A new documentary on Netflix, Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare, relays the baffling true story of Kirat Assi and a mysterious man called Bobby.
The story was first told back in 2021 with the podcast Sweet Bobby which took the world by storm and there's a good reason why.
It's based on the real-life story of Kirat, a 44-year-old British radio presenter who fell in love with a cardiologist named Bobby.
But after 10 years in a romantic relationship, which was all based online, Kirat discovered that Bobby wasn't who he said he was, shattering her world.
In September 2009, then 30-year-old Kirat received an out-of-the-blue Facebook message.
It was from JJ, her female cousin Simran's ex-boyfriend. JJ was asking for Kirat's advice on how he should try and win Simran over. Just like many avid Facebook users, Kirat wasn't keen on responding to messages from strangers, but since they had a mutual friend in her cousin, Kirat felt comfortable to reply to JJ.
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