90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? Season 6 is over … but not forgotten.
That’s why the Tell All exists — so that the couples (and exes) can process what went down and update fans on what has happened.
Some of the drama will wait.
But on Part 1, there was plenty of ground to cover.
Tiffany and Ronald are somehow still together after things left off with so much hostility.
But that doesn’t mean that everything is resolved.
Brandon and Julia escaped the nightmare farm and are living on their own.
Some problems haven’t gone away … and Brandon’s emotional dependency upon his parents made this move harder for him.
Things have not improved between Mike and Natalie.
But they’re not divorced yet. What’s going on?
And Angela and Michael are as toxic as ever, despite Angela’s brand new body.
Speaking of that body … she puts it all on display as she clashes with Michael’s aunt.
The couples arrive
Julia found herself on the wrong side of the conversation at the last Tell All. This time, she wants to avoid that kind of controversy.
Thank goodness for Yara
Brandon might struggle to tell his wife that she looks good in her dress, but Yara reassures her. Yes, yellow is hideous, but Julia is making that marigold work.
Julia won’t repeat past mistakes
She vows that she will not tank her brand by voicing awful opinions this time. At the previous Tell All, she lost a lot of fans by clashing with Yara, Natalie, and Rebecca Parrott about cosmetic surgery. Maybe she’s learned more about the human body and minding her business since then. Or maybe she just doesn’t want to clash with Angela Deem.
Ronald is gearing up to fight
Ronald tunes in from South Africa (thankfully, he’s set up to record by a production crew and not just tuning in on his webcam this time). He and Tiffany are still married, but he’s vowing to “expose” her. Very healthy marriage.
Natalie arrives … alone
It’s been six months or so since she and Mike finished filming their season. Though some part of her misses him, they have not reconciled. In fact, there’s more distance between them now than there has been since before they married.
Everyone is assembled
They’re just waiting on one person … the worst-behaved of the bunch.
Angela debuts her new body!
While there is sadly no existing surgery to safely and ethically turn an ill-behaved feral nightmare into a respectful, polite human being, Angela has reimagined her body through a series of cosmetic surgeries … including a breast augmentation. This Tell All, recorded earlier this summer, was her official debut.
How does Michael like it?
He was opposed to her surgeries initially, but tuning in from Nigeria, he gushes that he cannot wait to see his wife in person.
Brandon and Julia are living on their own
While Julia is thrilled to be off of the farm, Brandon acts like it’s no big deal and not a meaningful change … which is strange to hear. Even people with wonderful parents who don’t have Betty and Ron’s issues with controlling behavior know that living on your own is a huge step forward. Brandon is still choking on his umbilical cord, but Julia is happy enough for both of them.
The Potthasts have fractured
It sounds like they’re all at odds with Charlie after he attacked Andrei at the family cookout, but Andrei says that everyone involved needs therapy. Color us surprised, but we actually agree with him?
Shaun gets the show started
Are Mike and Natalie back together? No — but Shaun has to ask, because every time that she’s ever seen these two, their relationship status is up in the air.
Julia gets weird
She asks if Natalie will now take “her ass” back to Ukraine. Either Julia has been listening to and is now parroting some xenophobic weirdos, or she’s so tired of having her own intentions with Brandon questioned that she’s overcompensating by accusing others of being scammers. You hate to see it.
Natalie explains what happened
They had all of their communication issues and fundamental incompatibility issues and Natalie felt like Mike just didn’t care enough to work on their problems — and didn’t care enough about her feelings.
His commute was another big issue
The COVID-19 pandemic increased Mike’s workload, which was bad enough. But because he lives in fumbuck nowhere (Sequim), two hours away from where he works in Seattle, he loses four hours of every day to his commute. What time did the two of them have to enjoy their marriage, let alone work on their issues? The answer was simple: not enough.
Maybe moving could have saved their marriage
It could have given them three hours or more of extra time together each day. Also, Natalie might have been happier overall and had an easier time working (once her work visa paperwork went through) if they had moved to Seattle. Instead, nothing changed, and Natalie’s hopes of finding work in Sequim were slim.
Natalie admits that she kind of lost it
Not being able to do anything — not legally permitted to work, and essentially being alone in the wilderness for most of every week — absolutely changed her behavior.
So yes, she moved to Florida
While many of us would find that unthinkable, Natalie points out that she has every right to move.
She says that she’s not dating anyone
However, Jovi asks about the guy who came with her to dinner in New Orleans. Wait, what? (Notably, Yara protests with Jovi brings it up, having clearly not planned to “expose” Natalie)
Natalie says that he was just a friend
After first implying that he might be gay, Natalie says that she didn’t know her way around New Orleans (or something like that) and asked a friend to accompany her.
Yara?
Shaun asks Yara, who admits that she tried to find out from Natalie if the guy was her boyfriend or not at the time, and Natalie — as she often does — did not provide a clear answer.
The show takes a break
Backstage, Natalie privately (on camera) agonizes over what will happen to her if Mike does file for divorce.
Mike promises to file
Notably, he does not appear to have done so yet, as we previously reported — even weeks after this Tell All was filmed.
Julia tells Mike that he deserves better
Anyone else suddenly craving meat?
MIKE, RUN
Angela puts her leg across Mike’s and demands that he rub it. Joking or not, we all know that if Michael did that with a woman, Angela would set him on fire.
Back on set …
Tiffany reveals that Ronald began to actually examine his bad behavior more seriously after Tiffany packed her things, and they reconciled. She, Daniel, and Carley ended up remaining in South Africa just like Ronald wanted — staying for four months and only leaving in March.
Ronald gets something right
He acknowledges that he did not treat Tiffany in an acceptable manner, and goes on to admit that one of his issues is getting angry in the moment and only later realizing that he was wrong. (We cannot explain why Tiffany keeps giving him more chances)
Of course, he then accuses Tiffany of dragging her heels
He insists that Tiffany keeps delaying when it comes to sending in all of the appropriate paperwork for his spousal visa application.
Oh, and he had a huge jealousy issue
Ronald accused Tiffany of being too close to a cameraman who filmed with her in the US and in South Africa.
He couldn’t stand to hear her speak well of him
Our advice to Ronald would be that, if you don’t want to hear your wife speak more highly of her platonic friend with whom she works than she does of you, just … be nicer. It’s free.
Ria, Ronald’s mother, tunes in
She says that she knows that they love each other. She also expresses how it would break her heart if Ronald and Tiffany divorced, because Tiffany is like a daughter to her. Tiffany cries silently during this, because it’s such a sweet thing to say.
Tiffany’s mom also participates
Maggie admits that she doesn’t like all of the nonsense that Ronald puts her through. We have to agree.
Over to Julia and Brandon
Julia is so thrilled to be away from dirty animals, to be living with her husband without his parents. They don’t have to worry about Brandon’s parents hearing them have sex, which is a plus. Brandon is weirdly lukewarm in a way that is just not normal or healthy for him, and it speaks to the degree of emotional dependency that he has on his parents. This isn’t Brandon’s fault — this was done to him by a pair of controlling narcissists.
About Julia’s baby plans
She was speaking of plans for the future, not immediate plans. However, she unfortunately makes a joke about reproductive coercion. Someone poking holes in a condom or otherwise sabotaging birth control is performing a type of sexual assault. That would be an evil act only carried out by an evil person.
HOWEVER, poor taste or not, it’s just a joke
It’s a joke because they don’t actually use condoms. Hopefully they’re using something (a vasectomy would be a great idea), but that’s their business.
As for Julia’s jealousy issues
She admits that she’s crazy jealous, but that she was actually MORE jealous in the past, and shares that many of her exes cheated on her — that it’s not Brandon’s fault or specific to Brandon. Even so, she’s struggling to let up when it comes to Brandon having friends who are women. She says that she might be less uptight if she had her own friends, but Brandon says that she’s not receptive to making new friends. That’s … something to work on.
And now a word from Jigsaw
Betty and Ron Gibbs tune in, expressing how much they miss Brandon now that he lives “far away” (30 minutes away). They even threaten — sorry, “offer” — to help him and Julia pay a down payment on a house. There’s just one little catch: it’s the house next door to theirs.
NO NO NO
Just as we were saying “no, no, no!” to our screens, Julia was saying the same. Buying a house for your child but the house turns out to be right next door is literally a joke from My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Ron has an unspecified health issue
It’s hard to say much about that without knowing what it may be, but Brandon is clearly haunted by misplaced guilt for not living there as his parents’ pet laborer. Brandon needs therapy, as we’ve been saying since forever.
Moving on to Mike and Natalie … and Trish
Mike’s mother appears. She has gotten a haircut, but still doesn’t seem to have anyone close enough who cares enough about her to tell her to get a better hairstyle to go on television. Ma’am, anyone who tells you that those bangs are okay on TV is not your friend.
She says that she did not call Natalie a “hooker”
Natalie insists that she heard it. Grimly, it looks like the fan rumor that there was footage of Trish saying this to Natalie was just a rumor. If someone did record it, it looks like they either didn’t show it at the Tell All or decided to edit it out from the Tell All for some reason.
Trish thinks that Natalie is a scammer
She insists that Natalie was just using Mike the whole time, that Mike gave the relationship his all and Natalie just wanted to come to the United States.
Natalie says that this isn’t all on her
She tells Trish that, just two hours after Mike proposed to her, Natalie found “naked boobs on his phone.”
She wasn’t snooping, either
They had taken photos and Mike handed Natalie his phone so that she could look through them, which is when she saw nudes sent from Mike’s ex, who was trying to win him back. The photos were in the folder of deleted files.
Angela goes off
With her usual use of insulting obscenities, Angela demands that Natalie should leave the United States for Ukraine now that her marriage hasn’t worked out.
She’s not a scammer
Natalie very reasonably explains that if she were scamming Mike for citizenship, she would have waited to leave him until she had papers. She would also have not been as miserable because she wouldn’t have loved him, and she wouldn’t have really been invested in it working out.
Then …
Natalie and Trish speak. Trish tells Natalie that she has been “evil” to Mike the whole time, and that it was awful of her to accuse Uncle Beau of having stolen her jewelry. Natalie says that her jewelry was missing, but Trish claims that Natalie must have “pawned” it herself. Natalie doesn’t even know what that word means.
Trish also negs Natalie into calling her mom
Through tears, she asks her mom for support and finally tells her at least a good portion of the truth about how things aren’t working out with Mike. That’s … a long time to go without telling her mom.
Now, for the main event
Back on the stage, Angela complains that Michael was suddenly conspicuously absent and unreachable as she recovered from her surgery.
Michael wasn’t cheating, he says
He said that Angela would call him while he was running errands or at church and then become angry and insecure when she couldn’t reach him.
Angela claims that he made fun of her body
Sobbing without any sign of real tears, Angela claims to feel hurt by Michael
There is a discussion of cosmetic surgery
This season, the Tell All Clown is Ronald who whines about “putting in the work” for weight loss. At the risk of siding with Angela, exercise is great for you, but it’s very rarely a long-term weight loss solution because the human body excels at storing energy efficiently.
But isn’t there something else?
After everyone notes that Angela’s flirtations with Dr. Obeng would have set her off if Michael had done something similar, Angela admits that she attended Dr. Obeng’s birthday party, but was never alone with him.
Actually no, that’s not the truth, Angela
Shaun says that she knows through a producer that Angela got a ride home from Dr. Obeng. Angela insists that this was just a doctor caring about his patient’s nausea … but why was it a secret?
Why didn’t Angela tell Michael?
Angela claims that it was totally professional, but that does not explain why she — who has screamed inhumanly at Michael for having a public meeting with women for any reason — didn’t tell her husband.
Aunt Lydia tunes in
Like her Handmaid’s Tale namesake, Michael’s aunt is pushing Angela to have Michael’s babies and to respect Michael as her husband. She’s half right about one of those — Angela should respect Michael because he’s a human being, and no one should be treated the way that Angela treats him.
Angela snarls back
She insists that their marriage is none of Lydia’s business, and then asks if Lydia is sleeping with Michael — which is just unacceptable under any circumstances.
Angela’s behavioral issues continue
Like a confused bear that gets into a human’s house, is bewildered by its surroundings, and makes a mess, Angela often has trouble fitting in with civilization. In this case, she stands up, cursing into the camera — the wrong camera — at Aunt Lydia.
Shaun Robinson asks for peace
You know that things are bad when a reality show is making even a halfhearted attempt to stop a fight.
NOOOOOO
While the rest of the world is lucky enough to see the edited version of this, Aunt Lydia got an eyeful of Angela’s brand new breasts after their augmentation. And so did some other unfortunate victims.
Ronald covered his eyes
Ronald, tuning in just like Aunt Lydia and just like Michael, must have seen his screen filled with the grandmother’s breasts.
What is even happening?
Kalani was so overcome by Angela’s antics. We don’t blame her.
Shaun Robinson is not paid enough
We don’t know what she makes for these Tell All specials, but it should be more. Whatever it is, it should be more.
What a way to end Part 1
Part 2 will have its hands full trying to top that. Wow. Thanks for the nightmare fuel, 90 Day Fiance.