90 Day Fiance alum Ronald Smith has apparently moved on from wife Tiffany Franco, and he has introduced his new girlfriend Lauren Fraser to the world.
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Ronald, who starred on Season 1 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way and Season 6 of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?, apparently didn't waste any time following his split from Tiffany.
Ronald announced he was filing for divorce from Tiffany, the mother of his two-year-old daughter Carley Rose, less than three months ago in late August.
"You are a true pillar for me. I appreciate you and who you are!" Ronald continued in his Instagram caption, gushing about Lauren.
"You're such a support for me and every moment with you is such a joy and a pleasure. I enjoy every moment [every time]. Thank you for who you are in my life and thank you for being part of my life."
Set to the song "In Case You Didn't Know" by Brett Young, Ronald showed his followers glimpses of his time with Lauren, which has included road trips, going out for cocktails, and quite a bit of laughing, embracing and kissing in what appears to be his native South Africa.
Tiffany, 28, expressed her thoughts on Ronald's new relationship shortly after the couple went Instagram official, but the post no longer appears on her page.
"Ronald and I are no longer together but we are still married on paper," she said in an Instagram video of her own, according to Us Weekly.
"We did file for the separation or whatever, but nothing is really in concrete yet."
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The makeup artist therefore called Ronald and Lauren's time in South Africa together "out of line, cause he's still a married man."
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOW"I'm not the kind to like, be in these nasty, messy situations. I'm not meant to be in a relationship like this. It's really weird. I've never dealt with somebody who's like this, a cheater," Tiffany reportedly griped.
"I don't deal with these kind of women. It just takes a special kind of person to be with someone when they're still married, but, whatever, she's a pretty girl. She's pretty cute, and he does look happy."
Tiffany, however, called Ronald -- who has also been a father to Tiffany's pre-teen son Daniel from a previous relationship -- "painful."
"It's hurtful. But a woman like me has no choice but to be strong," she noted, before asking her followers not to send her Ronald's video in her DMs because she's "not interested" in seeing her husband "sucking on someone's neck" before they're even officially divorced.
She concluded in her video: "I'm not going to let this hurt me more than it already has."
Ronald told In Touch Weekly in August that he and Tiffany had been fighting for "some time" and were finally "calling it quits," and Tiffany subsequently confirmed she and her husband had "officially split" after many prior breakups and makeups.
"I don't care anymore. He is a cancer that I need to get rid of immediately, and I wish luck to whoever is his next victim," Tiffany snapped.
Tiffany said in her own statement to In Touch that she felt ready to move on from Ronald because she had already been taking care of her two kids alone for years already.
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Tiffany said of the split, "The issue was that [Ronald] posts certain things whether it's selfies or pictures of his truck and he's looking for a specific response."
"I feel that it is my responsibility as his wife to help him when he's down," she added. "Unfortunately, [he's] been down since I met him, so, it's been five-plus years of me supporting him with nothing in return."
Tiffany also accused Ronald at the time of allegedly seeking attention and pity from strangers when she said she had been paying for everything in their relationship and supporting her husband through good and bad times.
Ronald, however, claimed Tiffany was controlling and he wasn't "even allowed" to go to the gym.
"As much as I love her and I care for her and she's the mother of my kids, I don't know that I would even want to fix it," Ronald confessed. "I highly doubt it. I'm tired of holding back and keeping quiet."
Before their big blowout fight that ended their relationship, Tiffany and Ronald broke up in July, around the time of Carley's second birthday, and reconciled.
Tiffany shared alleged emails and Instagram DMs from Ronald at the time in which the South Africa native had insisted he was "done" with his marriage and even threatened to expose his wife on social media and hire a lawyer.
Ronald allegedly told Tiffany this past summer that he could find someone "better" who will treat him "right" and "won't lie."
"F-ck you for that... I'm gonna block you again... I already threw everything out of the house... [I] hope you find pleasure in what you did. I'm literally nauseous thinking about you now lol... I'm free now, thank you [for] lying... I won't respect you for sh-t again," he allegedly wrote to Tiffany.
Ronald allegedly continued, "I do not want to know nothing about you. I don't want to hear about you; all I want is my kids. I'm done with you, you can move on. I move on. Let's do that. You can say I'm cheating [but] you are the one lying about the visa."
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Ronald previously accused Tiffany of not actually submitting the paperwork for his spousal visa, which would have allowed him to finally move to the United States.
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Tiffany and Ronald also came close to breaking up in May, and months earlier, they had a nasty split in January 2020 that didn't last.
Back in January, the pair announced they were "separating" and appeared to be headed for a divorce.
Tiffany accused Ronald of "adultery" and manipulation at the time and claimed he had suffered multiple relapses of the gambling addiction he had sought treatment for in a rehab facility years ago.
On January 28, 2020, Tiffany told her Instagram followers in regards to her marriage "some things are just irreparable," and Ronald claimed on social media he'd be "filing for divorce in South Africa" after a year-and-a-half of marriage.
The sparring spouses were shown trying to work through their issues and stay together on 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s Tell-All event for Season 6 this past summer.
Tiffany and Ronald initially appeared on 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way's first season in 2019 and were shown getting married on the series in South Africa despite their financial issues and Tiffany's constant fear Ronald may relapse from his previous gambling addiction.
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