90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days star David Murphey has revealed he's been engaged a whopping four times before Lana.
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But Lana definitely wasn't David's first love or hopeful future wife.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days' Season 4 Tell-All reunion ended up filming remotely during the first weekend of May, with cast members participating via videoconference.
About ten hours of raw footage from the Season 4 reunion show subsequently leaked online, including several hours in which David was interviewed by Tell-All host Shaun Robinson and discussed how many overseas women he's proposed marriage to in the past.
"I proposed to two girls over there [in Ukraine], and that was before the chat sites [existed]," David shared.
When asked to reveal the number of women he has proposed marriage to in his life, including those living in the United States, David replied, "Two in America and two in Ukraine."
However, given David and Lana met on an international dating website, it would appear Lana is the third woman from Ukraine whom David has been engaged to, which would make Lana his fifth engagement in total.
David admittedly did not pop the question to Lana in Ukraine with a real diamond engagement ring, so Shaun questioned whether he's ever proposed with a real diamond before.
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"One did [receive a real one]," David replied. "Well, no. Two, actually."
"One in America [received a real diamond] and one in Ukraine," he continued. "But the other ones didn't get fakes. They just didn't get their rings yet."
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOWThe self-declared millionaire claimed on the Tell-All he had presented Lana with a fake ring to essentially be used as a "prop" because Lana wanted to pick out her own ring and David didn't know her ring size.
Not only has David been engaged multiple times, but he said he's also talked to almost 1,000 women on dating sites over the years.
Given Lana had "ghosted" David and stood him up nearly a handful of times before they finally met in Ukraine last year, Shaun asked David why he didn't just move on with another woman and test his luck with someone else.
"I have," David assured the host. "During that seven years that I've known Lana, I dated 30 other girls in Ukraine."
"There was a two-and-a-half year period of time when Lana and I didn't talk during that seven years," David explained.
"And I actually dated, you know, I went out on dates -- that's dating -- with 30 girls in the Ukraine during that two-and-a-half years."
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David then revealed, "And I almost got engaged to one [of them]."
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"No, there were two-and-a-half years where I didn't talk to Lana," David confirmed, adding he has traveled to Ukraine over 20 times. "It's an amazing adventure."
Also during the Tell-All filming, David said he doesn't care if Lana is using him for a Green Card to move to America.
And he claimed he's only given Lana about $500 a year in gifts and cash since they met.
As shown on 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days' fourth season, David flew to Ukraine with an engagement ring in his pocket, but Lana never showed up at the train station in Odessa to meet him.
"I can't believe this is happening again. This is the fourth time that I've come to Ukraine to meet Lana, and this is the fourth time it hasn't happened," David said in a confessional.
"This one is different. There is no excuse for this one. The others had excuses, and logical excuses -- she had a medical operation and one time her brother died."
David couldn't get in contact with Lana afterward, so he decided to take a dangerous drive to her alleged home address in Pavlohrad, which was on the outskirts of a war zone.
Lana had given David this address when he wanted to book them a cruise the previous year.
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Once David arrived in Pavlohrad, David searched for Lana in local florist and candy shops. She also stood him up at a restaurant.
David therefore went straight to the source by driving to Lana's alleged address at an apartment building, but a man answered the door and said he had never seen Lana before.
David wanted to be angry and quit his romance with Lana, but he admitted, "I know if she just writes to me and suddenly invites me into a chat, that's it!"
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Once David returned to the United States, he hired a private investigator to hopefully track Lana down and give him some information about the mysterious girl's whereabouts.
After conducting some research, the private investigator warned David it seemed like he was being scammed because Lana was on several dating websites, sharing the same pictures of herself under different names.
David didn't like the private investigator's findings and insisted someone could have stolen Lana's pictures and used them, and so David accused the PI of making stuff up and fired him.
After two or three weeks of not speaking to Lana, David said they finally reconnected and Lana opened up about what she was going through.
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Lana allegedly said she felt overwhelmed and "horrible" about what had happened and would make it up to David.
David, however, was done waiting and believed in his heart Lana was "not scamming" him, so he decided to fly back to Ukraine, where Lana said she had moved in with her sister in Kiev. It marked David's fifth -- and hopefully final -- attempt to meet Lana.
Lana put off meeting David for a couple of days, but she did eventually show up! The couple then went on a couple dates, which included a little kiss here or there.
"David is a very attractive man, better than what I expected," Lana told the cameras. "For today, I like everything in David, except his leather coat."
Lana, however, wanted to take things slowly, including the idea of an engagement and being physical with David.
But when David was about to leave Ukraine, he spontaneously got down on one knee and popped the question in the airport, and Lana giggled with glee and answered, "Yes."
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Lana told the cameras she planned to leave the dating website, finally, and then move to Las Vegas. NV, to live with David.
"I don't know how I'll tell my family that I'm engaged because this all happened really unexpectedly and fast," Lana admitted.
Click here to read spoilers about David and Lana's relationship and whether they're still together and still engaged, including more Tell-All spoilers.
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