In this episode of KARAMO, host Karamo talks with a guest (Speaker B) about a conflict involving a $400 wig that the guest’s boyfriend’s cousin, Asia, borrowed and returned damaged. The wig was ripped and its lace was compromised after being transported in a grocery bag. Speaker B, who has known Asia since childhood, confronted her about the damage and asked for compensation, but Asia offered no apology and only returned the wig. The conversation explores the emotional dilemma of whether to end a long‑standing friendship over a material dispute, the guest’s stance on not holding grudges versus setting boundaries, and the boyfriend’s ambiguous position caught between his girlfriend and his cousin.
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Your boyfriend says that he is stuck in the middle of you and his cousin. What is going on?
So really I feel like my boyfriend isn't stuck in the middle.
Okay, you're like, you are not.
He's not, he's not stuck in the middle. I feel like it's just because it's his cousin, so he doesn't know exactly how to feel. But if it was anyone else, you know, it would've been, hey, my girlfriend, her wig, you know, this is all about, His cousin decided that, you know, she needed to borrow a wig. Fine, what's mine is hers, 'cause we were friends.
This was a friendship you've had since childhood.
Yeah.
Tell me about that, because that's what you're really losing here is a friend since childhood.
Yes, I am. And I wish it didn't have to get to that point, but I'm a person who does not hold grudges. It's just now I have to put my foot down. But the whole situation is basically, Asia, that's her name, she asked to borrow a wig. So I spent $400 on this wig.
Okay, so how damaged is the wig? 'Cause I tell my producers I want you to bring it. Well, I have it. And not for anything salacious, but for me, I need to see because if I'm gonna help you and help Caleb, it's like, can I see the wig?
You can go ahead and see it.
Ooh, girl, yo, girl, this is, girl, she done plucked this.
But with this wig, there is literally like, I mean, you can see there's rip, there's a rip.
Yeah.
So that's what made me like, okay, well did you try to pluck the wig? But the thing is, when she brung the wig, she brung it in a regular grocery bag.
Got it.
And she brung it in and it was kind of like just balled up like this, you know? So, and it's both wigs, but I only see one 'cause it's so much hair.
Yes.
And the other one is a lot fuller.
Yes. Did you ask her to pay for the damages?
Ooh, yes I did. I definitely did because you know, even she could've just, As you can see, it's just the lace.
Yes.
She could have just replaced the lace if that was the case.
Mm-hmm.
So, but she just really was just like, she didn't even be like, oh, I'm sorry, you know, or nothing. She was just like, okay, here's your wig.
We can put her up. Put her up. Yeah, put her up. She's married.
