90 Day’s Loren makes shocking statements about his true intentions before joining the reality show

A resurfaced interview exposes 90 Day Fiancé star Loren’s intentions behind joining the hit series.

In an episode of Dekiki podcast as of October 2023, just a week before Loren left to meet Faith in the Philippines, he explained that his priority was to make money from his participation in the show. He went on to say that he planned to stage the drama for cameras and claimed that he knew how to push Faith’s buttons.

“I get paid more the more ridiculous I am,” he began. “The plan is for me to be as dramatic as possible, and this girl in the Philippines is so jealous of everything that it will be super easy. Just like me.” If I snap my fingers, I could walk out and piss her off.”

He also revealed that he only got a one-way ticket because he “didn’t have the money to go home.”

“If I get stuck there, I’m going to stay stuck there,” he said. “Life goes on.”

Loren noted that it wouldn’t be difficult for him to find someone to marry because he had options for his potential future wives. Although he said his preference would be to remain in the Philippines, he also considered returning to the United States.

“Either I’m going to marry this girl in America, which means I’m going to Washington with my family, which means I’m either going to sell my moped – I’m just going to take a plane straight from the Philippines to Washington if she’s not what I do” am looking for – or I will go to the Philippines and meet someone else,” he said.

“I hope I can marry a regular girl and have only ‘ladyboys’ and live in the Philippines forever,” Loren continued, seemingly indicating that he did not want to marry Faith, a transgender woman. “But if I can’t do that, I’ll go back to Vegas and marry this girl named Wendy or this girl named Aliko, and that would be that.”

The same week he appeared on the podcast, Loren revealed that he had sex with “a completely transformed trans girl” days earlier before leaving to meet Faith.

“She was great,” he said. “We were supposed to have a threesome but it didn’t happen, it never happened. We had flakes, we had two flakes. Yes. But I will meet her again.”

PEOPLE has reached out to TLC representatives for comment.

Fans have seen Loren and Faith’s journey as their season 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days air. So far, Loren has dropped several bombshells on Faith, including his STD diagnosis and his infidelity.

“So we can’t kiss,” he told her on the Nov. 17 episode. Stunned, Faith asked why she couldn’t be intimate with him before he finally revealed, “Well, I have gonorrhea.”

She later opened up to her sisters and said she broke up with Loren “because he had sex with other people.”

In her confessional, Faith said, “I still want to be respected and loved. And I don’t want to put up with someone who cheats just because I’m transgender.”

She added: ‘If someone loves me, he should be able to respect me.’

However, on a December 15 episode, the couple got engaged after reconciling. Loren admitted that “we’ve had some ups and downs,” adding, “To plan our next steps together, I need to propose to her.”

“Ideally, we will meet with an immigration lawyer tomorrow so we can come up with a plan to get married as soon as possible,” he explained in his confessional.

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90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days airs Sundays at 8pm ET on TLC.