They say that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes, well I’m going to try to at least get the truth in the race with this video. This addresses rumors surrounding my recent relationship and clarifies the facts. My goal is to provide an accurate account directly from the source.

I started a committed, exclusive relationship with my former partner, Brianna Marie Youssef (Instagram @habribri) in March 2025. Over the past year, I fully supported her financially by covering her housing, personal bills, dance festival travel, and living expenses after she resigned from her job in August 2025 to attend college full time. The majority of her Instagram highlights were trips to visit me while I was working abroad. We shared cultural roots, a love for dance, and many of our values were ostensibly aligned as we pursued a path toward marriage. She routinely told me, my parents, my sisters, and our extended family friends that she wanted to align toward a traditional lifestyle, have six children (I initially didn't want any, but I was open to having two), and had hopes to settle in an Arab country in the future. She was also very committed to practicing her Islamic faith and fasted the month of Ramadan. Although I’m less religious myself, I respected and supported her dedication to her Islamic faith. My family welcomed her with open arms, continually reassuring her that she didn't need to change or try to impress anyone to be accepted by us.

When I started dating her, she was living with her uncle and often complained about her living situation. I offered to have her move into my home in the summer of 2025, and she quickly and gladly accepted my offer. However, I wanted to make sure she never felt financially trapped and had the freedom to walk away if we didn’t work out without feeling powerless in my home. Before she moved in, I suggested that if the relationship ended, I would cover three months of her rent.

In April and May 2026, two people in the Latin dance community independently warned me about Brianna, citing incidents from her past in 2020. This was the first moment I considered the possibility that I didn't know who she was. Up until this point in our relationship, the main difficulty we faced was normal issues couples face related to routines and expectations. When I asked for her response to the claims these individuals made, she denied all of them which I later discovered to be true, greatly diminishing my trust in her word. Still, I persisted, as I was in love and we had a couple of tense verbal arguments that got us close to the brink, but we worked through them. At this point, I felt that we had worked through the difficulties and become even stronger as a couple. I have acknowledged and apologized for my own relationship shortcomings, including impatience and poor communication during these arguments.

On June 11th, 2026, while she was visiting me in Brazil for the second time (after she attended the Baltimore Dance Festival), we had another incident of her blatantly attempting to deceive me about very inconsequential matters. I could not understand why every conversation ended with no offered resolution, explanation, or facts from her. It felt like trying to grasp water. I immediately sent her home with the intention to break up after she claimed that our previous arguments, where she admitted to intentionally deceiving me, were manipulations on my part. She begged me to try couples therapy, and I agreed because I loved her very much. Over the next couple of days, when I offered her a safe space to be honest without risk, she confessed that she’s had a suspended driver’s license for several years! I was horrified because she had been driving my Black Audi A5 for the past year since she did not own a working car. But I forgave her and wanted to help her earn her license back; however, I forbade her from driving my car until she acquired a license.

On June 19th, 2026, while I was still working abroad and she was in Norfolk, she attempted to deceive me by deleting Ring door cam footage of her going out and spoofing her iPhone location to make me believe she was at our home. I caught on to this when I saw her Instagram story of a live Salsa band at Harbor Fest that night. I tried calling her, and she rejected the calls and then silenced her phone. She had never done that before. I decided to break up with her at that moment because my trust was decimated and could never be recovered. Later that night, when she finally called me back, she said she couldn’t answer the phone because she was in the middle of a conversation with her friend in tears about our relationship issues and that her friend advised her to make it work with me. She was also driving my car, which I had expressly forbidden her from doing. I initially demanded that she move out immediately, but then agreed to a July 4th deadline after calming down. I also decided to honor our 3-month rent agreement and wired her $4,000 that same night. I didn’t expect such blatant disrespect and deceit when I first made her that commitment. I expected a good-willed, proactive exit on her part if she didn’t want to continue the relationship.

On June 24th, 2026, I asked my sister to go to my home and pick up my personal valuables and my car because I couldn’t trust Brianna anymore. I also asked her to check my dash cam footage to verify the story she told me. At this point, I couldn’t trust anything, and I could clearly see that the warnings I received about her lying were clearly still true. The dash cam footage was deleted, but I recovered most of it, which is how I found out that she engaged in an affair with Danny Salsita (@dannysalsita.lafabrica) and they were intimate in MY car! I also discovered that she deceived me on June 18th as well!

Like I previously mentioned, I have not been innocent throughout our time together; however, my shortcomings do not justify such profound deceit on her part. She crossed a fundamental line with infidelity in my car, then plotted to continue the deception to preserve my financial support, all while I remained faithful to her and the future we were building. I feel betrayed because I acted in good faith every step of the way and gave her plenty of pathways to do the same. I have always made my intentions clearly known, and I wish I had listened more intently to the warnings I received. I wanted to release this video to make it clear how our breakup transpired. Those who have known me a while know my proclivity for privacy, so I never thought I would have to do something like this but given her level of ability to deceive, I needed to protect myself and my reputation. I will readily and openly admit to my faults. I will NOT accept responsibility for a false narrative that paints her as a helpless victim. I have a Google doc of hundreds of relationship questions she answered where she consensually agrees to the living arrangement and our future ambitions, statements of all the financial support I’ve provided her that equals a full-time job’s salary, and plenty of texts to show she was acting like we were together while she was cheating on me. I have proof to back up every single one of my claims and will happily share them with you if you are in doubt about who’s telling the truth. The only answer to darkness is light.