90 Day Fiance couple Chantel Everett and Pedro Jimeno appear to be back on track in their marriage on Season 4 of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?, but did their reconciliation last? Are they still together or have they broken up?
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Chantel and Pedro met online over four years ago when Chantel was looking to learn Spanish and a friend connected her with Pedro, who was also hoping to better his English.
Chantel and Pedro first appeared on Season 4 of TLC's 90 Day Fiance and then starred on Seasons 2 and 3 of its Happily Ever After? spinoff.
After communicating over the phone and video chat, Chantel decided to travel to the Dominican Republic so she could meet Pedro face to face.
It didn't take long for the couple to fall in love, although a friend of Pedro's family claims Pedro meeting Chantel was a setup by his family.
After Chantel visited Pedro in the Dominican Republic a couple more times, Pedro proposed marriage and she accepted.
Pedro then moved to the United States on his K-1 visa when he was 24 years old.
Although Pedro and Chantel were engaged, Chantel lied to her family and downplayed the significance of their relationship.
Chantel, who was 25 at the time, told her loved ones that Pedro was just visiting on a student visa in fear of what they might think.
And Chantel's family was definitely suspicious of Pedro and his motives, but the couple claimed to be in love and got married anyway.
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RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOWChantel's family was concerned Pedro was only interested in marrying Chantel for her money and an eventual Green Card.
Chantel's parents therefore forced Chantel and Pedro to sign a prenuptial agreement in order to protect Chantel's financial interests before their wedding.
Drama escalated when Chantel's parents subsequently hired a private investigator to research Pedro's family background and determine if he already had a wife or any children back in his native country.
They thought it was strange Pedro was constantly sending money home to his mother and sister in the Dominican Republic and wondered if he was hiding something.
Pedro hated that Chantel's family didn't trust him, and Chantel found herself in the middle of her relatives and the man she loved.
As fans may recall, Season 3 of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? concluded with Pedro getting into a blowout fight with Chantel's family at the dinner table.
When a conversation at the table got heated, Pedro apparently told someone to be quiet and then River yelled at Pedro for being disrespectful.
Pedro then ran across the table and seemingly tried to hit River, which resulted in a broken light and food scattered about. Tempers flared, weaves were pulled off, and the scene culminated into Chantel crying in a chair.
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Chantel revealed on the season's subsequent Tell-All special she was not ready to try for a baby and expand their family due to all the chaos and family tension.
Chantel couldn't imagine welcoming kids with a man her family didn't respect and basically couldn't stand -- and vice versa.
Chantel believed Pedro was out of line, regardless of who had started the fight, and she was angry he refused to apologize to her family and take some responsibility. Pedro, however, was waiting for Chantel's brother to say sorry.
Pedro also wanted Chantel to fix her relationship with his sister Nicole and mother Lidia. Pedro thought his sister deserved an apology as well from Chantel and her relatives.
As shown on the new season of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?, family ties continue to burden Chantel and Pedro's relationship.
Pedro and Chantel even considered moving to Savannah, GA -- which would require Chantel to transfer to another school to continue her education -- to separate Pedro and her family with greater distance. (But plans fell through).
At one point, the couple met with an immigration attorney to discuss the renewal of Pedro's U.S. green card, and Pedro mentioned potentially opening a business in his home country while continuing to live in the United States.
The immigration attorney revealed if Pedro ends up receiving his 10-year Green Card renewal, he and Chantel could get divorced and he'd still be able to stay in America.
But Chantel would still be on the hook financially for Pedro, despite the fact they has signed a prenuptial agreement, unless she could prove Pedro never entered the marriage in good faith.
"Was this your plan all along? To come here and marry me just for a green card so you can leave me, use me and start your business?" Chantel vented.
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Pedro then hopped on his flight to the Dominican Republic with a heavy and confused heart. He didn't know whether his marriage was going to make it or not.
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Chantel -- who worried her marriage was "doomed" when she dropped Pedro off at the airport -- then told the cameras, "Right now, I feel like my marriage could be lost."
Chantel feared Pedro's trip home would become a permanent one, and she had every reason to be concerned, as Pedro's family and friends later attempted to convince him to leave his wife.
One of Pedro's sister Nicole's friends was also interested in Pedro romantically and attempted to pursue him.
Chantel then visited Pedro in the Dominican Republic, although her husband pushed back on her coming and thought it was "selfish" she was imposing on his family time.
Chantel later had awkward and heated meetings with both Pedro's mother and sister.
Chantel tried to be "cordial" so she could have "a new beginning" with Pedro's family for her husband's sake, but she never felt supported by Pedro. Chantel wanted to be Pedro's priority.
And once again, neither side apologized or took fault for their years worth of problems.
"You're the cause of all of this. You don't deserve Pedro," Nicole told Chantel.
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Chantel vented her "marriage [was] over" and "it's done." She accused Pedro of acting like "a little b-tch" around his family.
After spending that night apart -- with Chantel in a hotel room and Pedro sleeping at his mother's place -- Pedro tried to fix things with Chantel because he was "embarrassed" about running away from their problems.
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Chantel then met up with her friend Obed, a family friend of Pedro's whom she had met when she first came to the Dominican Republic, for lunch. The last time she spoke with him, Obed insisted he didn't trust Pedro's sister and mother, and so Chantel thought he had some information for her.
"I know how bad they are, and she needs to know what she's gotten herself into with Pedro and his family," Obed told the cameras.
Obed then shared with Chantel, "If you came here to fix your marriage. You should know the whole history. I feel that it was a setup; they arranged Pedro to meet you and for you to fall in love with him."
"Who?" Chantel asked.
"His family," Obed noted. "I heard they were finding an American for him to marry... Any American. I don't think [Pedro] knew about it."
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A mutual friend had introduced Chantel and Pedro online when she was looking to learn Spanish. Once she got to know Pedro, she traveled alone to see him -- but the mutual friend had asked Chantel to visit with some of her girlfriends.
"Now I'm wondering if he just wanted Pedro to have more options to choose from," Chantel said in a confessional.
Obed said Pedro's family wanted Pedro to move to the United States and get a better life. Obed claimed Pedro's mother and sister wanted Pedro to be able to help them out with their business as well.
Pedro's mother had previously been accused by Chantel's mother of running an operation in which she helped women from the Dominican Republic find American men for money -- a venture Pedro had denied.
Obed said people searching for partners in America was common because he couldn't blame people in the Dominican Republic for wanting a better life.
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"The reason I feel like his family doesn't like you is because you guys fell in love for real," Obed said.
"So you think Pedro was only a means for them to move up in the social status here?" Chantel asked. "And that he fell in love with me, and because I'm the woman in his life now, they're jealous of me or something?"
"Yeah," Obed said.
Chantel wanted to believe she and Pedro genuinely fell in love despite the "conniving, evil, malicious" beginnings of everything.
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Red flags went up in Chantel's mind because Pedro did send money home to his family on a tight schedule every single month.
In a recent episode, Chantel was waiting for the right time to address Obed's concerns with Pedro.
"We are in a delicate place in our relationship right now," Chantel told the cameras, "and if I say the wrong thing, it could be over."
Chantel and Pedro then met with his friends again, and things exploded between Chantel and Nicole. Nicole even showed Chantel a video of Coraima grinding on and dancing on Pedro.
Chantel stormed out of the bar, and Obed told Pedro, "Seriously, Pedro? You let your own sister destroy your marriage?"
Pedro felt disrespected by his sister, but he didn't exactly run off to Chantel insisting they speak. Chantel had to convince Pedro to talk about things in private.
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Later on, however, Pedro apologized to Chantel for the video, and both individuals said, "I love you" to each other.
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After getting into an argument over the video, Pedro and Chantel decided to work on their relationship by heading to Las Terranas, a romantic beach destination where they had fallen in love.
Chantel said it felt good to be away from all the drama and just be alone, and after some good communicating, the pair made up and had some fun in the ocean together.
Things between them had really improved, and Chantel loved to see Pedro being fun and playful again.
Over dinner that night, Chantel finally confronted Pedro about Obed's claim that Pedro's sister Nicole and mother Lidia were looking for an American woman for Pedro to marry so he could make money in America and send it to back to them in the Dominican Republic so they'd have enough to start a business.
Pedro couldn't believe his wife was listening to Obed, who allegedly hated Nicole and Lidia. Pedro asked Chantel to believe that he wasn't involved and new nothing about this so-called scheme.
Chantel said if their marriage was a setup but they both genuinely fell in love with each other, that would be fine and they'd be able to move forward from that together.
Although Pedro denied everything, Chantel didn't trust Nicole and Lidia.
"Now that Pedro has his Green Card and the fact Pedro can stay in the United States, that means Pedro's mom and sister don't need me anymore and so they're trying to get rid of me," Chantel said.
Pedro explained his mother and sister never saw Chantel during her first trip to the Dominican Republic and if they wanted her to marry Pedro, they'd be the first people at the airport waiting for her to arrive so they could suck up to her.
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Chantel agreed Pedro had a point, and then he insisted he was with Chantel because he loved her and that's the only reason why he was married to her.
"You need to believe me... I am going to do everything to make you happy... Nobody loves you the way that I love you," Pedro said.
After speaking with Pedro and hearing his side of things, Chantel figured Nicole and Lidia had plotted for him to marry an American but Pedro just knew nothing about it.
Chantel then asked Pedro to come home with her to the United States, and he said he would to make her happy. Pedro admitted in that moment his wife comes before family and he was out to prove she was more important to him than anyone else.
But before leaving, Pedro set up another family dinner for Chantel, who thought Nicole was trying to "ruin" her relationship and Lidia had "malicious intentions as well."
Chantel, however, decided to give Pedro's family members a chance to tell the truth.
But Lidia was tired of giving Chantel second chances and decided to open up about things that unsettled her. Lidia said Chantel didn't support Pedro in front of her family and she worried about Pedro being alone in the United States with her "hostile" family members.
Lidia also thought Pedro needed to be in control of his relationship, but Chantel disagreed, arguing she's "a liberated woman."
Chantel pointed out that just because Lidia has an opinion, it doesn't mean she should express it. Lidia thought Chantel's attitude hadn't changed and so things weren't going to improve.
Chantel accused Nicole of trying to break up her relationship and Lidia of trying to control her relationship. Lidia demanded respect, but Chantel wanted Lidia to butt out of her marriage.
"I don't know why I expected this dinner to be any different," Chantel told the cameras.
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It quickly became apparent Chantel's problems with Pedro's family weren't going to be solved overnight, and Pedro had every intention of returning to the United States. Lidia feared things were only going to get worse for her son and she felt "paralyzed."
Chantel, however, didn't care if Pedro's family liked her, and she was just ready for this trip to be over.
So what happened after Chantel traveled to the Dominican? Are Chantel and Pedro still together or have they split?
It appears Chantel and Pedro are still together and married.Chantel and Pedro are secretive about their relationship and largely refrain from posting photos and updates of themselves together on social media -- presumably due to their contracts with TLC -- but it seems pretty clear their relationship hasn't ended.
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The apparent evidence is the fact Chantel and Pedro's time on reality TV won't end with Season 4 of the Happily Ever After? series.
TLC just revealed in late June that The Family Chantel will premiere on Monday, July 22 at 10PM ET/PT, a week after 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s Season 4 finale airs on Sunday, July 14. (Happily Ever After?'s two-part Tell-All reunion will then air on July 21 and 28.)
TLC announced the series back in April and revealed at the time The Family Chantel would air on Monday nights beginning in July 2019.
"Viewers will follow this unique modern family as they try to move past their differences and come together as an extended family, but as Chantel's parents Karen and Thomas try to protect their brood, will they push their children too far?" TLC teased in a press release announcing the new show in April.
"This is an awesome moment for TLC, as we create a family show based on one of our most popular 90 Day couples," TLC executive Howard Lee added.
The Family Chantel will star Pedro, Chantel and their lively in-laws -- Chantel's parents Karen and Thomas as well as Pedro's mother Lidia -- and their siblings.
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However, the transition back home won't be an easy one "after Chantel reveals all of the explosive information she learned on her trip to the Dominican Republic to her family," according to the network.
Chantel's family will race to confront Pedro in search of some answers. And Chantel's brother River and Pedro will come face-to-face for the first time since their brawl at the dining room table.
"And secrets are revealed as the family is forced to open up. Will the divide between Pedro and Chantel's family grow even more, or will they be able to get over their differences and become closer than ever?" the network teases.
Meanwhile, Chantel's sister Winter will be shown struggling in her own relationship with her boyfriend Jah.
Chantel and Winter's parents, Karen and Thomas, feel like they know nothing about Jah, despite their five-year relationship.
Karen and Thomas will therefore enlist a private investigator to uncover "some shocking secrets," according to TLC, which is what they had previously done to Pedro.
In addition, Pedro's grandmother will fall ill, forcing him to return to the Dominican Republic. But this time, Chantel's entire family wants to join him.
"As relationships are tested and apologies demanded, will this face-to-face meeting end in happiness or total destruction?" says TLC.
The Family Chantel is being produced by Sharp Entertainment, the same production company that produces TLC's other 90 Day Fiance programs.
If Chantel and Pedro weren't together anymore, it's very unlikely TLC would continue their story via The Family Chantel.
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When a fan speculated Chantel and Pedro have split, Chantel just replied, "Seriously."
It's unclear however whether she meant "seriously" as a question out of disbelief or as a statement confirming it's true.
Chantel also posted a cryptic message last month on Instagram in which she wrote, "When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back."
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