"I'm A Stud, I Don't Cheat!" | KARAMO

What do you think Lex is hiding from you?

I think there's multiple things. I really feel like she's talking to her ex or somebody from around the way from our house.

Okay.

She has an iPhone that supposedly she's had for the longest time.

Yeah.

I mean like the longest time. It transferred over when her mom bought her a new phone and then magically the iCloud account got deleted or something.

Oh.

Like, oh, I don't have access to my email anymore. I don't have access to my Messenger. But when we fight or argue, then all of a sudden you're on YouTube, you're on Facebook, you have access to that phone. And then you make a call and you disappear. I've seen her FaceTiming females on her phone.

Who do you think she's in contact with specifically?

'Cause there's specific people. There's a specific neighbor that we actually had an issue about. In one of our fights or arguments, she disappeared for half a day. She was at the neighbor's right behind our house. So when I walked back there, she's getting outta the car with the chick and I walked up on her. I said, "You with the ops?" Bink, bink, bink. 'Cause you ain't finna play me for no fool out here in the neighborhood where we all, we know all these people out here together.

Why fight? Why not walk away?

Well, to be honest—

That's a legitimate question because if it's like you lying to me, I'm catching you walk out of a car. If I feel like this is where our relationship's going—

I love her, I do, I love her. We've been through so much together. She's kindhearted and she's good. She has her good qualities. It's the secret-ness, it's the secretiveness that got me just, like, I can't.

Got it, okay. What has Lex said to you that has made you self-conscious?

She told me from the very beginning that I wasn't her type. Oh. That I wasn't her type, I needed to gain weight. So it got to the point where if I'm not your type and I'm not who you messing with, then what are we even doing right now?

Okay.

I'm supposed to trust and believe that you love me and I'm for the long haul and this is what you want, then you tell me I'm not your type.

Yeah.

So what is it?

And how long have y'all been together?

4 years, but let her tell it, we've only been official for 2.

Uh-huh. But that's still a long time, whether it's 2 or 4. Y'all have been engaged in a long-term relationship. What do you think we'll find in her phone?

I think that you're gonna find her talking to her ex, if not that chick from around the corner.

Got it. Well, you asked my unlock the phone investigator to unlock Lex's phone 'cause you want to know if Lex has been texting other women. You want to know if Lex has been secretly meeting with other women. Yes. And you want to know if Lex has been communicating with her ex on social media.

Right.

What happens to this relationship if we discover that your suspicions are true?

She gotta get outta my house.

Got it, got it, okay.

We have kids in, oh, I have my children who have literally gotten to the point where they love her on the same, almost the same level. She has earned that right with them. So there's a lot at stake. You can't just play with my emotions 'cause you're playing with theirs too.

Got it. Well, I think it's time to hear what Lex has to say about all this, and I wanna hear her side of the story. So everyone, welcome back to the show. Hey Lex, how you doing?

Hi Karamo.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Yes, of course. So what do you think about what you just heard?

I don't agree with majority of it.

Okay, what parts you don't agree with?

I've never shamed you on your weight. I help you. What you wait every day? You don't eat, I make sure you eat. I cook 3 meals a day for you. And if we're in an argument, that's her biggest thing. She will refuse to eat. When we first met, I came from a place where I was just leaving a 7-year relationship. I was single as a dollar bill. I didn't wanna be in a relationship. I was still trying to find myself and be me, love me. I started babysitting her kids. I got attached to them. I love those kids. Those is my babies. And moving forward, we just continue to build.

Why do you answer your ex's calls late at night?

I've answered her calls twice since I've been with Maritza. One time was in regards to our dog.

Okay.

And that was a dog that we shared together. That dog was getting sick and getting ready to pass.

When was the second time?

When I was at your mother's house in Brunswick.

Oh yeah, it caused a fight. My mother did not speak to me for almost a year. And that was me being petty. 'Cause she felt like she got the call from her ex in front of me.

I didn't know my ex was gonna call me. It was me being petty.

Okay. Where did you go after the argument?

To the neighbor's house in the back.

To the neighbor's house, okay. And what happened there?

I was over there hanging out and then I ended up going to the store for her with the neighbor and the said girl that she's talking about.

My producer told me that y'all got into an argument at the airport coming here.

Sure did.

At the hotel yesterday.

Sure did, 'cause she tried to leave me in the airport. That's not what she said. She took off off the plane in front of me and took off. Now I'm standing in the airport by myself. I lost my damn shit. I started following her through, where the fuck do you think you're going? You left me on my shit though.

And that's not what she said. She said, let's take a picture with me. And I told her like, we not about to sit here and take a picture like, We not, we on vacation.

She said I wanted a picture.

We here to Karamo 'cause we got problems. This is not vacation, baby. And I'm not about to play with you.

Her exact words was, I said I wanted a picture for the kids. They don't know what's going on.

They know everything that's going on.

Our 13-year-old son, he wants to be here.

He knows what's going on. And that's the thing about her, she keeps sugarcoating it when it's just us knowing what's really fucking going on. Now your response wasn't I don't even fuck with you like that? You right.

That wasn't your response? I don't give a fuck. So then why did you bring it out here?

Because I'm tired of being accused and I wanna clear my name.

So I have a question for both of you. Have you attempted to leave this relationship?

I have.

You have? What happened?

Every time I try to leave, either something gets broken or the kids, I get threatened with the kids.

Oh.

It's not that I threaten her with the kids. She has this unrealistic idea that if we split up, we're still gonna live in the same house and co-parent at all. Like, I'm not gonna see her and like she said, I'm not gonna pretend and play house with you. Like, I'm the type of person, if the relationship is done, it's done. I'm dead. I wash my hands with it and we're, There's no staying friends after that.

But if you said that the kids are like getting, your kids are getting attached, why wouldn't you want some type of co-parenting?

'Cause she's immature. She don't know how to like be real. If we're not gonna work.

That's not true.

If we're not gonna work, she don't know how to do that. She don't know how to just let me be. She don't know how to just let it go. If we're not gonna be a thing.

So you don't antagonize me when we're at odds? I get attached.

She can't understand that this isn't healthy. I can't keep forcing myself to make you believe that I love you. Like I can't do that.

So if I'm not gonna type what I'm doing.

Girl, now I ask you, what you doing?

Period. Period.

What are you holding on to?

I love her. For what?

If I don't love you for who you say that you are, what do you love me for? What am I doing? What about me?

This is the thing, I rode for her in the beginning too when it was the back and forth and my character was attacked time and time again. And now I'm at the point where my walls are up and now that she decided now she's ready, I'm supposed to just crumble them down. But those walls got built up for a reason.

Karamo, she promised me when I first met her, she said transparency. Promise me, I will wait for you. I see you. That's what she told me and I didn't understand it. I didn't understand it. Cry, this is real life, bro. This is my feelings. This is real life. Who playing what victim? If anybody's playing the victim, it's you because I said I was done with you. How, as a grown woman, 35 years old, you can't allow somebody to tell you I'm done with you?

You told me what you wanna stay in my house. She told you that's not gonna happen.

We live together. My name is on that lease too, baby.

I've been paying for that lease too.

So speaking of the house you're in right now, my producers told me that y'all shared pictures because there's been damage in your house.

Yeah.

So it's a window that's broken?

Yeah, I broke that window.

You broke it?

I broke that window.

What happened?

I tried to lock her out the house.

I came back from the ops where I was at. She started getting crazy and I seen the damage on my truck and I instantly got pissed. That's my baby, like that's all I got. My truck was smashed. So I tried to get in the house and she locked the door.

So these are, oh, so she broke the window.

Every single, yeah.

So I did, listen, this is what happened. First of all, let me clarify, I bought her that truck. So I felt like if I had an issue with the truck, I could do that. That was when the whole she went over to the neighbor's house or whatever. I packed all my stuff. I caught her with the ops and that's when I ran up on her. I fought you and you still ain't gonna come to the house? Well, I sure did take that Louisville Slugger to the truck.

So Lex, why do you stay?

The kids.

The kids.

I love the kids. I've built the relationship with her. I love her too, but I don't love this.

This is the problem. I can't trust and believe that though. I can't trust and believe that. When did we even become official? Like you stringing me along for so long made it to the point where once you were ready, I couldn't even believe that.

She said that you said that you would wait for her. Is that true?

I would, but at what extent? Like while I waited?

While I was waiting? No, she did not. No, she did not. But in the last relationship was all I knew and I was in that relationship. I didn't end that relationship, I got broken up with. So I wasn't ready to be done.

So then it was unfair for her to even start anything with me, period. And if you were confused and you didn't know, then—

I told her I wasn't ready.

She did.

And she continued to—

You ain't ready, but then you show up and you—

No, she seen me with other girls, Karamo. She seen me with other girls and she couldn't handle that. Every night with my girls.

Listen, I think it's time to unlock the phone.

Period.

All right.

So Lex, we unlocked your phone. Red, you wanna know if Lex has been texting other women?

Yes.

Lex says she is not. My unlock the phone investigator searched her texts and found that Lex is telling the truth.

Period.

Period.

Come on.

Can I talk to you?

Red wants to know if Lex has been secretly meeting with other women. Lex says she is not.

I'm at home with the kids every day. Every day.

My unlock the phone investigator searched her GPS.

Zero.

And found that—

Zero.

Lex is telling the truth.

Period. I'm done, bro.

You good? Come on, DMs.

You wanna know Lex has been communicating with her ex on social media.

What this one is?

Lex says she is not.

What this one is?

Maya locked the phone up. Ask her to search through her DMs.

What this one is?

And found she's telling the truth.

Come on, bruh. Come on, bruh. What'd they say? I told her, I said I was gonna say this on the show, Karamo. Studs don't cheat, bruh. This one, don't cheat. If I'm gonna be with you, I'm gonna be with you. I'm not finna raise 3 kids that I didn't push out my shit. That I ain't got no reason to take care of. And cheat on you?

What the fuck am I doing?

That's stupid. Well then you gotta stop the shit. Every time we have one, you gotta stop. You need to get the help that you need. You just see, look again, turn around.

Zero, zero, zero.

Since I've been with you.

All right, then I was wrong. I'm not a cheater.

You've been wrong. And I'm sorry that you had to come out here for this, but you told me Karamo was the only one that could fix your mess. You told me that. We here, baby. 0, 0, 0. Again. Again. Period.

I was wrong.

Period. Now I'm gonna tell you this.

I know you was.

If you came here, I appreciate you giving the apology. I think that's great. If you came here for my advice 'cause you trust me, I appreciate that. And the one thing I would say to you is this relationship is done and unhealthy. I gotta tell y'all. And the reason it's done unhealthy is because neither of you have healed. Healed. She was upfront, she never healed, and you know you didn't heal. And y'all got into something and tried to create a codependency bond, but she doesn't want that and she's trying to break it. So what I'm telling you is that this is unhealthy. So yes, y'all both on the lease, be in the house together and let her be the co-parent that your kids deserve. Y'all don't have to be in there sleeping around playing house. She's being upfront with you. Both of you need to heal, but allow her to be the co-parent because your children deserve that.

Please.

Can you allow her to be that co-parent?

Yes.

You can? Tell her, tell her.

You're not gonna take care of them?

My issue with you was never with the kids. My kids love you and I know that you take care of them.

So can you allow her to be that co-parent? Yes. Okay, good. I think y'all both know this gotta done. Is done, but what I think y'all can have healthy communication on now that you know she hasn't been cheating is remembering those kids, all right? I really do wish y'all the best of luck 'cause I hate seeing people who actually can be on that journey of healing not being on that journey. But y'all took a good first step today and that's all that matters, all right? I wish y'all the best of luck, I sincerely do. Mm-hmm.