’90 Day Fiance’: Rick confesses to cheating, Lisa sees “red flag,” Birkan shocks Laura, Emma and Ziad sleep together
90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days featured Rick confessing he cheated on Trisha, Lisa seeing “a crack” in her relationship with Daniel, Laura discovering Birkan’s disturbing gambling habit, and Emma and Ziad finally consummating their relationship during the Season 8 episode that aired Sunday night on TLC.
The eight Americans include Elise, a bold and outspoken woman who looked for love on 90 Day: Hunt for Love earlier this year. Elise is apparently hoping to settle down with a man named Joshua from Australia.
In addition to Elise, a 32-year-old from Florida, and Joshua, a 39-year-old from Australia, the show is also going to star Jovon, a 38-year-old from Alabama, and Annalyn, a 38-year-old from the Philippines, as well as Aviva, a 26-year-old from Arizona, and Stig, a 30-year-old from Belize.
The rest of the couples are Laura, a 47-year-old from Washington, and Birkan, a 26-year-old from Turkey; Emma, a 28-year-old from California, and Ziad, a 27-year-old from Morocco; Forrest, a 32-year-old from Oregon, and Sheena, a 40-year-old from the Philippines; Rick, a 52-year-old from California, and Trisha, a 25-year-old from Madagascar; and Lisa, a 51-year-old from Pennsylvania, and Daniel, a 39-year-old from Nigeria.
“These couples are stepping into the unknown, driven by love but challenged by distance, doubt, and deep cultural divides,” TLC teased.
“From conflicting expectations and family pressure to hidden pasts and even surveillance-level possessiveness, the stakes have never been higher for these unconventional love stories.”
In most 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days cases, a pair of lovebirds are hoping to get engaged and begin the K-1 Visa process.
EMMA and ZIAD
Emma was upset Ziad had said in front of his friends that there was a “zero percent” chance he was going to marry her.
Emma called Ziad “disrespectful,” but he complained that she was “always difficult” and he just wanted to go to sleep after their tense dinner out.
Emma admitted she was almost at her “breaking point” and she felt really confused. Before she had left for Morocco, Ziad allegedly showed Emma an engagement ring and told her that it was waiting for her.
The next morning, Emma expressed how she was upset that Ziad seemed ready to get engaged before and clearly changed his mind. She said flying to Morocco seemed like a big waste of her time.
“Do you realize everything you’ve said about me since I’ve gotten here is negative? It seems like you’re always mad at me and I’m always doing something wrong,” Emma lamented, adding how Ziad used to send her cute and sweet messages all the time.
Emma therefore asked Ziad if she was the girl whom he really wanted to be with.
“Yeah,” Ziad replied. “And all of these things you say are right. I’m sorry for that. I want you to enjoy here with me. So from right now, I will be so nice… From here on, no fights.”
The couple therefore kissed and made up, and Emma gushed about how her chemistry with Ziad was still there.
Ziad concluded that Emma is a special and good woman and so he was probably too hard on her.
Emma acknowledged that her relationship with Ziad was moving very slowly but she was okay with that — at least for now.
Ziad then cooked Emma a nice tangine dinner, hoping she’d forget about their problems. Ziad felt like he and Emma were essentially starting over, and Emma confirmed that she was happy to be in Morocco with him.
Ziad revealed he was “70 percent” sure the pair was going to get married now. He also planned Emma a trip to the desert for her birthday, which Emma hoped would “speed things up” in the bedroom for them.
The next day, Emma shared that she and Ziad finally had sex — twice.
“I finally got all the physical touch I’ve been wanting, and it felt really good. It was nice,” Emma shared.
“I would say [he’s] or normal, average size. It fits in your hand… I can deal with it. But I think he’s really worried about how people are going to view him, especially because he is Muslim.”
Emma was relieved that Ziad was being nicer to her, and she felt more optimistic about leaving Morocco engaged. She felt closer to Ziad than ever before, but Ziad still didn’t know much about her last relationship.
LISA and DANIEL
Lisa said her head hurt and was itchy because she had been wearing a wig for an entire week.
Lisa had some irritation and sores, and so she felt the need to take it off.
“I know Daniel loves me with my long hair, but I need to feel the air touching my scalp!” Lisa explained to the cameras. “At this point, I don’t care what Daniel feels when he sees me. I’m not putting the wig back on any time soon.”
Lisa was happy she received a blessing from Daniel’s uncle to marry, but she felt it was under “false pretenses” because she had lied about her history of dating women.
After meeting Daniel’s uncle, Lisa broke the news to her daughter via Zoom that she was engaged. Lisa’s mother accused Daniel of “love bombing” and said it “wasn’t good.”
Lisa’s daughter said Daniel was a “playboy” and she never asked him about the women in HIS past.
When Lisa walked out of the bathroom and Daniel saw her with her short hair, he looked displeased and said, “Oh wow. Baby. Oh my god. Why are you like this?”
Lisa asked Daniel what was wrong, and he replied, “It is your hair.”
Daniel admitted in a confessional that he was “astonished” when she took her wig off because she looked over and he was “embarrassed” to be seen with her.
“If we’re going to be together, she has to wear her wig. She’s not going to go with her short hair,” Daniel told the cameras. “I want her to meet my friends tonight, but if she doesn’t wear her long hair, my friends will be embarrassed and my friends will judge her.”
Lisa could tell that Daniel was unhappy with her, and she explained how she needed to look natural sometimes.
Lisa asked Daniel if he no longer thought she was pretty, and Daniel just commented on how he liked her hair longer. Lisa therefore felt “ugly” and “unloved.”
Daniel told Lisa that it was fine if she took her wig off at home but she didn’t want to go out in public without it. Lisa started to cry and said she wished that Daniel thought she was beautiful all the time.
“I’m starting to see red flags and cracks where I never did before,” Lisa noted in a confessional.
She added, “I’m starting to question what Daniel’s intentions really are.”
Later that night, Lisa met Daniel’s friends and cousin, who said Lisa was “an angel” who had come into his life.
Lisa asked if Daniel was a ladies’ man, and his friends suggested that he was a new man who Lisa had changed. Daniel’s friends insisted Daniel was being honest with Lisa and she needed to trust him.
“But Daniel was talking to another girl on social media at the same time he was talking to me,” Lisa announced.
This woman had told Lisa that Daniel was a scam artist, but Daniel’s friends claimed they knew nothing about this interaction.
Daniel apparently blocked this woman and deleted the screenshots, which made Lisa believe him. But now, hearing that she had changed Daniel’s life, Lisa wondered if Daniel had been looking for any American woman to respond to his messages and date him.
Daniel told the cameras that he had talked to other American women but Lisa was the only woman he dated. Lisa, however, wondered if Daniel was hiding things from her.
