My Best Friend Stole From My Business | KARAMO

My guests Jasmine and Erica have been besties since they met 10 years ago. Jasmine says their friendship was better than any other in her life until one incident changed everything. Let's see what she had to say before the show.

I've been best friends with Erica for over 10 years. 3 years ago, there was an incident. I sold swimwear for men and women, so it's swim trunks, It's cover-ups. She was helping me move from one storage unit to a different storage unit. The next day, I realized I couldn't find my inventory. It wasn't where it was supposed to be. And her and I were the last ones with these inventory pieces. So the next day, I called her asking her, has she seen it? You know, does she know where we may have placed it? And just her reaction from that was negative. She came at me totally disrespectful, saying it wasn't her style.

Style.

She would never wear it. After the incident happened, we didn't talk for a while. I couldn't trust her as a friend. I was confused about the entire situation. I did miss my friend. I forgave my friend. I forgave her. Um, we moved on from that situation. I was happy to be a part of her bridal party, you know, the wedding, the new journey. Yet it did rehash Valentine's night. My boyfriend and I at the time started arguing, and then Erica jumped in our argument. She decides to insert herself and take his side. I was super angry. I have not spoken to her since Valentine's night. I feel lost about the entire situation. I do want my friend back, but I want the truth also.

So I gotta ask you point blank, did you steal from your friend?

I would never steal from any of my friends.

Okay.

It's not in my character to do any of that, especially when I went outta my way to offer help to help her move without even asking for anything in return with my truck and my gas and my time. And when she says inventory, let me explain something to you. It was a tiny wastebasket.

Okay, so it wasn't like a very large—

It was a little hamper that's impractical enough to even hold clothes, okay? I leave the hamper behind. I forgot to go back and check. That is my responsibility as far as offering help to her and then not being on top of it. I'll take blame for that. As far as when it comes to not checking on your own belongings at your own storage unit and doing a last inspection if it's an infection, she needs to take responsibility for that. So we're both, you know, technically guilty.

[Speaker] So what did you do when she accused you?

[Speaker] I was really taken aback by that, and I was more hurt that, not for her stuff missing, but that my character is now in question. So I took it upon myself to contact the police of that city, and I filed a police report. I filed a police report so they could obtain the footage.

[Speaker] So you're being the one accused.

[Speaker] I'm being the one accused, but I'm saying—

[Speaker] But you're saying it to the police.

[Speaker] But I want my name cleared. So I involved the police and they said that because it's her unit and it's her belongings, she needs to contact them and be on top of it to obtain that footage. I gave her the case number and everything after I filed it. She got in contact with the officer. Did she stay in contact? No, because she didn't care about clearing my name. When I asked her about why, she goes, well, at that point my stuff was already gone. Okay, but my name, my character is still in question here. So are we gonna leave that unspoken of?

Yeah, and you two made up after this incident?

Yes.

So what happened at the wedding?

Ooh, so we make up, we make up because I'm getting married, I'm pregnant, I'm having a baby, and I want her to be a part of the wedding. My wedding colors, as you can see, were Tiffany blue. Last minute before I decide to go down the aisle, Jaz, I'm gonna sit with my date. The date who came dressed like Rick Ross, like he had on sunglasses the whole time. Yeah. He was more dressed up than I was and it was my own wedding. So I—

Oh, so she didn't stand next to you?

She didn't stand next to me at the wedding. Last minute.

Mm, okay.

So, and then I had to hear it from a bunch of family and friends afterwards. Hey, what was that about? Hey, what was that about? And it was so embarrassing to have to make excuses for her because here's the thing, here I am, my own wedding, and I'm putting her feelings first. I'm saying, okay, maybe she's got stage fright as opposed to how I should feel. I always put her first.

So what happened on Valentine's Day?

Oh. So Valentine's Day, well Valentine's night, I met up with her and her boyfriend and they got into an argument. Things were escalating and it was not going very well. And so I decided to intervene to make sure nobody goes to jail. I did not want anything bad to happen to any of them. So I intervened and as soon as I'm trying to calm both of them down and say, hey, you guys need to come on now, let's stop it. She cuts me off and basically says, shut up. Don't think I know how fake you are just as much as he is. You stole from me and I'll never forget that. And I was like, what? We've all been drinking, so I'm thinking, okay, maybe she's just angry. But to have the past thrown back in my face like all my effort is for nothing, it's like, here I am calling the police and filing the report to get you the footage. Here I am making every attempt to clear my own name and show you that I'm not even capable of doing something like that to the people I care about.

How do I feel about what she's saying?

Yeah.

Flawless.

You heard it backstage.

Absolutely. She's just the type of person, she is very manipulative, okay? Don't say you're my friend and you're talking about how tacky my inventory is.

I got called a thief and I don't have the right to say your stuff is tacky? But you have the right to call me a thief? No.

Why do you think she stole your inventory?

Because, I do believe that it was good inventory that she saw there to sell. She does this on the side. It's her hobby to sell things, used, new. I could see her doing it. And even after that incident, I looked online to see if my stuff was being sold 'cause I was like—

And did you see any of your stuff being sold?

I didn't.

You did not?

I did not.

Okay then. Why didn't you follow up with the police?

Thank you.

I didn't follow up with the police because the storage unit already didn't have it, the camera footage of where there was no angle where we were.

That's not true.

That's not true.

They did have footage. Yes, they did. But you had to be the one who'd obtain it 'cause I wasn't a customer with them. They couldn't release it to me. They had to be to you.

And I followed up with the storage unit.

You had to be the one following up.

And I followed up with the storage unit.

And they said they didn't have footage?

No, they had no footage.

Where we left off. They have cameras.

They have cameras. In the elevator. And that was it. There was nothing of the exitway where we were moving the things.

There was cameras.

So this is my thing. You both said you squashed it at some point. Why bring it back up?

Well, it was squashed yet re-hatched during this Valentine's evening because how she just again wasn't being a friend and taking this guy's side, which is my ex-boyfriend now.

I wasn't taking any sides. I was trying to prevent you guys from going to jail. Someone was gonna call the cops. I had to intervene. You're my friend and I don't wanna see anyone go to jail.

Every time you come to me regarding your husband or something, I don't intervene like that.

What's that gotta do with this?

Because you intervened in my relationship.

Because I didn't want you to go to jail? I'm looking out for you?

Erica, it's how you do it. You always say you're helping, but you come off so— I don't think you come off sly.

How do you think she was helping that night? Tell me from your opinion.

She wasn't helping that night.

We were drinking, I'm not gonna argue.

We all were drinking and she just was adding fuel to the fire trying to—

But I wasn't the one fighting my significant other in public.

Girl, but you always fight your husband.

That's got nothing to do with this. I was looking out for you that night. And do I fight with him in front of you? No, that's not your business. What happens in my home is in my home. Y'all were doing it in public.

When she asked you to be her bridesmaid, why did you say yes? There was all this underlying issues?

I said yes because she's still someone that I care about. I still have some type of memories that we have together. And I love love. I wanted to be a part of the wedding and I know that she doesn't have many friends, so I came to her shotgun wedding. I did.

That's by choice, honey. I did. Because there are people like you that are like this.

We already pre-planned this. We already pre-planned this.

If you're gonna commit to go, why not stand up though?

Thank you.

Because first of all, it was a shotgun wedding. There was no rehearsal, there was no, you were gonna be placed here. It was 7 months of planning.

7 months of planning, that's not shotgun.

She didn't ask me, that's what I'm telling you.

You had on the dress, girl. I know she asked.

She did not say come stand here. There was nothing planned and I was there early. I'm telling you, there was nobody there.

So you've never been to a wedding where they say, okay, this is the bridal party, this is the groom's party.

That didn't happen at her wedding. That's what I'm telling you. There was nothing professional about the wedding.

Wedding, literally.

Do you want your friendship to work?

You know what, I did, but it's like the type of person she is, I see it's probably gonna be back and forth.

Then why bother writing into the show to fix our friendship?

Because, no, I did.

No, no. I did. No.

I did.

Then why write into me?

Because I did want to fix it, but once she came on here still hostile about bringing up the old things.

I'm taking your man's side? I don't even like him, he's a SoundCloud rapper. I've been told you to leave him. I've been told you to leave him for so long.

You see how she was supposed to be throwing the rock, but if I go over her thing, y'all gonna do that.

But when I hear stuff like that, you're gonna sit here and expect me to take that?

I'm not gonna talk about what her husband does to her and what he does on the side. Behind closed doors. No, it's not on closed doors because as you said, there are ass eaters, right? Regarding your husband?

That's why we're here. Oh, okay.

So you don't wanna go there.

Come on.

So it's sad because I actually think there was love here. I think that watching your video that you're regretful for how things went down. But I think that once you got out here, you went back into defense mode instead of being vulnerable and talking to her again.

Because I hear her talking down again about my immature, if we're trying to move past it, why do you keep trying to talk down on me?

What's the profit down to? You're a bitch, inventory isn't even happening. You're a bitch, inventory ain't happening. It's telling all of the nation about my marital problems. Girl, you a bitch. Started it.

You started this.

My marital problems got nothing to do with your ex-boyfriend.

Why come then? Thank you. Bye.

Why write into the show if you're going to be a fake-ass bitch?

Nobody's being fake.

She deserves an apology from you for how you've been jabbing her over and over again. She does. She deserves an apology from you.

You think so?

I know so. I know so. I wouldn't make you give an apology if I didn't believe it, because her character has been Assassinated.

Okay.

You called her a thief. If my friends call me a thief, we have a problem because let me tell you something, that's a big accusation.

It is.

And if you really want this friendship to work like you did in that video, you gotta be able to acknowledge that that started off a range of actions that messed y'all up and you gotta be able to apologize for that.

I could.

Good, that's good. 'Cause lemme just say something. If you would've came to my wedding and sat your ass down, Again, there was 5 people there total.

It was a small wedding. That's all I'm saying.

See, you're throwing the jab. Hold on, throwin' the jab. See, this is good.

Because no, she's making it seem like I didn't wanna stand next to her. Of course I would.

You're throwin' the jab. You're throwin' the jab. You're throwin' the jab.

I was still hurt at that time.

I know you're still hurt. I was, yeah. But because you're still hurt, like I just said, you're hurt, you're overwhelmed, you're throwin' these jabs. I'm gonna go talk to Erica, see if she'll come back out. I can see both sides. Of how things have happened. I can see how calling you a thief, doing these things have affected you. And I also even saw like talking about your husband.

Attacking my marriage when it has nothing to do with this.

Agree, I'm here, I'm here.

That's airing out dirty laundry. Exactly, exactly. So that to me is a low blow and that's kind of unforgivable at this point. That hurt more than being called a thief.

I get it, I get it, I get it. She's willing to apologize.

No, I don't even wanna hear it. I swear to God, I don't even wanna hear it.

You don't wanna hear it? So she's looking right there. You can say goodbye.

I'm done with the friendship. Jazz, I love you, but this isn't healthy. This is toxic. She's so dramatic.

Like, this is too much.

Oh my God.

Erica, come here. Which way?

I don't want his ear. I know, I don't wanna talk.

I don't wanna talk.

I don't wanna talk.

Stop.

No, I really don't wanna talk, Jasmine.

Okay, we don't have to talk. Just give me a hug. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm taking responsibility on my part. We both were there at the storage unit.

I just wish you would've obtained the footage. Like, that is literally it.

You know we went back to the storage unit for footage. I didn't go to the police report. I didn't go file a report.

But that's all irrelevant at this point. That's all irrelevant at this point. Like this was supposed to be—

What do you wanna apologize to her for? Be clear about it.

I know it was my store's unit, it was my inventory. I should've been double checking, triple checking before we even left for the night, honestly. And I'm sorry again, I keep throwing this back up in your face. Definitely wanna apologize about your marriage.

That's fine.

That's fine.

I know what you go through and you always supported me. I shouldn't throw that in your face. I shouldn't have.

Got it. Now for you, I know when you're hurt, I've seen it when you're out there. When you're hurt, you do find the shadiness in you. You know it. You go with the little thing.

That's possible.

Yes. We know it. I caught it quickly. You understand? I've been around a lot of shady queens. I know how to get a little something in there. Get a little something in there, okay? And so I know that's in retaliation to when you feel hurt. But what I wanna tell you is that You shouldn't do that because all that does is then it takes down your character. But you two, this friendship I believe is toxic and I wish that I could have been able to fix it all.

It's toxic. It's too toxic at this point.

Yeah. Unfortunately, I think I could have been helped this out, but once we went to the marriage part, that just took it a turn and that's just the real of it. So I wish y'all the best of luck.

Thank you, Karamo. Thank you.

I wish you the best of luck as well.

Thank you.

Yeah. Good luck to y'all both. Y'all can step out there.

Thank you.

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