90 Day Fiance B90 S8 E20 Tell All Pt. 1

My recap of the Tell-All Part 1 is here!

Laura and Michal's friendship is all but done.

Emma and Zied are definitely done and so are we, with both of them.

Jovan and Annalyn share sad news but are also headed to couple's therapy.

Daniel claims he and Lisa are traditionally married and Lisa believes she is cursed.

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Free audio post production by alphonic.com. The 90-day book club contains adult language and is meant for entertainment purposes only. Hi everyone and welcome back to the 90-day book club. I'm your host. My name is Jen. I'm a romance writer, a reader, and a reality TV junkie with a deep need to scream into the void. At the end of the show, I'll do a little book club corner where I will tell you about what I'm reading, what I'm writing, maybe what I'm drinking these days. So grab your favorite beverage. Let's get into it. This is before the 90 days, season 8, episode 20, the Tell All Part 1. Emma starts out here really thinking that she is going to come off as the main character or the damsel in distress of the Tell All because she's already coming in hot telling us that the last time she and Z had talked was him asking her if she had gained weight. But she tells us right away that she does not intend to be nice. Okay, well, I wouldn't consider her to be nice throughout this entire season, but okay. Forrest arrives and he's uh FaceTiming with Sheena at the same time. He throws his stuff down. He's going, Sheena, I'm completely lost in here. And then he finds the craft service table, and it looks really good. Um, he goes straight to the food, which same, relatable. Forrest tells us he's been working to get Sheena over here, but he's worried about what Molly is going to say when she gets on the camera at the tell-all. Mm-hmm, aren't we all? Elise arrives. For some reason, we open on Elise at the gym splashing water on her boobs and doing an Instagram photo or reel or something, and she tells us, I've never worked out a day in my life. Okay, gross. What I I really hate this in conjunction with the fact that she's also selling diet pills on Instagram. It's pretty gross. You do work out. It's pretty obvious that you do work out. Right away, uh, Elise, when she arrives at the studio, she goes into one of these new confessional booths that they have, and she says that Emma reached out to her to tell her something pretty juicy. She says, It's weird that I've been keeping a secret, but if somebody asks me to, I will. She says, Has my mouth ever been shut? No. Forrest and Elise meet each other. Um, it's kind of cute. They kind of compare how tall they are. Um, and then Emma shows up and I actually like her gold dress that she's changed into. I think Elise looks great. Emma, I don't know what she's trying to do, but she tells the camera, I think Forrest deserves so much better. What what are you talking about, Emma? We get a talking head with Laura, who says she has a lot to say about Michael and BeerCon. She says a lot of people are going to be surprised with the updates. But if people come at me, I'm good at telling them to stay in their damn lane. Okay, I'm the first to admit I don't know anything about fashion. But like I said, I liked Emma's dress. I thought Elise looks really good. Forrest looks good, although I feel bad that he kind of feels underdressed. I think that Forrest is really appropriately dressed for a tell-all. I'm not a huge fan of people wearing over-the-top, glamorous dresses on these shows. It's it's it's a weird, it's a weird vibe. Like we're trying to be real housewives. And I just wish everybody would wear something comfortable. I think we'd get a lot more, I think we'd get a lot more um interesting dialogue if people actually felt comfortable in what they were wearing. I don't know. That's just me. I'm a texture girl. What can I say? Um, but so Laura shows up and all of a sudden Elise and Laura and Emma, they're all comparing each other's boobs, and then there's they're they're like touching each other's boobs. Laura's dress is bright pink satin thing with sparkly silver sequence straps, really wide straps. It is so odd. And it doesn't drape her body. I and I'm not saying anything about her body, I'm just saying the dress was the wrong choice. She needs something that skims her figure, and I I also have to say her hair is way overdone, and her makeup is so heavy. I think she needs a more natural look. Lisa arrives in this actually a cute houndstooth blazer. Unfortunately, she does not keep that on. She changes into a formal gown thing. But I really like this houndstooth blazer blazer that she's wearing in the beginning. And her hair, her natural hair, it looks great. It's like soft honey blonde with like reddish highlights. However, her contacts are ice blue, crazy bright ice blue, and she looks insane. She changes into this sort of burnt orange dress, which I like. And she says, I like that it has pockets. And then one of the weirder things I have ever seen on a tell-ol, for absolutely no reason, Lisa goes up to Elise and says, I have to tell you, I don't like you. You remind me of a girl who used to bully me in high school. You're tall and beautiful and confident, and it makes me shrink. And she is fully crying. She Lisa calls Elise a little black widow that is there to tear her down. I think there's a lot of things we could critique about Elise, but I've not seen her bullying anybody. And Elise says, she's like stunned, silent, and she's looking at the camera, like, are you seeing this right now? Uh in her aside in the moment, Elise says, I'm a loving person. I don't don't judge a book by its cover. And I do think that's true. And Rick arrives, sparkle on top of sparkle on top of sparkle, the pants, the shoes, the shirt, the jacket, everything is sparkly. His statement right out the right out the gate is I don't need to defend myself. I did everything for a reason. Mm-hmm. Alright, get out. Get out. Shut up, Rick. Um Aviva. Aviva looks stunning. Her hair is beautiful. I can't really see her eyes because her lashes are super heavy, like almost looks like, you know, those baby dolls that used to close their eyes from the 70s when you would like hold the baby doll and then you'd like hold it like it was sleeping in your arms, and then the eyes would close. It has those kind of lashes. It's it's nuts. And then her her her dress. I don't know what to say about her dress. It's got this diamond cutout in the front that's sort of showing out the cleavage, and it's taped in such a way that when she sits down, it is hard to look at. It looks uncomfortable. It looks like her boobs look strangely misshapen because of the tape, and it's one of those things that I can't stop staring at. And speaking of uh being unable to stop staring, Forrest seems to be having a hard time not staring at the women in general because they have low-cut dresses and dresses with high slits. And Forrest just don't stare and don't make a comment about it. How about that? You're a grown man. You can handle it. Emma is already complaining backstage that she's worried about Ziyad acting like a piece of shit. And then Rick of all people says, I got your back on that, Emma. Okay. Rick and Emma bonding during the tell-all tells you everything you need to know about her. Laura comes after Rick right out the gate and says, that splash pad was vile and disgusting. And Rick says, I was being considerate of the hotel owner. Um, and then what we find out later about the splash pad in, I believe, the second part of the tell-all is just wow. Sean Robinson is back to do the tell-al, and she looks lovely. Her hair is looking really good these days. Trisha is zooming into the show from Madagascar, and she looks gorgeous in her peachy dress. Best looking, best looking dress in the entire, in the entire tell-ol. So Sean begins with Emma and Ziad. She asks Emma and Ziad, since their breakup have they been dating? Ziad says no, just talking to people. Emma says yes, actively dating. Forrest has found a job. He said as soon as he got home, he scheduled an interview and he's now working as a pharmaceutic pharmacy tech. And he says, I just want to say hi to everyone at the pharmacy. See you guys on Monday. Um, that was cute. Sean reminds us that Stig broke up with Aviva over text. And Stig says, No, we we spoke many times and we didn't break up over text. He says, Maybe on a call. And Aviva says, No, it was over text. And then Stig says, Well, it was probably over by then anyway. And Aviva says, You are calling me fiance days before that. And then he says, Well, you look good now, though. He knows he's full of shit. He gets called on his shit, and then he changes his answer. It's wild to watch him. Jovon and Annalyn are zooming into the meeting because they are both in the Philippines. Um, Annelyn has cut her hair and it's freaking adorable. This bob that she's got going. It's completely gorgeous on her. And she's got this really cute red dress. So apparently, Jovon has picked up and moved to the Philippines. Alan says she asked him if he would move here because she wants to work on their marriage and she doesn't want to abandon her mom. So he did. Um, unfortunately, uh, we found out that they lost the baby. Um the last episode we found out that she was pregnant, and now at the time that they filmed the tell all she had lost the baby, um, which is really sad. I think they should have saved that for a moment right before going to break because it's super sad. And she just jumps right over to Josh and Elise. She says, Josh and Elise, we saw you break up. How are things? Elise says, Since then we have many updates. And she looks over at the camera, or she looks over at the screen where Josh is zooming in and says, Hey baby. And Sean is surprised and says, Are you a couple today? And she says, Yes, definitely. Oh boy. Uh, turning to Lisa and Daniel, how are you today? Uh, I heard that you broke up, you got back together, and now you're broke up again. Lisa said, Yeah, after what we saw on the show with her breaking up with him over the phone, uh, they had gotten back together for about four or five weeks. And then she says, Oh, it gets better. But then we move on to Rick and Trisha. Sean says, I understand you have a big update. Trisha stands up and shows us her belly, and she is six months pregnant. And Elise says, Rick, are you the dad? And Rick says, Unfortunately not. Tris says, Are you okay, Rick? And he says, You know how I feel. Anna Lynn says, Rick, that baby could have been yours. Uh Sean's like, okay, we're gonna put a pin in that. Um, and then moving on to Laura and Birkan. We find out that Laura went back to Turkey a second time. Birkan said that trip was awesome. She says he surprised her with a ring. So she went from string to ring. Sean is usually kind of a little bit um coy with questions about sex, but she said sex was a vanilla while you were more spice. Is that the case still? Laura says, Yes, it's still the case. I'm definitely spicier than BeerCon. And BeerCon is really funny in this episode. He says, Okay, my time is up. Uh Laura says, it's gotten better, but it's taken time to learn preferences. And I think we learned each other pretty well. Okay, I don't need to know anymore. Uh Sean asks if there's any progress on the K1. She says, actually, when I got back from Turkey the first time, I filled out an application and we're now waiting. And before I came here, I got an envelope from immigration. I haven't opened it yet. So Laura understood the assignment. She brought the envelope and she says, You want me to open it now? Um, come on, you know everybody wants you to open it now. Again, her lipstick and her hair. Here's the problem: it's making her look much older than she is. I want to wash it off, and I want to wash her hair and part it in the middle, chop it into like a jagged lob, and take a big barrel iron onto it and do some like big soft curls. Right now it looks like a helmet. Anyway, she opens the letter. It says, This letter does not grant or deny him a visa, but there's an appointment to appear. She says this gives her an opportunity to go back to Turkey, and she's gonna go back for her surgery anyway. I'm not sure if right now she would qualify for weight loss skin surgery, but that's all I'm gonna say about that. But more interestingly, Sean asks about his current living situation. Birkan says he's in his hometown staying with family. The family that we never met, by the way. Uh Sean says, Have you met his family let? Laura says, No. Birkan says, I told you my friends are my family. Okay, yeah, you did say that, but why are you living with your family, family? No. Sean asks, what we all want to know, why have you not introduced her to your family? Birkan says, My father and I fight every day. I am the cause of all problems. I don't want her to meet those kind of people. And then we find out he's staying in an apartment that he bought years ago. Laura looks shocked. She didn't know about this apartment. She says, I didn't know that apartment was yours. This is new information. She looks, oh, Michael is backstage and he has got like his elbows on his knees and he's leaning forward. Like he is annoying. He he is so happy that she is annoyed right now. But Laura asks Bierkhan, is there a reason you're not selling that apartment? Bierkhan says, My debt is 50,000 and the house is 25,000. In 10 years, he'll sell it for 100,000 and it's an investment in the future. Huh. I don't know, 25,000 to 100 in 10 years feels very optimistic, but I don't know anything about the Turkish economy. And he says to Laura, you know how I think about the economy. And Laura just nods, yeah, I can see that. This girl is being so dumb. Elise says, This would be scary for me. And Laura's like, Yeah, I am confused why he didn't tell me. Um, but she did say that the second time she went to Turkey, he Birkon paid for the BMB where she stayed, the same one that they stayed before. And Sean asks, Does this make him further in debt? Good question. Bjerkon says, I will figure it out. Laura says, Yeah, it is something I want to figure out. Birkon says he has a surprise. And he says, I paid that fucking debt. All of it. Everyone is understandably stunned right now. And Sean asks, How did he pay it off? Bircon says to Laura, do you remember when I had to go to Cyprus? And she says, Yes. He said, I hit the grand jackpot. And she says, How much? And he says, exactly the amount. The jackpot was $50,000. Elise's face and Trisha's face, they do not believe Biercon. His explanation is algorithms and statistics. I know when it's going to hit. Mm-hmm. Sure. I don't know, guys. I'm not buying it. Um, so Sean asks, Do you want him to be done with gambling? Laura says, I would love it if he were done. Jo Vaughn weighs in. He says he won't stop because he felt that hot streak. It's a dopamine hit, and he's gonna want it again. Beercon says, People can think what they want to think. Laura asks him, Will you stop gambling as a means to make money? And he says he will. So Sean says, I want to talk to you about Michael. Laura says, We've not really seen each other since I got back from Turkey the first time. He asked me to come over and get my kayak and shit out of his house. And that was the last time I saw him. And Sean's like, Why? And Lisa says, Well, we left Turkey not speaking to each other. Michael went through security while I was saying goodbye to Beercon and he took off. She said, We had transportation arranged to get us home from the airport. And instead of taking that with me, he had his parents make a six-hour trip. So three hours there and three hours back. We further find out that the night before she left, um, they went out with friends and were partying on the last night. And we don't really know what partying means. But the next day, Michael said that Laura was being mean to him. Sean asks Michael, well, they bring Michael out, and Sean asks him, Why were you upset with her? And Michael says, No, she was upset with me. Laura says, No, you're upset with me. And he says, Well, I was upset with how she treated me. And Laura points out, see, he flipped the story right there. Yes, he does. A lot of men on the show do that. Apparently, they had a discussion about how she got her seat upgrade to upgraded to first class. Like she had some big secret. I have no idea what it was. And Michael asked how she did that, and she said, You're on your own, motherfucker. Oh, she says, At no point would I have said come to Turkey and tell him he's on his own. That was a joke in the context of that conversation. Michael, meanwhile, is like imitating the way she's talking and moving her head, and she says, Oh, you are so condescending. These two are outright terrible to each other right now. But she says, Michael didn't like the way that she and Beercon were cuddling. She says, He was jealous. I wasn't giving him the attention I normally give. Forrest says you should not have let him come to Turkey. So they are squabbling about who wronged who, and Laura says to him that he keeps putting people in this best friend role, and then they move on because they don't give Michael, because he won't give them what they want in the relationship. Michael says, I'm not interested in Laura. This gets her out of my life. Birkon says, Be polite. You're talking with a woman. Josh over in Australia says, Michael didn't want her, but he didn't want anyone else to have her, which sounds pretty correct. Sean says, So do you think that Birkon and Laura are compatible? Michael says, in the long run, it will be hard. Laura needs someone to speak with her on a high intellectual level. His English is good, but he has limitations, and dialogue is more challenging. What a weird, insulting thing to say. And also, did you see this man reading Nietzsche on the harbor? This man is not lacking in intellectual things to talk about. About as insufferable as they may be sometimes. That is not where he's lacking. I don't my only question is who are these people gonna play pickleball with now? Because they have mutual pickleball friends. And I want to know. So Sean moves on to Emma and Ziad. Sean says, Of all the couples, you were the only ones who were arguing within a minute after you met. Which is true. I still remember him fussing at her right out the gate as they were getting to the car. Emma says, I fought for that relationship for a really long time. Baby, you were there for a week. She says, the second I got there, he was a different person. Sorry, I don't want to get emotional. Sure, sure. Oh, the fake, the fake crying is beginning. Emma said that she was getting messages that there were girls who were with him right before she went to Morocco. Ziad says he has nothing to prove to anyone. Emma says, I have the screenshots. Let me show you the screenshots. Let me show you the screenshot. Finally, a producer shows up with her phone. Ziad does not care, which makes this moment really fall flat. Sorry, Emma. This is not the gotcha moment she was hoping for. But she reads this message from someone that says, Hi, beautiful, are you still still dating Ziad because I have the tea? And Josh on Zoom pulled out a bag of chips as he's listening to this story, which is really funny. So Sean asked Ziad if there was any truth to that claim that he was dating somebody. And he says, um, I wasn't dating anyone when I was with Emma. Emma says that he pretends to be a Mr. Nice Guy, but he's not. Is the nice guy in the room with us, Emma? Because we've never seen the nice guy. Uh she complains. It's like talking to a wall. Mm-hmm. Yeah, what he's doing is gray rocking. He doesn't care. He's not gonna give you what you want. He's not gonna react in the way that you want. Laura comes out with her accusations about him leaving her in the desert. Josh is like, yeah, unforgivable. This whole desert bullshit. Everyone on the stage is agreeing that that it was unforgivable what he did. And let's not forget, it was not in the middle of the desert. It was like 10 minutes from Marrakesh. There was a resort full of people, there was staff, there were tour guides, oh yeah, and a camera crew. And did you notice how quickly that Uber showed up to get Ziyad when he decided to leave? She was not abandoned by the side of the road. She did not have to Lawrence of Arabia her way back to civilization. Okay, everybody calm down. Was it nice that he did that? No. Was it jerky? Yeah, for sure. But I mean, they're both at fault, and he didn't abandon her anywhere where she was in any kind of danger. I this whole desert thing really pisses me off. Rick accuses Zed of not being a man. Excuse me, shut up, Rick. Izzy, Emma's twin sister, is here and she walks out onto the stage. She cannot walk. I don't know if it's the tight dress or the shoes, but she is waddling. Like taking these tiny little baby steps. Sean asks, Izzy, do you think that Emma, your sister, was really in love with Ziad? And she says, No. Laura gasps like this is such a surprise. Izzy says Emma was more in love with the idea of being engaged and having a wedding. I don't think it was that serious. Sean says, why? And Izzy says she was hooking up with other people before she went to Morocco. Sean asks, while she was with Ziad, and Izzy says, yes. Emma does not deny this part. Sean says, Did your sister cheat on Ziad? Izzy says, yes. Ziad says, I'm really sad. Izzy says she never stopped dating. Emma is like kind of smirking and says, thanks, Izzy. Ziad says, Are you proud? Do you hook up with everyone? And Izzy shoots back. It's none of your business who she hooks up with. And she's right. Laura says, but they hadn't even met yet. Rick says, exactly. They hadn't met yet. Okay, first of all, Laura, were you just talking to Birkan and no one else before you went to Turkey? Did that imply you were in an exclusive relationship? So what are you talking about? Also, Rick, this is his oh, Rick, this is your classic defense that you could do whatever you want because you hadn't actually met Trisha in person yet, even though you led her to think that you were exclusive. These people behave like garbage. And I hate it. Emma says, I knew he was talking to other girls, so I figured it was okay. Sean asks, how soon before Morocco were you hooking up with other people? Izzy said it was pretty close to the flight. Emma's like, can you shut up? Stig is clapping. Izzy says it was a month or within three weeks. Emma says it was like a month. I have it on my calendar. I mark it every time I have sex. Izzy says, Why would you put that on your calendar? Emma says, Why wouldn't you? All right. I'm gonna get on my soapbox. You should fast forward about 60 seconds if you don't want to hear my political soapbox right now. Obviously, you should be tracking when you have sex and your periods and all of that. But for the love of God, ladies, do not use the apps to track your periods or your sexual activity because those companies are going to share your information with whoever decides to purchase it, or they will bend over and hand over that information to the government, to authorities. And all you ladies need to know, every one of you with a uterus needs to know this. Get with the program now. They are going to track your fertility because if things do not change in the midterm elections, we are headed to Handmaid's Tale territory, and that is not an exaggeration. I've read Project 2025, and that is one of their things. They are terrified of white people being in the minority, and they want to force women to reproduce. It's already happening because of the abortion bans in this country. By all means, track your periods, track your sex, do not put it on your phone. Do not put it in an app. Keep that shit to yourself. Anyway, soapbox over. Emma, maybe terrible, but yes, good to track things in her planner. But what she should not do is talk about Zed's penis size or how long he lasted in bed. She's out to humiliate him, and that's not fair. What he did was not good to her. He should not have ditched her in the desert, but you know my feelings about that. It's not as bad. What he did was not as bad as shit talking someone's ananobe and screaming about having sex when he's trying to be quiet about it because he knows the shit is going to go back to his family and he doesn't want that. Sean directly asks Ziad if they had sex. He doesn't really say yes or no. He just says, I will not say. Rick says, You're a fake Muslim. Trisha says, Don't say that, Rick. Ziad looks at him and says, You're a fake father. And then this is where Rick loses it. And he says, You want to check my records? I'm a damn good father. I'm a real father fool. I'm more of a father you will ever be in your damn life. Ziyad is in his full-on Disney villain mode laughing. Now, as many of you know, in real life, Rick lost a child, which would explain why he completely loses it at this point. And it's extremely, extremely sad. He lost a very young child who was unfortunately killed by a boyfriend, apparently, of his ex-wife. And I really hate that Rick had to go through that. I feel bad for him and his ex-wife and the siblings. None of that excuses the way that Rick behaved toward Trish or the way that he behaved on this. Tell all, but that's the story behind why that was probably the wrong thing to say to Rick in that moment. And I think Trisha knows about that, which is why she's trying to tell him to calm down. Sean asks, Emma and Ziad, do you think you two will be talking in the future? She says, no. He says, No, never. Any last words to Ziad? She says, bye, bitch. Now Elise weighs in here and says, Emma, be the bigger person. We've all seen him be a dick to her, but like be the bigger person. And she says to Ziad, honestly, saying sorry feels good. It makes you feel good about yourself. You would have looked so much better. Ziad says, no. And can I ask you to Elise? He says, Are you a girl? She looks at Josh, and Josh says, Hey, slow down there, pal. Don't speak to any woman like that, especially her. You need to keep your mouth shut. You wouldn't say that if you were in the room with us. And that's true. Because he would get his ass beat. And then he, for good measure, throws in to Emma, also change your wig. It smells like shit. Sean's reaction, well, that didn't get us far. And then we see another talking head with Elise in the confessional saying, I think Emma wants to be liked by everyone. A few months ago, she reached out to me and said something so weird. She said she wanted to let me know that she's been hooking up with Rob in the past year. Rob. After the break, Sean talks to Jovan and Anna. It's day four that Jovan has been in the Philippines. He says, Her mom needs her, and I need Anna. Anna is my home, so wherever she's at, that's where I want to be. So he quit his job, packed up, and moved over to the Philippines. But then we see an extended, never-before-seen interview with Jovan. And he shows his entire ass when he says, A lot of American men go to parts of Asia because there the women are touted as being more traditional, more submissive. He says, I feel a little tricked because the feminine side was shown early on with Anilyn. He says, That changed after we got married, and I was stuck with her. If she had shown those qualities before we got married, we probably would not have gotten married. So Sean says, Yvonne, Chavon, do you still feel that way? He hesitates and Elise is like, oh no. He says, No, I don't. I said things I didn't mean because I'm frustrated. Sean says to Annalyn, what is your reaction to him saying he was tricked? Annalyn's face through this whole segment is she just looks so sad, but she says, I definitely did not trick him. I'm still sweet. I never changed. When he tries to practice his masculinity stuff, I could see some of the energy I don't like. Jovon says, you're acting like I'm searching out red pill content. He says, I watch podcasts about couples building. I cannot even believe we're talking about red pill content. I just I really I as much as I hate it, like I like that people are openly talking about it because it needs to be talked about so that people know how to deal with these guys. Anyway, Annalyn says, enough of that podcast. Fuck Andrew Tate. Forrest says, yes, of course it was that. Jesus. I want to know, was he actually listening to Andrew Tate? The guy who's been arrested in multiple countries for rape and human trafficking? Really? Get the fuck out with that. Javon says, How can I be the captain of a ship if my shipmates don't listen to me? BeerCon says, you are not the owner of the ship. You are partners on the ship. So you should stop listening to podcasts. You should listen to Anna. I have to applaud BeerCon right there. He's had many moments, many, many moments in the tell-all where I don't I don't hate this guy. Javon tries to say, I'm not trying to boss you around. Elise says, look at his actions though. He's there in the Philippines. Anna Lynn says, we are still working on things, and next week we're going to couples therapy. Javon admits that when he met Anna, he felt calm and peaceful. And it feels like we've been married 50 years, which makes everybody swoon on stage. Annalyn says, we're going to live as husband and wife and with my mom and my cats and my dogs. And after this, we're going to sleep and then make love. Um, okay, so I notice Josh his eyes are crazy right now. I'm not saying anything. I'm not gonna say what's causing his crazy eyes. I'm not gonna say what's the cause of all his issues, but I'm just saying his eyes and his jaw are crazy right now. Uh take that to mean however you want it to mean. Uh backstage, Forrest says, I don't think Javon did his research on Filipino women. For some reason, we get to see Emma flirting with Forrest backstage during the break. And I hate it. Emma says, Forrest, you love me. How much? Forrest is like, um, as friends. Emma's like, oh my gosh, I think I'm in love with you. Forrest says, All I need is a machine. And then we get a confessional with Emma saying, I feel like Forrest would be down for it. I would show up to his house in lingerie and he wouldn't say no. And back to the scene with her and Forrest saying, Do you have any hot brothers, uncles, neighbors, cousins, grandpas? What are you doing, Emma? Emma says, What if I'm your wife when you're here with us? And Sheena's your wife in the Philippines. Forrest says, No, you're gonna find a great person. And immediately he's texting with Sheena after this, telling her everything. Of course he is, because that's he sees her as his wife. That's for Forrest might be a lot of things. He's definitely loyal to Sheena and tells her everything because that is his boo. And I don't think as much as Emma claims to want to find love, she doesn't understand that. That whole scene with her and Forrest was to me giving a mean girl in high school who was put up to flirting with the nerd just for a laugh. And I hate it so much. Like I said in the beginning, Emma really wanted to come out smelling like a rose with this tell-all, and she is screwing it up so bad. What little chance she had of her giving herself a good edit, she just continues to make herself look worse. And I really hated seeing her teasingly flirt with Forrest, but on the other hand, I'm happy to see her true colors. I'm also happy to hear when he told Sheena. Sheena said, I'm gonna rip that fake bitch's lips off. So uh they're about to go back on stage, and Lisa's nervous, and Elise says, because Elise is a good person, even after what Lisa said to her, she says, We have your back. Just remember you're a badass bitch. I mean, no, she's not really, but you see how nice Elise is being after what Lisa said to her? I hope Lisa can apologize for being so fucking weird. So when they go back on stage, Sean says, Before we get started, Emma, I heard there was flirting backstage. And Emma says, with Forrest? And everybody's looking at each other like, What? Emma says, It was all with love. I think he's a great guy. Sean says, So did you tell Sheena? Forrest says, Of course I did. Sean says, What did she say? Sheena on the screen holds up her ring finger. Forrest says, She turned into a fiery bear and said, I'm gonna rip that fake bitch's lips off. Sheena says, No, I did not, because Sheena cannot handle, you know, being called out on her behavior, even though personally I probably would have said something similar if someone was flirting with my husband. But Sheena does her thing. She denies, denies, denies. If Forrest says, You are very fiery, my love. She is like, we don't have any problems. But she does say, I wanted to explode when you told me. Emma says, I didn't mean to offend you, and I apologize. So Sean moves on to Lisa and Daniel. This is so crazy. So she says, You reconciled for four to five weeks before you broke up again. Lisa says the first breakup was because he wasn't communicating. She would cry on the phone and he was nowhere to be found. And then they roll the tape about the whole debacle with finding out he had a contact in his phone called wife chat, which we still don't know what that means. Sean asked Daniel, who was that? Daniel says, I don't have such a contact. All I have is friends. We do not get an explanation for who that was in his phone or who it was that was replying to Faith and telling Faith to lose her number. Lisa says, Then we got back together because I believed in him. He has a special place in my heart. Then other things occurred. She says, he accused me of things that are not true, accused me of being with other people. Daniel says, I am not there. How can I believe you? Lisa says, I don't care if you don't believe me. Tron says, So you two are definitely not together. Daniel says, but the situation is complicated because she is my wife. We are husband and wife. Lisa says, You tricked me. We're all confused now. Lisa says, I'm not legally married to you. I'm not with you. She says, Daniel says, she is traditionally married to me. Backstage, Faith is there. And she is getting heated. She's like, he's so manipulative. He is so toxic. Sean says, Why does he consider you to be his wife? Lisa says, We went to the cleansing with the Oracle, the one with the goats and the yams and the whatnot. Lisa says, he considers that a wedding. Sean says, This is a new one for 90 day. I gotta tell ya. So they roll tape on new footage. The oracle is saying to Lisa, repeat after me, me and my husband are one forever and ever, and no man or woman will put us under. Kiss these bottles. They kiss these bottles. I look like a people. She says, Lisa says, There's no papers. I wasn't even legally divorced yet, and there was no ring. Trisha, who's pretty much the only other person on that stage who can speak to any of this, even though she's not Nigerian, she's from Madagascar. She says, This is no traditional marriage. I don't believe it. You are just trying to turn Lisa's head. True. So Faith comes out on the stage. Sean asks her what she thinks. Faith is really only giving emotional answers, and she says, No way this man would ever be family to me. Daniel is laughing through the whole thing. Like he somehow pulled one over on somebody, which is crazy. Sean says, What happens if Daniel continues to insist that you are traditionally married? Lisa says, I don't know, but he told me I'm cursed by the priest. If I were to go outside this marriage, I would be cursed and I would get sick and one of us would die. And people are freaking out on the stage. Daniel says, The chief priest told us. That we cannot go outside our marriage. He communicates with the ancestors. Trish says she's not buying it. I think everybody needs to listen to what Trish has to say right now. Sean says, Do you attribute anything that happened to you to this curse? Lisa says, Yes, he knew things about me that he shouldn't. And I ended up in the hospital and I almost died. Faith says the day before she went to the hospital, she called me and she says she was worried. Lisa says, I was dying, I was bleeding, and Faith wasn't allowed to know. I keep going back to him because I fear for my life. And that is where the part one of the tell all ends, and we get a teaser for the following week. Where we get more on Lisa, who apparently met someone else in Nigeria already. We find out who the father is of Trisha's baby, and then we get an interview with Molly. And now it's time for Book Club Corner. If you've been following along with you with the show, you know I've been reading Rock Hard by Nalini Singh. It's a workplace romance, a little bit of sports romance, slow burn. Um, the male main character is an ex-rugby player. I am just about finished with it, and I have a lot of thoughts, which I will share with you next week. It is wish fulfillment, it is protective over the top, male main character energy, a lot of BDE. It's um the male main character can tell that this woman has been abused or attacked. She's got some kind of major trauma that she is working through while he is inch by inch trying to get closer to her. And um, so far I am loving it. But I'm gonna conclude that um by next week and pick something else to read next, which I think is appropriate considering next week I will begin covering the new season of 90-day fiance, the original. So, an update on me. I just finished up the novella number five in the Songbird Ridge series called Unsteady, How to Fail at Flirting. Um, it's about Skylar who's who's trying to open a bookstore in her small town, and Finn, a contractor, who comes in and it's an Insta-Love situation where they're trying to get work done and not really getting a lot of work done because they're so into each other. So it's pretty physical early on, which is usually what I do. Not a slow burn at all. Easy read, low sakes. Um, it came out last week, Thursday, and it's doing pretty well. I'm pretty excited about it. Next time I will be able to tell you a bit more about novella number six, which will be coming out in June. If you like uncomplicated small town quick romances, aka Hallmark with Smut, you might like reading my books over a quick glass of wine or two or three. Um, you're interested in any of that, I'll have all the links in the show notes. If you're interested in supporting the show, I will also have links. Please click five stars on Apple and Spotify or whatever platform you listen through. 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