Like most 90 Day Fiancé couples, Nicole Nafziger and Azan Tefou haven’t exactly had the healthiest relationship. In the past, they’ve postponed their wedding, struggled with mental health issues, and dealt with a cheating scandal. Now, however, the stars say they’re on good footing — and, in an Instagram Q&A held Sunday, April 14, Nicole finally addressed fans’ worries about the state of their relationship. Check out the gallery below to see how the star feels about Azan following the cheating scandal.
Over a year ago, YouTuber Keith Brooks posted a 45-minute video interview with a woman who claimed to be one of Azan’s many girlfriends. She claimed that Azan had slid into her DMs around August 2016.
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That was when Nicole and Azan’s season was airing.
The woman claimed that Azan was just using Nicole much in the same way that he was using all of his online girlfriends. “The whole relationship is really a joke,” she said in the video.
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She claimed his relationship with Nicole is fake.
“He plans on going over and marrying Nicole, as soon as he can he wants to just divorce her and then bring in his girlfriend from Morocco, bring her over to the states and marry her,” she continued. “Everything about it is just really shady.”
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She was spilling the tea.
She claimed that Azan also had girlfriends in Korea, Japan and England, and that he’d even live with another woman for a few months in Russia. Of course, that would be in addition to his actual Moroccan girlfriend.
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She seemed to have proof.
Text messages and photos all suggested that she really had been dating Azan — which gave credibility to her claims that Azan’s relationship with Nicole wasn’t what it seemed.
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There were voice recordings, too.
On the show, fans watched as Nicole found out about the cheating — and listened to the clips. “Good morning. I’m so sleepy. But I want a kiss right now. The kiss was good. What did you dream about last night? I think you want it,” Azan could be heard saying in the recordings.
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Nicole confronted her man.
“Why are there recordings of you voice talking to another person online? There are recordings, it’s your voice, of you talking to other women,” she told Azan. “Do you think that’s okay, you can call a girl saying ‘I want to kiss you, I miss your kiss.’ Why did you do that?”
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Azan denied everything.
He claimed that the recordings had come from silly dares he’d performed while out drinking with friends. Of course, not everyone believed his explanation — though Nicole certainly seemed to.
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She trusted her man.
“He had an explanation and said, ‘That was before I met you,'” Nicole’s stepfather told Radar Online. “She believed him. She wants to believe the best in people. She isn’t mature enough to understand people will take advantage of her.”
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And she still trusts him.
On April 14, Nicole opened up to her fans in an Instagram Q&A, dishing details about her relationship, her diet, her daughter, and several other facets of her life. When the subject of Azan’s cheating came up, she wasn’t sweating it.
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She’s sticking by Azan.
“How do you trust him and know that he is not cheating?” one fan wanted to know. Nicole kept her answer simple. “I trust him,” she wrote with a 100 emoji, not explaining how exactly they’d build that trust back up.
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But fans wanted to know more.
“How are you able to trust Azan now after you found out he was cheating?” they pressed. The TLC star wrote back, “Because we love each other and have worked through our mistakes.”
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There were more questions, too.
“I saw something about Azan and a European girlfriend,” continued another fan. “How do you deal [with] rumors?” In response to that one, Nicole referenced one of her costar’s relationships.
In the past, Danielle tried to offer Nicole advice.
“I told Nicole to go over more than once to make sure that he was in it for the right reasons,” Danielle told In Touch in July 2018. She even weighed in on the cheating scandal. “I would have backed out because that is like a big red flag,” she continued. “when he and Nicole were talking about it, and he was just laughing about it like it was no big deal, that was disheartening. I felt bad for her because that’s not a laughing matter. And it’s not a joke.”
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But Nicole thinks their situation is different.
And she seems committed to following through on her engagement to Azan. Even though they’ve pushed the wedding back, she insisted that the only reasons for the decision were “too much pressure not enough time or money.”
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They’re waiting to do it “right.”
“You can’t rush this kind of stuff,” she told a fan during her Q&A. “Do it in the right moment and it wasn’t the right moment yet.” As for any past or potential cheating scandals, she’s not letting that get in the way of her big day. Like she said, they’ve worked through their mistakes — and she trusts him.