Here's How Catfish Host Nev Schulman Actually Got Catfished

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Catfish can only be imagined and manifested through personal experience, and show host Nev Schulman had a dramatic catfishing story. According to Mama Mia, Schulman's catfish experience happened in 2007 with an "eight-year-old girl named Abby on MySpace." Abby messaged Schulman paintings of him, and because he was flattered, he began messaging the young girl.

Innocently enough, Schulman also learned about Abby's mother Angela and sister Megan through pictures that Abby shared. The filmmaker eventually connected with 19-year-old Megan, who was a singer/songwriter and grew feelings for her. Schulman told 20/20 in 2010, "She was smoking hot, unbelievably sexy... super beautiful," and he "was opening up to Megan in ways that [he] had not with actual girlfriends that [he] had had."

For seven months, Catfish's host spoke to Megan on the phone and via text, but never through videos or in person. Prior to almost meeting in person — along with his friend Henry Joost and his brother Ariel Schulman — Schulman found out Megan was completely fake. After discovering all her songs were stolen from another artist, Schulman demanded to know the truth.

After much investigating and digging through lies piled on lies, it was discovered that Megan and Abby were actually Angela, their supposed mother. Angela also confessed to using 15 separate Facebook accounts to catfish Schulman. He used his experience to create a documentary, which premiered at Sundance, and later morphed into the hit television series. Talk about a journey!

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