The former boyfriend of Carlee Russell has finally spoken out about how her faked disappearance in Alabama this summer impacted him.
He claims he is traumatized by many aspects of the incident. From people blaming him for her going missing to him being recognized in the streets, he says his life is forever changed.
Thomar Latrell Simmons and his friends and co-host Marcus Moody launched their new podcast “205 Boyz” this past week.
On the inaugural episode that debuted on Friday, Sept. 1, Simmons discussed how, since the hoax, he has had to defend his character — maintaining that he did not join a search party or post notices about her alleged kidnapping for attention but rather because he truly cared about the 25-year-old. Still, people have painted him as a liar who was trying to be a part of the algorithm.
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He says on the episode that his efforts were sincere, adding that he didn’t find out she was lying about being kidnapped until a press conference on Monday, July 24, where Russell’s attorney Emory Anthony read her confession and the Hoover County Police Department detailed the great disruption her hoax abduction caused the city and force.
“I was mad. I was sad. I was in all types of emotions. … That’s my girl, so I stuck to it. But it wasn’t making sense. If you really wanted to tell me the truth, you could have told me. Before the police conference, you could have told me,” he said.
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He also talked about people saying they were not really together.
“It made me mad because people were talking down on my character,” Simmons said. “People were saying I was a cheater and I’m this and that, a player, and I’m like, ‘Our relationship was five years, man.’”
The ex also…
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