02x04 - CJ & Charles

[bunniefuu]

No!

♪ Yeah I've been hiding in
plain sight this whole time ♪

[Travis Mills] You've
met the love of your life.

I looked in her eyes and
I just saw my other half.

[Rahne Jones] But they're
hiding a massive secret... you.

Have you ever met
anyone in his family?

No.

He blocked me from
his social media.

I need to meet
someone in your life.

I'm Rahne Jones.

And I'm Travis Mills.

[Rahne] We help desperate people
who are being kept secret

find out why.

Why are you hiding me?

I need answers or this is it.

[Travis] Will relationships
survive?

How could you do this to me?

I had to call these
people to help me.

[Travis] When faced
with the truth?

Oh, hell, no.

I can't do this, I can't.

Just one second, hey, hey, hey.

Get the [bleep] out of my house.

[Travis] This is MTV's

Help, I'm in a
Secret Relationship.

[Travis] Tonight we're in
Norfolk, Virginia,

with CJ and Charles.

Four years ago, hairstylist
CJ met the love of his life,

Charles, but still
hasn't met any of his family.

He just has no interest of
me knowing that side of him.

[Travis] We're here to
help CJ uncover the truth.

I believe Charles is
paying for sex.

I guess maybe you don't
always know a cheater.

Oh my God.

It doesn't look good.

I did that three years ago.

Like, I'm not even...

You can say you done it 10
years ago, it doesn't matter.

Why are you hiding me?

[music]

♪ You in the presence
of an OG ♪

♪ You standing next to an OG ♪

[Travis] All right, so.

-Norfolk, Virginia.
-It's crazy.

I mean, the music
scene is incredible,

but we're not here for music.

-Correct.
-We are here to help CJ.

He has been with his boyfriend,
Charles, for four years.

Four years is a long time.

-I remember this shirt.
-Yeah.

This was the shirt I wore
on our very first date.

That tiny little restaurant.

Here we are, four years later.

Yeah, in a flash.

I'm CJ, I'm 29 years old.

I'm from Norfolk, Virginia, and
I have been with my boyfriend,

Charles, for four years.

I love everything about you.

I love you.

[music]

[CJ] When I first met Charles,
I had, like, an instant crush

on him.

I always thought he
was super handsome.

I didn't know what to expect.

I just thought we was
gonna hook up.

I had no idea we would be here
almost four years later

in a serious relationship.

[Charles] So this is it.

I would want to put, like,
little bushes or something.

[CJ] I would put some
pink shutters up there.

Charles has really made
me believe in the future.

Oh, this is cute, very cute.

My head don't hit the ceiling.

I've never really was
interested in having kids,

but he is such an amazing guy.

He's made me want
to have kids of my own.

He introduced me to a happiness
that I have never felt.

This would be the room if we had
a house-welcoming party

we could do.

But now, I question the future,
and we have been talking about

buying a house together.

However, I just don't know
if I can move forward

with doing that, because
after four years,

I haven't met his family.

And that will also be
a wonderful time

that I can meet your family.

Let's decide that we want to get
the house first before we

start talking like all that.

If we don't want to buy it,
then it's pointless

to even think like that.

Why every time I bring up your
family, you get real defensive.

I'm not getting
defensive about it.

[CJ] Yes, you are.

Me not meeting his family
is a good 67% of our fights.

It's a big deal.

[music]

[CJ] I hate the fact
that I'm being hidden.

If I don't get the
answers I need...

[music]

Well, I guess I'll be picking up
the little pieces of my heart.

[Travis] Four years is such
a long time to be able

to meet friends, family.

Like, there are so many
opportunities with birthdays,

holidays, social... you
know, social outings.

Like, the fact that
you haven't met anyone

is a little crazy to me.

[Rahne] It's insane.

Obviously there's
something there.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be here
to help him get the answers

that he needs.

-[Travis] Yeah.
-[Rahne] Heartbreaking.

But you know what they say,
"Virginia is for Lovers."

We'll see if that's true.

♪ One two three
gonna come with me ♪

♪ Get up gonna turn it around ♪

♪ Three two one
gonna have some fun ♪

♪ You know it's
about to go down ♪

[Rahne] Gonna try on some wigs.

[laughing]

[Rahne] Ooh, they got
everything in here.

-[Travis] Is that CJ?
-[Rahne] I don't know.

Hello.

Oh my gosh, I am so
excited y'all are here.

Thank y'all so much
for coming down.

Isn't this a lovely store?

I'm a hairstylist.

This is like my go-to
for everything.

I'm eyeing several things.

[Travis] Do you want to sit down
and fill us in on everything?

-Yeah, come on over.
-Let's do it.

Cool, all right.

Feel like I'm about
to get my hair done.

-Right?
-[laughing]

So, we're glad we could get out
here to help you and Charles,

but I think we'd love to hear
from you kind of how your

whole relationship started.

So I met Charles
about 12 years ago.

I was getting
thrown out of a g*y bar.

Epic.

And I seen him
approach in a club.

I was really attracted to him.

So I kind of like asked him
for a cigarette, because I just

wanted to make
conversation with him.

And I was drunk, so I proceeded
to, like, just start making out

with him.

Okay.

But he was in a relationship.

[Rahne] So when you kissed him
that night, he was currently

in a relationship.

Was he, like, reciprocal?

Yeah, I mean, I was in
a relationship too,

but I mean, I just, you know.

[laughing]

-You're like, well.
-Oops.

So we remained social media
friends for about eight years.

Did you engage at all?

Like, were you
talking all the time?

We would do the casual liking.

We kept it very, you know, PG.

-Cordial.
-[CJ] Correct.

Didn't want to
overstep any boundaries.

And, you know,
I started lurking.

I found out he was single,
so I slid in his DMs.

And he was like, well,
I would love to see you.

And within, like, a week
from that, I moved in with him.

-[Rahne] Moved in?
-Oh, wow.

[CJ] Yeah, it felt right.

It just felt like, okay, this
is exactly what I'm looking for.

He has become the most
important person in my life.

[music]

A year after we started dating,

everything about our
relationship is great.

And that's when I really had an
interest in knowing his family

and knowing where he came from.

But I feel like I have been
hidden from a big part

of his life.

Have you ever met
anyone in his family?

[music]

No.

Did you ask him?

Yeah, I, um... I've asked.

He just has no interest of
me knowing that side of him.

[music]

So what type of excuses
is Charles giving?

He's told me that he hasn't
really introduced

a boy to his family yet.

Is he out with his family?

To my knowledge, he's out, yeah.

Okay.

But most of the time, he hits
me with the silent treatment.

So just shut down.

Yeah, and we will go like a
day or two without speaking.

And that's not fair to you,
right, because then you...

you start to associate
like, your questions...

[CJ] Yeah.

[Travis] ...as you
doing something wrong.

Mm-hmm.

This is something that you've
thought about a lot, obviously,

or else we wouldn't be here.

What are some of your theories
for why you're being hidden?

So I was going through
his phone one day,

and I seen a [bleep] ton
of porn on there.

And I know that Charles has
a history of porn addiction

that he has seeked help for.

So I think that possibly
he has

maybe had a relapse and his
family knows about it.

And he doesn't want me
to get dragged in

to that whole
rehabilitation process.

Okay, so that was something that
you never brought up to him.

Anything else?

Yeah, I think that he could
possibly be cheating on me.

[music]

What makes you think that?

You know, when we were
in the pandemic,

our romance kind of flatlined.

Our intimacy went to
kind of just non-existent.

And there is this dating app

that has this very particular
sound that goes off when

somebody messages you.

And I was in a car with him one
day, and this noise goes off.

Are you like, what
the hell is this?

Oh yeah, I'm going
completely insane.

Like, what the [bleep] is this?

And he's just like, oh, that's
like a message alert sound

when one of my
friends message me.

It's an inside joke...
just bull[bleep].

If I find out he cheated on
me, I'ma set him on fire.

That would be a deal-breaker.

You're out.

[CJ] Oh yeah,
one million percent.

[music]

It's hard for me to
imagine a life without him.

Like, he tells me things that
nobody else has ever told me.

Like, he has said he thinks
I would make a good dad.

And he takes me, like,
a lot more serious

than other people do.

People like... he got to
know me, like the real me.

And he stayed with me.

It's time for him to step up.

[CJ] Yeah, or let me know, like,
what his intentions with me are.

Like, we keep talking about
buying a house and having kids.

But I just don't know if
I can do that with

all the questions I have.

[Rahne] That's fair.

If Charles is not willing to
communicate with you,

that's a red flag.

And that's why we are here to
help you get the answers

that you deserve.

We know what kind
of show we're doing.

We know why you called us.

What the hell does
Charles think is going on?

I told Charles that I was
going to be a participant

in a hairstyling
competition show.

[Travis] How do you think he's
gonna react when he finds out

what this really is?

I don't know how
he's gonna react.

We are obviously gonna get
to work, and as soon as

we know something,
you will know something.

-So nice to meet you.
-Yes.

-Nice to meet you.
-Yes, nice to meet you.

[music]

-[Travis] Phew.
-[Rahne] All right.

[Travis] This is one of the
longest relationships

that we've dealt with.

[Rahne] You're living together
and yet you're being hidden.

And the excuses are non-excuses.

[Travis] I want to look at
Charles' page.

"The two most important days
of your life are the

day you were born and
the day you find out why."

Charles, what is your why?

We want to know.

His interests are cooking,
volunteering, relaxing.

Candle-making.

Oh, he's a man of many
interests, I love that.

I mean, he's not very active
and there's no sign of CJ.

This top post from
someone named Sam.

-[Rahne] Little kissy face.
-[Travis] Kiss emoji.

And Charles liked it.

Hmm, I wonder how
they know each other?

[Travis] Okay, let's
check out Sam's page.

When you look at
Sam's profile...

[Rahne] Oh, it's a candle.

-[Travis] Which...
-Candle...

-Are they making candles?
-Together?

I don't know.

[Travis] Okay, I want
to send Sam a message.

-[Travis] All right, sent.
-[Rahne] All right.

Let's hope Sam gets back
to us so we figure out

what the [bleep] is going on.

[Travis] Coming up.

I believe that
Charles is paying for sex.

[music]

Oh my God.

I'm trying to dissect this
in my head right now.

I guess maybe you don't
always know a cheater.

This was three years ago,
but haven't we moved

way the [bleep] on since then?

We have not.

[music]

[glass breaking]

[glass breaking]

♪ Come on [come and get it] ♪

[Rahne] We're in Norfolk,
Virginia, trying to help CJ

figure out why his boyfriend,
Charles, is hiding him.

CJ suggested we reach out to
his best friend Mariah,

and just as we were about to
start our investigation,

we received a text
from CJ's dad, Shane,

who's visiting from out of town.

He says he has some information
we should know about.

[Travis] I feel like Shane,
he's gonna have

a really good perspective
and, you know, insight.

[Rahne] Exactly, he
knows what it's like.

Navigate, like, relationships.

[Rahne] I think it's going to be
interesting to see his take

as a parent.

[Travis] Yeah.

[music]

I think this looks like
his hotel right up here.

[Rahne] You ready to do this?

-I'm born ready.
-[Rahne] Meeting dad.

[music]

-[phone buzzes]
-Oh, I'm buzzing.

[music]

It's Shane.

[music]

[Rahne] You think this is?

-What if it's not Shane?
-I don't know.

Can be awkward.

-[Travis] You Shane?
-I am, yeah.

-[Rahne] Okay, great.
-[Travis] Travis.

-Travis, nice to meet you.
-Hi, I'm Rahne.

Oh, Rahne, nice to
meet both of you.

Yeah, I was like, I wasn't
sure who I was meeting here.

We didn't want to be... make it
awkward or anything like that.

Right, oh my gosh, so no,
it's so nice to meet you.

We always have this tradition.

We always have champagne
when I first come to town.

So I'm on my way to go buy some.

Okay, do you mind
if we walk with you?

That would be awesome.

Well, we appreciate you
making time.

[Rahne] We know that this is
a lot and kind of not the...

the norm, right?

But CJ feels like Charles is
hiding him from his world.

Not meeting family, you know,
and I think CJ is

at his wit's end, which is why,
you know, we're here.

[Travis] Like, we'd love
to know

what your perspective on
their relationship has been.

Just having hung around, like,
Charles for like four years and

like, every time I come to town,
I feel like I've gotten

to know him a little bit.

I see the way he looks at my
son and, like, adores him,

so to speak.

I mean, I can see they have
some connection together.

I thought they had a pretty
good relationship all along.

There was, like, something
that happened, like,

back when they came to visit me
for Pride this past year

that maybe makes me
question it a little bit.

[music]

[Rahne] What happened?

[Shane] We were out
having a great time.

CJ was a little out of control.

He had a little too much
to drink and

called for Charles to help.

In the shuffle of trying to
get him in the car,

Charles at some point kind of
just hands me his phone.

-So you have Charles' phone?
-[Shane] I have Charles' phone.

So I see this text message...

and I feel even bad
even saying this.

But it said something like,
"I'm here.

Like, I've decided to
take, like, a trip by myself."

So I'm like, okay, I
wonder who that is?

[Rahne] So when you're saying
you're seeing something on

Charles' phone, you're seeing
basically like a text chain?

And it was a text message that
Charles was sending

to someone else?

Yeah, he was responding to
somebody that asked him

what he was up to.

[Rahne] Sure, okay.

[Travis] And you don't
know who that person is?

No.

[Travis] So Charles
lied about being at Pride.

Yeah.

[Travis] One of CJ's kind of
theories is that Charles

could potentially
be cheating on him.

I mean, with what happened
to you, do you think that...

that could be in play?

You know, I guess maybe you
don't always know a cheater.

I would say when I saw the
text, I wasn't thinking that.

I was thinking... to not say
that, like, you're with

your boyfriend, with your
boyfriend's dad at Pride that,

oh, is he... maybe he's not
out to whoever he's talking to?

-Trying to save face...
-Because it's very discreet.

I'm not gonna say
that I'm at Pride.

You know, now that I think back
about it, it makes me think,

you know, maybe he hasn't
come out to his family?

Maybe that's, like,
that's what this is.

I don't really know.

I mean, that's the
nature of all this.

-There's tons of speculation.
-Right.

[Rahne] We'll see.

[Travis] Shane, thank you
so much for meeting us.

-[Shane] Yeah, thank you.
-[Rahne] All right, thank you.

-[Shane] All right, bye.
-[Rahne] Bye.

If Charles isn't out to
his family,

it still doesn't
make it right...

Absolutely not.

... that he's hiding CJ.

Like, that should be something
that you discuss with CJ

before you move in together.

Before you start seriously
dating someone for four years.

[Rahne] We talk about it all the
time.

That's where the communication
comes in, you know?

-Wait, wait, wait.
-[phone buzzing]

We got a text.

Mariah, CJ's best friend.

[Rahne] See what
Mariah has to say.

[music]

[Rahne] I bet that's her
waiting for us.

[music]

[Rahne] How you doing?

My name's Rahne.

-Nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you, too.

-Travis.
-Nice to meet you, Travis.

All right, shall we go inside?

Okay.

[music]

[Travis] Mariah, Mariah, Mariah.

Thank you for
meeting up with us.

Yeah, no problem.

We're here because CJ
asked us for our help, right?

He feels like he's
being hidden by Charles.

Mm-hmm.

From our understanding, you have
a pretty good relationship

with both of them, correct?

Yes.

What is your perspective
on their relationship?

So, well, I mainly just
go out with CJ,

but sometimes Charles tag along.

-Thank you.
-Thank you so much.

-[Travis] Thank you.
-[Rahne] Thank you.

What is the dynamic like
when you're going out

with CJ and Charles?

I mean, they're cute.

They do the little lovey-dovey,
kissy and all that other stuff.

Charles is mostly
quiet most of the time.

But when it just me
and CJ, oh, we turn out.

We have a good time.

Obviously, like, while it seems
like CJ and Charles are in love,

there is a reason
why we are here.

Oh yeah.

[Rahne] You know
what I'm saying?

Why do you think that
Charles is hiding CJ?

[Mariah] I want
what's best for CJ.

You know, this is why I had...
had y'all come here,

so I can give what I believe
is truth, what I witness.

Sure.

So it was this one night
me and CJ went out,

and Charles dropped us off.

And I seen an old friend of
mine come out of the restaurant.

So I told CJ, I say, Hey,
CJ, go inside, get a table.

I'ma chat with a
friend real quick.

And I noticed Charles drive
past the traffic light

and stop.

Where he stopped at, it
was this group of people.

One person from the group walked
over to the passenger side

of Charles' car.

I'm talking to my friend and...

You're watching.

I'm like, what's going on?

It was night time,
so I couldn't tell

if it was a female or a male.

I finished chatting it up with
my friend, and looked back over.

Charles drove off.

I believe that Charles
is cheating on CJ...

[music]

... with other people.

Like people plural?

Yeah.

[music]

And not only that, but paying
for it, as in paying for sex.

[music]

Okay, what... what
makes you say that?

So on this particular night,
I was sending money to

a friend of mine, and I noticed
that Charles has sent money

to someone named Sam.

[Mariah] Yeah, with
a kissy-face emoji.

Wait, wait, on the same night
you saw Charles talking to

someone in his car, you notice
that he paid someone money

with a kissy-face emoji?

-Yeah.
-Okay.

And I screenshot it,
you know I did.

Fascinating that
you say that name.

[Mariah] Yes.

And I mean, to send money
at one o'clock at night,

that's... that's weird.

-[Rahne] Right, okay.
-Suspicious.

Yeah, so that Sam name
came up on one of Charles'

social media pages with
a kissy-face emoji.

[Travis] It is odd that they are
leaving each other

the same kind of emojis.

[Mariah] Yeah.

-It feels flirtatious.
-Yeah.

Okay, so you are under the
impression that Charles

is cheating on CJ?

Yeah.

And paying for it, essentially?

Mm-hmm.

Not great news.

I hope that my woman's intuition
is wrong,

even though most of
the time it's right.

[Rahne] All right.

Well, Mariah, thank you
so much for meeting us.

We're gonna get
out of your hair.

[music]

Charles, please don't be having
sex with multiple people

while you're in a relationship.

Like, please, don't.

It is literally the one thing
that CJ said, like,

"I will light him on fire."

It's a lot, and not only that,
but like the...

the cash payment, the kissy-face
emoji on there to Sam.

Like, who is Sam?

Is it someone that
Charles is seeing on the side?

[Travis] Could Sam be the person
Charles was texting at Pride?

Um, it doesn't look good.

[music]

[glass breaking]

[glass breaking]

♪ That's just who I am ♪

[Rahne] We're in Norfolk,
Virginia, where we've learned

some troubling theories on why
Charles could be hiding CJ

from his family.

We're on our way to update
CJ and see if he's ready to

confront Charles and get the
answers he's been looking for.

So let's talk... what
did y'all find out?

Oh, you ready to get into it.

I am.

I literally didn't get like
any sleep.

I've been up all night
just wondering

what y'all have found out.

Yeah, well, we've been extremely
busy, kind of running around

and trying to put
pieces together.

[Rahne] Well, the first person
that we spoke to was your dad.

Yes.

And he did bring up a couple
things that gave him pause.

He described the three of you
going to a Pride event in Ohio.

-Drinks were flowing.
-Oh yeah.

And you needed some assistance.

In comes Charles
being the good boyfriend.

"I'm getting you into a car,"
and he hands his phone

over to your dad.

Your dad sees a text chain.

We don't know who this person
is, but the text from Charles

read, "I'm having a
nice calm weekend...

-To myself.
-To myself, not doing anything.

Really?

[Rahne] So your dad felt that
possibly Charles was

not out with his family.

[music]

I don't know, because
I haven't met them.

Okay.

I know he's not out
to his co-workers.

So I know that he keeps
that part of his life

private from his
professional life.

After we met up with your dad,
we went and met up with Mariah.

[CJ] Okay.

She told us about this night
that you and her

went to a restaurant.

While she was talking to
her friend outside,

she saw Charles pull away,
go past the stoplight,

and pull over at
the street corner.

She told me about that
that night.

[music]

When I asked him about it, he
told me that a lot of people

get him confused as being,
like, an Uber driver.

So somebody
thought they were...

-He was their driver.
-[CJ] Right, yes.

[Travis] Okay.

Mariah also showed us a
screenshot of a pay app.

And it looked as if Charles
had sent someone named Sam

some money that same
night around 1:00 a.m.

Oh [bleep] no.

[music]

Mariah is convinced that Charles
is cheating on you,

and that he's also
paying for sex.

[music]

So Travis and I were thinking
that maybe Sam is the person

Charles was texting at Pride.

[CJ] Oh my God.

I'm trying to dissect
this in my head right now.

Who the [bleep] is Sam?

Is Sam a boy or girl, first off?

Do we know that?

[music]

-We don't.
-No.

The profile photo is
a photo of a candle.

If you were sending somebody
money,

wouldn't you tell your partner?

And if you didn't, it's because
you're trying to hide it,

correct?

We just don't know.

And why the [bleep] Mariah
ain't tell me that?

So...

Let me [bleep] find out he is
[bleep] somebody else.

There's a lot of [bleep]
explaining he has to do.

I need to find him,
like, immediately.

[glass breaking]

[glass breaking]

[music]

[Travis] After sharing with
CJ everything we learned,

our producers arranged a meet-up
in a local park

and asked Charles
to meet us there.

This some bull[bleep].

Charles still thinks CJ is ona
hairstyling competition show.

He's about to
find out the truth.

Who the [bleep] is Sam?

I've never heard no Sam.

I've been with
this guy four years.

Not one time have I heard
the name Sam.

[Rahne] We're here.

[Travis] At the park.

Let's get it.

I think we should do this.

[car door beeps]

[CJ] I'm ready to see, like,
what the [bleep] he got to say.

[car doors slamming]

Okay, all right, let's
hold up just a little bit.

How about we
take a beat, take a beat.

[Travis] Let's just calm down.

[Rahne] You know, you want
a positive solution, right?

Like, we just,
we don't know, right?

Is that Charles in
the blue over there?

[CJ] Yes.

Can you guys give me a second?

Absolutely, you got it.

[music]

-Are you Charles?
-[Charles] Yeah.

-Hey man, I'm Travis.
-Hey, hi.

Rahne and I are with CJ.

And to be honest,

CJ is not doing a hairstyling
competition show.

-It's about relationships.
-Oh my God.

[Travis] CJ feels like, quite
frankly, you've been hiding him.

[music]

And he's been trying
to have a conversation.

So he [bleep] lied to me?

[music]

Yes, I will let you guys
kind of discuss that, right?

But quite frankly,
I feel like...

Oh my God.

[Travis]... he is
owed an explanation.

I mean, to be honest, he's...

He's upset, right?

And I feel like this is
something that

he's really been dying to have.

[music]

All right.

I mean, if that's... if that's
what this is about,

that's what y'all doing,
then yeah, let's have at it.

Let's have it out, okay.

All right, I'll be right back.

How'd it go?

Down to sit and talk,
he's not thrilled.

-If you're ready?
-I'm ready.

All right, let's go.

We got your back, like we said.

[music]

Charles, this is my co-host,
Rahne.

How you doing, Charles?

-Hi.
-[Rahne] Nice to meet you.

We appreciate you,
you know, doing this

and finally having
this conversation.

Yeah, I mean, it could
have been done differently.

But here we are.

CJ, you want to sit right here?

[music]

[music]

[CJ] I just really want answers
as to why I've never

met your family for
these four years.

With our investigation,
we did some digging.

We talked to CJ's friend
Mariah and also CJ's dad.

[music]

CJ's dad, Shane, um, told us a
story about the three of you

going to Ohio for Pride.

This one over here might have
had one too many

and needed help.

You hand over
your phone to Shane.

And he sees a text message
exchange in which you had said,

"I'm just having a
quiet weekend by myself."

Which is interesting, because
you were fully at a Pride event

with your boyfriend and
your boyfriend's father.

So from Shane's perspective,
he was thinking that

you might not be fully out
with your family.

[music]

So does your family know?

[music]

Are you out to your family?

Yes, I'm out my family.

[Rahne] Why would you not say to
this person that I'm at Pride?

[music]

[Travis] Okay, so
there's still more to unpack.

Mariah told us about a night
where you drop them off.

Mariah had seen a friend
outside, and while she was

talking to her friend, there was
a group of people on the corner,

and one person
approached your car.

And about a minute or two later,
she looked back

and you were gone.

[Rahne] Mariah had shown us
a screenshot of a pay app

in which you gave money
to a person named Sam

with a kissy-face emoji.

And this was also a person, Sam,
that we also saw, you know,

an exchange on social media.

[Travis] Mariah is convinced
that you are cheating on CJ.

And also possibly
paying for sex.

[music]

Are you cheating on me?

[music]

[glass breaking]

[glass breaking]

[Travis] Mariah is convinced
that you are cheating on CJ.

And also possibly
paying for sex.

[music]

Are you cheating on me?

[music]

No, I am not cheating on you.

[music]

Sam is an old friend that was
going through a hard time

and I wanted to do
something nice for someone.

I was just trying
to help somebody.

I mean, there's
nothing more to that.

I'm sorry I didn't tell you.

Okay?

We're not done.

[music]

-I went through your phone.
-Went through my phone.

[CJ] I did, and I'm just
gonna come out and say this.

Why do you have all these
porn movies on your phone?

[music]

So Charles, CJ told us you had
gotten help for your addiction.

Did you relapse?

[Charles] No, I had a problem
with p*rn*graphy,

and I don't now.

I have stopped looking
at stuff like that,

so whatever your
little investigation found,

you didn't look
hard enough at it.

What you saw was
something that was old.

You need to stop
digging up the past.

Maybe I was looking for
something, but I was looking

for something because
you're not giving it to me.

[music]

I was looking for answers
because you're unable

to communicate with me
what's really going on.

So Charles, you're saying that
the videos that CJ might have

seen in your phone
were older videos.

There would have
had to have been.

They would have
had to have been.

CJ, when we first sat down
and talked with him,

mentioned that there has been
a lack of intimacy.

I'm curious to know if
your porn addiction

had anything to do with that?

So, yes, we have intimacy
problems because of me.

I suppose, growing up, I would
hide a lot of my sexuality.

And the way I would
express it is in p*rn*graphy.

I spent a lot of time
thinking that

being with a guy was
something to hide.

We've cleared the air of that.

But CJ, I feel like you still
don't have any real answers

as to why you've been hidden.

I want to know the truth why...
why am I being hidden?

[music]

I am hiding you.

[music]

And I'm hiding you because...

[music]

[glass breaking]

[glass breaking]

All right, so I need to know.

Why are you hiding me?

[music]

I'm hiding you...

[music]

because I'm lying
to my family...

[music]

about us still being together.

[music]

You and I got into a big fight,

and you recorded that
fight, remember?

And you posted it on
social media,

after adding my mom and my dad

and my brother and my sister.

And you plastered that across
the world, including them

to see, who you know
they're conservative.

You know they're from
a religious background.

They had a chance
to see the whole thing

and it's changed their
entire perception of us.

So I've had to almost
separate it to keep

at least a little bit of
harmony at home with them

and still have
the person I love.

So when it comes to them...

This was three years ago.

Well, haven't we moved way the
[bleep] on since then?

We've not.

Is this a video that
we could actually, like, see?

-Yeah.
-You have it?

-I have it on my phone.
-Can you pull that up?

-Can we watch it?
-Yeah.

[music]

Can we stop fighting?

[CJ] What have I done wrong?

Can we stop fighting?

[CJ] What have I done wrong?

[Charles] Nothing,
you're perfect,

you [bleep] psycho b*tch!

[music]

Now Charles...

gotta be honest,

those words are not great.

[Charles] They're horrible.

Charles, what was
your family's reaction

when the video got posted?

They could see that I was upset
and that it was coming from him.

And him posting it, that was
like a vicious thing to them.

So did you tell them,
"I broke up with CJ.

We're no longer together."

I told them that it was over.

You are making the choice
to keep us all separate.

Yeah.

Because that's had an effect on
people that still exists today,

and I don't know how to fix it.

Well, how you fix it is tell
them we're still together.

That's how you fix it.

They don't even
know we're together.

I did that three years ago.

Like, I'm not even...

You can say you done it 10
years ago, it doesn't matter.

It's how people feel
about it today,

and they are upset
about it still,

and that ain't gonna change.

You don't know that.

You won't even give
that idea a test.

That was such a long time ago,
and for...

for that to still be
held against me.

If you have forgiven me
for this,

and I've forgiven you
for... I mean,

you were flipping on me.

Now, granted,
posting everything...

Not everybody works
the same way, CJ.

And you can't control
other people.

[music]

I was a different person
back then.

And I just, in my head,
was expecting for us

maybe to break up.

[music]

I truly feel awful that
I did something that...

like, that toxic.

That is horrible.

[music]

Now, to bring it back to
the original reason

why we're all here, right?

Is there a plan to move forward?

What do you... what do you
both see as like the next step?

[music]

I mean, is there ever
a world in which

you do introduce
CJ to your family?

[music]

I think moving forward,

I can't hide you from them

and expect to have a
different result with us.

So I'm not prepared
to lose you over this.

And I think that...

[music]

to hell with what
anybody else thinks.

If they want to be in,
they can be in.

And if they want to be out,
they can be out.

This is, like, all I wanted for
us for the past four years

was for you to just say that.

[music]

From now on,
that's how it'll be.

[music]

[Travis] What's going
through your head, CJ?

[music]

Like, I love you, genuinely.

I've never loved somebody
the way I love you.

I love you, too.

[music]

[Rahne] I think there is a lot
of bravery displayed

at this table today.

And you're honest... obviously,
this is a show about

being hidden, right?

But you said it yourself,
you've done a lot of

different type of hiding
in the past.

And hopefully this experience
can allow you to

move freely in this world.

And I truly hope that
works out the best.

I hope that all of you can
come together

and have a wonderful,
wonderful reconciliation.

And if that doesn't happen,
their loss as well.

Yeah.

You got a person who
loves you so much,

and we're rooting for you.

On that note, I say
we get up out your hair

and let you ride off
into the sunset.

[Travis] Great to meet you both.

[Charles] Nice to meet you, too.

Yes, very nice to meet you.

[Rahne] Good luck
with everything, right?

Thanks for talking to us.

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Through every storm the
sky turns back to blue ♪

♪ Harder than I
thought it'd be ♪

♪ Against all odds I know
I'll still come through ♪

[Travis] Next time...

She's a modern-day witch,
if you guys didn't know.

[Woman] Casey would be
devastated

if he found out

everyone that she's with
is destined to pass away.

"He calls me goddess,
offered to pay all my bills."

Okay, I said, "Did she put
a spell on you?"

I can't believe
you kept this from me.

It's such a big thing
to hide.

[outro music]