90 Day Fiance featured Natalie Mordovtseva accusing Mike Youngquist of cheating on her the night before their wedding and his mother admitting she had objected to his son's wedding, Yara Zaya crying over footage of Jovi Dufren and a stripper, Rebecca Parrott revealing her plastic-surgery transformation, and Andrew Kenton storming off the set over Amira Lollysa's demands during Part 1 of Season 8's Tell-All event on TLC.
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Mike and Natalie previously starred on Season 7 of 90 Day Fiance, Tarik and Hazel found fame on Season 2 of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days, and Rebecca and Zied first appeared on 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days' third season.
The four new couples who starred on Season 8 of 90 Day Fiance were Yara, a 25-year-old from Ukraine, and Jovi, a 29-year-old from New Orleans, LA; Stephanie Davison, a 52-year-old from Grand Rapids, MI, and Ryan Carr, a 27-year-old from Belize; Andrew, a 32-year-old from Roseville, CA, and Amira, a 28-year-old from France; and Brandon Gibbs, a 27-year-old from Dinwiddie, VA, and Julia Trubkina, a 26-year-old from Russia.
All of the couples attended the Tell-All either in studio with host Shaun Robinson or via videochat except for Stephanie and Ryan.
Tarik and Hazel participated via videochat from separate rooms in their home due to a COVID-19 scare in which they had been exposed to a person who tested positive for coronavirus not long before the taping. Amira also checked in through video from France.
90 Day Fiance features Americans who have fallen in love with foreigners bringing their fiances to the United States on K-1 visas.
However, once the couple is in America together, the American must marry their overseas partner within the 90-day period allowed by the visa or the foreigner has to return to their home country.
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Below is an update on 90 Day Fiance's eighth-season couples based on Part 1 of the Tell-All.
MIKE AND NATALIE
Mike and Natalie arrived to the Tell-All separately and Mike admitted their had been stressful times in his marriage.Julia noted that it didn't seem like Mike and Natalie were in love anymore, and the couple barely looked at or spoke to one another.
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Natalie rated her marriage a 6 on a scale from 1-10, and Mike scored their marriage a 7.
When asked what's preventing her marriage from being a 10, Natalie said she and Mike needed to work on their relationship. Natalie wasn't wearing her engagement ring to the Tell-All but she claimed she had left the ring at home so it wouldn't get stolen -- which half of the Season 8 cast didn't believe.
Natalie didn't want to speak on her problems with Mike at first even though it was obvious they weren't on great terms since they had arrived to the studio separately earlier that morning.
When watching back footage of Mike cancelling their wedding on their wedding day, Natalie cried and Mike admitted he felt ashamed of his behavior and was truly apologetic.
Mike explained he had come down with a severe case of cold feet the night before the wedding. Mike said he had escaped down the river for five or six hours and got inside his own head and felt a lot of pressure.
"That's cold, bro," Tarik said.
"I was just not ready to get married that day... I got scared. I'm not trying to justify it in any way. I feel like a piece of sh-t that it went down that way. I do. I feel horrible," Mike lamented.
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Natalie cried about how she felt so small, little and helpless that day, and Mike attempted to console his wife.
"I'm sorry," Mike told Natalie. "I feel horrible. I honestly do... I was not ready to get married that day."
Tarik called Mike "selfish," and then Mike revealed, "Natalie thought I went off and cheated the night before. And that was weighing on my head."
Natalie explained it was strange when Mike had suddenly disappeared the night before their wedding and he wouldn't answer his phone and Uncle Beau and his neighbor Tamara didn't know where he had traveled to.
Natalie said the whole situation was "too much" and Mike didn't return home until after 4AM. Tamara also apparently told Natalie that Mike had taken off for a bachelor party, which Mike insisted wasn't true.
Mike told Shaun that he didn't like it when Natalie accused him of cheating and he wasn't sure he wanted to continue dealing with it.
"We have gone through all these struggles and uphill battles... I was six miles away from the house, right up the road," Mike shared, adding that he didn't have phone service because they live in the middle of the woods. "I just needed to step away."
Jovi pointed out that Mike probably would have been upset if Natalie suddenly took off the night before their wedding with no contact, and Mike said he understood.
Mike's mother Trish then joined the conversation via videochat and revealed Mike had called her about potentially calling off the wedding days before the ceremony. Trish accused Natalie of trying to change Mike's life and being too jealous.
"That he called off the wedding, I'm kind of not surprised," Trish said, adding, "They fight and fight and fight."
Natalie admitted she tends to be jealous, and Mike insisted he had never given Natalie a good reason not to trust him.
Trish revealed Mike had called her several days before the wedding and said he wanted to buy Natalie a plane ticket to return to Ukraine, but Mike argued, "I had no intention of sending [Natalie] home."
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Mike insisted the conversation took place on the same day Natalie had left him.
Trish apparently had such serious reservations about Natalie and Mike getting married that she had asked Tamara to stand up at the wedding and reject to the couple's union. Tamara had said in never-before-seen footage that she couldn't go through with Trish's request after seeing how in love Mike and Natalie seemed to be.
Trish confirmed she had wanted Tamara to object to the wedding because Mike's relationship was "such a mess" and she didn't like how Natalie treated her son.
Mike said Trish's motive made him angry and it wasn't right to ask someone else to object to his wedding. But despite his "mixed feelings" on the subject, Mike said he loved both his mother and his wife and he's never choose one over the other.
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Rebecca, who has three grown children, told Trish that Mike is an adult and he can make his own decisions, and Trish said, "You're right," although she didn't like how Natalie was behaving.
After the conversation, Natalie wouldn't talk to Mike or even look him in the eye.
REBECCA AND ZIED
Julia admitted it seemed like Zied was using Rebecca for a Green Card because of their huge age difference.Rebecca revealed she had injections similar to Botox in her forehead as well as lip injections.
Zied gushed about Rebecca's new look and said, "I love this... She [looks] more younger. She is more sexy."
Rebecca also had a mini tummy-tuck after she lost a lost of weight as well as micro-laser lipsuction. Rebecca said she was still swelled up but had dropped two pant sizes.
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Natalie told Rebecca that she looked beautiful and would like to get plastic surgery on her nose, and Yara -- who previously had a nosejob -- announced that it's okay for a woman to change something about her looks in 2021 if she's insecure.
Julia "totally disagreed" about undergoing plastic surgery and got into a little tiff with Yara, who claimed Julia was being judgmental and it's not her business to judge a woman on her own personal decisions about her face or body.
"If you want to look better, just go to the gym... People are lazy and don't want to do things for their body," Julia announced, which upset Rebecca.
Yara argued that Rebecca likes herself better now and there's nothing wrong with a little nip or tuck here or there.
Zied revealed he wants to get liposuction on his stomach because he can't stop eating pizza, but Julia complained that's not natural for one's body.
When Rebecca's daughter Tiffany joined the show via videochat, she said her mother seems more confident than ever.
However, Rebecca acknowledged she still gets jealous of other pretty American women talking to or flirting with Zied. Rebecca stood by the fact Tiffany's friend Hannah had hit on Zied and was trying to get under her skin, but Tiffany insisted Hannah has a lot more respect for people than that.
ANDREW AND AMIRA
Andrew was looking forward to having a healthy conversation with Amira -- whom he hadn't spoken to in a while -- to seek answers on why she had chosen to do the things that she did. He said he was just trying to move on from their failed relationship, heal and find closure.Amira, however, did not participate in the Tell-All in person. Instead, she videochatted from France.
Amira asked producers to make Andrew to leave the stage during her interview.
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When a producer asked Andrew to leave so he and Amira could be interviewed separately, Andrew said that made "no sense" and he and Amira both needed to discuss matter at hands.
Andrew threatened to go home because he wanted to engage Amia in conversation -- even if it was going to be adversarial.
Andrew determined the situation was "unacceptable" and "unfair," and so he left the studio and asked for a ride back to his hotel.
"I will go home if I'm not allowed to have this conversation," Andrew complained.
A producer or crew member told Andrew that they couldn't force Amira to talk to him, and with that being said, Andrew suggested they couldn't force him to stay either.
JOVI AND YARA
Yara said being a parent was "amazing," and Jovi insisted he was changing diapers all the time and really helping out his wife as a new father.Yara gushed about how Jovi is a loving and caring father and it makes her fall even deeper in love with him everyday.
Yara said her family hadn't met her baby yet and it was a "sad" and "emotional" situation.
When Yara watched back footage of Jovi going upstairs with a stripper at his bachelor party, Yara dropped her husband's hand and said, "Jovi never told me nothing [about] what he was doing."
Yara wiped away tears and asked Jovi to explain himself, and Jovi insisted his friend had "forced" him into accepting a lapdance from an exotic stripper.
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"But if [Brandon] does this, I'll kill him," Julia joked.
Jovi said the woman had her top off but that's it, and Yara admitted she felt "mad" and Jovi receiving a lapdance was "disrespectful" to her.
Yara pointed out, however, that Jovi is "a grown-ass man" and she can't control his actions. Jovi said it was difficult to see Yara upset but "the past is the past" and all of that was behind them.
Rebecca asked Jovi how he would feel if Yara went into a private room with a male stripper and Jovi confessed, "Good point. I would not be happy at all." But Jovi insisted a guy receiving a lapdance at his bachelor party is "normal."
Jovi's mother Gwen then joined the conversation and expressed how she was extremely disappointed in her son for his behavior at the stripclub.
"Jovi has been on a bachelor party for 10 or 12 years," Gwen complained. "He's been to many stripclubs -- no need to do that before you're getting married."
Yara also watched back footage of Jovi lying about having slept with a stripper during a lie-detector test.
Yara said she wasn't going to judge Jovi based on his past and she wasn't prepared for "all of this sh-t," and Jovi promised Yara that he'd never do something like that again because he loves her "so much."
When Shaun asked Gwen if there was something she'd like to tell her son, Gwen said she couldn't speak her mind on TV. Jovi apologized that both Yara and Gwen had to see that footage, and Rebecca pointed out that Yara seemed "hurt enough" and people should move on.
BRANDON AND JULIA
Julia revealed there were "more rules" in Brandon's parents' home even though she and Brandon has gotten married. Julia expressed disapproval over the fact they were still living with Ron and Betty at the time.Julia said that she loved Betty but they butted heads when living together and there was always conflict, and Tarik, Mike and Jovi all pressed Brandon to move out of his parents' home and step up as a man.
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"You could've planned things better before you brought [Julia] over to America," Jovi said.
"Maybe I was. Maybe I was even looking at property to buy -- houses to buy and apartments to rent," Brandon said.
Julia explained that she didn't approve of any of the apartments Brandon had found for them, and Brandon agreed he had found places that simply weren't up to Julia's standards.
"I want to leave this farm!" Julia complained, later adding, "I hate goats! I hate chickens! And I hate pigs!"
Betty and Ron joined the conversation on videochat, and Julia expressed how it offends and upsets her when people assume she is a stripper because she's a go-go dancer.
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Betty admitted she had questioned Julia's background but her dancing never influenced her to make the pair sleep in separate rooms in her house.
"I want to be the boss and [Betty] wants to be the boss, and now we stay in one house -- who is the boss? Of course I am the boss, but it's not my house," Julia said.
Yara told Julia that she should be paid for working on the farm and taking care of the animals, and Natalie pointed out that Julia's chores seemed to be a punishment. Betty noted she'd have no problem with paying Julia but then she and Brandon must pay rent.
Brandon insisted Julia didn't have to do any work that she didn't want to do, but Julia said that was her way to spend time with her husband.
"I tried to be nice for Brandon... I try to be a nice girl," Julia said.
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On the birth control drama this season, Betty explained that she just wanted Julia to learn and understand her options through a doctor. Betty said it was never her intention to put Julia on birth control against her wishes and she just thought "it wouldn't hurt to talk to somebody."
"It's awkward and weird!" Rebecca said.
"I feel like her opinion is okay if [Yara and Brandon] are living in her house," Jovi said of Betty.
It quickly became apparent Julia is not ready to have a child, but she explained how she is afraid to take birth control. Julia seemed to suggest she wouldn't mind getting pregnant if it was an accident, but the whole cast jumped on Julia for not even being able to take care of a dog.
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