In this episode of Karamo, host Karamo mediates a heated confrontation between Alicia, her boyfriend Aaron, and Aaron’s sister Christina about alleged infidelity and betrayal. Alicia recounts a tumultuous year‑long relationship marked by past drama, a baby from a previous partner, and long‑distance strain. She suspects Aaron of cheating after finding a suspicious text on his phone, leading her to demand that Aaron’s phone be unlocked for forensic examination. Christina, who initially defended Aaron, later acknowledges feeling betrayed by both siblings. The show brings in an “Unlock the Phone” investigator who examines Aaron’s phone, uncovering evidence contrary to his denials: visits to a dating site (findsinglesonly.com), explicit iCloud photos of another woman, and over 100 text messages with a woman from Alicia’s list. The investigation also reveals Alicia’s own secret communications: contacts with a male friend, 9 Facebook dating alerts, and 609 deleted TextNow messages. Both parties are caught lying about their fidelity. Karamo interprets the pattern as a recurring cycle of mistrust and advises a complete reset of the relationship, setting firm boundaries, and ultimately suggests that the couple may need to separate. The episode highlights the role of digital forensics in relationship counseling, the impact of betrayal on friendships, and the emotional dynamics of confronting infidelity.
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So tell me what's going on.
Well, me and Aaron, we've been together for a year. It's been a lot of drama back and forth, a lot of toxic, and we here to fix our relationship.
Okay, one year drama. Okay, what's been going on?
So in the beginning of our relationship, we had like a baby mother drama, an ex drama, found out that she was pregnant. At the time when she got pregnant, we wasn't together, so I had to like mentally accept that, which I did. But then it was like things down the line, 'cause I was outta town. I lived in Georgia and he lived in Maryland. And it was things that the ex would say like, oh, we just seen each other.
She— It's one thing for me to accept the baby, but now y'all still going back and still doing stuff. What did Christina tell you about her brother?
She spoke highly of him.
Got it.
She said that he's a good man. He's like a male version of me and that's what got me.
Got it, because you know your friend.
Yes.
And you know what an upstanding woman she is.
Yes.
Got it. So when Christina told Aaron, told you Aaron was in prison, that didn't scare you away?
No.
Okay.
It didn't make me judge him. It didn't make me look at him any type of way. He didn't go there for murder.
So how did you find out that Christina knew that Aaron was cheating?
I don't think that Christina knew he was cheating. I think that she probably, I really can't say, but what I do know is she, I think that she had her feelings because the ex was actually staying, one of the exes was staying with Christina and I.
So you think she had suspicions but she didn't confirm it?
Yeah, but she would come to me and say like, "I don't wanna betray my brother and I don't wanna betray you." So she would throw hints, but at the same time not trying to betray him at the same time.
Well, what happened when you confronted Christina?
I told her how I felt about it. She came to me and said that I felt like I was being a bad friend about, I felt like I was being a bad friend. And I told her that it hurt me. Truthfully, it still hurts because this relationship messed our, my relationship up with my best friend. And we all three said that before it got official that this relationship wouldn't mess up the friendship. The friendship.
Makes sense. So once you moved in with Aaron, did the cheating stop?
It did until, I wanna say it was August. August, I went in his phone and it was a message that he literally just sent to a female right before he walked in the house. So he tried to say that it was his homeboy that sent the message. And then I was like, oh well, I'm leaving. I said things like, Why'd he say it was homeboy? He tried to call the homeboy, was like, "Deen, you send this text message, me, I'm not gonna believe it 'cause that's your homeboy." So if it was my girl calling, I'm gonna ride for my girl. Yeah, of course you are.
Yeah, that's what you're gonna—
I don't believe when you do that. So I left the house that night and in the midst of him, he's apologizing to me. He even called his pastor, was like, "She left the house." In the midst of him doing that, he's telling, He's texting females like, "Come see me." While he calling the pastors and apologizing to you, he's still calling other females?
Yes.
So why do you wanna unlock Aaron's phone today?
Because I wanna know if, is this something that's been going on recently?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And if there is something that's going on recently, you're done?
Yeah, I'm done.
Got it.
Yeah.
All right, before I bring Aaron out, let's hear what what his sister Christina has to say about all this. So welcome Christina to the show. Do you feel like your brother betrayed your friend?
Of course.
Yes.
Without a doubt. But I feel like it was both a betrayal on both ends.
How you feel that way?
When it come to y'all two?
Yeah.
I think that you had stuff like secret, 'cause the way, to me what betrayal is, how I heard you talk about another man versus how I heard you talk about Earn, I feel like that's, that could be considered betrayal.
But I had my reasons though.
You had your reasons, but I still said that's betrayal on your end. It's two sides to every story. So I feel like that was betrayal on him. 'Cause it's either you gonna— I understand why you did it, but it's still like, either you gonna be in it or you not. It's not gonna be tit for tat. It's either you gonna be in it or you not. And I feel like it was tit for tat for you, and you know that, 'cause you said that. And you stood on that. And so, I still feel like it was betrayal.
Okay.
I understand. I can truly see both of your sides. But I think there's one person in this that has a lot to say about all this. So let's welcome Alicia's boyfriend, Aaron, to the show.
Look at you looking good.
Thank you.
Welcome to the show.
Mr. Karamo, how you doing?
I'm good, thank you. So Aaron, you gotta explain yourself.
No, I am not cheating. Not a cheater. Everything that I did or have done, I will admit. I'm a man. Yes, I have emotionally cheated. And when you emotionally cheat, there's two sides to that story. There's a cause and effect. Why did I emotionally cheat? What was the situation? And I'm not justifying saying, oh, I cheated because, no, I ain't putting the blame on no one. I cheated, I texted females. That's what it was, I texted some females. Instead she said something about call my pastor while I was texting her. That is not the way that it went. First of all, I did not send no text. The text message that she thought I sent that she left because actually was my homeboy trying to get me to talk to his girl friend. And I kept telling him I'm not with it, don't do it, but I was trying to get him He was trying to withdraw.
So she said that you were talk— When this happened, you were trying to get her back and you were calling your pastor and you were texting other women. You're saying you weren't texting any other women?
No, I didn't say that. I said that this is how she trying to paint the picture is not the way that it went. Oh, I'm trying to get her back while I'm texting other females.
No, that's not it.
You said the only reason why you text them females is because I left the house. And because I said that I can do better, I said I can do better. If you think that you're gonna be texting other females, I can see somebody, I can do better, and I can see another man.
You said a lot. She said way more than that.
No, that's exactly what I said.
She said way more than that. She said I'm going on a date, I'm gonna have sex.
I never said that. I never said that.
But before she decided she wanted to leave, you texted her.
And you don't even, hold on.
I know, I know, I'm not a part of that situation.
No, you a part of, you is a part of that situation.
She called me in that situation.
Not that.
Let me say this for one second.
You need to mind your business. It started because of you.
All right, why you coming at me like that?
Because it's you.
All right, hold on, if you want, all right.
Listen, no, you tripping, no, you tripping.
But it's cool, let me say this. All right, number one, you gotta take accountability for that action. Not only did she see that message, the one thing that she thought that was sacred to her was what? You calling her queen. You referred to the other woman as queen as well. She felt like you put her on a pedestal. That pedestal broke down when she seen those other messages. And don't tell me I need to mind my business. Don't tell me I need to mind my business if every issue y'all run into, you call me and you tell your side of the story, Earn.
If I'm calling you, that's between me and you, not between a me, you, and a Lisa.
No, but she does the same. But that's why I'm in between because she does the same thing.
Y'all think we should just unlock these phones?
Yeah. Okay.
We gonna get to some truth today. All right, let's start with Earn's phone.
Yes, sir.
Are you ready for this?
Best guess, I guess.
All right, here we go. Alicia, you want to know if Aaron is meeting with other women. He said no. Our unlock the phone investigator searched his phone and found he is not telling the truth. He searched his web history and found that he was on findsinglesonly.com.
That's not true.
No, that's true, we found it.
With my info on it? Did I do anything on it?
FindSinglesOnly.com.
Was it a pop-up?
Was it a pop-up or was it, did it just pop on the site or did I put my information in? Do I got a profile? Any of that?
From your browser history.
That's, so Mr. Karamo.
Pop-ups don't come from your browser history. Browser history means you have to type it in. We would never give a pop-up that comes on it.
But on Instagram, on social media, certain things come on and you click on it, it goes to your browser history.
Registry correct.
That doesn't mean that I went and put my info in, 'cause do I got a profile?
We find facts only on this show. We find facts only on this show. You can justify this with her later on. We only find facts. We only find facts. The question is, are you on these things? Are you doing these things? We say yes or no. That's how we keep it here. That way we don't ever get mixed in middle ground that where you can talk your way in or out of something.
Yes, sir, I understand.
Number 2, Alicia, you wanna know if Aaron has photos of other women in his phone. He said no. Our Unlock the Phone investigators searched his photos and found he is not telling the truth. We found 9 photos, sexual nature, saved in his iCloud of the same woman. You want, I guess there's something my producer told me. Yeah, can I see the evidence bag? It's important about this iCloud to you?
Yeah.
What was important about this iCloud to you?
He was trying to, because he got a thing of deleting things.
Got it, that's why the iCloud was important for you.
You got pictures?
Yes, of course. Here you go. These are the ones that were saved from iCloud.
I don't even know who that is.
Okay, so I know about these. He got homeboys that's locked up in jail.
So he sends them women?
So yeah.
Got it, okay.
Yeah.
All right, number 3, you want to know if Aaron is communicating with any women from the list that you gave to us.
Yeah, that's what I wanna know.
He said no. Our unlock the phone investigator searched his texts and found he is not telling the truth. We found 104 texts between Aaron and one of the women from the list.
Ooh, okay.
How do you feel about that?
Truthfully, you already know all the texts that we sent.
No, I don't.
No, I don't know this. No, I do not.
All right, Alyssa.
Okay.
Yeah, it hurts me because I knew he was hiding something.
Yeah. Is this the other person you call queen?
No.
Okay. God, okay.
Mr. Karamo, can I say something please?
Sure, you can.
Do we have any messages from 3 months ago?
Uh-uh, we'll give 'em to you though.
She know about all the text messages.
I don't know about no text messages 3 months ago.
When you sent your texts to who you sent your texts to.
I don't know about no message 3 months ago.
Y'all was together. I wasn't texting.
Alicia, it's time to unlock your phone as well now. Okay. Why are you grinning?
I thought, that's her.
Oh.
I already heard you say earlier she tipped for tips. Tight.
She real tight. She'll let you know though. She honest about it.
Yeah, whatever's in this is in it.
Okay. Aaron, do you think that you'll find anything in this phone?
Of course.
Of course. All right, so Alicia, it's time to unlock your phone. All right, you ready? All right. Aaron, you want to know if Alicia has been in contact with this specific list of men. She said no. Our Unlock the Phone investigators searched her calls and found She is not telling the truth. Alicia has been communicating with one of the guys from that list at least twice. Their last contact was February 8th, 2024.
That's my best friend.
I put his name on there to see if that is her best friend or something else.
Okay, okay. We didn't see anything else in there. We just saw that they're still communicating. Aaron, you want to know if Alicia is hooking up with men online. She said no. Our Unlock the Phone investigators searched her apps and found she is not telling the truth. She has an active Facebook account that has 9 dating alert notifications that she has not responded to.
That's my girl.
Period. So you are dating on Facebook?
No, it's on my Facebook, it's just up there.
But you're not communicating?
You see I'm not opening it, so yeah.
Okay. Aaron, you want to know if she is communicating with any other men over the past 8 months. She said no. Our unlock the phone investigator searched her texts and found she is not telling the truth. She has been using TextNow and deleted a total of 609 text exchanges.
609?
609?
On TextNow.
From what date?
Both of y'all get real confused about these numbers.
Yeah, because I'm not texting no man on TextNow.
There's 609 text exchanges that have been deleted.
I don't know. I haven't even texted no man on text now.
Well, if I can tell y'all this right now, what I can see here is there's two things. First, it has been unfair that you have been put in the middle of all this. And I see that this has been a pattern that has happened before this relationship. And I feel like it's gonna be a pattern unless you set some clear boundaries. Whoever your brother's talking to, you don't need to be friends with, you don't need to deal with. Let this be the last lesson that you ever have to learn this with. Let this be the lesson, you hear me? Let this be the lesson. And then for you two, I believe that there was love here. I believe that there is room for you all to grow, but I believe y'all need a reset. I believe if this relationship was ever gonna work, y'all'd have to get back to a place where y'all could start from zero.
I feel like they started from the beginning so many times, But I feel like—
Oh see, I don't have that. So y'all broken up over and over again?
Like they had like, we gonna reset, we gonna start over, we gonna reset. But those feelings are still there. They resetting with the same people though.
Oh, so see, again, didn't have the information. Thank you for telling me. Now that I know this other information about y'all restarting is why I'm gonna change that 100% and say y'all don't need to be together.
Yes.
And that's the end of it. You understand? And I think all of y'all will end up being happier. This friendship will get stronger. And I feel one day y'all all gonna be friends again, having a drink, laughing about this whole moment, and y'all be able to move on. All right? I promise y'all. I wish y'all the best of luck though. I sincerely do. 'Cause y'all some good people and I wish y'all the best, sincerely. All right?
