90 Day Fiance couple Brittany Banks and Yazan Abo Horira are about to give their romance another shot on Season 2 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, but did their relationship work out and are they still together now -- or have Brittany and Yazan split?
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[90 Day Fiance Spoiler Warning: This report includes spoilers revealing if Brittany and Yazan are still together or if the 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way couple split up.]
Brittany, a 26-year-old from Palm Beach, FL, and Yazan, a 24-year-old from Jordan, dated for five months prior to appearing on 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way's second season.RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOW: WHO IS STILL TOGETHER? WHO HAS SPLIT? WHERE ARE THEY KNOW? (PHOTOS)
Since Yazan couldn't move to America due to undisclosed circumstances, Brittany decided to move to Jordan so she and Yazan could begin a life together.
Yazan held out hope Brittany would change for him and convert to Islam. He wanted the aspiring rapper and model to behave like a Muslim woman in his home country and dress the part, but Brittany didn't plan on toning down her personality and sexy style for anyone.
"I'm such an independent person. I have my own thoughts and feelings... I am definitely going to corrupt him!" Brittany said on the show, adding that she had no intention of changing herself for a man.
Yazan also wanted to tie the knot immediately, within a matter of weeks, but he was unaware Brittany was still technically married and had yet to finalize her divorce from her former husband.
When Brittany and Yazan finally reunited in Jordan, their first hour together was explosive because Yazan blasted Brittany for hugging a 90 Day Fiance crew member and carrying around a container of tequila in her luggage.
"Why are you acting crazy?! What's this?! Oh my God. F-ck you! F-ck Brittany! F-ck all the sh-t!" Yazan yelled while throwing up his middle finger at people.
Yazan vented, "I am so stupid... Look at her, she is fooling me. What an idiot I am."
"This is exactly what my parents warned me about," he added. "Brittany either doesn't understand or doesn't care about the traditions or the country I live in."
Brittany was "disappointed" in Yazan's reaction, but Yazan explained Muslim women in relationships aren't allowed to have physical contact with other men in Jordan. Yazan also tried to convince Brittany to wear a hijab in public and in front of his family.
"You control everything that I do... I am a person, I am a human being. You don't respect me how I thought you did. You don't love me," Brittany said.
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOW"No, you don't love me because you don't change yourself," Yazan replied.
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Yazan's parents also wanted Brittany to delete her social-media accounts so people wouldn't think she's "a prostitute" and get married right away, even thought Brittany's father wouldn't be able to attend the ceremony in that case.
Yazan's mother demanded respect and told Brittany she should "forget" her American family and give birth to Yazan's children as soon as possible.
Brittany believed Yazan would eventually have to choose between her and his family, but since she loved him, she agreed to learn more about Islam and at least think about converting.
"If you want to marriage me, you must be Muslim," Yazan told a surprised Brittany.
"What the f-ck are you talking about? You should've said that when we first met -- not now," Brittany responded angrily. "You did not say, 'You need to be Muslim.'"
"Not you, my wife," Yazan said.
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Yazan ultimately agreed not to force anything on Brittany and give her some time, and Yazan's uncle Ibrahim finally convinced Yazan's parents to allow the young couple to date before getting married so they wouldn't get divorced.
But another huge fight sparked when a member of Yazan's family saw a picture of Brittany on her Instagram account in which she was posing by a Florida pool with a friend in skimpy bikinis.
Yazan allegedly flipped out over Brittany's photo, and Brittany argued, "Every day you want to marry me, then you don't because of what someone asks you. You are weak and insecure. I don't ever want to see your face ever again because you're weak as f-ck."
Brittany told the cameras that she wasn't going to let Yazan and his family "bully" her into deleting her Instagram account and becoming a different person.
"We still have a lot of obstacles to face in our relationship... but I am willing to do some work... What's a relationship without a little crazy?!" Brittany said.
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On the mid-season finale of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way's second season, Brittany returned home with the expectation she was going to settle her divorce.
Brittany told Yazan that she was going to miss him, and she explained her reason for traveling was that she needed "to do stuff" and also her sister was having her baby.
"I'm not completely lying to Yazan. I'm just not telling him the full truth," Brittany told the cameras.
Brittany apparently filed for divorce when she was temporarily living with her mother in Chicago, so that's where her hearing happened to be.
Once Brittany arrived home, she chatted with her mother Audrey about how adjusting to life in Jordan was difficult. Brittany admitted she was feeling "mentally drained" because there was "some real craziness" that went down during her visit.
"If [Yazan] don't want to marry you then, [get rid of him]," Audrey advised her daughter.
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Brittany was shocked to discover no documents had been uploaded in the clerk's office about her divorce.
"I flew all the way from Jordan for nothing. I have to refile and all this stuff has to be reapproved by a judge. So now, I'm going to have to stay in the U.S. longer than I expected. I don't know what I'm going to do about Yazan... I really thought I was going to have a divorce," Brittany complained.
Brittany didn't know what she was going to tell Yazan, and she was very concerned about how her relationship could progress since she was still a married woman.
"Waiting longer to get divorced brings on a lot of problems," Brittany said.
"Yazan is going to be wondering why I'm taking so long. His family is going to be wondering why I'm taking so long to marry him. It just seems like the longer I wait to tell him, the more sh-t I'm getting into."
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Meanwhile, Yazan's father apparently told Yazan that Brittany had been lying to him and didn't really want to marry him. Yazan believed in his heart, however, Brittany wasn't playing him and that she loved him.
"I told him next time... we are going to sign the papers and we're going to continue [with marriage]. My dad said, 'If you want the girl, don't work. Go marry her, don't work with me. Show yourself out,'" Yazan told a friend.
"He kicked me out of the house. He fired me from my job. I spent the first day at my uncle's. After that, I had to stay on the street for two days. Then I rented an apartment and looked for work. I don't talk to anyone. I spend time alone."
Yazan said this was the most difficult time of his life, especially in light of being fired from the fish market.
"I don't know how to move things forward at all," Yazan lamented. "I feel that I have lost everything in my world. This is the first time in my life that I feel helpless... This is the first time I feel weak."
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Yazan had to explain to Brittany that he was struggling financially and didn't even have money to eat.
"I felt like she is living in another world or that she doesn't care about me at all," Yazan griped. "There is no one at all. If she's really saying she loves me, she's supposed to understand what I'm going through."
Yazan began to worry that his parents had been correct all along in their suspicions and concerns about Brittany, which was bothering him the most.
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But Yazan appeared to be drowning in love and willing to sacrifice everything.
During her stay in the United States, Brittany asked Yazan to prove he's an independent man by securing a place for the two of them and making enough money to buy her a plane ticket to return to Jordan.
Yazan revealed to Brittany via FaceTime he was working a lot to save money -- like 14 hours per day -- by driving a taxi and working at a barber shop. Yazan said he changed a lot within himself because he really loved her and wanted to be with her.
Brittany could tell Yazan was becoming his "own man" and a responsible adult, and she said that's all she wanted for him.
Brittany had paid for her flights and their apartment in Jordan in the past, so she didn't think she was asking a lot from Yazan.
Yazan hung up on Brittany, complaining that she seemed to want a millionaire and he was never going to be that. Brittany, however, said she just wanted Yazan to provide stability -- not a private jet or yacht or shopping spree, which were things she was used to.
While they were FaceTiming in a park, someone walked by Brittany and told her that she looked beautiful. Yazan complained that Brittany was dressed inappropriately and too sexy in public, showing off her chest, and so he said she needed to change in order to be with and marry him.
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"Now, all of a sudden, I need to change. I don't know what I'm supposed to believe anymore. Before I [go back to Jordan], Yazan needs to show me that he's mature and that he is not going to fall to the pressures of his parents and his family."
After Brittany flew from Florida -- where she visited her father -- back to Chicago and a judge signed off on her paperwork, Brittany gushed about being "officially divorced."
But Brittany didn't want to make the same mistake of "picking the wrong guy" again, and she admittedly felt "suffocated" in her relationship with Yazan.
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Brittany said she fell in love with Yazan because he was so different and had portrayed himself as a feminist. Brittany said Yazan was no longer the man she had fallen in love with, and Brittany told Angela that she planned to give him an ultimatum.
Brittany told Angela that Yazan needed to stand up to his parents and wait to get married or else they wouldn't stay together and work out. Brittany wasn't sure whether Yazan would listen to her, but she had reached a breaking point.
Brittany didn't want a "toxic" relationship and had no intention of holding back.
Later, Yazan learned his father was threatening to kill him if he married Brittany as Yazan's relationship with her was "humiliating" and bringing "dishonor" upon his family.
"I want you to get to him and tell him, 'If you marry her, your father will kill you,'" Yazan's dad Ziad told Yazan's brother Obaida.
"Dad, no," Obaida replied.
"I'm telling you, and I'm warning you. I swear, tell Yazan if he doesn't reconsider, I will be his murderer," Ziad added.
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Yazan understood Ziad was trying to protect his family and would disown him for disgracing their family, and Obaida tried to convince his brother that he was making a big mistake by staying with Brittany.
In the meantime, Brittany had managed to finalize her divorce in America and was planning her return to Jordan.
However, as she was on her way to the airport, she received phone messages from Yazan in which he blamed her for a car accident he had just suffered.
Yazan left Brittany a voicemail screaming about needing to spend $1,000 to fix his car, and she was fed up. The pair fought and called each other "selfish" and Brittany argued Yazan had done nothing for her.
"Shut the f-ck up," Brittany said.
"Bye," Yazan replied, as he hung up the phone.
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Brittany told the cameras it was becoming clear to her that Yazan might never change and so she needed answers from him in Jordan.
"I'm not getting on that flight. Period," Brittany complained.
Brittany said she was tired of putting up with her "broke ass," "dusty ass," "narcissistic mama's boy" boyfriend.
Yazan said he blamed Brittany for the accident because he had called his girlfriend five or six times only to be ignored, which led him to texting her while driving and then the accident.
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At the last minute, Brittany decided to fly to Jordan and just spend time with her girlfriend Angela, whom she planned to meet. Brittany settled on the fact her trip would become "a girls' trip" and she wouldn't even meet up with Yazan.
"I'm not going to see Yazan. I refuse. I don't want to be with somebody who yells at me and treats me like that and is very manipulative in the way he is," Brittany vented in a confessional.
"This is too toxic for me, and I just don't have time for that. As far as I'm concerned, Yazan and I are done."
After 18 hours of travel, Brittany finally landed in Jordan. Brittany admitted she was missing Yazan a little bit on her flight but then her "logical mind" took over and told her to stop thinking about him.
Although Brittany ignored his messages and calls, Yazan went to the airport to pick her up because he said he missed her a lot and still loved her. The pair, however, couldn't find each other at the airport and totally missed one another.
Brittany hopped into a taxi and Yazan assumed Brittany just left him at the airport.
Yazan said he was angry and upset to the point he didn't want to hear from her or hear any excuses.
"It's clear. It's impossible. It's impossible that she didn't see me. Maybe I was an idiot. I shouldn't have come anyway," Yazan noted.
"I am fighting my family for Brittany. I don't know, I am feeling that my family is right."
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Brittany just wanted to enjoy herself and complained Yazan had been acting "like a fool."
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Yazan told Brittany that he was at the airport, but she insisted she never saw him or heard from him. Brittany told Yazan to take responsibility for his actions and just "act f-cking right" as Yazan attempted to shout over her.
The pair argued over the phone and then Brittany's phone died, and Angela had no idea where Brittany and Yazan's relationship stood.
Later on, Brittany and Angela went out to dinner together and Brittany noticed everyone was staring at them. She said it finally made sense why Yazan always wanted her to cover up when in public.
"I don't want him to feel like I'm expecting him to be perfect; there's just some things I really need him to work on, and I need him to be serious about it," Brittany told her pal. "Building a life together is serious."
Angela advised Brittany to be honest and explain the real issue to Yazan without yelling at him, but Brittany admitted she liked to keep her guard up in order to not get hurt.
"I have a weak spot for Yazan I don't always like to admit," Brittany said, before FaceTiming with Yazan.
She told Yazan that it was hard to fight with him when she got to see his face, and she decided to see Yazan during her trip and talk things out. Yazan asked to pick Brittany and Angela up from the downtown restaurant, and she agreed.
Brittany planned to give Yazan the benefit of the doubt, but Angela said Brittany was "a little bit tipsy," and neither girl knew how Yazan was going to react to that.
Did Brittany and Yazan work things out and stay together or has the 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way couple split?
Brittany and Yazan suggested they are over and done with -- and certainly not on good terms -- when they traded swipes with each other on Instagram in late July.Yazan explained the differences between "a good girl" and "a bad girl" on his Instagram Stories and appeared to take shots at Brittany without identifying her name, but then less than two hours later, Brittany confirmed she had taken Yazan's post personally by firing back at him and sharing the differences between "a good man" and "a bad man."
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Yazan appeared to spark the feud by writing on his Instagram Stories, "Have you ever wondered what is the difference between a good girl and a bad girl? Well, let me tell you about my thoughts. First of all, a good girl will loosen her shirt button when it's hot but a bad girl will loosen her shirt button to make a situation hot."
"Secondly, a good girl wears underwear and a bad girl don't use underwear," he added.
"Thirdly, a good girl says no and a bad girl says when? Lastly, a good girl goes to a party then go home then go to bed but a bad girl goes to a party then go to bed then go home."
Yazan went on to write, "I know that different people have different point of views. That's my personal point of view and a good person will definitely agree with what I said. Spread positivity and love."
In a subsequent post, Yazan concluded, "I want to clarify something. My previous stories is not about any specific person. I was just talking about something in general."
But Brittany clearly took Yazan's words to heart, because she clapped back on her own Instagram Stories.
"A good man holds a job and provides for his woman. A bad man sits at home with his hand out to everybody, trying to demand respect and control over a woman who WORKS for hers," Brittany wrote.
"If I let you control me, we'd be homeless cus lord knows you will not work or pay one bill with all that mouth. Sit this one out boo."
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But Brittany hinted her relationship was okay earlier that month.
On July 5, Entertainment Tonight published an interview with Brittany in which she talked about her relationship and admitted she's still processing the scenario in which Yazan and his family found out her divorce was not finalized by the time she flew to Jordan.
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Brittany explained, "We're so, so different and we're from two different backgrounds, so we're going to be going through a lot of conversations and a lot of compromise, so basically it's normal for the situation we're in."
"We still have time to see if the compromise is worth it. I think it's too soon to tell," she added. "So far, everything has happened the way it's supposed to, and I'm enjoying the ride."
Brittany also said she "loves" Jordan -- including the people, the culture and its natural beauty -- and Yazan took English classes for her so they could learn to communicate better and easier.
When asked whether she thinks her relationship with Yazan could withstand their cultural differences, Brittany replied, "Um yeah. I feel like... all the people in this world can withstand each other's differences... for the most part."
"When you try to change people's opinions and views, that's when problems arise... [Yazan] kind of gets where I'm coming from and the type of life he wants to live and we want to live in the future."
In addition, Brittany revealed she actually loves Yazan's parents but can't speak on how they feel about her in return.
A few days earlier, Brittany posted a photo in which the couple was about to kiss during a dinner out on July 1.
Brittany wrote, "It's hard not to stay loyal to the queen. Some know better than others."
And Yazan responded, "You are so gorgeous my queen. I am so lucky to have you in my life," which clearly shows they are still together.
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A few followers weighed in and asked Yazan to take care of Brittany and treat her like a gentleman.
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There was definitely trouble in paradise between the couple in late June, however.
At that time, Brittany lashed out at Yazan on Instagram claiming he's a cheater and substance-abuse user, only to claim shortly afterwards her account had been hacked.
Brittany ultimately deleted her rant against Yazan on Instagram, but screenshots taken of her post had been circulating on social media.
"Fun facts about us. Yazans favorite drink is Jack Daniels. Yazan loves hashish, tramadol, and gaslighting women," Brittany captioned a photo of the pair, suggesting Yazan was a hypocrite because he went ballistic over the idea of Brittany drinking alcohol.
"He also loves to cheat with 90 day fiance fans. He's on his third one. His favorite pastime is blaming others for his actions. Enjoy."
In the comments section of her post, a follower asked Brittany who manages Yazan's Instagram account since his English was inferior on the show.
"His third girlfriend he chose from his fan base," Brittany replied, according to a screenshot obtained by @187anonymousgossip Instagram account.
When someone criticized Brittany of lying and wrongly getting angry, she wrote on Instagram, "Alright alright settle down kids. Yazan is awake now and if he hears us talking about him he's gonna flip his sh-it. #F-ckTheBrittany."
And Brittany subsequently posted on her Instagram Stories, "Woke up in a f-ck you mood. Tired of misogynists who think they can groom women. Ima kill all that on behalf of my ladies. F-CK MISOGYNIST. WOMEN ARE QUEENS."
One hour later, however, Brittany posted a silent video of herself posing on Instagram and wrote alongside it, "I was hacked or whatever."
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It's possible TLC reached out to Brittany and reminded her she was in breach of her non-disclosure agreement by providing spoilers that her relationship with Yazan wasn't working out or had already ended.
Around that same time, Brittany confirmed with ET that she is "not going to convert to any religion for anybody."
"I don't think that's a good idea for anybody. If you do it, it should be for God, not for a man," Brittany said.
And she apparently feels the same way about dressing like a Muslim woman in Jordan and wearing the hijab.
"If I sacrifice anything... it's going to be for myself because I decide that it's a good decision," she told ET.
"It's not going to be for anybody else or for any man because that's the only way I'm going to stick to it, if it's really for myself and something I believe in. I think it's unfair, really, to try to change yourself for any other person."
On August 31, Brittany posted a video of herself cuddling up to Yazan on a couch.
"Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone. I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run. You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess. It's a love story, baby, just say 'Yes,'" Brittany captioned the video, writing the lyrics to a hit Taylor Swift song.
"Romeo, save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel. This love is difficult, but it's real. Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess. It's a love story baby just say 'Yes.'"
Brittany and Yazan haven't posted about each other on Instagram since late August and rumors have swirled Brittany may be involved with 90 Day Fiance alum Usman Umar after he commented "babygirl" on one of her Instagram photos.
However, Brittany recently insisted on Instagram she never dated Yazan for fame and she could have hooked up with an athlete or rapper if that's what she's about.
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