with you guys,
that you end up getting treated the way you want to be treated
and deserve to be treated.
So good luck with that.
- Thank you. - All right.
- Shanice.
- Shanice, it was a real pleasure, and...
- Good luck.
- Blessings.
- All right, man, look, if you had told us that
you were in a relationship, we definitely would have liked
to have known that that was your situation,
so that we could have handled it better.
- I, like, blame myself for a lot of this.
I'm not even gonna act like I ain't just blame myself.
Like, I'm just--I don't want to even be on here,
like, everything is somebody else fault,
'cause it's like 80% my fault.
- You've been talking to her just as much
as she's been talking to you, the whole time.
- You both could have told each other.
- You could have ended it. Right.
So you're-you're both equally a part of this,
just like you're both equally in a relationship.
- Right, right, right. I agree. I agree.
- So if you want to be Shanice's man,
then let her know, because right now
she is available to you.
But that might not last forever.
- Mm-hmm.
- And if it's not Shanice that you want,
then, like, let her know.
- I appreciate y'all. I thank y'all.
- I'm sorry it didn't go the way you had hoped.
But live and learn, live and learn.
So good luck with her, and good luck with everything.
- Same thing with y'all. Thank y'all. Appreciate y'all.
Blessings to both of y'all.
- Bye, Deonn.
- See you later, man.
- ♪ I don't see nobody no more, no more ♪
♪ I can't take the pressure no more, no more ♪
♪ 'Cause you ♪
♪ 'Cause you, yeah ♪
♪ ♪
- Dark, 22, goes online.
He meets Roger. They match.
- He's really caring.
We FaceTimed a few times.
- What?
- He's married.
- "I'm always in someone's mouth.
Now shut up, bitch!"
- The [bleep] did you say to me?
- This looks like an evil twin.
[doorbell rings]
- Get the [bleep] out of here.