Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 8, Episode 27 - DeJuan & Tynea - full transcript
Nev and Kamie unearth a mystery involving twin sisters. It threatens to extinguish DeJuan's love for Tynea forever.
- Two years ago, DeJuan
met Tynea on Tinder.
- She's an exotic dancer,
so that really caught my eyes.
That was, like,
the icing on the cake.
- I'm sure it was.
- Now, you do know that
she has a twin sister?
- Whoa.
Oh, my God.
- They look the same, though.
- 'Cause there's no pictures
of them together.
- I'm not so sure
there's even a twin sister.
- What are you hiding from me?
- Something ain't right.
- Let's have at it.
[computer dings]
- Oh.
- What the [bleep]?
[dramatic music]
[Sleepover's "Cactus Club"]
- ♪ Uno, dos, tres,
come and say it to my face ♪
- We're back.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Say it to my face ♪
- Oh!
- Do you notice
anything different?
- Okay, I love this game.
Your nails?
- Hair!
- Oh, I mean,
I see your hair.
How is it different?
It's just straight.
- I had braids, remember?
- Oh, well, yeah,
but I'm used to your hair
just changing
and looking great
all the time.
- [laughs]
- Put your hair back,
all right?
'Cause we're about
to get into this.
- Hair change and an email.
Let's go.
- All right, we got an email
here from DeJuan.
"Hi, Nev and Kamie.
"My name is DeJuan.
"I'm a 26-year-old
pre-law student
in Greensboro,
North Carolina."
- ♪ If you know what I mean ♪
- "My mind is spinning,
and I don't know what to do."
- ♪ Spinning in circles,
spiraling downwards ♪
- "I met this girl, Tynea,
about two or so
years ago on Tinder."
- ♪ Nobody else gets me
like you ♪
- "Tynea lived in Atlanta,
but I didn't mind.
"She is an incredible woman.
Goofy, beautiful,
strong, and caring."
- ♪ All that I wanted
was someone to hold me ♪
- "I could see us
being together
for the rest of our lives."
- ♪ Spinning in circles,
spiraling downward ♪
- "But recently, some things
have been happening
that made me wonder
if I've been fooling myself."
- Yes.
- ♪ I need you straight away ♪
- "About three months ago,
"Tynea ignored the latest
video chat request
"I had made.
"I don't know what it was
about that moment,
"but all of a sudden,
I started looking
at things differently."
- ♪ ...wanted was someone
to hold me ♪
♪ I never asked for you
to control me ♪
- "I wasn't ready
to end things over that,
"but the last couple of weeks
have been crazy.
First, I was blocked
from her Instagram."
- ♪ I need you straight away ♪
- "Then she dropped
a huge bomb on me.
"I won't say what it is here,
"'cause I don't want you guys
to judge her
before I get
to explain everything."
- Oh, God.
- "If she's not the girl
she's been saying she is,
"I need answers,
"and if she is the girl,
then I need to know
"so that I don't start
undermining our relationship
"with doubt and paranoia.
Help me get to
the bottom of this."
- ♪ Walking in circles ♪
- "Thank you,
DeJuan."
- I guess he just wants to
know if she's "de" one.
You're just upset 'cause
you didn't say it first.
- All right, well,
let's get DeJuan on de phone.
- That's a good one.
There you go.
You're coming back.
[laughter]
- I'm back, I'm back!
"Yo, DeJuan!
We wanna help."
All right, text sent
and delivered.
- I wanna know how
they matched on Tinder.
I know that you can, like,
increase your
geographical location, but...
- I mean, that's a wide radius.
[computer dings]
Oh!
- How y'all doing?
- Good.
- How are things
over in Greensboro?
- Like, with the COVID
and everything,
it's taking some time
to get used to it,
but everything is going good.
- So is law school
still happening?
Are you still...
- Well, I'm actually undergrad.
I studied political science
with a concentration
in pre-law.
You got the choice
to go virtual
or go face to face,
and I just decided to
go virtual so I could work.
- Oh, you work
outside of school?
- I have two part-time jobs.
- Wow.
- So I'm a very,
very busy person.
- That's why you're chasing
some girl on the Internet
who doesn't wanna video chat
or meet up with you?
[laughter]
- I wouldn't say
that's necessarily
why I'm chasing her.
I just love her, you know?
- So yeah, so explain
how did you and Tyn-ia--
is that how she says it?
- Ten-nay-ah, yeah.
both: Tynea.
- It's Tynea.
We met off of Tinder.
We exchanged numbers.
It was very fast-paced.
We immediately got
into talking to each other
and texting each other.
- Okay, so before
you swiped on her,
you knew that
she was in Atlanta?
- Oh, no.
Like, you don't know
until actually
you match with them.
Like, when you match with them
and you swipe right
and they happen to swipe right
with you,
that's when you know.
- When you saw
she was further away,
you were like, "Ah,
that doesn't matter to me."
- It didn't matter
to me at all.
I just wanted
to get to know her.
- Aw.
I'm trying to guess your sign.
- Let's see if you can guess.
- Are you a Gemini?
- I am a Cancer.
- Oh, my God.
[laughter]
- So Gemini--Gemini is close,
but I'm a Cancer.
- That's why we're here.
Now I've got it, okay.
- And Tynea,
what do you know about her?
What's her deal?
- She works a lot.
She works at Taco Bell, and
then she's an exotic dancer.
So that really caught my eyes.
When I found that out,
that was, like,
the icing on the cake.
[laughter]
- Oh!
I'm sure it was.
Wow.
- I support her grind.
I'm not a judgmental person
at all.
- Me too.
- I support everything
she does.
Everything is good between us.
We always talk all the time.
- Wow.
- And when you talk,
are you talking on the phone
or are you just texting?
- We talk on the phone
more than anything,
but we do text
from time to time.
- Aside from the Tinder profile
though,
surely a 20-year-old
exotic dancer in Atlanta
has an Instagram
and a Snapchat?
- Actually,
a couple of weeks ago,
I got blocked from seeing her
on Instagram,
and I asked her about it,
and her response was that she
lost access to her password
and her profile.
So that brought up
some suspicion to me.
- Yeah.
- I also found out
some more disturbing news
recently.
I found out that she had a kid.
We've been talking
to each other for a long time.
I should know
if you have a kid.
That's another thing
I'm concerned about.
'Cause if we are
gonna get married
and we are gonna live
with each other,
I need to be ready for that.
'Cause eventually I'm gonna get
close to your daughter.
- How old did she say
the daughter is?
- She said the daughter
is two years old.
- Did you ever talk about
her daughter's father?
- We didn't get into that.
'Cause obviously,
if she's dealing with me,
I'm assuming that he's not
in her life anymore.
So that's not important.
The most important thing
is making sure she's good
and her daughter's good.
Kids need time.
Time is important thing
with any child,
so that kinda gave me
the insight,
"Okay, maybe when
we first started talking,
maybe that's why she didn't
wanna meet up with me."
Because one time, I came
all the way to Georgia,
and she never showed up,
and I called her phone
over and over and over again.
I was like, "You do realize,
like, I drove four hours
to come see you?"
And she's like, "I'm sorry.
I'm going through a lot
right now at home."
- But you think
it might be because
she was hiding a kid?
- Correct.
- What was she going through?
Did you ever find out?
- Well, she said she was
going through anxiety
and depression,
and I was just like, "Okay,
that's fine, I understand that,
"'cause I know
it's a very sensitive thing,
"but I just would like for us
moving forward
"to be able to trust
each other,
"come forward with everything
about our life
'cause that's important."
- And you would say
you guys consider each other
boyfriend and girlfriend?
- Absolutely correct.
Yes, ma'am.
I love her, I appreciate her,
she's a good woman,
and I'm not going to
just casually dating anymore.
I wanna actually...
- Wow.
- I wanna actually
have a wife.
When I love someone,
I love them hard, I'm not--
- Wait, so you've been
exclusively dating Tynea
for the last two years?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Southern boys.
This is what LA needs more of.
- [laughs]
- So you have pictures
of Tynea?
- I'm dying to see
what this girl looks like.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Here we go.
All right.
- This one.
- She sent you this.
Wait, so this was
on Instagram?
- That was, like,
direct messages.
I took a screenshot.
- Keep going.
- I have this one.
- Okay, a little booty.
- And this one.
- Aah!
- [laughs]
- All right, you can swipe
to the next one.
- And you have this one.
- What about
your text messages?
- We got a few text messages.
- "Love you."
Okay, so you guys say
"love you" to each other?
- All the time.
Absolutely.
- You said,
"I love you so much,
"and I want to be with you
for the rest of my life.
I'm so glad we can be there
for each other."
She said, "We've both
had serious situations
occur in our life."
Hmm.
What's that about?
- My brother passed away
last year,
and my dad passed away
in 2014.
So I've lost some
really close family members,
and she always
made herself available
for me the way I needed her to.
So that made me
fall for her way more
than I will fall
for someone else.
- Well, I'm now I'm seeing
why you're falling so hard
for this girl.
- Right, that's
why I'm here today,
because I really care
about her,
and I really, truly love her.
Meeting her would
be the best thing
that ever happened to me.
- What if she doesn't look
like the girl in the pictures?
- Uh, I think it
would take me some time.
'Cause it's not like I decided
to wanna be with her
just because
of how attractive she was.
That was always the plus.
It was more so the person
she brought out in me,
but I have plenty of hope
that she is who I think she is.
- Oh, we're gonna find out.
- Okay.
- Send us what you got.
We'll do some research,
and we'll check back in
when we have some questions
or when we finally
have some answers.
- Just let me know.
- Right.
Thanks, DeJuan.
- Talk soon, buddy.
[dramatic music]
- Lord, have mercy.
- DeJuan seems like
such a catch.
Why do you think he's so into--
I mean, I get it, but like...
- Because he's a Cancer.
Every issue with DeJuan
has everything to do
with his zodiac sign.
- [laughs]
- All I can say,
there's a lot of red flags
in this story.
- Oh, wow.
♪ ♪
- All right,
what's up, everyone?
Welcome back to "Catfish."
I thought we could do
a little ASMR session
with me eating
a little breakfast sandwich
this morning.
So listen and enjoy.
[lips smacking]
Mmm.
[computer dings]
- Did you get any libations
for this investigations?
- I got the broke special.
- Mmm, you gotta upgrade
your package.
- [laughs]
All right, so what do we got?
We got DeJuan, 26,
lives in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
Meets a girl on Tinder
from Atlanta,
they start talking,
things go very quickly,
she seems great.
They've been talking
almost every day on the phone
for two years.
They say, "I love you."
Seem to be very serious
about being
in a committed relationship,
and yet, somehow,
after two years of basically
talking every day,
she says,
"I have a confession to make,
I actually have
a two-year-old daughter."
♪ ♪
All right, so let's see what
we can find out about Tynea.
All right, here we go.
Here's the email.
"Hey guys,
here's what I got for you.
"My girl's name
is Tynea Monet.
"Her Instagram was
[bleep]diva1.
"Here is her phone number,
and then I attached
the photos."
All right,
so first things first,
I kinda wanted to see if her
Instagram is still up, right?
- Yeah.
- All right, so let's see...
[bleep]diva1.
Oh, there it is.
- "Keep the fake [bleep]."
How ironic.
- "Raising a princess."
But then, what's interesting,
910, 704.
- Is that the Atlanta
area code?
704?
- I don't know.
Let's see.
- She started with a 910.
What is that?
- 910.
Oh, North Carolina.
Interesting.
- But look, it says,
"People also search for 704,"
so that must be another part
of North Carolina.
- Huh.
- Charlotte!
- I mean, it said right on
her Instagram account
that she essentially is
in North Carolina.
- But maybe
she blocked him first
and then put that in after.
- And the baby girl thing, and
like, "Raising a princess."
- Mm-hmm.
She ain't in Atlanta.
She's right next door.
- Yeah.
Okay, so let's see.
You wanna do an image search?
- Yeah.
- I don't think we're gonna
find any of these pictures,
but let's try.
All right,
let's start with this.
- I don't think so either.
- This is the one
which feels like a selfie.
- Oh!
- Ooh, oh, my goodness!
- This never happens!
- We got a hit
on the first pic.
- The first image?
[laughs]
- What is this?
Twitter, Baddass[bleep].
♪ ♪
Whoa.
Oh, my God.
- [gasps]
- Wait, is this her?
- Oh, my God.
- Wow.
- Oh, my God.
$50 video.
- She's got an OnlyFans.
- Aah!
- Looks like she's got a man.
- He's in her videos.
Bro, look how many followers
this girl has.
- Whoa.
Oh, my God.
All right, so I think
it's pretty clear
whoever Tynea is, she's using
this girl's photos.
- We haven't tried searching
for Tynea Monet.
- Oh, my God.
Good idea.
Oh.
- Ooh!
- Oh, oh.
Hello, who's this?
- With a baby!
Baby!
The little baby feet
in the bio.
- I know, I know, I know.
- But why would this girl
have a problem
with showing herself,
and why would she be using
fake pictures and videos?
- That's always the question,
right?
But wait, hold on,
there was one other.
Let's see this one.
Same girl.
- [gasps]
- And that's what
she says her name is.
I mean...
- Greensboro!
- Oh, my God.
- This is her.
- Yeah, this has gotta be her,
right?
- Who is that?
That comment underneath it?
- Promise.
All right, I'm gonna send her
a message.
"Hey, Promise,
"this is Nev from Catfish.
Would love your help, please."
- Come through, mama.
- Come through.
All right.
Sent.
- It's just so weird.
Why lie about your face?
Why lie about your location?
Why lie about all of these
different things?
- Right.
I mean, look, if...
[cell phone rings]
Oh.
Hello?
- Okay, great.
Let me explain.
So this is Nev
from the show "Catfish."
- The actual show "Catfish."
In fact, if you'd like,
I'd be happy to invite you
into my Zoom right now.
- I'm gonna text you
the Zoom link right now.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Promise has
to know something.
[computer dings]
- Mmm.
- Hey, Promise.
- Hi.
- Thank you so much for
getting back to us so quick.
- Of course.
- So we're trying
to help this guy
find out who he's talking to,
and the girl's name
that he's talking to
is Tynea Monet.
When we searched it
on Instagram,
we found your comment
on one of the recent posts.
So obviously, you know a
girl named Tynea Monet, right?
- Yeah, we were
high school friends.
I haven't talked to her
in a while,
but I don't think
she would catfish anyone.
You know, she's not known
for doing things like that.
- Right.
- Do you know anyone
that Tynea was really close to
that you think
she's still in contact with?
- Not really, but I do know
that she has a twin sister.
- A twin sister?
- Like, identical?
- I'm not really sure,
but they're twins.
- Interesting.
What's her name?
- Her name's Tyneira.
- Tyneira Monet?
- No, Monet is her middle name.
- Oh, Monet is
Tynea's middle name?
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you know her last name?
- It's [bleep].
It's [bleep].
- Tynea and Tyneira [bleep]?
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, thanks so much,
Promise.
Have a great night.
- You're welcome.
You too.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- We gotta find the twin.
- Let's look up
"Tynea Monet [bleep]."
[cell phone dings]
Ooh, I just got
an Instagram notification.
Oh, from Promise.
Oh, oh, my God.
She sent the Facebook account
for Tyneira,
with an R.
Wow, they do look
very similar.
- Plug it in.
I wanna see.
[dramatic investigative music]
Whoa.
- They look pretty similar,
right?
- Yeah.
Everybody is a fan
of this baby, Santana.
- Whose kid is this?
- This is Tynea's kid.
- But maybe it's actually
her kid.
Should I message her?
- Yes.
- "Hey, Tyneira.
"This is Nev from Catfish.
"Could use your help.
"Please give me a call.
Thanks."
All right,
here's what we know.
We know that there is a girl
who is either--certainly from
or has lived in Greensboro,
North Carolina,
named Tynea,
middle name Monet,
who has two Instagram accounts
which are a little suspicious
but seems to be a real person
according to
at least one source
and could just simply be
the girl he's been talking to,
which would be confusing,
but potentially also good news.
Because if she had
some strange reason
for either protecting
her privacy
or changing her identity
when she went on Tinder
for some reason
to avoid maybe someone
or something.
- Baby daddy.
- Maybe.
Maybe all that we need to do
is just clear that up.
DeJuan will see and hopefully
be attracted to her,
and they can still continue
pursuing a relationship.
I mean, this could either go
really well...
Or it could be a huge disaster.
[dramatic musical sting]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- All right, here we go.
♪ ♪
- Bing.
- Hi.
- What's the tea, Christine?
- We're still waiting
to hear back.
Wait a second!
I just got this message.
- [gasps]
That's the twin!
- That's the twin.
She says, "I don't have
a phone right now,
but you can call me
on Facebook."
- Why doesn't she have a phone?
- Well, we don't know if she
doesn't have a phone or not.
She may have just said that.
Why don't I just tell her
to get on the Zoom?
"Actually, if you could
join our Zoom,
that would be best."
All right, she's got the link.
[computer dings]
Oh.
- Oh.
- Hi.
- Oh!
- Hi.
- How you doing?
- I'm good.
You guys?
- Great.
Thank you.
- Doing good.
- That's good.
- So your familiar
with the show "Catfish"?
- Of course.
- Okay.
All right, so there's a guy,
DeJuan, in North Carolina
who's been talking to this
girl for two years now
who says her name
is Tynea Monet.
- Okay.
- Now correct us if I'm wrong,
but is that not
your sister's name?
- That's my twin, yes.
- That's your twin sis, right.
It's possible that
Tynea Monet is a name
that more than one person has,
but the fact that your sister
lives in Greensboro,
and this guy lives
in Greensboro,
and that they met on Tinder,
makes us wonder if
it could just be your sister.
- My sister doesn't stay
in North Carolina.
- Oh, okay.
- She lives in Virginia
right now.
- Oh.
- Hmm.
Do you live in Atlanta
or North Carolina?
- Oh.
- Huh.
- Are you near Greensboro?
- Yeah.
- How long has
she been in Virginia?
- Um,
probably for, like,
five or six months now.
- Okay.
And do you know if
she's dating someone or...
- Not that I know of.
- Okay.
- But she has a daughter?
- I don't think it'd be best
to discuss family right now.
I just don't feel comfortable
with doing that,
but if you guys need me to,
like, reach out to her...
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah.
If you could reach out to her
and give her our number,
that would be great.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, thanks
for getting back to us, and...
- Mm-hmm.
- Thank you--
Oh.
- I mean, I don't know anymore.
[laughter]
- It's a lie.
She knew her sister
had something to do with it
the second she came
on this Zoom.
- You know what we should do?
Let's fill in DeJuan.
"Hey, buddy.
We gotta talk."
For all we know,
maybe he knows this girl.
[computer dings]
- Oh, DeJuan!
- There it goes.
- There he is.
- What's going on?
What's going on?
- It's been
an interesting morning.
- Yeah, it sure has,
and we gotta figure this out
because it's confusing.
- All right.
- All right, so check this out.
So remember you sent us that?
- Right.
- We did an image search.
- Yes.
- And we got a hit:
this tweet posted
by this account,
Baddass[bleep].
And the girl in the pictures
looks like Tynea.
- Mmm.
- If you look up here it says
it's posted from Georgia,
which is interesting...
- Okay.
- Because that's where,
you know,
she says she lives.
She's got an OnlyFans...
♪ ♪
And then if you look at this,
she's got a video.
- Right.
Wow.
- There's a picture of her
with a guy.
You know, I don't know
who that is, but...
- It's not me.
- It's definitely not you,
but to not tell you
that she's posting
on OnlyFans, like...
- Right.
This is overwhelming.
- Now, here's the thing.
This is a very active
Twitter account.
It's got almost
150,000 followers.
- Right.
- Whoever Tynea is,
it's not this girl.
The girl in the pictures
is someone else
who has a totally
different life,
and Tynea's been
stealing her photos.
- [sighs]
There's a lot more
that I wanna say,
but I respect woman more
to actually speak on that,
you know?
♪ ♪
'Cause I feel like
my time was wasted.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- Are you gonna be okay?
- Whoo.
Mmm.
- The next thing
that we did was,
we just went on Instagram,
and we did search
for Tynea Monet...
- Okay.
- Just to see if there
was an account.
Have you done that?
- I have, and for some reason,
it doesn't show nothing up
when I search on Instagram.
- Oh, really?
Oh.
Mmm.
Well, look what we found
when we searched Tynea Monet.
We found this profile.
[dramatic music]
Now I don't know if--
you don't know this girl,
do you?
- Nah, I don't recognize her
from a can of paint.
- Okay, well,
so there's two profiles
that come up
when you search Tynea Monet:
This one
and then there's this page.
Same girl, Tynea Monet.
And we obviously want to
figure out who this girl is
because why would there
be a page
for a girl named Tynea Monet
that you say that you
can't see which means that...
- That makes no sense.
- Well, maybe
she has you blocked.
If she has you blocked
then, like,
get your phone out right now.
Okay?
- Yes.
- And do a search
for these accounts.
- Got you.
That one doesn't show up,
but for some reason
the other one shows up.
- Interesting.
So that means she might have
you blocked on this one.
- And that's crazy.
- Well, so here,
check this out.
We saw that,
on one of the profiles
in her most recent picture,
someone commented--
this girl, Promise.
- Right.
- We spoke to her,
and she said that Tynea
also has a twin sister.
- Mmm.
- So she said that her twin
sister's name is Tyneira.
- And then we went and found
that twin sister's account.
Tyneira.
Looks like she has a daughter
as well, possibly.
- They look the same though.
- They do look very similar.
- Like, the girl you showed
me before in the Instagram,
and she looks like
the same person.
[laughs]
I wouldn't even have
noticed the difference.
- Is it the same person?
- Like, literally.
- Right?
- She's very beautiful to me,
in my opinion,
so it wouldn't make no sense
from my standpoint to--
why would you hide behind
the screen of someone else,
and you're beautiful?
You're not ugly at all.
She's a very beautiful woman,
so to me, I'm confused,
and it's just like, "What are
you truly hiding from me
that you don't want me
to know about?"
- Right.
- All right, so look.
We messaged the sister.
She got in the Zoom,
and we talked to her.
- Okay.
- And Tyneira told us
they are twins.
- But she says that Tynea
has never lived in Atlanta,
and that she lives...
- In Virginia.
- So now I'm confused.
- So then I say,
"Well, do you think your sister
would catfish someone?
Has she ever mentioned talking
to a guy online?"
And she said, "No, I don't
think she'd ever do that."
- She was being sketch.
- Well, we left it with her.
We said, "Okay, well,
"if you wanna let
your sister know
"that we'd like to talk to her,
"and she can reach out to us
if she wants, like,
that would be great."
- Mmm.
- So that was the last thing
we heard from her.
- I feel like I would be
more inclined
to maybe believe
Tyneira's story
about her sister not having
anything to do with it
if you weren't
conveniently blocked
on her sister's page.
- Oh, right,
and then now, there's that.
- It's not a coincidence.
- Exactly.
- Unless Promise
just played us.
- But she was a real girl.
- I know, but it must've
just been a friend of hers
who was, like, trying to...
- Cover?
- Now I'm thinking about it,
I'm not so sure
there's even a twin sister.
- There's no pictures
of them together.
- Right, I'm feeling the same
way about this situation.
- Well, so what do we do now?
Do we hit up Tyneira and be
like, "We know you're lying.
Your sister
has DeJuan blocked."
Or do we go straight to Tynea,
who's potentially the same
person as Tyneira,
and bust her?
Her?
- I mean, I guess
the other option is,
we can send a text to Tynea.
- Sure.
Why not?
Let's have at it.
- All right,
so let me do that.
Okay, "Hey, Tynea.
This is Nev from Catfish.
"We are making an episode now
"and have been talking
to your friend, DeJuan
in the hopes that we could
help you guys finally meet up."
- "DeJuan knows
you haven't been
"completely honest
about everything,
"but he's still
very much looking forward
to meeting you."
♪ ♪
- All right, I'm sending it.
Sent.
[computer dings]
- Wait a second.
I think I just got
a Facebook message.
- Ooh.
- Oh, yeah.
Oh!
- What?
- Tyneira just wrote,
"I saw you texted.
Can I talk to you again?"
- [sighs]
How'd she see we texted
if she doesn't have a phone?
- And if we texted her sister?
- There is no twin sister.
- What the [bleep]?
- Oh!
Tyneira just wrote,
"I saw you texted.
Can I talk to you again?"
"Sure, jump back in the Zoom,"
I guess, right?
- Exactly.
- That was Tyneira, the sister.
- The twin.
- The twin sister.
- If there really is a twin.
I mean, it's got to be
the same person.
[dramatic music]
Wait, hold on.
Let's see if she wrote back.
She said, "Okay."
- Come on in, girl.
Make this happen,
because something ain't right.
- Come on in.
[computer dings]
Okay, oh.
- Hi.
- Hello, Tyneira.
- Hey, guys.
Hey, dude.
- Hello.
- Hey, who?
You guys know each other?
- [laughs]
Yeah.
- Is that because you
are Tynea?
- Yeah.
- So are you also Tyneira?
- I'm the one
that's been catfishing him.
- What the [bleep]?
- And you're the same person
we spoke to earlier?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- What the [bleep]?
- Yeah, do you wanna explain
what's been going on?
'Cause we're all
pretty confused.
- Basically, I've just been--
I've been the one
catfishing him.
I didn't know how to come out
about it, basically.
- And that's all
you have to say?
- I've been going
through stuff, like,
insecurities and stuff,
and my sister,
her life was so great,
so I just wanted to use,
like, her stuff
'cause her life was so great,
and mine was so horrible
at the time.
- So you're trying to tell us
you do really have a sister?
- Yes.
- So why hide behind the screen
of someone else
and carry on this
for the last two years?
- I know,
because I just wasn't--
I didn't feel right
with myself at the time.
♪ ♪
- All right, so hold on.
Let me just clear up
a couple things.
Your name is Tyneira?
- Yes.
- And you do have a twin sister
named Tynea?
- Yes.
- Okay, and where do you live?
- North Carolina.
- In Greensboro?
- Yes.
- Okay, so that's what you
told us earlier when we spoke.
- Mm-hmm.
- And do you have any children?
- Yes.
- You do?
Okay.
Just one daughter
or more than that?
- Just one.
- I just--I'm a little confused
only because you said
that you were using things
in regards to your sister,
Tynea,
because her life
was going so great.
So even assuming
if your twin is real,
your story
still doesn't make sense.
You only used Tynea's name.
You didn't use her photos.
You didn't use anything having
to do with her
other than her name,
and you could've easily used
your name
with somebody else's photos.
That doesn't make sense to me.
- That's--I basically--
I mean, I didn't want to use
my own name
because, like, a lot of people
know me, so I used her name.
[dramatic musical sting]
- But what does that
have to do with her life?
'Cause it seemed more like
you were mirroring the life
of one of the girls
whose photos you were using
a majority of.
- No.
- And then she's so nonchalant
about this whole situation
as if it's not my life
that she was
playing around with.
- I'm gonna be honest
with you, Tyneira,
it still just feels, like,
a little weird,
and I'm not entirely sure
we're getting the whole story.
♪ ♪
Are we?
- Yeah.
- I don't think so,
because I don't think
you have a twin.
I don't think you're
telling us the whole truth.
[cell phone buzzing]
- Wait a second.
Hello?
- Yeah?
- Hi.
- This is Tynea.
- Tynea?
Okay, 'cause I'm also currently
talking to Tyneira.
Is that your sister?
- Yeah.
- I just--
I got your message,
and I need to talk to you.
- Okay, I'm confused, but
if I send you a Zoom link,
can you join a Zoom?
- Yeah, I can.
- All right,
we'll speak in a second.
- Okay.
- Okay.
So who is that?
Who just called me?
- You guys don't really have
to, I mean, even talk to her.
Y'all don't have
to talk to her.
She has nothing
to do with this.
- Oh, oh, there she is.
Hi.
- Hey.
- What?
There really is a twin!
- This [bleep] crazy as hell.
- Our heads are scrambled.
We honestly really don't know
what the hell's going on
right now,
so I don't know if you
can help us clear this up.
Tyneira seems to be telling us
that she's been catfishing
DeJuan this whole time,
but obviously, it's been
from your phone number,
so I don't know
how that would work.
I didn't think
there was a twin sister.
So can someone
help explain this?
- Can somebody tell the truth?
Please.
- My sister, she's just real,
real overprotective of me.
So I guess she just felt like
it would be a good idea
to take the fall
'cause I did let her know,
like, right after
you texted me.
Tyneira, thank you
for doing that,
but I just feel like
at the end of the day,
I just wanna be honest.
- Okay, so let me
get this straight.
So Tynea,
you are the one
who's been talking to DeJuan
the whole time?
- Mm-hmm.
- And your sister's trying
to take the fall for you?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, so Tyneira,
so you're just a stone-cold,
ride-or-die sister,
who had nothing to do with this
and was just trying
to help your sister?
- Yes, because she has
a lot going on with herself.
I had told my sister
not to call you guys back
because I handled it,
and my way of handling it
was telling you guys
that I'm the one
that was doing this.
- Okay.
And are you guys
actually twin sisters?
Tynea and Tyneira: Yes.
- This [bleep] is crazy
as hell.
[scoffs]
- As a big sister,
I understand wanting to
ride or die for your sister,
but at the same time,
you know, we're not here
to gang up on Tynea.
That's not why we're here.
Our job here is just to
facilitate the conversation.
- So let's just talk to Tynea
now for a little bit.
Tyneira, nice to meet you.
- Okay, thank you, guys.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
Okay, so we're finally where
we need to be, here.
Tynea, why don't you
actually just give us
a brief introduction
to yourself?
- Okay, I live in Virginia
with my step-mother
and my father.
- Okay.
- Why put your location
as Atlanta?
- When he told me that
he was in North Carolina,
at the time, I was living
in Greensboro, North Carolina,
and I just didn't want it
to lead to the point where
he was constantly asking me,
"Oh, since we live in the
same city, why not link up?"
So I just said Atlanta.
- Why did you let me drive
all the way to Georgia
if you wasn't gonna show up?
- I guess, like,
when you tell a lie,
you just gotta
keep telling lies and lies
to cover it up.
It was very selfish
and very, very insensitive
to let you drive
all the way down there.
- And was you pregnant
when we first met?
- Yeah, I was.
I was pregnant
when we first met.
Mmm.
- Okay, so you do have a kid,
right, a daughter?
- Yeah, she's two.
- Okay.
- I guess for me, I'm just
trying to figure out, like,
you're obviously a pretty girl.
Why are using photos
of another woman...
- Mm-hmm.
- To portray yourself?
- I feel like we all have
our own insecurities.
I'm not even gonna
sit here and lie.
Honestly, there was
plenty of times
where I wanted to come out
and say, "Oh, yeah,
I'm not the person who's in
the pictures," obviously,
but I just, like,
I guess, like,
my pride and me being afraid
of your reaction
and I guess losing somebody
that I care about dearly.
I did not even expect it
to even go as far as it did
because I didn't expect me to
fall for him for real.
I was just looking
for a friend
and someone to talk to.
Because when I had my daughter,
I was going through
postpartum depression.
[somber music]
And to deal with it...
- I'm sorry that you had
to go through those things
you had to go through.
- Is that something that you're
still struggling with now?
- As far as me being depressed?
No.
- You said that
things have been
a little rough for you lately.
Are you comfortable telling us
a little bit about that?
- I did kinda--
I did recently find out
that I'm pregnant.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Mmm.
Okay.
- Wow, okay.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, that's the only thing.
- This some bull[bleep].
- How far along are you?
- Two months.
- Well, congratulations.
- Thanks.
- Is the father someone
that you're seeing
and in a relationship with?
- As far as me being in
a relationship with him, no.
- Right, but two
or three months ago
you guys did have sex.
- Mm-hmm.
- Obviously.
- It wasn't intentional,
but, I mean, it happened.
♪ ♪
- That's a lot
of new information.
- Yeah.
- And that's all
you have to say, is, "Yeah"?
- He was under the impression
that you guys were in
a relationship,
and, I think,
an exclusive relationship.
- Yeah, and I mean,
I was just...
I care about him, you know?
Like, I love him,
and I didn't expect to fall
for him at all,
but I did.
I mean, everything
that I've said to him,
as far as me
expressing my feelings
have been 100% true,
and things
that I have not even told
anyone else, he knows.
So yeah, I do care about him,
I do want to be with him,
and I love him.
I just--I really do.
You know,
I can't change the past
because it's already been done,
but I mean, I can just fix,
you know, and mold the future.
- What do you think, DeJuan?
[tense music]
- [clears throat]
♪ ♪
- You know,
I can't change the past
because it's already been done,
but I mean, I can just fix,
you know, and mold the future.
- What do you think, DeJuan?
[dramatic music]
- [clears throat]
♪ ♪
At this point, I'm done.
[somber music]
I don't know
who you are, really.
- No, I mean,
you know who I am.
I'm not the same person
in the picture.
I'm not that.
I mean,
everything else is true,
so what don't you know
about me?
- I felt like we were in
a committed relationship.
Maybe I was wrong about that.
- I mean, it wasn't specified,
so I just felt like
the way everything went about,
as far as with
my daughter's father,
you know, it wasn't--
it wasn't a good choice.
And I wouldn't want, you know,
you to do me like that.
I mean, like,
over these years, like,
have you been faithful to me?
Like, have you not slept
with anyone else?
- Of course not.
The moment we matched
on Tinder,
I got rid of Tinder.
'Cause I felt like,
if we're in a relationship,
we saying we love each other,
we saying
we wanna see each other,
we saying we miss each other,
I don't feel like,
in a relationship
I should be saying that
same thing to somebody else.
- I mean, but if you
felt so strongly,
why is it so easy for you
to just get up and leave?
- Because I feel like
I haven't been getting
the truth told to me.
It didn't have
to come to this.
I just don't understand.
Why would you try
to mislead me?
- Like, I just--
I don't know.
I feel like the thought
of losing you was...
Worse than the thought of me
telling you a lie.
I do apologize
for misleading you
and not being honest,
leading you on to think
that I was someone else,
and laying you in
my bed of lies.
- I accept your apology.
I believe that everyone
makes mistakes in life,
and I'll always be here for you
if you need someone
to talk to.
I feel like that's where
we should go from there.
You have my number.
You can always Facetime me.
- [laughs]
- But as far as being
in a relationship,
I don't think I can handle
all that right now.
- [laughs]
- ♪ My love ♪
- Yeah.
- Well, look.
I know it's not exactly
what you had hoped for,
but it sounds like
DeJuan is willing
to continue being a friend.
- If he just wants
to be friends,
I mean, I'm open to that.
I just don't want all
communications just to stop.
- Are you gonna be okay?
- Yeah, I mean... [laughs]
I mean, it'll be weird,
but you know, I love him,
and I care about him,
so you know...
- It was really nice
meeting both of you.
You're both lovely,
beautiful people.
- ♪ Will you stand by me
every night and day? ♪
- There's definitely some good
that can come out of this,
and I'm sort of
crossing my fingers
that we get there.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Good luck, guys.
- Bye.
- Goodbye.
- ♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Every night and day ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'Cause I would do it
all for you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Always ♪
♪ Always ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Michael is a reality TV star
who's fallen in love
with Julia,
a girl he met online.
- We talked about our future
and how many kids
she wants to have,
but she said that
she's a virgin.
- [gasps]
- Wait a second.
52 mutual friends?
- Aw.
- There has to be a catch.
- What the hell's going on?
- I feel like I'm gonna
have a heart attack.
[computer dings]
[dramatic musical sting]
1178
00:42:08.
met Tynea on Tinder.
- She's an exotic dancer,
so that really caught my eyes.
That was, like,
the icing on the cake.
- I'm sure it was.
- Now, you do know that
she has a twin sister?
- Whoa.
Oh, my God.
- They look the same, though.
- 'Cause there's no pictures
of them together.
- I'm not so sure
there's even a twin sister.
- What are you hiding from me?
- Something ain't right.
- Let's have at it.
[computer dings]
- Oh.
- What the [bleep]?
[dramatic music]
[Sleepover's "Cactus Club"]
- ♪ Uno, dos, tres,
come and say it to my face ♪
- We're back.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Say it to my face ♪
- Oh!
- Do you notice
anything different?
- Okay, I love this game.
Your nails?
- Hair!
- Oh, I mean,
I see your hair.
How is it different?
It's just straight.
- I had braids, remember?
- Oh, well, yeah,
but I'm used to your hair
just changing
and looking great
all the time.
- [laughs]
- Put your hair back,
all right?
'Cause we're about
to get into this.
- Hair change and an email.
Let's go.
- All right, we got an email
here from DeJuan.
"Hi, Nev and Kamie.
"My name is DeJuan.
"I'm a 26-year-old
pre-law student
in Greensboro,
North Carolina."
- ♪ If you know what I mean ♪
- "My mind is spinning,
and I don't know what to do."
- ♪ Spinning in circles,
spiraling downwards ♪
- "I met this girl, Tynea,
about two or so
years ago on Tinder."
- ♪ Nobody else gets me
like you ♪
- "Tynea lived in Atlanta,
but I didn't mind.
"She is an incredible woman.
Goofy, beautiful,
strong, and caring."
- ♪ All that I wanted
was someone to hold me ♪
- "I could see us
being together
for the rest of our lives."
- ♪ Spinning in circles,
spiraling downward ♪
- "But recently, some things
have been happening
that made me wonder
if I've been fooling myself."
- Yes.
- ♪ I need you straight away ♪
- "About three months ago,
"Tynea ignored the latest
video chat request
"I had made.
"I don't know what it was
about that moment,
"but all of a sudden,
I started looking
at things differently."
- ♪ ...wanted was someone
to hold me ♪
♪ I never asked for you
to control me ♪
- "I wasn't ready
to end things over that,
"but the last couple of weeks
have been crazy.
First, I was blocked
from her Instagram."
- ♪ I need you straight away ♪
- "Then she dropped
a huge bomb on me.
"I won't say what it is here,
"'cause I don't want you guys
to judge her
before I get
to explain everything."
- Oh, God.
- "If she's not the girl
she's been saying she is,
"I need answers,
"and if she is the girl,
then I need to know
"so that I don't start
undermining our relationship
"with doubt and paranoia.
Help me get to
the bottom of this."
- ♪ Walking in circles ♪
- "Thank you,
DeJuan."
- I guess he just wants to
know if she's "de" one.
You're just upset 'cause
you didn't say it first.
- All right, well,
let's get DeJuan on de phone.
- That's a good one.
There you go.
You're coming back.
[laughter]
- I'm back, I'm back!
"Yo, DeJuan!
We wanna help."
All right, text sent
and delivered.
- I wanna know how
they matched on Tinder.
I know that you can, like,
increase your
geographical location, but...
- I mean, that's a wide radius.
[computer dings]
Oh!
- How y'all doing?
- Good.
- How are things
over in Greensboro?
- Like, with the COVID
and everything,
it's taking some time
to get used to it,
but everything is going good.
- So is law school
still happening?
Are you still...
- Well, I'm actually undergrad.
I studied political science
with a concentration
in pre-law.
You got the choice
to go virtual
or go face to face,
and I just decided to
go virtual so I could work.
- Oh, you work
outside of school?
- I have two part-time jobs.
- Wow.
- So I'm a very,
very busy person.
- That's why you're chasing
some girl on the Internet
who doesn't wanna video chat
or meet up with you?
[laughter]
- I wouldn't say
that's necessarily
why I'm chasing her.
I just love her, you know?
- So yeah, so explain
how did you and Tyn-ia--
is that how she says it?
- Ten-nay-ah, yeah.
both: Tynea.
- It's Tynea.
We met off of Tinder.
We exchanged numbers.
It was very fast-paced.
We immediately got
into talking to each other
and texting each other.
- Okay, so before
you swiped on her,
you knew that
she was in Atlanta?
- Oh, no.
Like, you don't know
until actually
you match with them.
Like, when you match with them
and you swipe right
and they happen to swipe right
with you,
that's when you know.
- When you saw
she was further away,
you were like, "Ah,
that doesn't matter to me."
- It didn't matter
to me at all.
I just wanted
to get to know her.
- Aw.
I'm trying to guess your sign.
- Let's see if you can guess.
- Are you a Gemini?
- I am a Cancer.
- Oh, my God.
[laughter]
- So Gemini--Gemini is close,
but I'm a Cancer.
- That's why we're here.
Now I've got it, okay.
- And Tynea,
what do you know about her?
What's her deal?
- She works a lot.
She works at Taco Bell, and
then she's an exotic dancer.
So that really caught my eyes.
When I found that out,
that was, like,
the icing on the cake.
[laughter]
- Oh!
I'm sure it was.
Wow.
- I support her grind.
I'm not a judgmental person
at all.
- Me too.
- I support everything
she does.
Everything is good between us.
We always talk all the time.
- Wow.
- And when you talk,
are you talking on the phone
or are you just texting?
- We talk on the phone
more than anything,
but we do text
from time to time.
- Aside from the Tinder profile
though,
surely a 20-year-old
exotic dancer in Atlanta
has an Instagram
and a Snapchat?
- Actually,
a couple of weeks ago,
I got blocked from seeing her
on Instagram,
and I asked her about it,
and her response was that she
lost access to her password
and her profile.
So that brought up
some suspicion to me.
- Yeah.
- I also found out
some more disturbing news
recently.
I found out that she had a kid.
We've been talking
to each other for a long time.
I should know
if you have a kid.
That's another thing
I'm concerned about.
'Cause if we are
gonna get married
and we are gonna live
with each other,
I need to be ready for that.
'Cause eventually I'm gonna get
close to your daughter.
- How old did she say
the daughter is?
- She said the daughter
is two years old.
- Did you ever talk about
her daughter's father?
- We didn't get into that.
'Cause obviously,
if she's dealing with me,
I'm assuming that he's not
in her life anymore.
So that's not important.
The most important thing
is making sure she's good
and her daughter's good.
Kids need time.
Time is important thing
with any child,
so that kinda gave me
the insight,
"Okay, maybe when
we first started talking,
maybe that's why she didn't
wanna meet up with me."
Because one time, I came
all the way to Georgia,
and she never showed up,
and I called her phone
over and over and over again.
I was like, "You do realize,
like, I drove four hours
to come see you?"
And she's like, "I'm sorry.
I'm going through a lot
right now at home."
- But you think
it might be because
she was hiding a kid?
- Correct.
- What was she going through?
Did you ever find out?
- Well, she said she was
going through anxiety
and depression,
and I was just like, "Okay,
that's fine, I understand that,
"'cause I know
it's a very sensitive thing,
"but I just would like for us
moving forward
"to be able to trust
each other,
"come forward with everything
about our life
'cause that's important."
- And you would say
you guys consider each other
boyfriend and girlfriend?
- Absolutely correct.
Yes, ma'am.
I love her, I appreciate her,
she's a good woman,
and I'm not going to
just casually dating anymore.
I wanna actually...
- Wow.
- I wanna actually
have a wife.
When I love someone,
I love them hard, I'm not--
- Wait, so you've been
exclusively dating Tynea
for the last two years?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Southern boys.
This is what LA needs more of.
- [laughs]
- So you have pictures
of Tynea?
- I'm dying to see
what this girl looks like.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Here we go.
All right.
- This one.
- She sent you this.
Wait, so this was
on Instagram?
- That was, like,
direct messages.
I took a screenshot.
- Keep going.
- I have this one.
- Okay, a little booty.
- And this one.
- Aah!
- [laughs]
- All right, you can swipe
to the next one.
- And you have this one.
- What about
your text messages?
- We got a few text messages.
- "Love you."
Okay, so you guys say
"love you" to each other?
- All the time.
Absolutely.
- You said,
"I love you so much,
"and I want to be with you
for the rest of my life.
I'm so glad we can be there
for each other."
She said, "We've both
had serious situations
occur in our life."
Hmm.
What's that about?
- My brother passed away
last year,
and my dad passed away
in 2014.
So I've lost some
really close family members,
and she always
made herself available
for me the way I needed her to.
So that made me
fall for her way more
than I will fall
for someone else.
- Well, I'm now I'm seeing
why you're falling so hard
for this girl.
- Right, that's
why I'm here today,
because I really care
about her,
and I really, truly love her.
Meeting her would
be the best thing
that ever happened to me.
- What if she doesn't look
like the girl in the pictures?
- Uh, I think it
would take me some time.
'Cause it's not like I decided
to wanna be with her
just because
of how attractive she was.
That was always the plus.
It was more so the person
she brought out in me,
but I have plenty of hope
that she is who I think she is.
- Oh, we're gonna find out.
- Okay.
- Send us what you got.
We'll do some research,
and we'll check back in
when we have some questions
or when we finally
have some answers.
- Just let me know.
- Right.
Thanks, DeJuan.
- Talk soon, buddy.
[dramatic music]
- Lord, have mercy.
- DeJuan seems like
such a catch.
Why do you think he's so into--
I mean, I get it, but like...
- Because he's a Cancer.
Every issue with DeJuan
has everything to do
with his zodiac sign.
- [laughs]
- All I can say,
there's a lot of red flags
in this story.
- Oh, wow.
♪ ♪
- All right,
what's up, everyone?
Welcome back to "Catfish."
I thought we could do
a little ASMR session
with me eating
a little breakfast sandwich
this morning.
So listen and enjoy.
[lips smacking]
Mmm.
[computer dings]
- Did you get any libations
for this investigations?
- I got the broke special.
- Mmm, you gotta upgrade
your package.
- [laughs]
All right, so what do we got?
We got DeJuan, 26,
lives in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
Meets a girl on Tinder
from Atlanta,
they start talking,
things go very quickly,
she seems great.
They've been talking
almost every day on the phone
for two years.
They say, "I love you."
Seem to be very serious
about being
in a committed relationship,
and yet, somehow,
after two years of basically
talking every day,
she says,
"I have a confession to make,
I actually have
a two-year-old daughter."
♪ ♪
All right, so let's see what
we can find out about Tynea.
All right, here we go.
Here's the email.
"Hey guys,
here's what I got for you.
"My girl's name
is Tynea Monet.
"Her Instagram was
[bleep]diva1.
"Here is her phone number,
and then I attached
the photos."
All right,
so first things first,
I kinda wanted to see if her
Instagram is still up, right?
- Yeah.
- All right, so let's see...
[bleep]diva1.
Oh, there it is.
- "Keep the fake [bleep]."
How ironic.
- "Raising a princess."
But then, what's interesting,
910, 704.
- Is that the Atlanta
area code?
704?
- I don't know.
Let's see.
- She started with a 910.
What is that?
- 910.
Oh, North Carolina.
Interesting.
- But look, it says,
"People also search for 704,"
so that must be another part
of North Carolina.
- Huh.
- Charlotte!
- I mean, it said right on
her Instagram account
that she essentially is
in North Carolina.
- But maybe
she blocked him first
and then put that in after.
- And the baby girl thing, and
like, "Raising a princess."
- Mm-hmm.
She ain't in Atlanta.
She's right next door.
- Yeah.
Okay, so let's see.
You wanna do an image search?
- Yeah.
- I don't think we're gonna
find any of these pictures,
but let's try.
All right,
let's start with this.
- I don't think so either.
- This is the one
which feels like a selfie.
- Oh!
- Ooh, oh, my goodness!
- This never happens!
- We got a hit
on the first pic.
- The first image?
[laughs]
- What is this?
Twitter, Baddass[bleep].
♪ ♪
Whoa.
Oh, my God.
- [gasps]
- Wait, is this her?
- Oh, my God.
- Wow.
- Oh, my God.
$50 video.
- She's got an OnlyFans.
- Aah!
- Looks like she's got a man.
- He's in her videos.
Bro, look how many followers
this girl has.
- Whoa.
Oh, my God.
All right, so I think
it's pretty clear
whoever Tynea is, she's using
this girl's photos.
- We haven't tried searching
for Tynea Monet.
- Oh, my God.
Good idea.
Oh.
- Ooh!
- Oh, oh.
Hello, who's this?
- With a baby!
Baby!
The little baby feet
in the bio.
- I know, I know, I know.
- But why would this girl
have a problem
with showing herself,
and why would she be using
fake pictures and videos?
- That's always the question,
right?
But wait, hold on,
there was one other.
Let's see this one.
Same girl.
- [gasps]
- And that's what
she says her name is.
I mean...
- Greensboro!
- Oh, my God.
- This is her.
- Yeah, this has gotta be her,
right?
- Who is that?
That comment underneath it?
- Promise.
All right, I'm gonna send her
a message.
"Hey, Promise,
"this is Nev from Catfish.
Would love your help, please."
- Come through, mama.
- Come through.
All right.
Sent.
- It's just so weird.
Why lie about your face?
Why lie about your location?
Why lie about all of these
different things?
- Right.
I mean, look, if...
[cell phone rings]
Oh.
Hello?
- Okay, great.
Let me explain.
So this is Nev
from the show "Catfish."
- The actual show "Catfish."
In fact, if you'd like,
I'd be happy to invite you
into my Zoom right now.
- I'm gonna text you
the Zoom link right now.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Promise has
to know something.
[computer dings]
- Mmm.
- Hey, Promise.
- Hi.
- Thank you so much for
getting back to us so quick.
- Of course.
- So we're trying
to help this guy
find out who he's talking to,
and the girl's name
that he's talking to
is Tynea Monet.
When we searched it
on Instagram,
we found your comment
on one of the recent posts.
So obviously, you know a
girl named Tynea Monet, right?
- Yeah, we were
high school friends.
I haven't talked to her
in a while,
but I don't think
she would catfish anyone.
You know, she's not known
for doing things like that.
- Right.
- Do you know anyone
that Tynea was really close to
that you think
she's still in contact with?
- Not really, but I do know
that she has a twin sister.
- A twin sister?
- Like, identical?
- I'm not really sure,
but they're twins.
- Interesting.
What's her name?
- Her name's Tyneira.
- Tyneira Monet?
- No, Monet is her middle name.
- Oh, Monet is
Tynea's middle name?
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you know her last name?
- It's [bleep].
It's [bleep].
- Tynea and Tyneira [bleep]?
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, thanks so much,
Promise.
Have a great night.
- You're welcome.
You too.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- We gotta find the twin.
- Let's look up
"Tynea Monet [bleep]."
[cell phone dings]
Ooh, I just got
an Instagram notification.
Oh, from Promise.
Oh, oh, my God.
She sent the Facebook account
for Tyneira,
with an R.
Wow, they do look
very similar.
- Plug it in.
I wanna see.
[dramatic investigative music]
Whoa.
- They look pretty similar,
right?
- Yeah.
Everybody is a fan
of this baby, Santana.
- Whose kid is this?
- This is Tynea's kid.
- But maybe it's actually
her kid.
Should I message her?
- Yes.
- "Hey, Tyneira.
"This is Nev from Catfish.
"Could use your help.
"Please give me a call.
Thanks."
All right,
here's what we know.
We know that there is a girl
who is either--certainly from
or has lived in Greensboro,
North Carolina,
named Tynea,
middle name Monet,
who has two Instagram accounts
which are a little suspicious
but seems to be a real person
according to
at least one source
and could just simply be
the girl he's been talking to,
which would be confusing,
but potentially also good news.
Because if she had
some strange reason
for either protecting
her privacy
or changing her identity
when she went on Tinder
for some reason
to avoid maybe someone
or something.
- Baby daddy.
- Maybe.
Maybe all that we need to do
is just clear that up.
DeJuan will see and hopefully
be attracted to her,
and they can still continue
pursuing a relationship.
I mean, this could either go
really well...
Or it could be a huge disaster.
[dramatic musical sting]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- All right, here we go.
♪ ♪
- Bing.
- Hi.
- What's the tea, Christine?
- We're still waiting
to hear back.
Wait a second!
I just got this message.
- [gasps]
That's the twin!
- That's the twin.
She says, "I don't have
a phone right now,
but you can call me
on Facebook."
- Why doesn't she have a phone?
- Well, we don't know if she
doesn't have a phone or not.
She may have just said that.
Why don't I just tell her
to get on the Zoom?
"Actually, if you could
join our Zoom,
that would be best."
All right, she's got the link.
[computer dings]
Oh.
- Oh.
- Hi.
- Oh!
- Hi.
- How you doing?
- I'm good.
You guys?
- Great.
Thank you.
- Doing good.
- That's good.
- So your familiar
with the show "Catfish"?
- Of course.
- Okay.
All right, so there's a guy,
DeJuan, in North Carolina
who's been talking to this
girl for two years now
who says her name
is Tynea Monet.
- Okay.
- Now correct us if I'm wrong,
but is that not
your sister's name?
- That's my twin, yes.
- That's your twin sis, right.
It's possible that
Tynea Monet is a name
that more than one person has,
but the fact that your sister
lives in Greensboro,
and this guy lives
in Greensboro,
and that they met on Tinder,
makes us wonder if
it could just be your sister.
- My sister doesn't stay
in North Carolina.
- Oh, okay.
- She lives in Virginia
right now.
- Oh.
- Hmm.
Do you live in Atlanta
or North Carolina?
- Oh.
- Huh.
- Are you near Greensboro?
- Yeah.
- How long has
she been in Virginia?
- Um,
probably for, like,
five or six months now.
- Okay.
And do you know if
she's dating someone or...
- Not that I know of.
- Okay.
- But she has a daughter?
- I don't think it'd be best
to discuss family right now.
I just don't feel comfortable
with doing that,
but if you guys need me to,
like, reach out to her...
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah.
If you could reach out to her
and give her our number,
that would be great.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, thanks
for getting back to us, and...
- Mm-hmm.
- Thank you--
Oh.
- I mean, I don't know anymore.
[laughter]
- It's a lie.
She knew her sister
had something to do with it
the second she came
on this Zoom.
- You know what we should do?
Let's fill in DeJuan.
"Hey, buddy.
We gotta talk."
For all we know,
maybe he knows this girl.
[computer dings]
- Oh, DeJuan!
- There it goes.
- There he is.
- What's going on?
What's going on?
- It's been
an interesting morning.
- Yeah, it sure has,
and we gotta figure this out
because it's confusing.
- All right.
- All right, so check this out.
So remember you sent us that?
- Right.
- We did an image search.
- Yes.
- And we got a hit:
this tweet posted
by this account,
Baddass[bleep].
And the girl in the pictures
looks like Tynea.
- Mmm.
- If you look up here it says
it's posted from Georgia,
which is interesting...
- Okay.
- Because that's where,
you know,
she says she lives.
She's got an OnlyFans...
♪ ♪
And then if you look at this,
she's got a video.
- Right.
Wow.
- There's a picture of her
with a guy.
You know, I don't know
who that is, but...
- It's not me.
- It's definitely not you,
but to not tell you
that she's posting
on OnlyFans, like...
- Right.
This is overwhelming.
- Now, here's the thing.
This is a very active
Twitter account.
It's got almost
150,000 followers.
- Right.
- Whoever Tynea is,
it's not this girl.
The girl in the pictures
is someone else
who has a totally
different life,
and Tynea's been
stealing her photos.
- [sighs]
There's a lot more
that I wanna say,
but I respect woman more
to actually speak on that,
you know?
♪ ♪
'Cause I feel like
my time was wasted.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- Are you gonna be okay?
- Whoo.
Mmm.
- The next thing
that we did was,
we just went on Instagram,
and we did search
for Tynea Monet...
- Okay.
- Just to see if there
was an account.
Have you done that?
- I have, and for some reason,
it doesn't show nothing up
when I search on Instagram.
- Oh, really?
Oh.
Mmm.
Well, look what we found
when we searched Tynea Monet.
We found this profile.
[dramatic music]
Now I don't know if--
you don't know this girl,
do you?
- Nah, I don't recognize her
from a can of paint.
- Okay, well,
so there's two profiles
that come up
when you search Tynea Monet:
This one
and then there's this page.
Same girl, Tynea Monet.
And we obviously want to
figure out who this girl is
because why would there
be a page
for a girl named Tynea Monet
that you say that you
can't see which means that...
- That makes no sense.
- Well, maybe
she has you blocked.
If she has you blocked
then, like,
get your phone out right now.
Okay?
- Yes.
- And do a search
for these accounts.
- Got you.
That one doesn't show up,
but for some reason
the other one shows up.
- Interesting.
So that means she might have
you blocked on this one.
- And that's crazy.
- Well, so here,
check this out.
We saw that,
on one of the profiles
in her most recent picture,
someone commented--
this girl, Promise.
- Right.
- We spoke to her,
and she said that Tynea
also has a twin sister.
- Mmm.
- So she said that her twin
sister's name is Tyneira.
- And then we went and found
that twin sister's account.
Tyneira.
Looks like she has a daughter
as well, possibly.
- They look the same though.
- They do look very similar.
- Like, the girl you showed
me before in the Instagram,
and she looks like
the same person.
[laughs]
I wouldn't even have
noticed the difference.
- Is it the same person?
- Like, literally.
- Right?
- She's very beautiful to me,
in my opinion,
so it wouldn't make no sense
from my standpoint to--
why would you hide behind
the screen of someone else,
and you're beautiful?
You're not ugly at all.
She's a very beautiful woman,
so to me, I'm confused,
and it's just like, "What are
you truly hiding from me
that you don't want me
to know about?"
- Right.
- All right, so look.
We messaged the sister.
She got in the Zoom,
and we talked to her.
- Okay.
- And Tyneira told us
they are twins.
- But she says that Tynea
has never lived in Atlanta,
and that she lives...
- In Virginia.
- So now I'm confused.
- So then I say,
"Well, do you think your sister
would catfish someone?
Has she ever mentioned talking
to a guy online?"
And she said, "No, I don't
think she'd ever do that."
- She was being sketch.
- Well, we left it with her.
We said, "Okay, well,
"if you wanna let
your sister know
"that we'd like to talk to her,
"and she can reach out to us
if she wants, like,
that would be great."
- Mmm.
- So that was the last thing
we heard from her.
- I feel like I would be
more inclined
to maybe believe
Tyneira's story
about her sister not having
anything to do with it
if you weren't
conveniently blocked
on her sister's page.
- Oh, right,
and then now, there's that.
- It's not a coincidence.
- Exactly.
- Unless Promise
just played us.
- But she was a real girl.
- I know, but it must've
just been a friend of hers
who was, like, trying to...
- Cover?
- Now I'm thinking about it,
I'm not so sure
there's even a twin sister.
- There's no pictures
of them together.
- Right, I'm feeling the same
way about this situation.
- Well, so what do we do now?
Do we hit up Tyneira and be
like, "We know you're lying.
Your sister
has DeJuan blocked."
Or do we go straight to Tynea,
who's potentially the same
person as Tyneira,
and bust her?
Her?
- I mean, I guess
the other option is,
we can send a text to Tynea.
- Sure.
Why not?
Let's have at it.
- All right,
so let me do that.
Okay, "Hey, Tynea.
This is Nev from Catfish.
"We are making an episode now
"and have been talking
to your friend, DeJuan
in the hopes that we could
help you guys finally meet up."
- "DeJuan knows
you haven't been
"completely honest
about everything,
"but he's still
very much looking forward
to meeting you."
♪ ♪
- All right, I'm sending it.
Sent.
[computer dings]
- Wait a second.
I think I just got
a Facebook message.
- Ooh.
- Oh, yeah.
Oh!
- What?
- Tyneira just wrote,
"I saw you texted.
Can I talk to you again?"
- [sighs]
How'd she see we texted
if she doesn't have a phone?
- And if we texted her sister?
- There is no twin sister.
- What the [bleep]?
- Oh!
Tyneira just wrote,
"I saw you texted.
Can I talk to you again?"
"Sure, jump back in the Zoom,"
I guess, right?
- Exactly.
- That was Tyneira, the sister.
- The twin.
- The twin sister.
- If there really is a twin.
I mean, it's got to be
the same person.
[dramatic music]
Wait, hold on.
Let's see if she wrote back.
She said, "Okay."
- Come on in, girl.
Make this happen,
because something ain't right.
- Come on in.
[computer dings]
Okay, oh.
- Hi.
- Hello, Tyneira.
- Hey, guys.
Hey, dude.
- Hello.
- Hey, who?
You guys know each other?
- [laughs]
Yeah.
- Is that because you
are Tynea?
- Yeah.
- So are you also Tyneira?
- I'm the one
that's been catfishing him.
- What the [bleep]?
- And you're the same person
we spoke to earlier?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- What the [bleep]?
- Yeah, do you wanna explain
what's been going on?
'Cause we're all
pretty confused.
- Basically, I've just been--
I've been the one
catfishing him.
I didn't know how to come out
about it, basically.
- And that's all
you have to say?
- I've been going
through stuff, like,
insecurities and stuff,
and my sister,
her life was so great,
so I just wanted to use,
like, her stuff
'cause her life was so great,
and mine was so horrible
at the time.
- So you're trying to tell us
you do really have a sister?
- Yes.
- So why hide behind the screen
of someone else
and carry on this
for the last two years?
- I know,
because I just wasn't--
I didn't feel right
with myself at the time.
♪ ♪
- All right, so hold on.
Let me just clear up
a couple things.
Your name is Tyneira?
- Yes.
- And you do have a twin sister
named Tynea?
- Yes.
- Okay, and where do you live?
- North Carolina.
- In Greensboro?
- Yes.
- Okay, so that's what you
told us earlier when we spoke.
- Mm-hmm.
- And do you have any children?
- Yes.
- You do?
Okay.
Just one daughter
or more than that?
- Just one.
- I just--I'm a little confused
only because you said
that you were using things
in regards to your sister,
Tynea,
because her life
was going so great.
So even assuming
if your twin is real,
your story
still doesn't make sense.
You only used Tynea's name.
You didn't use her photos.
You didn't use anything having
to do with her
other than her name,
and you could've easily used
your name
with somebody else's photos.
That doesn't make sense to me.
- That's--I basically--
I mean, I didn't want to use
my own name
because, like, a lot of people
know me, so I used her name.
[dramatic musical sting]
- But what does that
have to do with her life?
'Cause it seemed more like
you were mirroring the life
of one of the girls
whose photos you were using
a majority of.
- No.
- And then she's so nonchalant
about this whole situation
as if it's not my life
that she was
playing around with.
- I'm gonna be honest
with you, Tyneira,
it still just feels, like,
a little weird,
and I'm not entirely sure
we're getting the whole story.
♪ ♪
Are we?
- Yeah.
- I don't think so,
because I don't think
you have a twin.
I don't think you're
telling us the whole truth.
[cell phone buzzing]
- Wait a second.
Hello?
- Yeah?
- Hi.
- This is Tynea.
- Tynea?
Okay, 'cause I'm also currently
talking to Tyneira.
Is that your sister?
- Yeah.
- I just--
I got your message,
and I need to talk to you.
- Okay, I'm confused, but
if I send you a Zoom link,
can you join a Zoom?
- Yeah, I can.
- All right,
we'll speak in a second.
- Okay.
- Okay.
So who is that?
Who just called me?
- You guys don't really have
to, I mean, even talk to her.
Y'all don't have
to talk to her.
She has nothing
to do with this.
- Oh, oh, there she is.
Hi.
- Hey.
- What?
There really is a twin!
- This [bleep] crazy as hell.
- Our heads are scrambled.
We honestly really don't know
what the hell's going on
right now,
so I don't know if you
can help us clear this up.
Tyneira seems to be telling us
that she's been catfishing
DeJuan this whole time,
but obviously, it's been
from your phone number,
so I don't know
how that would work.
I didn't think
there was a twin sister.
So can someone
help explain this?
- Can somebody tell the truth?
Please.
- My sister, she's just real,
real overprotective of me.
So I guess she just felt like
it would be a good idea
to take the fall
'cause I did let her know,
like, right after
you texted me.
Tyneira, thank you
for doing that,
but I just feel like
at the end of the day,
I just wanna be honest.
- Okay, so let me
get this straight.
So Tynea,
you are the one
who's been talking to DeJuan
the whole time?
- Mm-hmm.
- And your sister's trying
to take the fall for you?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, so Tyneira,
so you're just a stone-cold,
ride-or-die sister,
who had nothing to do with this
and was just trying
to help your sister?
- Yes, because she has
a lot going on with herself.
I had told my sister
not to call you guys back
because I handled it,
and my way of handling it
was telling you guys
that I'm the one
that was doing this.
- Okay.
And are you guys
actually twin sisters?
Tynea and Tyneira: Yes.
- This [bleep] is crazy
as hell.
[scoffs]
- As a big sister,
I understand wanting to
ride or die for your sister,
but at the same time,
you know, we're not here
to gang up on Tynea.
That's not why we're here.
Our job here is just to
facilitate the conversation.
- So let's just talk to Tynea
now for a little bit.
Tyneira, nice to meet you.
- Okay, thank you, guys.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
Okay, so we're finally where
we need to be, here.
Tynea, why don't you
actually just give us
a brief introduction
to yourself?
- Okay, I live in Virginia
with my step-mother
and my father.
- Okay.
- Why put your location
as Atlanta?
- When he told me that
he was in North Carolina,
at the time, I was living
in Greensboro, North Carolina,
and I just didn't want it
to lead to the point where
he was constantly asking me,
"Oh, since we live in the
same city, why not link up?"
So I just said Atlanta.
- Why did you let me drive
all the way to Georgia
if you wasn't gonna show up?
- I guess, like,
when you tell a lie,
you just gotta
keep telling lies and lies
to cover it up.
It was very selfish
and very, very insensitive
to let you drive
all the way down there.
- And was you pregnant
when we first met?
- Yeah, I was.
I was pregnant
when we first met.
Mmm.
- Okay, so you do have a kid,
right, a daughter?
- Yeah, she's two.
- Okay.
- I guess for me, I'm just
trying to figure out, like,
you're obviously a pretty girl.
Why are using photos
of another woman...
- Mm-hmm.
- To portray yourself?
- I feel like we all have
our own insecurities.
I'm not even gonna
sit here and lie.
Honestly, there was
plenty of times
where I wanted to come out
and say, "Oh, yeah,
I'm not the person who's in
the pictures," obviously,
but I just, like,
I guess, like,
my pride and me being afraid
of your reaction
and I guess losing somebody
that I care about dearly.
I did not even expect it
to even go as far as it did
because I didn't expect me to
fall for him for real.
I was just looking
for a friend
and someone to talk to.
Because when I had my daughter,
I was going through
postpartum depression.
[somber music]
And to deal with it...
- I'm sorry that you had
to go through those things
you had to go through.
- Is that something that you're
still struggling with now?
- As far as me being depressed?
No.
- You said that
things have been
a little rough for you lately.
Are you comfortable telling us
a little bit about that?
- I did kinda--
I did recently find out
that I'm pregnant.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Mmm.
Okay.
- Wow, okay.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, that's the only thing.
- This some bull[bleep].
- How far along are you?
- Two months.
- Well, congratulations.
- Thanks.
- Is the father someone
that you're seeing
and in a relationship with?
- As far as me being in
a relationship with him, no.
- Right, but two
or three months ago
you guys did have sex.
- Mm-hmm.
- Obviously.
- It wasn't intentional,
but, I mean, it happened.
♪ ♪
- That's a lot
of new information.
- Yeah.
- And that's all
you have to say, is, "Yeah"?
- He was under the impression
that you guys were in
a relationship,
and, I think,
an exclusive relationship.
- Yeah, and I mean,
I was just...
I care about him, you know?
Like, I love him,
and I didn't expect to fall
for him at all,
but I did.
I mean, everything
that I've said to him,
as far as me
expressing my feelings
have been 100% true,
and things
that I have not even told
anyone else, he knows.
So yeah, I do care about him,
I do want to be with him,
and I love him.
I just--I really do.
You know,
I can't change the past
because it's already been done,
but I mean, I can just fix,
you know, and mold the future.
- What do you think, DeJuan?
[tense music]
- [clears throat]
♪ ♪
- You know,
I can't change the past
because it's already been done,
but I mean, I can just fix,
you know, and mold the future.
- What do you think, DeJuan?
[dramatic music]
- [clears throat]
♪ ♪
At this point, I'm done.
[somber music]
I don't know
who you are, really.
- No, I mean,
you know who I am.
I'm not the same person
in the picture.
I'm not that.
I mean,
everything else is true,
so what don't you know
about me?
- I felt like we were in
a committed relationship.
Maybe I was wrong about that.
- I mean, it wasn't specified,
so I just felt like
the way everything went about,
as far as with
my daughter's father,
you know, it wasn't--
it wasn't a good choice.
And I wouldn't want, you know,
you to do me like that.
I mean, like,
over these years, like,
have you been faithful to me?
Like, have you not slept
with anyone else?
- Of course not.
The moment we matched
on Tinder,
I got rid of Tinder.
'Cause I felt like,
if we're in a relationship,
we saying we love each other,
we saying
we wanna see each other,
we saying we miss each other,
I don't feel like,
in a relationship
I should be saying that
same thing to somebody else.
- I mean, but if you
felt so strongly,
why is it so easy for you
to just get up and leave?
- Because I feel like
I haven't been getting
the truth told to me.
It didn't have
to come to this.
I just don't understand.
Why would you try
to mislead me?
- Like, I just--
I don't know.
I feel like the thought
of losing you was...
Worse than the thought of me
telling you a lie.
I do apologize
for misleading you
and not being honest,
leading you on to think
that I was someone else,
and laying you in
my bed of lies.
- I accept your apology.
I believe that everyone
makes mistakes in life,
and I'll always be here for you
if you need someone
to talk to.
I feel like that's where
we should go from there.
You have my number.
You can always Facetime me.
- [laughs]
- But as far as being
in a relationship,
I don't think I can handle
all that right now.
- [laughs]
- ♪ My love ♪
- Yeah.
- Well, look.
I know it's not exactly
what you had hoped for,
but it sounds like
DeJuan is willing
to continue being a friend.
- If he just wants
to be friends,
I mean, I'm open to that.
I just don't want all
communications just to stop.
- Are you gonna be okay?
- Yeah, I mean... [laughs]
I mean, it'll be weird,
but you know, I love him,
and I care about him,
so you know...
- It was really nice
meeting both of you.
You're both lovely,
beautiful people.
- ♪ Will you stand by me
every night and day? ♪
- There's definitely some good
that can come out of this,
and I'm sort of
crossing my fingers
that we get there.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Good luck, guys.
- Bye.
- Goodbye.
- ♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Every night and day ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'Cause I would do it
all for you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Always ♪
♪ Always ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Michael is a reality TV star
who's fallen in love
with Julia,
a girl he met online.
- We talked about our future
and how many kids
she wants to have,
but she said that
she's a virgin.
- [gasps]
- Wait a second.
52 mutual friends?
- Aw.
- There has to be a catch.
- What the hell's going on?
- I feel like I'm gonna
have a heart attack.
[computer dings]
[dramatic musical sting]
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