Sorry Catfish fans! I have been so far behind with all that is going on that I have been remiss in my Catfish recaps. I promise to get caught up soon. I actually love doing these recaps because for the most part, my Catfish readers are not the regular cast of fools that hang around here. It makes me feel like I am cheating on my own readers!
I usually don’t get spoiled on these shows but I heard little bits and pieces like the guy is terminally ill or something so I decided I better get this one done first.
The Couple: Robert is 23 and lives in Maryland Ashleigh is 22 and lives in Tennessee. Robert is paralyzed from the mid chest down. Apparently he is dying of some non disclosed terminal illness. He was pronounced dead twice. He proposed to Ashley about a year ago. She admitted she was not the girl in the photos, Robert was angry and tried to forget all about her. She reached out to him at Christmas and basically he just wants to meet her before he dies. Well this sounds awful.
The Simplistic Online Search: The google the girl and as it turns out she is a methhead who was charged with homicide in Nashville. So in answer to your question, Max. It could be really, really bad.
The Phone Call: The format is being expedited because of Robert’s err… limited time. Nev decides to go see the catfish in person because she is too afraid to come to Maryland to see Robert. She is probably on probation and can’t leave the state. So Nev hops a plane to Nashville and Max goes to tell Robert that the love of his life is a methhead who may or may not have killed someone.
The Follow-Up: Max tells Robert that it appears Ashley was involved in a homicide. Max asks if she ever mentioned that, or you know some big deal in past. Max, darling, I don’t think axe murderers tell people they are axe murderers on dating sites. That is why they are so scary. I should point out that Ashley’s mugshot is um, highly unattractive. And Robert saw that. Max asks if Robert would consider someone who was involved in a murder. He says, “Well… I was hoping for a relationship….” This may be the worst Catfish episode ever. Then he basically says he is no prize either and everyone deserves a chance. Good Lord this is sad.
Nev Meets with Ashleigh: Ashley’s house is cute. I was expecting a crackhead house. So as it turns out, there are two people with her name in Tennessee. She is not a crackhead nor did she kill anyone. She is the typical insecure overweight catfish with low self esteem who was bullied. She finally agrees to leave for Maryland with Nev.
The Couple Finally Meets: Ashley is so nervous she can’t stop talking about throwing up as she walks to the house. She is so terrified, she can’t walk through the door. She seems terrified of rejection. She walks in and gives Robert a hug and he tells her everything is fine.
When Ashleigh walks in, Robert, who basically said he would deal with the homicidal meth-head in the mugshot seems disappointed. Perhaps he does have some deal breakers he failed to mention? Robert says that he is anxious because he is afraid of getting hurt by her again.
Max goes to talk to Nev and says he thinks that Robert just isn’t interested in Ashleigh but doesn’t want to hurt her or reject her in such a public fashion. This episode is fifty shades of sad. I don’t even think they should have aired this. There is an awkward ending where Robert plays the friend card, while dangling hope for more as a carrot. Ashleigh hugs him goodbye and tells him she loves him and hopes he feels better. And she gets into a grey SUV with the boys and drives away in a drizzly rain.
The Two Month Check-In: Robert says he doesn’t talk to Ashley because she got all pissy with him. He has been seeing someone locally for the past month. She wasn’t able to just be friends. Ashley was too much drama. Ashley seems pretty much heartbroken and says that Robert didn’t accept the fact that she loves him. Men are assholes.
This episode was so depressing I forgot to look at all the production weirdness.
Wait, so she was basically just a real girl who used a better photo? Which is like the uncatfishiest catfish ever? Are they running out of COMPLETE twats?
Yup that was sad one.. weird thing for me is that I ended up feeling way worse for the healthy girl than the terminally I’ll guy..
Sames.
I was heartbroken for her.
He seemed like an asshole. I have found more than once in my life that terminal illness does not magically make you a good person.
a lot of things have come out about him. girls are posting screenshots of him hitting them up while he was supposedly in love with ashleigh as well as him hitting on young girls as young as 13 going as far as asking them to ask their parents if it is ”okay for them to date him”.. he also threatens to commit suicide if girls do not respond to him. the receipts are on facebook.
Well this goes to show Men are Ass holes through and through and women are idiots…she is willing to accept a guy that is terminally ill but he cannot accept the fact she is fat. Then he says there is another girl…willing to accept a dying man circling the drain..
wake up ladies lol
You ladies don’t seem to realize that you can’t have a relationship without attraction, and you can’t magically be attracted to someone you are not attracted to. That is life. That’s the way it is. Because someone is not attracted to you, it does not make them an asshole, it makes them human.
I felt for the girl too. Being terminally ill myself I feel I have a he right to say…being sick does NOT make you the best person. If you remember in this episode he was willing to try to accept a skinny method addict charged with homicide,but when he seen Ashleigh a girl rejected by society even her own mother he was not interested at all. Ashleigh looked better when she wasn’t in shy mode,but when she went into that mode she wasn’t attractive. So sad,she even n said she would take care of him. Hope she truly finds acceptance.
She is not health she is a liner Her mother that she said abused her was a wonderful caring LOVING WOMEN that ADOPTED 9 children and gave the every part of her.
Thank you for the recap! This is another show that I’ve been missing since we got rid of our cable.
Shallow Hal. But no happy ending. She deserves way better. What an idiot. Karma.
Even though Ashleigh was the usual female catfish, I found her really likeable and I was totally sympathetic (emphathetic?) to her. Also, I was a little embarrassed when Robert was essentially catcalling her to come into his house. Ugh.
The suede/leather couches were in full effect, TT. Max & Nev both reclined ala Robert in them. Also, some other generic staging was happening.
All in all a bummer episode, but I got a lot of solo Max time, so that made me happy! Love the catfish recaps!
Ugh this one upset me. She was such a sweet girl who seemed to have been dealt a terrible hand in life, abusive mom she had to care for until the mom passed, and a dad shes caring for with alzheimers. Then this asshole sees her and thinks shes not good enough for him?! He was such a dick and I think if he didn’t have a terminal illness Max and Nev would have laid into him for how shallow he was. And the way he called himself Daddy to her just grossed me out. I really hope Ashleigh finds someone who appreciates her.
Her mother was not abusive. Colleen was an angel who adopted Ashleigh when she was young. Colleen worked at a day care and took in many troubled children. She was an angel. Ashleigh was never mistreated.
Why would you claim to know more than the daughter who is truly troubled? Hasn’t Ashleigh been through enough?
I am her older brother, And yes she is troubled. She is mentally ill. She is treated here in knoxville TN. She is sweet sometimes and then sometimes she is not. She enjoys the admiration from this show but she told lies about our mother who is no longer with us and I needed to clear the air about that.
Ah. Well, I hope that she sees the compassion we have for her here. I hope that you will be a caring big brother to her. She can’t be held fully accountable for her situation if she is mentally ill. I’m terribly sorry that she spoke poorly about your mother, but she also said she cared for her in he final days. So clearly there was love there.
It is exceeding rare for the catfish to get more compassion than the person who was catfished here. Allow her that small victory. And be kind to your sister even when she does things that are unkind. That’s what big brothers are for. Extend her a little bit of compassion, the Internet is full of mean and judgmental people, and we all were able to to that. And we’re assholes. Surely a big brother can muster some compassion as well?
I love my sister, she has always needed a little extra love. She did love mom and mom loved her very much Ashleigh has issues with telling the truth. It gets bad to where she believes her own stories. My dad cares for Ashleigh still and I live here with them. Ashleigh has anything she wants most of the time and defanatly does not struggle. She is well loved and we stay close even when she does not want us too or when she is mad at us Becuase we don’t do what she wants. That fella she dated online was a creep and sadly they all seem to be. But she can’t work and does not do good in crowds so she has trouble meeting people. She is a wiz on the phone and computer so it seemed natural for her to find people online. We normally never allow her to meet them. But she was adament in this case.
Thanks for letting us know. We are pulling for her and happy to hear she has family looking out for her.
I’d suggest you not stay up so late reading the Internet comments about the show. People can be very unkind.
I wish you and your family the best.
Being mental I’ll gives you no right to be a l ier and abuse her father. And the fact that catfish looks the other way .. REALLY
Wow, this is something. I agree staying far, far away from the internet re: anyone that you care about is the best idea.
I’m glad Ashleigh got some compassion here.
She is not health she is a liner Her mother that she said abused her was a wonderful caring LOVING WOMEN that ADOPTED 9 children and gave the every part of her.
It’s really inappropriate for you to out her mental health and treatments like that. Those are for her to disclose, not you. That’s abusive in and of itself.
The truth is not abuse now that Ashleigh is an adult she does what she wants including sending pictures of girls whom she is not to men she does not know. She does drugs financed by those very men. She is extreemly abusive to our father who is 69 when she does not get her way, and she refuses to take care of her self. I have had to come between them so my father is not ferther injured by her. She as been inabled by this show and these mens money. I will not enable her or allow are to debase our late mother. Telling the world the truth is not abuse it is just telling then truth. As i said before some times she is the sweetest girl other times she is a 300 lbs wrecking ball.
Hey David stop cover for her she disrespect and spoke I’ll of my sister her mother whom is dead Coleen had the most LOVING generous heart in the would if Ashleigh didn’t want her mental health pitted she should not have gin on public Tv .
I too liked the girl. Honestly, what does Robert have to offer anyone? This poor girl even agreed to take care of him.
Is Ashleigh still single
Most depressing episode evah. I think they brought in the couches. Nev crawling up there next to Robert was cringey as hell. The catfish girl formula is bad enough, y’all.
Terminal illness doesn’t transform assholes, seconded.
I completely agree!
Amen!
I actually shed a few tears over this one. Ashleigh seems to be a sweet person, and I hope she finds the peace and happiness she deserves. I couldn’t care less what happens to Robert.
This episode was sad! While I was snooping around on, people started posting receipts of Robert using his illness to harass underage girls. Pretty sick stuff, he’s an absolute creep.
https://twitter.com/n_konialian/status/887899609753935877
More people started coming forward on Facebook, too. Ashleigh dodged a bullet!
Interesting he was paralyzed by the H1N1 vaccine. Back in 2009 when he took the shot, the government was REALLY pushing everyone to get the vaccine. That was the “flu vaccine”of 2009. If you went to get a flu shot in 2009 they gave you the H1N1 shot. The flu shot is reformulated every year and therefore there are not sample studies for flu shots.
This episode really upset me!!! I thought that a man, like Robert, who is facing death would see things more clearly and not be so shallow! That a man that was facing death would see the good in a person rather than the way they look! He had a girl who loved him, yet he was more concerned about getting a sexy girlfriend. You (missing teeth and living in a trailer park LOL) Wake up! You’re living in a dream world! You are absolutely no prize –and on top of it, he wanted her to take care of him LOL! Ashley you deserve way better than this asshole! Hey Robert, did you honestly think you were going to get a hottie?! Hahaha
I didnt see the episode until this morning, but I had been reading everything on it since the episode aired because clickbait sites have me thirsty. So watching the episode, I had tried to keep an open mind, like trying to act like people were just being too harsh or whatever. Watch the episode and just his personality made me feel like I needed to take a shower. Ashleigh had the sweetest personality! I know what its like to be overweight and shy and disgusted with yourself because you’re bullied and what not. He hears her outside the window and starts cat-calling her and I really wanted to vomit. “Come to Daddy Boo-boo”? And when he sees her, you can see the look of disgust on his face! She deserves WAY better than that! According to a lot of Maryland women, he’s constantly messaging them with his “im paralyzed but I dont want sympathy” crap and even trying to be “friends” with underage girls. If this guy isnt creep central for everyone, I dont know who is!
I live not far from him, he tried those lines with me, and so I blocked him. Everyday it seems more and more young girls are coming forward with screenshots. It’s SICK. The community is disgusting and he should be put in the slammer. Like someone needs to tip the cyber crime unit and to search his computer for child porn. Last night some little 15 year old girl posted her experience. This scumbag was asking for nudes and to be his first and he was 21. Like I cannot believe they are still running this episode.
LOL the community is disgusted* but it sure is disgusting too
Dude. I’m Sam. Do I have to arm wrestle you for it? I’ve been working out.
Bring it 😜 I am the better Sam the stronger and more beautiful one 😂😂😂 fight me lol
Jk you’d probably crush me lol I am not very strong
She’s fought for her name before. Plus she is from GA and I don’t need her coming to kick my ass. So it’s best for all of us if you make a change to your name. AlsoSam, SamIAm, JustAnotherSam, Green Eggs and Sam, I Sam What I Sam. Sam Chicka Bow Wow…. Or something.
I changed it and nobody better be like but my spirit animal is Aubrey to so change it 😂😂😂😂 lololol
I hope Ashleigh finds her confidence and let’s her inner beauty shine like a beacon and let her realize she has outer beauty as well. As for Robert my hope for him is that he realizes the importance of loving someone for who they are before it’s to late. Unfortunately I don’t think he’s going to find what he desires if he doesn’t.
It seemed like he was willing to give mugshot girl a chance and Ashleigh was way cutier! That kid needs to get a clue.
This is the only episode I have seen, and I couldn’t finish it. My heart broken for that sweet girl.
So the weird mugshot murder girl was better than the shy insecure lady? He was catcalling her, then completely shut down when he saw she was fat. Obviously being a meth addicted murderer is better than being obese?
The mugshot meth murder girl was WAY less attractive than Ashleigh. Robert is a douchebag.
As a bit of an av-geek, something that really bothered me was that when Nev and Max went to get on the plane to see Robert, it was clearly Southwest Airlines (Who operate a 100% Boeing 737 fleet) yet the in flight shots showed an Airbus A320 wing.
I only watched the last 15 minutes and before they actually met in person I could tell he was an asshole. His comments and personality.
I think Nev should’ve sent Robert a pic of her before he took her to meet him. This would have eliminated the possibility of her getting hurt by this supeficial jerk off.