Angela Deem has opened out about her turbulent relationship with Michael Ilesanmi ahead of the release of 90 Day: The Last Resort.
The pair began dating in 2018 after meeting online, but they struggled to make their relationship work owing to the vast distance between them, with Angela living in the United States and Michael in Nigeria.
Despite their troubles – and a 22-year age difference — they married in Nigeria in 2020, but have had further challenges since then, including the groom’s immigration issues and his horrific infidelity scandal.
Many of their issues have been documented by the 90 Day Fiancé cameras, and the pair is poised to explore their romance in the upcoming Last Resort spin-off.
Ahead of the episodes, Angela spoke to Entertainment Tonight about their rough patches, revealing that they are officially still married.
‘I am in love with him, but love don’t keep a person together,’ she said. ‘You both have to come to an understanding and this journey we’ve been on, it just went explosive each season and you can not script nothing like this. This is real-life people and I’m just one that’s not ashamed to show you.’
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The couple reached a breaking point and decided to visit the TLC couples retreat to see whether they could work through their issues or if they should stay for good – however Michael will be participating virtually due to visa issues.
Ed and Liz, Jovi and Yara, Kalani and Asuelu, and Molly and Kelly have all joined them for the retreat.
Angela explained that she was able to stick by her husband’s side during the infidelity scandal because she was “older and wiser,” but she was still worried whether their marriage could last.
‘If I choose to stay with him – I haven’t made up my mind yet – if I choose to stay, if he don’t get this visa, I think it’s just best I let him go and let him make his own family over there,’ she continued. ‘God knows I’m not going to live in Nigeria.
‘I’m raised different, I’m raised a spoiled American, and I acknowledge it and I say it and I can’t. Two weeks is hard to stay over there enough for me and then plus I got the grandkids, so if this doesn’t work, that’s our last thing. If he don’t get the visa, there’s no alternative but me to move over there.
‘This is serious to me, this is to me the last resort. I’m getting older, and if he is making me think he’s playing with me or if he really is using me to come to someone else, well, you better do some changing because if you don’t…
‘Listen, I can love you from a distance and I’m going to move on because I think I waited long enough for him to change.’
We won’t have to wait long to find out if their romance cracks under the strain of the retreat, as The Last Resort premieres later this month.
The official synopsis reads: ‘Five 90 Day Fiancé couples have reached their breaking points. In a final attempt to salvage their relationships, each couple will participate in a couples retreat to determine whether or not they can heal old wounds.
‘Alongside a team of professionals, they’ll actively navigate issues with trust, sex, jealousy, anger, and intimacy. Explosive group therapies, intense couples’ sessions, past life regressions, unique on-and-off-resort activities, and so much more ensue.
‘At the end of the retreat, each couple must decide if they will stay together or move on, separately.’
90 Day: The Last Resort premieres on August 14 on TLC.
Source My Celebrity Life.