90 Day’s Loren Makes Shocking Claims About His True Intentions with Marriage and Fame Before Joining Reality Show

A resurfaced interview is exposing 90 Day Fiancé star Loren’s intentions behind going on the hit series.

In an episode of Thekikipodcast from October 2023, just a week before Loren left to meet Faith in the Philippines, he explained that his priority was to make money from being on the show. He went on to say that he planned to play up the drama for cameras, claiming he knew how to push Faith’s buttons.

“I get paid more the more ridiculousness I do,” he began. “The plan is that I just be as dramatic as possible, and this girl in the Philippines is just so jealous of everything that it’s gonna be super easy. Like I’ll snap my fingers, I can walk out, make her pissed off.”

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

“If I get stuck there, I get stuck there,” he said. “Life goes on.”

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

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

“I’m hoping I can marry just a regular girl and just have ‘ladyboys’ on the side and live in the Philippines forever,” Loren continued, seemingly indicating that he did not want to marry Faith, who is 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 then that would be that.”

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

“She was amazing,” he said. “We were supposed to have a threesome, but it didn’t, it never happened. We had flakes, we had two flakes. Yeah. I’ll meet her again though.”

PEOPLE has reached out to reps at TLC for comment.

Fans have been watching Loren and Faith’s journey as their season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days airs. So far, Loren has dropped several bombshells on Faith, including his STD diagnosis and his infidelity.

“So, we can’t kiss,” he told her in 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, saying she broke up with Loren “because he had sex with others.”

In her confessional, Faith said, “I still want to be respected and loved. And I don’t want to settle with someone who cheats just because I am trans.”

She added, “If someone loves me, then he should be able to respect me.”

In a Dec. 15 episode, however, the pair got engaged after reconciling. Loren admitted that “we’ve had some ups and downs,” adding, “in order for us to plan our next steps together, I need to propose to her.”

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

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