A woman recalls being catfished in the Netflix documentary Sweet Bobby
A woman who was in an eight-year online relationship with a man who turned out to be her female cousin is hopingabout the ordeal. The film is pieced together through screenshots of messages she had with Bobby and interviews with family members who watched her suffer for years.
Assi is a Punjabi-Sikh woman whose parents were born in Kenya and has been active in the tight-knit Kenyan South Asian community. When she met “Bobby,” she was working in marketing and had a gig as a radio DJ. At a time, she had just gotten out of an on-again-off-again relationship. She longed to get married and have children, and so she clung to the messages from “Bobby.” While she had never met “Bobby” in person, she knew of him because her cousin dated his younger brother JJ in real life.
In 2018, “Bobby” told Assi he had checked into a hotel in Kensington. Assi rushed over, but the hotel receptionist said no one with his name had checked in. She reached out to “Bobby” and “Bobby” claimed that the hotel had been instructed not to reveal that information and that he’s not ready to see her yet.
In the documentary, Assi recalls Simran coming to her home later but saying that she shouldn’t come inside. When Assi asked why, Simran confessed that she had pretended to be Bobby the whole time, and that she impersonated his Facebook friends and family. Even the phone calls had been with Simran the entire time. As Jandu marvels in the doc, “How could she pretend to be me for so long? And she’s a girl, doing it to her cousin. None of it made any sense.
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