In this episode of Karamo’s talk show, Ricky appears to claim that his girlfriend Rhonda has been cheating on him for almost a year. He says he has video footage from home security cameras that supposedly shows Rhonda’s infidelity, and he brings the tapes to the studio. Karamo watches the clips, which include a phone screen with a man’s picture, a conversation that appears to involve a sister staying over, and a bedroom scene where Rhonda says she has "company." The host questions why cameras are in the bedroom, highlighting the invasive nature of the surveillance. Rhonda is invited onto the set and denies the accusations, explaining the videos as misunderstandings, describing her busy, independent lifestyle, and accusing Ricky of being insecure and possibly cheating himself. The conversation shifts to broader issues: control and privacy violations from the cameras, the impact of Ricky’s alcohol use on his paranoia, and the couple’s mutual stress. Karamo mediates, urging the removal of the cameras, acknowledging Ricky’s past alcoholism, and offering help for both partners. Both participants express willingness to seek assistance, with Ricky agreeing to get help for his drinking and Rhonda agreeing to remove the cameras or consider ending the relationship if that’s not possible. The episode ends with Karamo emphasizing that trust, privacy, and sobriety are essential for a healthy partnership.
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Ricky says he loves his girlfriend Rhonda and he's even ready to marry her, which is very sweet, but he doesn't know if he can build a life with a woman he believes is lying to him and having an affair. Ricky says he has indisputable proof that Rhonda has been cheating on him for almost a year. Everyone, please help me welcome Ricky to my show. Okay, Ricky, I'm glad you're here, but I wanna hear, what's going on between you and Rhonda?
I mean, I love this girl. She's a beautiful woman. We've been together for a year and a half.
Mm-hmm. You said you've been together a year and a half, yet you think for a year she's been cheating on you. What has given you that suspicion?
Because I have videotapes. We have cameras in each other's house.
So you have videotapes. Did you bring any here for me to see?
Yes, I did.
Okay, can I watch them?
Yes. Okay, that's her texting on the phone. She throws down the phone. If you could zoom in, you see a guy picture on the phone.
Okay.
That's the guy picture on the phone.
Okay.
And I mean, and that's the recent picture. That's not even a month ago.
Okay, do we have any other videos that you brought?
Yes. That's her, somebody calling.
Hello? Okay, hello, yeah? I'm just getting ready to throw some water on me and run over there.
Run over where? She was supposed to been talking to her girlfriend. Her girlfriend lived right upstairs. Why do you gotta run over somewhere? And then—
Okay, okay, we see it again. Okay, and do you have any other videos?
Yes, it's another one.
Okay.
In the bed. That's her saying, Oh.
Hey. Yeah.
I got company. I usually ride solo. Now, her sister's in there with her. Why is you saying you talking to your sister if you got company and you riding solo?
Okay, so these 3 videos, I can't really tell from them, but what's interesting to me is why are there cameras in the bedroom?
Because when we first got together, I moved into her aunt apartment.
Okay.
So she said for the safety reasons, she wanted to put a camera in my house.
Mm-hmm.
So.
For safety reasons, she needed to put a camera in your house?
Yeah, that's what she told me.
Okay. And then how'd she get a camera in her house?
Because I said, you want one in my house, I want one in your house.
Oh, was tit for tat. Right. Y'all clap? Hold on, no, no, I gotta— y'all clapping for tit for tat like that? Y'all really think that's healthy? I want to welcome Rhonda to the show now so we can get her side of the story. Rhonda, come on out. Hello, Rhonda. How are you? Nice to meet you. Yes.
Oh, those are lies. Those are all damn lies. You know damn well that video said I'm gonna get up, walk, and go to EZ Pay 'cause they ain't say nothing about getting no dick. I'm strictly dick. I don't get dick. I'm a dick person.
I didn't say that.
Yes, you did. I don't wanna hear that.
Okay. Take a seat for me, Rhonda.
Please, let's get real. Let's look at the video. No, we can look at that video all day. You showed it to every last one of my family members, Ricky. And they said the same thing. They don't hear it.
Rhonda, before you came out here, Ricky said to me that he feels that you turn up the TV in your house so that way he can't hear what you're saying. Is that something you do?
No.
Okay. You just said that he showed your entire family this video.
Yes.
What did your family say when they saw that video?
He crazy. Okay. They really want me, some of 'em say I might as well leave him because he ain't doing nothing but causing me stress.
No.
Do you feel stressed most of the time?
Yes.
You feel stressed?
'Cause he already know with my lifestyle, I told him when I met him, I'm a very busy woman, I'm an independent woman, I don't need no man to validate me. I understand that. I ain't got no reason to go out there and mess around on you. And it's a damn shame, I'm in love with your dumb ass. And I don't even know why, because I keep getting accused of getting cheated. Oh, I called my old boyfriend, that's some shit.
So Rhonda, I wanna know from you, what was really going on in the video then?
I was talking to one of my sisters, we was getting ready to go to New York, I was late getting up 'cause we was supposed to leave at 10 o'clock, it was 8 o'clock in the morning when I jumped up. And he's talking about, "Oh, the camera didn't," watch my phone announce his name. "The camera didn't pick that up because the camera is motion. If I didn't move, the camera wasn't going to ping.
The phone is already ringing." So why you was in there in the bed with your sister? She stayed the night and then you say, "Oh, I had company." That was the damn TV.
So why do you think he thinks you're cheating?
I seem to think he's the one that's doing the cheating. He's very insecure. He done called his other ex-girlfriend to tell her the situation with us, and then he gonna tell her, oh, he— she's under the impression that she's getting back with him.
No.
And then I went through his phone, it was the first number that popped up, so I called it. And he going to tell— I said, well, you make this decision now. Then he's going to tell her, oh, uh, I, I want to be with her. So then she hangs up on him.
I said I wanted to be with you.
That's what I'm saying. And I'm telling him, he say, I want to be with her.
So do you monitor Ricky's phones? I mean, cameras?
No.
You don't monitor his cameras?
I check 'em every once in a while.
Okay.
And coincidentally, something said check 'em 'cause I keep hearing a click in my own camera when I'm sitting there talking on the phone. He's sitting there monitoring me, this and that. Everything I'm saying, like I'm trying to hide something.
You are a beautiful woman, you are a handsome man, and you are in the prime of your life where you should be enjoying time, not have somebody checking up on you. Why are y'all adding all this unnecessary drama to y'all life?
I ain't adding, I'm about to get rid of it. Oh. Especially if it don't straighten up today, it's done.
That's why I came on the show. I want this to work out.
Okay, so what do you think you need to do to have this work out? 'Cause she just told you right now that she's ready to leave.
So I'm gonna have to do what I gotta do to make this work.
So what does he need to do to make this work?
Stop accusing me of these bold-faced lies that he keep coming up with.
Do you think you can do that?
Yeah, I'm gonna work on it.
Do you think you could take the cameras outta the bedroom?
No.
I think.
No.
Okay, because the part of the thing that I realized is that not only is this unnecessary drama in both of your lives, there's a control element that's happening here. By having a camera in her bedroom is your way of controlling and dictating her actions and seeing what she's doing. Listen, you should never have a camera in your partner's bedroom. That is an invasion of privacy and it's doing nothing but showing that you are too insecure to believe that your woman is okay with being trustworthy. I already asked you why they were put in there. My question to you was, can you take it out? And you said no. So that's why I said there's a part of control here.
Right, all right.
Because what you're doing here is you're just trying to control her actions. Whatever it was put in for, we've seen that the cameras in are making your relationship worse. So you gotta take those cameras out.
From the day I met you to today, I have not cheated on you or thought about cheating on you.
So accusations have to stop. What else has to stop?
The drinking.
There we go. The only reason that you got all this time to be doing something, I figured there was something going on with alcohol or some other moments. Do you drink too much?
I have control over it because I know my limits.
Vicki, 2 days ago, shall we bring it up?
2 days ago?
2, 3 days ago. Come on now, stop. You said you wanna try to fix it, you wanna get yourself some help. Stop lying.
I am. But I got help.
Help with what? There's no God-given way you got help in 2 days.
This, when you're drinking too much, it's causing you to feel paranoid, it's causing you to make irrational decisions. And you're at a point in your life where one of those irrational decisions is connected. That drinking's connected directly to this camera, which is making you feel paranoid, making you feel like something else going on. I watched those videos. If I watched and saw my partner wake up and say, oh, I'm getting ready, going somewhere, I gotta wash myself off, not one point is he gonna think that they're cheating. You think they're cheating because You just drank and there's paranoia. Would you agree with that?
No.
Would you agree with that? No, I'm gonna ask you. I'm gonna ask with you. Would you agree with that?
Yes.
Thank you. Because I've been doing this a long time.
Sometimes I do. Sometimes I do.
Sometimes.
There we go. We're getting closer to it.
Not all the time.
I'm not gonna accuse you of being an alcoholic because I don't know your life. What I am gonna say is that right now—
I admit, I used to be an alcoholic.
Yes.
I admit.
I appreciate that.
I went to rehab and I, I finished the program and I came back out.
Those things are causing anxiety and a lot of issues in your life. And as to, you wanna say something?
The drinking, if he don't admit 100%, there's no such thing as was an alcoholic. Okay? Once you're alcoholic, I don't care how clean you are. Once you're a drug addict, I don't care, I'm just saying that. And there's no change in that. But that drinking, bite me on my shoulder and choke me, when your ass got the hell up, you know you got a problem. I knocked your ass out and I would do it again. All right. So that drinking gotta stop.
What we're hearing now is the real truth of this relationship. There's alcoholism, there's drinking that's playing into your relationship. It's causing mistrust, it's causing paranoia. And this is being stemmed stemmed from you. And so what I have to say to you is that you already know, I can see you're a strong woman. You're with this man because you see something in him that you love. And I believe you're a very lovable man. But for you, you already know it, until he gets control of this, that your relationship is always gonna be toxic. And you are too fine, you are too fly to be in this toxic situation. So step one is the cameras have to go. If you can't commit to getting rid of the cameras, then you gotta go. And that's gonna be the truth.
Thank you, exactly.
Once the cameras go, once the cameras go, You gotta start working on your addiction with alcohol because that addiction with alcohol is gonna plague this relationship forever. Now I'm gonna ask you this, would you like help with your addiction with alcohol? Because I can help you there.
I'll take the help.
Thank you.
I'll take the help.
I will give you that help. I will give you that help. Listen everyone, listen everyone, as we know, when you're in a relationship, it can be hard, it can be difficult, but you have to remember that sometimes the thing that you think is the obvious reason is not really. You gotta dig deeper. You gotta figure out what's going on and you have to be willing to make the change. We saw that today and I'm proud of you. And I think y'all gonna work out in the end. Everyone, thank you for being with us. Come back next time, friends, so we can keep talking and growing. Remember, I love you. Hold on, where you going? I'll tell you where you're going. Right here to subscribe and right here to watch more, period.
