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The Most Shocking Bachelor Moments of 2025 - #3 · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Almost Famous podcast and it's producer Heather jumping
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  Speaker 2: in with the number three most shocking moment in Bachelor
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  Speaker 2: Nation for twenty twenty five. This moment was a viral sensation,
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  Speaker 2: It was all over the Internet and was a situation
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  Speaker 2: about secrets and betrayal. The number three most shocking moment
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  Speaker 2: this year was The Danish Deception. Anyika was on Colton
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  Speaker 2: season of The Bachelor back in twenty nineteen and that's
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  Speaker 2: where we first met her, But this year she went
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  Speaker 2: viral in November twenty twenty five when she started to
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  Speaker 2: share her story in what she titled The Danish Deception
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  Speaker 2: on TikTok. It was very much in the same vein
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  Speaker 2: as Resa Tisa's viral TikTok story Who the F Did
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  Speaker 2: I Marry? That came out a year earlier. Through her
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  Speaker 2: twenty five part saga Onnyeka details how she fell in
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  Speaker 2: love with a Danish man while vacationing in Croatia. It
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  Speaker 2: becomes kind of a whirlwind romance. Everything is very fast
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  Speaker 2: and kind of early on, there are some signs that
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  Speaker 2: maybe she should have looked into but this man tells
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  Speaker 2: her he's from royal lineage, and she hears him tell
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  Speaker 2: someone he's a former Olympic athlete in handball. Now, she
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  Speaker 2: never really looks into any of these things and kind
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  Speaker 2: of just takes them for face value. I think she
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  Speaker 2: ends up regretting that, But yeah, I think most people
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  Speaker 2: would do a quick Google search and kind of look
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  Speaker 2: into those things, but alas she did not. There were
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  Speaker 2: so many shocking twists in this story, but one early
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  Speaker 2: on is a dinner date that they have on Yaika
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  Speaker 2: ends up falling, hitting her head and having seizures. And
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  Speaker 2: this is all within very early stages of them getting
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  Speaker 2: to know each other. But it's in this scary moment
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  Speaker 2: that he tells her he loves her for the first
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  Speaker 2: time because she's already told him she loves him. And
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  Speaker 2: this is probably a big moment for them as a
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  Speaker 2: couple because she's really building trust. Even weirder, we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to get into it, but like, why is she
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  Speaker 2: having seizures? She's never had seizures before. This whole moment
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  Speaker 2: in the story was very scary and crazy to listen
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  Speaker 2: back to. But not long after this experience is when
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  Speaker 2: money starts to come into this conversation. He starts saying
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  Speaker 2: he needs money, but when she offers, he won't accept.
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  Speaker 2: But eventually he gives into her loaning him six thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars and he says this will be the last time.
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  Speaker 2: Spoiler it's not. Throughout the multi part TikTok series, Anyeka
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  Speaker 2: shares that the asks for money become more and more
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  Speaker 2: free went but to her they always seem legit. So
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  Speaker 2: he claims to her that he owns apartment complex and
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  Speaker 2: other places back in Denmark, and he'll say, like, something
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  Speaker 2: broke at the apartment complex he owns, and he can't
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  Speaker 2: fix it because his assets are tied up in something else.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Anyika has a background in real estate,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously real estate laws are different dependent on the country,
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  Speaker 2: so she takes a lot of what he says at
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  Speaker 2: face value, and especially in these early stages of their relationships,
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't push back and she doesn't look into these things.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, she's just very trusting in what he's
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  Speaker 2: saying because to her, they're in love. You know, why
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  Speaker 2: would he have any reason to lie to her about
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  Speaker 2: something like this, you know, and plus she thinks that
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  Speaker 2: he is very successful in what he does, because early
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  Speaker 2: on in their relationship, she meets him in Monaco and
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  Speaker 2: they go to a networking event and she meets a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that you know, have worked with him
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  Speaker 2: and like him, and Monaco is extremely expensive and he's
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  Speaker 2: paying for everything and they're going out and doing nice things.
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  Speaker 2: So she has no reason early on to believe that
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  Speaker 2: he's anything other than successful at what he does. So
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  Speaker 2: she of course just thinks, you know, like he said,
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  Speaker 2: he's got assets tied up in something else. This is
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  Speaker 2: a quick loan. She's going to lend it to him,
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  Speaker 2: and everything's going to be good. But another bomb kind
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  Speaker 2: of gets dropped in this series from Anyeika is that
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  Speaker 2: they weren't just engaged to be married like she would
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of her followers believed online because that's
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  Speaker 2: all she had kind of publicly posted they were actually married.
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  Speaker 2: So that was pretty shocking because again her followers only
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  Speaker 2: believed she had been engaged. They ended up having a
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  Speaker 2: courthouse wedding in the United States and basically didn't tell anyone.
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  Speaker 2: So Anyika is from a very traditional Nigerian family and
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  Speaker 2: they hadn't even met him or anything. This man, his
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  Speaker 2: name is Martin she does not refer to him by
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  Speaker 2: his name throughout the entire TikTok series, but because they
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  Speaker 2: had been a very public couple and shared a lot
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  Speaker 2: of tiktoks and been on social media together, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows that his name is Martin, or at least
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  Speaker 2: that's what he said his name was when they were together.
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  Speaker 2: So her family did not know she and Martin were
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  Speaker 2: married because of their traditional values, but she wanted to
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  Speaker 2: have them get married so that they could start the
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  Speaker 2: immigration process with him. So they have this courthouse wedding
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  Speaker 2: with the intention that they will someday have this big
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  Speaker 2: wedding and everybody will be involved, and she'll have a
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  Speaker 2: traditional Nigerian wedding, and she'll also have a traditional kind
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  Speaker 2: of what they call a white dress wedding, which is
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  Speaker 2: the more americanized wedding. So that's the plan. But even
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  Speaker 2: after they get married, the money requests don't stop, and
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  Speaker 2: not long after they marry, the IRS calls Martin and
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  Speaker 2: says he owes three hundred and eighteen thousand in taxes.
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  Speaker 2: He also says that his dad owes like millions, which shocking. Again,
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of where you would think some alarm
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  Speaker 2: bells are going off right. Anyeka already is under the
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  Speaker 2: impression that he's of royal lineage. Why you know, if
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  Speaker 2: he's in royal lineage, is he needing you know, help
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  Speaker 2: from his wife to loan money and his dad won't
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  Speaker 2: loan him the money. It's all very fishy. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: as an outsider listening to this, this is when I
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  Speaker 2: would say most people's antennas would start to go up,
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  Speaker 2: but on Yaka's does not. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: chatter at this time about you know, his assets are
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  Speaker 2: being frozen, and still on Yaka loans him money because
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  Speaker 2: now at this point he is her husband and she's
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  Speaker 2: in love and very much invested in him and their future.
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  Speaker 2: So it's around this time that they go back to
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  Speaker 2: Denmark for the holidays and another bomb gets dropped on
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  Speaker 2: Jaka by one of her husband's friends. And it's this
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  Speaker 2: friend who reveals to her that her husband, Martin, has
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  Speaker 2: had a gambling addiction in the past and has had
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  Speaker 2: some enemies, the people that he owed a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money too. And this is the moment where alarm bells
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  Speaker 2: start to really go off for on Yika. Her friend
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  Speaker 2: at around this time hires a private investigator. They do
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  Speaker 2: a check on her husband and this is when they
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  Speaker 2: find out that the Olympic athlete claims of royal lineage.
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  Speaker 2: They're a lie, but he has no criminal background, so
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  Speaker 2: there is a little bit of relief there After this,
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  Speaker 2: they kind of get on a good path on Yaka says,
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  Speaker 2: he starts to go to gamblers support groups. They start
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  Speaker 2: to plan their wedding. Yeah, not gonna lie. Planning the
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  Speaker 2: wedding seems like a really strange decision to be making,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one when he's not been repaying like money
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  Speaker 2: that he owes. You've he's got assets tied up overseas,
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  Speaker 2: so he says his assets are frozen by the IRS.
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  Speaker 2: It would not be the time that I think you
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  Speaker 2: start planning your wedding. So yeah, very strange decision. I still,
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  Speaker 2: after watching this multi series part don't really understand why
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  Speaker 2: she did that, other than I think that maybe she
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  Speaker 2: was obviously excited. You know, at this point they had
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  Speaker 2: had a very public engagement. He'd given her a really
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  Speaker 2: nice ring, and her family, very traditional Nigerian, had welcomed
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  Speaker 2: him in with open arms and really enjoyed getting to
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  Speaker 2: know him at this point, so I think it was
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  Speaker 2: just probably, my guess, would be a lot of excitement.
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  Speaker 2: Every young woman dreams about getting married, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: this was no different for her, So I think she
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  Speaker 2: was probably just swept up in this whole fantasy, even
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  Speaker 2: though behind the scenes she knew that there were a
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  Speaker 2: lot of struggles that they were going through. But again,
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  Speaker 2: not long into this planning, Anyaka catches him lying when
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  Speaker 2: she sees him looking at gambling sites on his phone.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean there's a lot of back and forth
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  Speaker 2: about this, obviously, this is a twenty five part series
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  Speaker 2: that I'm condensing. Eventually, in another shocking moment, he is
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  Speaker 2: the one who calls off the wedding. I think this
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  Speaker 2: was pretty crazy. I remember watching this whole series over
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  Speaker 2: the course of a couple of days, and I remember thinking,
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  Speaker 2: that's not what I thought was gonna happen. I really
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  Speaker 2: thought on Yaka was gonna wake up at some moment
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  Speaker 2: and be like, I'm better than this, I deserve better
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  Speaker 2: than this, and she was going to leave him. So
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty shocked when I got to the part
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  Speaker 2: where he actually leaves her. He calls off the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he does it because she's confronting him about
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  Speaker 2: money and gambling and these kinds of things, but it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of shocking to know that he actually was
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  Speaker 2: the one who leaves her and on Yaka finally at
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  Speaker 2: this point, has to not only tell her friends and
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  Speaker 2: family that they're breaking up up, but she's also kind
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  Speaker 2: of got to reveal to them that they were already married.
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  Speaker 2: So this is now more complicated, and she's obviously very
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  Speaker 2: scared that her you know, traditional family is going to
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  Speaker 2: be very upset with her, but you know, they are
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  Speaker 2: there for her, their supportive and they help her get
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  Speaker 2: through this. But you know, there's another shocking twist, of
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  Speaker 2: course in this story, and it's when she starts to
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  Speaker 2: tell her friends and family that you know they are
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  Speaker 2: breaking up, they were actually married. He has a gambling problem.
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  Speaker 2: That's when she finds out that he'd not only been
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  Speaker 2: taking and swindling money from her throughout their entire relationship,
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  Speaker 2: he'd actually been going behind her back and taking and
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  Speaker 2: swindling money under false pretenses from her friends and family,
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  Speaker 2: even from her parents, from her you know, sister is
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  Speaker 2: really really bad and this was very sad to watch
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  Speaker 2: this portion of the story. She an Yaka breaks down
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  Speaker 2: she's extremely sad. Even retelling this. She feels an immense
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  Speaker 2: amount of guilt for bringing this man into their lives.
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  Speaker 2: And of course these friends and family will never get
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  Speaker 2: their money back, so that is extremely sad. He often
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  Speaker 2: lied to them and a Yaka's words would say things like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I want to buy Anyaka this purse for
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  Speaker 2: her birthday. It's a surprise. Don't tell her, but my
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  Speaker 2: money is tied up overseas and my properties. Can you
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  Speaker 2: loan me the money so I can get it. At
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  Speaker 2: one point, he was saying he was going to buy
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  Speaker 2: her a sports car of some sense and like to
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  Speaker 2: not tell her. He said he was going to be
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  Speaker 2: buying property like land for them, a way for them
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  Speaker 2: to start their married life, so not to tell her.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, all of her friends and family believed
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  Speaker 2: him at face value and did not tell her what
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  Speaker 2: was happening behind her back. Eventually, through this, an Yaka
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  Speaker 2: find support and you know, does move forward with the
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  Speaker 2: divorce proceedings. Their divorce was finalized in November of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, which is why she decided to start her
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  Speaker 2: TikTok series and in another shocking twist, since she has
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  Speaker 2: shared her story and it's gone viral. She has found
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  Speaker 2: that her ex was in too Loom and he was
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  Speaker 2: still swindling women as recent as the week before her
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  Speaker 2: story went viral. So this story is definitely a shocking
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  Speaker 2: story and I suggest if you have time this holiday season,
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  Speaker 2: go back watch the twenty five parts to get a
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  Speaker 2: real full grasp of how much money, how much lying
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  Speaker 2: was going on. It will definitely keep you hooked for
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  Speaker 2: a good amount of time. But that is why the
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  Speaker 2: Danish Deception comes in as our number three most shocking
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  Speaker 2: moment of twenty twenty five.
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