In this episode of Karamo’s relationship‑intervention show, Zakia confronts her fiancé Tim about alleged infidelity, financial abuse, and obsessive phone use. Zakia recounts catching Tim with another woman at his apartment and describes how Tim repeatedly prioritizes his phone over her. Their daughter Faith, who has read her mother’s diary, testifies that Tim has sent mass "good morning" texts to dozens of women, stole $900 to gamble, and received $7,000 in unemployment benefits while refusing to give Zakia $300 for a family visit. Victor, Faith’s husband, adds his own criticism. The show’s producers bring Tim on‑stage, where Karamo asks him to explain the accusations. Tim admits to wasting $8‑9k on Christmas gifts and stealing money, apologizes, and claims he loves Zakia, but denies recent cheating. Karamo then presents the "Unlock the Phone" investigation: two active dating apps (Badoo, Plenty of Fish), 16 Instagram DMs to random women, and seven text messages to other women, all dated during the relationship. The evidence is displayed to Zakia, who reacts with disbelief and anger. The segment ends with Zakia indicating she is ending the relationship, while Karamo and the audience react to the confrontation.
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Let's start from the beginning. You think your fiancé Tim has other women in his life?
Tim absolutely has one other woman that I know about and that I'm here to find out about.
Got it.
Because his telephone is his other woman. He is on her all the time.
Oh, this is who you shared him with? Oh, got it. Your phone.
His phone. He always has a reason and a season for being on his phone. And his telephone takes up more time and attention than he gives to me.
So, but my producer tell me there was a time that you actually caught him with another woman.
Oh, I did. So, you know, we're still working on our relationship and we're still developing it. There's supposed to be this honeymoon stage, right? It hadn't even been 2 months. So he calls me after he gets off work and he says, where are you? I said, I'm at home. He said, what are you doing? I said, I am watching a movie and just hanging out till you get off work. Calls me back an hour later and says, where are you? I did the same thing. I said, by that second, where are you, my woman's intuition is saying, where are you? And you've never asked me anything like that before?
And you also just asked me an hour ago and I told you where I'm at.
Uh-huh, and you call me again. So he said, okay, just— I'm letting you know that, you know, my friend and I are just hanging out and we'll be done in a little while and I'll be over. I said, okay. So now I get up out of bed, I get dressed, and I walk to Tim's apartment because he only lives 10 minutes away from where I live. I get to Tim's apartment, I knock on the door, no answer. I said, okay. I knock again, no answer. So I sat there for 30 minutes. And so 30 minutes later, Out comes Timothy and another woman.
Yeah.
I said, oh, excuse me, this is your friend? This is who you were supposed to see? He said, um, no. So I turned to her and I said, and who are you? She said, it ain't none of your business who I am.
Oh, don't get disrespectful.
Okay. And then I said, well, what were you doing? She said, again, I repeat, it ain't none of your business what we were doing. So I turned to Tim and I said, "Tim, would you explain to her why it is my business who she is and why she was here?" And so he turns to her and he says, "That's my woman." Yeah. Yeah, but I forgave him.
Okay, so did he admit to cheating?
He said that he was helping her find a job.
Okay. So you've been writing about your relationship with Timothy and shared your diary with your daughter Faith. Faith met with producers before the show, and I wanna hear what she has to say about the situation.
I don't support my mom's relationship with Timothy. I believe Tim is a womanizer, and I believe that he's using my mother for several different reasons. He's taken money from her, lied and cheated, and he continues to apologize, and yet he continues to do the same things over and over. When I read my mom's diary, What set off red flags for me was him sending over 50 women good morning texts on the same day that he sent them to her. Also, he stole $900 from her to gamble, and he's been known to threaten people, so I'm pretty worried about her.
It's okay.
I'm just worried about my mom's overall safety. He's no good for my mom. Period. I want her to be happy, and so far she's had nothing but heartbreak. Karamo, help my mom see that this guy Tim is no good for her.
Did you know your daughter felt this way? You didn't? Here you go. What's making you emotional?
That's my baby.
Yeah.
That's my baby. And you know, other people can tell me anything and I won't listen.
Mm-hmm.
But when Faithie tells me, I hear her.
Your daughter Faith is in the audience and I see you're crying, Faith. How are you doing? Faith is here with her husband Victor.
Hi, Karamo.
What's going through your mind right now? 'Cause clearly your words touched your mother. What's going through your mind?
Karamo, this guy has been using her and abusing her emotionally, mentally, and I don't think he's any good for her.
Yeah.
So he stole $900 from her to gamble, yet he received $7,000 for his unemployment and he couldn't give her $300 to come home to visit her family.
And he claims he's husband material.
Yeah.
He can't even provide.
Got it. Yeah. Is this true what you say?
Yes.
Got it. That's heartbreaking. That's heartbreaking. I just wanna clarify for everyone at home again, for the record, Faith has never met Tim at all and you two are gonna be seeing each other for the first time on our show. So I wanna go ahead, everyone, welcome Tim to the show so we can hear his side of the story. Karamo, how you doing?
Good, how are you?
Good. So I wanna ask you, what are your thoughts on what you've heard so far?
Well, I mean, they are true. I did waste a lot of money, over $8,000, $9,000 for Christmas last year, for the holidays, which I was wrong for. I have apologized to Zakia. We're actually doing a little bit better now.
Got it. He full of it.
Nah, I ain't buying it. Really, what kind of man steals from a woman?
You're dead wrong.
How do you feel about hearing that?
I was wrong for that, I admit, but I have learned from my mistakes and I was wrong for stealing money and it was something I vowed not to ever do again. And Zakiyah and I, we love each other and you know, But you can't understand why her daughter is having these concerns.
Because it's been a year. And within a year, you've already stolen money. She's caught you with another woman at your house. You're telling me that you cheated. This is like, like Zakia said, this is supposed to be the honeymoon phase. And y'all are like, this is in the most toxic phase already.
Yes.
Yes. Listen everyone, it's time. To unlock the phone. Zakia, you want to know if Tim still has dating apps on his phone, if he is communicating with other women on social media, and if Tim is communicating with any other women via text.
That's right, yes.
Okay, well Tim, we unlocked your phone and it's time to get to this. The interesting part for me again is that you called the show saying that you wanted to have your phone unlocked, right? Why did you do this?
Because to show and to prove to Zakia that I'm not doing anything, that she can trust me.
Got it.
And that I really truly love her.
All right, all right. How does that make you feel?
I'll tell you after you open that.
Well, let's get to it. All right, Zakia, you wanna know if Tim has any dating apps on his phone. Tim says he does not. My Unlock the Phone investigator searched his apps and found that he is not telling the truth. Our investigator found 2 dating apps, Badoo and Plenty of Fish both active on your phone?
Active, define active.
Meaning that just you've logged in, you know, like it's on the account. So, Zakia, you secondly want to know if Tim is communicating with other women on social media. Tim says he is not. My Unlock the Phone investigators searched his DMs and found he is not telling the truth. Our investigator found 16 DMs to random women on Instagram.
They're not anything recently though.
He said they're not recent. What's recent?
Well, anything is during the duration of your relationship.
The uh-huh.
That's anything is in the duration of your relationship.
Do you understand what he said? Do you understand?
Uh-huh, okay. Okay, Zakir, you wanna know if Tim is communicating with any other women via text. He said he's not. My unlock the phone investigator searched his texts and found That he is not telling the truth. Our investigator found 7 texts to random women. Can I see the evidence bag really quickly? Let me see these. Thank you so much, Rob. Let me see this real quick. So this one is June 12th where he, there's a video sent. This is June 9th, photo sent.
This is June, are you listening?
This is October 14th of last year. How are you doing this afternoon? Good evening. Here we go, now, can I have a pic of you? Okay, damn, you looking good in my eyes. So this is one, this is—
Timothy!
This is June 21st. That is your face up there, right?
Is that your face?
That's my face, yeah.
Did you send it? Hmm. So—
You, and you, she's looking good in your eyes?
No, she's not.
See, you can't say no, we're showing you right now. He does. We're showing you right now.
So that's not you?
How do you feel that we now have the proof that he is cheating on your mother?
Karamo, you know, it's plain and simple, he's manipulating the situation. I mean, this keeps happening over and over again. And look, the same thing he did right now with his head down like a little puppy dog, I'm so good.
Mom, you can't tell.
It's ridiculous. I got it. Faithy, you don't have to tell me again. I'm not crazy.
He manipulated the situation. He knows he had to put a heart here.
So what is your plan here? What do you wanna do?
Karamo, I tell Tim all the time, I don't have a problem getting a man. So, oh no.
So are you ending this relationship?
Oh yeah. There's nothing, nothing you can say to me that can help me understand you're looking good to me.
Oh, that's one of many. I mean, we have plenty of these messages to give you. You're gonna be able to go through all these messages later. That's not—
Have you lost your mind?
No, not at all.
I mean, well, listen, Tim told you that he's stuck on stupid and clearly he's stuck on stupid, but you're way too smart for this. You're way too smart for this. Tim, thank you so much for being here. You can leave my stage. She said she's not with you anymore, so you can leave my stage. Thank you.
Oh my God.
You can come on down here. You can come on down here. Yeah, I asked your mom, I asked your mom, I mean your daughter to be down here with you because I know that you had some inclination of what was going on, but I can tell that you needed the proof and also your daughter's words. And I think hearing that, clearly this was an unhealthy relationship. And you knew it. You knew the minute he stole it. Yeah. And the money, you knew the minute that you caught the woman at his house. Because this is ridiculous for a woman as beautiful and as intelligent as you to have this man, have this man doing all of this in your face.
