The TruthIs Jana Real? Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau’s Complicated Relationship Explained

Are Jake and Tana back together?

Fans pretty much lost it when Jake and Tana were cuddled up during a trip to Las Vegas in October 2020, months after announcing their split. Unfortunately, Jake set the record straight on his Instagram Stories and said they were only “BFFs.”

Tana also shared a snap of Jake on a yacht with her in June 2020, adding to rumors that they may be back together. A few days later, Jake fueled speculation even more when he shared a vlog from their trip to Miami. In it, the exes could be seen cozying up.

In true Jake and Tana style, they posted another video together in July 2020 where they made numerous jokes about being back together, and they even referred to themselves as “Take.”

“It’s Take and it’s take two,” Jake said.

So are these two back together? It’s honestly unclear whether or not they were just kidding around or being legit, but the last we checked, Jake was dating model Julia Rose, so it’s likely that he and Tana are simply good friends.

Why did Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau breakup?

Fans first started to worry that the pair had split after they noticed a lack of PDA between the two stars in the months that followed their wedding. And on January 2, 2020, the couple announced that they were officially taking a break.

“OK, I don’t really know how to do a ‘we’re taking a break’ post and this is weird as f**k… I’m happy to still be able to sit with Jake and laugh as we do this — but for right now we both are taking a break to focus on our own very crazy lives,” Tana wrote on Instagram. “I’ll never know what the future holds and iI will always love Jake and everything we did. I’m grateful to know throughout this I’ve made a best friend for life and found someone to do life with when no one understood me. Here’s to 2020, working on us, and my new Lamborghini since I get half of everything! No need for crazy speculations — this is coming from a place of nothing but love. I love you, Jakey, thank you for this past year.”

“As Tana and I sit next to each other writing captions about taking a break we’re literally laughing at how crazy and stupid the past couple months have been and cracking jokes at how silly this all seems,” Jake added in a post of his own. “I’m keeping custody of Thor but Tana unfortunately gets my Lamborghini. I wouldn’t change anything that happened… We’re best friends and right now it’s best for us to focus on our lives and see what the future holds. (P.S. our friends started playing sad music while we were writing these captions and we all started laughing our a**es off… This is bitter sweet but it’s what’s best for us right now.) The last thing we wanna see is fan pages speculating ‘what happened,’ we truly just need a second to focus on our own lives and ourselves. Love you, Mongeau.”

While discussing his upcoming boxing match on January 9, 2020, Jake opened up about the break up.

“Tana’s been super supportive. We ended things on great terms, we’re friends,” he told Page Six. “I guess I fell in love with the sport of boxing and fell out of love with Tana.”

He added, “When we kind of made that decision [to split], it was like a weight lifted off of both of our shoulders. It kind of reminded us, like, how the relationship started, which was friends.”

And when asked if the pair was ever going to get back together, Jake explained, “We’ll see, I really don’t know. If you’d asked me three years ago if I’d be standing here right now doing a f**king interview about boxing and knocking kids out, I’d be like, ‘Absolutely not. I’m on Disney channel and I’m a vlogger.’ So, I don’t know what the future holds, but you never know.”

The blonde beauty also spoke out about the relationship, telling Page Six, “If you love someone so much sometimes you have to let them go. I feel like if we’re both meant to be, we’ll come back together. And if not, I’ll always have a love for him and an experience shared with him that I have for no one else and I will be a supportive friend.”

Tana gave some more insight on why they split during an interview with Seventeen Magazine.

“All of his love is going toward boxing and I’m giving all this love, expecting it in return, but he can’t give it,” she explained. “I never want to be in a relationship that’s one-sided. Seeing him in a place where he can just succeed and thrive with no distraction makes me happy and I know that at this time of life that’s absolutely what’s right for him.”

“Just because you’re on a break with someone doesn’t mean it’s like a light switch and you can turn off the feelings you have for them,” she continued. “I care about Jake so much as a person and I always want to be friends. So I hope that if we work together in 2020, we can do it in harmony as friends.”

Jake also revealed to Life & Style Magazine on January 27, 2020, that he and his ex are “on great terms” following the split.

“We’re super friendly,” he said. “I think it was a weight lifted off of our shoulders when we made that decision. And we kind of remember where we started at which was friends.”

He explained that he was super busy training for his upcoming boxing match, but once it’s over they’ll have a lot more time to hangout.

“She’s coming to the fight so we’ll be able to hang out. But, it’s also been hard because, like, I’ve been so focused. Like, I was in Big Bear, California, training nonstop for the last four months,” he continued. “But, it will be good for us. Like, after I win the fight, to just hang out, maybe, and just chat and be around all our best friends and such. She’s crushing it. Tana has so many awards and accomplishments that I can’t even keep track of it.”

On March 2, 2020, Tana gave fans more insight into what went wrong during her and Jake’s relationship. In the second episode of season two of her MTV reality show No Filter: Tana Mongeau, the blond beauty revealed “the real reason” the couple had barely spoken. It turns out, things started to turn sour when they agreed to work on a TV show together.

“You shouldn’t do business with f**king people that you date,” the YouTuber said. “I know this is definitely not what normal, newly married couples are having to debate over 24/7.”

Tana also explained that, as they had their own lives and business decisions to make, a relationship had become “harder and harder” to balance.

“It’s very weird to be like this is the most successful I’ve ever been in my career, but that doesn’t mean it’s equivalent to happiness,” she said in another episode of the show. “My relationship is my business life, which sucks.”

“Jake’s in a very different place of life than where he was when I fell for him and I feel like he just doesn’t have time for me anymore,” she added. “I feel like Jake has been slowly — from the moment I met him — transforming into a different person. But it’s like now I’m sitting here like eight months in or whatever like, ‘I don’t even f**king know you anymore.'”

When an interviewer asked Tana when she knew they were done, she explained, “When we didn’t see eye to eye anymore like we always had. We couldn’t see eye to eye on so many things that used to not even be a question. We couldn’t come to a conclusion on if the sky was blue and we were fighting. We didn’t have any space to nourish the relationship. We were like, ‘Are we going to sit here and watch it die because we can’t nourish it or are we going to step aside and nourish ourselves, and then either A) try again one day when we both can nourish the relationship properly, or B) go our separate ways and it never work out.”

In a video called “The Truth About Everything,” which she uploaded on December 29, 2019, Tana also got real about their relationship. Although the blonde beauty claimed that they were still together at the time, she revealed that things had changed drastically between them after they got married.

“The second Jake and I got married, I just feel like everything changed. I don’t blame Jake, I think that the second he said, ‘I do’ to me, he kind of mentally was just like, ‘Now what?’ I think he mentally was over it. I don’t blame him but it left me clinging, trying to make this work,” she explained.

The YouTuber added that when her dad suffered from a stroke after the wedding, Jake wasn’t there for her in the way she needed him to be.

“My dad almost died that night of the wedding, he had a stroke … so I didn’t go on the honey moon. And this giant part of me wanted so badly for Jake to stay and take care of me,” she said. “And when he didn’t, I was so heartbroken … I wanted to fix this person who was so emotionally f**ked up, but then when it came time for them to help me and fix me, they couldn’t and that was my fault, for falling for that.”

After that, Tana admitted that things were never the same between them.

“We spent all this time trying so hard to get back to where we were before the wedding, but it’s like, what’s broken can’t un-break. You can’t undo what’s already done. Once that feeling was different, I feel like he kind of began to put one foot out the door,” she continued. “It felt in a lot of ways that I was latching on to someone who’s like, ‘B***h get off me,’ you know? Or someone who doesn’t want that, or doesn’t crave the kind of love that I was looking for.”

But she wanted the world to know that despite everything, she still loved Jake a lot.

“Right now, I am still with Jake,” she added. “I always want to be close with Jake. I shared one of the craziest times of my life with this person, and we were a team and he made me feel some of the best feelings I’ve ever felt, but also some of the worst. I feel like I should have been far more transparent with him and myself and the world, but I just couldn’t. I wanted to see everything with rose colored glasses, and now I’m just at this point that feels like my absolute lowest. I feel exhausted at all times.”

“I will always love him, I will always see myself having a bond with him that I don’t have with anyone else, but does that mean that this is all healthy for me or him? Maybe not … I hope and would like to think that mine and Jake’s friendship can supercede all,” she concluded. “I feel like the public’s perception of me and my relationship has to change, and I feel like I can’t keep being something I’m not because it’s killing me. Jake and I both have these psycho busy lives, and trying to fit each other in, it just gets harder and harder. So many things keep hurting me further. I don’t ever want to be on bad terms, I don’t ever want to hate each other, I don’t ever want to not be friends. And there will always be a part of me that will open my heart to him, that will want it to work, that doesn’t want to see him with anyone else. I wish every day that him and I could get back to the way that we were because it was magic. But I don’t know if everything that’s happened will ever allow that. All I know, if I do know one thing, is that I just can’t look like someone’s b***h for any longer, and that I just want Jake to be happy.”

The couple also spoke out about rumors that they had split in a video called “Divorce?” on September 27, 2019.

“We’ve been living our lives off of social media like normal humans. We had to sacrifice the clout for our own emotions,” Jake explained, with Tana adding, “We’ve been trying to live a married life, it’s different.”

“Everything was so lighthearted and fun. There was so much momentum up until the wedding, and then you get married and you’re like, ‘Now what?'” the blonde beauty continued. “We both still have our lives and we’re doing our best to mesh but it’s hard, it’s difficult. It’s hard too because you have the whole world looking at what you’re doing, commenting on everything you’re doing … At the end of the day we both had to step back and say, ‘We’re real people with real lives, and this is a real-life decision that we made. So let’s handle it.’ I think it was the first time where we had to do things off-camera. And everyone was like, ‘They’re not together, we want a reunion.’ But it was like, f**k we just need to step back and handle s–t off camera and talk and decide what we want to do. ”

“There’s never going to be any animosity, at the end of the day this is all started because we both are similar, we’re both the same person, we both get along, we both vibe, we both mesh,” she concluded. “No matter what happens, I’m always going to f**king have the same love for [Jake] that I do.”

Did Jake cheat on Tana?

The internet pretty much lost it when Jake was spotted hanging out with his ex Erika Costell just weeks after his wedding to Tana. A fan snapped some photos of the former flames out to lunch together on August 18, 2019, and rumors quickly started spreading that he had cheated on his wife.

Especially after Tana caught wind of the rumors and completely shaded Jake on her Instagram Stories. Yep, she posted video of herself singing Ariana Grande‘s song, “Thank U, Next,” which is all about moving on from a man. She even changed some of the lyrics to apply to her own life.

“Thought I’d end up with Bella [Thorne], but it wasn’t a match. Wrote some songs about Hunter [Moreno], now I listen and laugh,” she sang. “Even actually got married, and for Jake I’m so thankful. Except when he goes out to lunch with his ex and I find out on Twitter.”

Yikes. And on August 20, 2019, Jake finally spoke out about the rumors.

“Wasn’t me,” he tweeted.

wasn’t me

— Logan Pauls Brother (@jakepaul) August 20, 2019

Now, it’s possible that the YouTuber is referencing the song “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy. The song is all about making up excuses after being caught with another woman. It’s also possible that he’s genuinely denying that it was him in the photos at all — a possibility backed up by his older brother, Logan Paul.

“Are we SURE that’s Jake… ?” Logan question on Twitter after the photos surfaced.

are we SURE that’s Jake… ? https://t.co/TqAbMFXpDE

— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) August 19, 2019

Logan also talked about it in his “Impaulsive” Podcast.

“Someone was eating lunch with my brother’s ex-girlfriend, Erika Costell, and the whole internet is saying that it was Jake, but… are we sure?” he said as he zoomed in on the photo. “This looks like a deep fake.”

And in a video uploaded on August 22, 2019, called “I Got Caught Cheating on my Wife,” Jake told his side of the story once and for all.

“I think this is hilarious. Where do I even start with this conversation?” he said. “I think a good jumping off point is what my brother talked about on Twitter… That isn’t me. That’s not me. I will admit, that does look a lot like me and Erika, it does. It really does, and it’s such an unfortunate misconception to say the least.”

“I understand where everyone’s coming from. Everyone wants to have Tana‘s back, and I totally agree,” Jake continued. “However, I will say though, if that was me and Erika at that restaurant — if those pictures were actually of me — then I guess this would be my explanation, hypothetically. Maybe that guy was at a birthday party the night before, where he hadn’t seen his ex in over a year. Literally hadn’t even communicated with her in a year, they don’t even have each other’s phone numbers. Then randomly they see each other at a birthday party, and everything was cordial, and nice and friendly. But they haven’t talked in a year, so instead of talking at the birthday party, they decided to get lunch the next day. Even if all of that happened, I’m not saying that all of that happened but hypothetically speaking, if all of that were to happen, does it matter if someone who is married goes to lunch with their ex girlfriend to talk about things, and simmer down the negativity and to make things cordial? Does it matter, A? And B, is it any of your guys’ business? I will say this: Tana went to lunch with one of her exes, Bella, and no one wanted to say anything. People want certain people to fail or look stupid or position them in a certain way to make them look bad.”

But on November 18, 2019, the former flames were spotted hanging out again! And this time, Jake didn’t deny it.

Jake and Erika were spotted in San Diego together I’m so happy that this two are hanging out again I can’t wait to see what the future brings for these two ily❤️ @jakepaul @erikacostell pic.twitter.com/ycds5kk5Or

— Demetra❤️ #WeWantJerika (@jerikaloves2) November 18, 2019

“Exes can be friends, right?” he wrote on his Instagram Stories. “Or just because ‘stans’ don’t like that and get butt hurt we’re not supposed to be?”

Previously, there was speculation that Jake was cheating on Tana after he was spotted cozying up to some other girls while on vacation in Ibiza. But he later explained in a YouTube video that he was only acting because he was filming a music video with them.

“Why can’t I just get some content with some pretty ladies?” he said. “I think Tana would be proud of me for interacting with these girls. I could be friends with girls.”

But wait, there’s more! Cheating rumors started to emerge again after Tana and Noah Cyrus were caught cuddling up on Instagram. Tana even referred to the singer as her girlfriend on YouTube! OMG. But when Entertainment Tonight asked Jake about what was going on, he revealed that he and the YouTube star actually have an open relationship!

“Since the start of our relationship it’s been, like, an open type of thing because that’s just how we both are,” he explained, adding that he had no issues if Tana and Noah did get together.

“Especially if I could be there,” he said.

Jake also opened up about it during an interview with Brian “True Geordie” Davis.

“We kind of have an open relationship,” he said. “I think it’s great. I think it’s the best thing that anyone’s ever invented.”

When asked who suggested it, the YouTuber explained, “I think it was a mutual type of thing, I think we’re in love with each other like emotionally. I think it’s less physical.”

But according to Tana, it was totally Jake’s idea.

“I wish I wasn’t [in one], it wasn’t voluntary,” she said during a Q&A session with fans. She also spoke out about it during her tell-all “The Truth About Everything” video posted on December 29, 2019.

“I wanted to be the ‘cool’ girlfriend that he never had because I cared about him so much, but I let that destroy me. I feel like when I thought of an open relationship with him, I thought of us, a team, occasionally we both might hook up with other people, and eventually maybe we would be monogamous, but that was me looking at that through rose colored glasses. I feel like an open relationship to Jake was him still being able to have sex with a new b***h every night. I am not blaming him, I was the one green-lighting everything because I just wanted to make him happy, but it killed me. You can only let something kill you for so long until it’s actually going to f**king kill you,” she said. “Finding out about the Erika s**t on Twitter killed me. Jake and I had so many conversations where he villainized her and I spent so much time trying to be everything she wasn’t to heal him. And so to have gone through so much of that just to see them on Twitter killed me. But who green lit the open relationship? Who pretended she didn’t give a f**k about anything? Me … I wanted to maintain this image of not caring to Jake, to the world, so I made jokes and I laughed it off and I didn’t address it. I tried to look past so many things that upset me because I wanted it to work.”

On December 3, 2019, fans were pretty shook when Jake uploaded a photo of him and his ex-girlfriend Alissa Violet almost locking lips. Everyone quickly started to assume that Jake had cheated on Tana once again, especially since she took to Instagram moments later to let everyone know that she was taking a break from social media.

It turns out, the photo was actually an ad for Jake’s new song, “These Days,” and although Tana was all for him writing a song about his ex, she had no idea he was going to post that photo with Alissa, and she wasn’t happy about it.

“I woke up to that photo everywhere … I didn’t think he was going to post that photo,” she explained. “Now, everything is filled with people telling me how stupid I look for the 3,000th time this year. Telling me that they are so disappointed in me for not standing up for myself and being a boss b***h … Personally, I am proud of him for making music that’s about his emotions and his past, but I hate that it kind of has to come at the expense of me looking dumb.”

Are Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau getting their own MTV show?

Get ready to see the couple like you’ve never seen them before because they are starring in a brand new MTV show together, called Bustedness! That’s right, the former couple shared the exciting news on December 11, 2019.

“The Paul’s…coming to a television near you. Never did I think growing up watching Ridiculousness I’d have an opportunity to be on a spinoff where Jake and I get to be bootleg Rob Dyrdek and Chanel West Coast,” Tana captioned a since-deleted Instagram post. “Never did I think I’d bag two MTV shows — one digital and one linear. Thank you for creating this world for me… more to come. See you on TV?”

The show is set to premiere on May 6, 2020.

Is Tana pregnant?

The internet pretty much lost it when Jake claimed that Tana was expecting their first child in a paparazzi video. Especially after Tana tweeted that Kylie Jenner had given her some pregnancy advice. Um, what?!

“Yo @kyliejenner just coached me through pregnancy like gave me pregnancy advice suddenly I’m pregnant,” she wrote.

yo @kyliejenner just coached me thru pregnancy like gave me pregnancy advice suddenly i’m pregnant

— Dizzy Paul (@tanamongeau) September 19, 2019

But it turns out, the YouTube star isn’t pregnant after all. She retweeted the video of Jake, adding, “I AM NOT HES SUCH A TROLL NOOOO.”

“OK I’m not pregnant and you know this I’ll take a test on f–king live,” she added.

In a YouTube video uploaded on October 1, 2019, Jake admitted that he definitely wants to expand his family next year. The social media star and his brother, Logan, revealed that they are both planning to have kids in 2020.

“We’re trying to have babies [next] year,” Jake explained. “What if Logan and I, we both have surrogates, and have babies at the same time, so that our babies and kids can grow up together and be on the same NBA team … I wanna be a young dad. I wanna be a cool, young dad.”

“We think 2020 might be the year of babies,” Logan added. “Family channels are popping. I think it’s the new wave.”

Back in July, some fans were convinced that the YouTube stars were only getting married because Tana was pregnant, but the MTV star quickly shut those rumors down in a video uploaded on July 21, 2019. But that didn’t stop her from tricking her fiancé in the process!

In her “‘I’m Pregnant’ Prank on Jake (He Literally Cried)” vlog, Tana tricked Jake into thinking she was actually expecting his baby and recorded his reaction. He was so shook over the news that he even broke down in tears! So in conclusion, Tana is an amazing actress — but no, she’s not actually pregnant.

Is Jake and Tana’s marriage real?

Despite the highly publicized wedding, according to InTouch, Jake and Tana were never even really married! The outlet reported that the couple did not obtain a marriage license in the state of Nevada before exchanging their vows. Plus, their wedding officiant wasn’t even technically allowed to marry them.

According to the Clark County, Nevada website, for a couple to be legally married, the “ceremony must be performed by a licensed Marriage Officiant who has been issued a valid Certificate of Permission by a Nevada County Clerk. Having an online ordination or religious affiliation is not sufficient.”

Jake and Tana’s ceremony was officiated by Team 10 member Arman Izadi “Armani”, and according to the magazine, he isn’t a licensed Marriage Officiant within the state. Yikes. And get this — even Tana’s BFF and roommate, Ashly, thought it was all for show.

“If I thought Tana was actually going to legally marry Jake, I would obviously be freaking out. I’m assuming that it’s not real,” she said in an episode of Tana’s MTV show. She also revealed that Tana and Jake had planned the wedding months in advance, and that Tana knew about Jake’s proposal before hand and was in on it.

“When Tana told me that she and Jake were going to get married, I, of course, thought it was a joke,” Tana’s manager, Jordan, added. “I don’t think they should be engaged, personally. I mean, they’re not in love and I think people who are in love should get married.”

He also told Tana that a lot of people are going to be angry with her for lying about her relationship with Jake.

“We’re not lying,” she insisted. “Jake and me aren’t officially exclusive. I think we’re all trying to piece together the puzzle of what we want this proposal and marriage to be.”

“Don’t get me wrong, I know that a wedding is a very serious thing but I think Jake and I don’t take things very seriously,” the reality star continued. “I have a lot of love for him. It’s something fun and light hearted that we’re obviously doing for fun and for content.”

“Everyone wants to know if Jana is real and what this is. So we’ve kind of been playing it up for the people because at the end of the day we are internet trolls,” Tana admitted. “But at the same time, I’m starting to realize that this could potentially be very real and it’s up to us how real it is.”

Her and Jake also hinted in the episode that the marriage wasn’t legit.

“So this is 100 percent legal on paper?” Tana asked Jake.

“I don’t know if we should talk about that though because we should make it seem like it is,” he responded.

And after coming under fire for her comments, Tana took to Twitter on August 1, 2019, to clear the air.

“I filmed those confessionals for the show A LONG TIME AGO! The ‘for fun and content’ sound bite was from a very long sentence and [I] was a little salty to see it pulled out of context. I understand though that MTV has their own creative and that these episodes are airing very late,” she wrote. “Especially in timing with the wedding. I’m not trippin’. I know that things have moved so fast, are unconventional and confusing but I love Jake. I truly do, in the weirdest f–king way. Every second of this rollercoaster ride has been so fun and crazy. I hate that it’ll probably always come with owing people some explanation especially with so many things coming out like the show (which is quite behind)… but I know that’s kinda the life we signed up for.”

“It’s real. That clip was taken out of context,” Jake explained to Entertainment Tonight on September 16, 2019. “It was fun and it was for content but we still got married.”

i’m feeling feisty:
i don’t care if u think my wedding’s real. i don’t care if u think my marriage is real. i don’t care if u think Jake and I don’t love each other. i don’t care if u think getting married fast is a bad idea. i don’t care if you think it’s gonna last. OOPS!

— Tana Paul (@tanamongeau) July 26, 2019

Tana also tweeted on July 25, 2019, “I don’t care if you think my wedding’s real. I don’t care if you think my marriage is real. I don’t care if you think Jake and I don’t love each other. I don’t care if you think getting married fast is a bad idea. I don’t care if you think it’s gonna last. OOPS!”

“I understand people’s doubt,” she wrote on Twitter on November 20, 2019. “I just guess I wish people understood what it feels like to be in my shoes. Call our marriage whatever you want, but I do love Jake and maybe I’m an idiot for it and maybe all of my dumb mistakes are being aired as they happen in real life and that sucks.. I know once again I signed up for all of this… I guess i’m just tired and don’t want y’all to think I’m ignoring what I see everywhere.”

She also said in a YouTube video, “If the wedding was fake to me in my head, I’d be in so much less pain. It’s worse, the whole world thinks that this s**t is fake and I’m out here in so much pain, like, I’m an idiot. It was fun and funny to make the clout jokes, and make Jake laugh and make Jake probably think that I cared about clout, but it was a lot more than that and it’s my fault for not expressing that and for not slowing down and for turning my cheek or pretending to be fine during so many things, so many scandals. I wanted to be what he wanted, which, looking back, was also so unhealthy. If someone makes you the happiest you’ve ever been, the most motivated you’ve ever been, the most successful you’ve ever been — everyone around me (before the wedding) was like, ‘You’re glowing, you’re thriving, I’m so happy for you and Jake.’ It changed my life. When everything is that good, you just keep going. We just kept pushing it further and further.”

“The wedding s**t literally started as a joke, and then I wanted to almost one-up him. I was like, ‘You think that’s crazy, let’s f**king do it,'” she continued. “We both were in over our heads, obviously, and having so much doubt, but we both weren’t going to voice that. It was just like, ‘Let’s do this s**t.’ I thought in my brain, if this person makes me this happy, how could this ever be that bad. If I have this much fun and am this much of my best self by this person’s side, how can this be that bad? And there were points where it was like, ‘Even though this is ridiculous, we’re treating this like a real thing. So could this be forever? What if I do marry this person for the rest of my life?’ It was almost like I was mentally preparing myself for that. I was overlooking any red flags, any bad sign, any warning that anyone said, just pushed me further.”

She also explained in a February 2020 interview, “If it wasn’t real, my life would be so much easier. For my own mental health sake, I wish it wasn’t real. Absolutely 100 percent, I loved him with everything in me. I still do, to be very real. It happened very quick and it was definitely a very impulsive decision and it was centered around so much content — we definitely played into the jokes. But when it comes down to it, person to person I cared about him so much and always will.”

“If we lived in Nebraska and started dating we probably wouldn’t have gotten married that fast. This world [amplifies everything]. My whole world changed the second we started dating, people would come up to me and say, ‘I love your relationship so much, you guys are so perfect,'” she continued. “When everyone around you everywhere is so obsessed with your relationship and gassing it up, it makes things very different. You don’t want the fights to happen, you don’t want to think about them. You want it to perfect and to maintain that perfect image of it. It’s intense, for sure. But when it comes down to my feelings for Jake, they’re there and always have been. They’ll probably always be.”

The reality star shut down rumors that she was only marrying Jake for views in a video titled, “Get Ready With Me on My Wedding Day (the Truth About Everything).” She claimed that she wasn’t even planning on filming the wedding at first.

“I wasn’t gonna film my wedding, I just want to put that out there. I’m getting accused every second of only marrying Jake for the reality show, which obviously is a very valid claim,” she said. “When I started filming the show actually, I was originally not going to have Jake on it at all. Like literally, at all. Just because I didn’t want people to think that what we were doing was for the show. I understand anybody asking if it’s fake because obviously it started off with us making a lot of jokes about doing everything for clout. I feel like the best way to put it is: Yes, we hype things up for camera obviously. We rush things and do crazy things, but this all started with us hooking up at his house off-camera. You could say that I rebounded from my ex to him. We could be married forever or for f–king 10 days. We’re absolutely crazy for taking it day by day but that’s what we’re doing.”

Tana explained that at first, they wanted to keep their relationship private. But after the world found out, she decided to just go with it. The blonde beauty did finally admit that their marriage was not legal though.

“I think legally binding yourself to someone takes away the love. It’s unnecessary,” she said. “But [our love] is real, we’re just f**king crazy.”

“Let’s clear this up. Just like TanaCon, I made zero dollars off of the wedding,” she also said in a Q&A she did.

“I built up so much anger over things like the livestream. I acted like I was fine with it to make Jake happy, and then when the whole world was so angry at it, I was so angry at myself for doing something so inauthentic to make someone happy,” she later explained. “I only have myself to blame for that. I made zero dollars, and the whole world is coming at you like, ‘You just did this for money and fame,’ and nobody knew how relieved I was that I made zero dollars on it, nobody believed that I actually made zero dollars. It was so terrible knowing that I did it for what I felt like was love, and I convinced myself of so much s**t. I believed what I wanted to believe and the self hatred for that, for compromising my integrity for love, for compromising my morals for love, inauthentically riding the wave and living life for someone else and adopting someone else’s life — I really began to hate myself for that. And then feeling like the whole world doesn’t understand you at all, but knowing that you did that to yourself and hating yourself for that as well, it’s just dark as f**k.”

When asked if she thought the marriage would last forever, Tana told Zach Sang, “It’s hard, it’s f**king really, really hard and we both kind of came to this stop where we’re like ‘what do we do now?’ In the regard of you asking if it’s forever, like, I’ll always love him forever and I’ll always have a special place in my heart in this time of my life being shared with him forever. If I’m as happy as I am and was in that moment then f**k yeah, let’s ride it out. But he’s also crazy, so.”

“I don’t think a paper means you’re married,” Jake added to Entertainment Tonight.

And according to his brother, the relationship isn’t going to last much longer. When InTouch asked Logan if he was excited about what’s next for the newlyweds at the wedding, he admitted, “No, absolutely not. I’m terrified.”

“I give it a month,” he said.

Now, let us not forget that Jake actually pretended to marry his last girlfriend, Erika, on his vlog once — only to later reveal that it was all fake. So it’s really hard to say for sure if his marriage to Tana is in fact real or if it’s all a ploy to get some more views. And according to Erika, the romance definitely isn’t legit.

“I think they like the controversy,” she told Under The Influence host Tom Ward. “I think it gets them going. I don’t know, because I don’t do it, but to each their own. It’s working, yeah. Back then, it was nice to wake up and have instant gratification, and I think what they’re doing is instant. …I feel like it’s just repetitive. But it’s working, so whatever.”

But Jake told Entertainment Tonight in May 2020 that their marriage wasn’t real after all.

“Yeah, my old relationships. There’s a line where some of it’s real and some of it’s not,” he said, while discussing his new relationship with Julia Rose. “How do I say this? [My relationship with Tana] was not… Listen, we all do things sometimes, and sometimes you end up getting fake married. I’ll leave it at that.”

What was Jake and Tana’s wedding like?

Jake revealed during a surprise appearance at Vidcon that he and Tana were going to get married on July 28, 2019. The influencer stopped by the event to surprise his future wife on July 13, 2019. He jumped on stage and read a poem that he wrote for her, which contained the date for their wedding.

“Welcome to the Paul family, we welcome you with love. From the moment I met you we fit like a glove,” he read to the audience. “Logan and Bella can hate. The world can question our fate, but on July 28, you can all save the date.”

The Blast even obtained a copy of their wedding invitation, and it was exactly what you’d expect. According to the outlet, the invitation read, “Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau Paul formally invite you to join their holy cloutramony on July 28 at the Graffiti Mansion in Las Vegas. Come Camera ready — what happens in Vegas will end up on YouTube.”

Yes, you did read that right. We did say “coutramony.” LOL.

And on July 28, 2019, the pair said their “I dos” at the Graffiti Mansion in Las Vegas. Afterwards, the couple and their guests headed to the Sugar Factory, where a huge array of celebrities, influencers and fellow YouTubers came to celebrate! The guest list included Logan, the members of Team 10, Loren Gray, LaurDIY, Jack & Jack, King Bach, Justin Roberts, Meg DeAngelis, Tanner Fox and others!

The reception was super glamorous, of course. It was equipped with a red carpet, a giant cake and an entire wall made out of roses. And just wait until you see Tana’s outfit, you guys. The social media star wore an intricate white gown, while her husband rocked a matching white suit — which he topped off with a fedora and an umbrella. Tana actually had two outfit changes throughout the night. Later, she dazzled in a white and pink, super fluffy ballgown, before switching into a silver, sparkly minidress and knee-high boots.

How did Jake propose to Tana?

On June 23, 2019, the YouTubers sent the internet into a major frenzy when they claimed that they had gotten engaged at Tana’s 21st birthday celebration. The blonde beauty posted a video of a cake that said “Will you marry me, Tana?” on it, and naturally, we all quickly freaked out.

She also posted a snap of a big diamond ring, which she captioned, “I’m engaged @JakePaul.” She later took to Twitter, writing, “JAKE JUST PROPOSED.”

JAKE JUST PROPOSED

— Tana Mongeau (@tanamongeau) June 24, 2019

And Tana’s insisted that their engagement was real.

“If this is a joke, I’m going to be pissed,” one fan wrote, to which she replied, “It’s not. I’m engaged. Holy f**k.”

How did the Jana rumors start?

So it all started when the blonde beauty posted a selfie and some eagle eyed fans noticed that she was laying in Jake’s bed in it. We mean, nothing gets by you guys, right? Not to mention that the puzzling snap came just days after Tana revealed that she and her boyfriend (err, ex-boyfriend) Brad Sousa had broken up because he had cheated on her. So naturally, everyone quickly started to assume something was going on between the two social media stars.

Wow, that’s not very helpful is it? And in another video posted on May 16 called “Our First Time Making Out On Camera,” the social media star spilled some more tea on the confusing relationship when he referred to Tana as his “girlfriend-thing/internet girlfriend/real girlfriend.” They also shared their first kiss on camera, and it was pretty intense, TBH. And after spending a full day with the rumored couple, Jake asked his mom, Pam, to weigh in on their relationship.

“There’s definitely some crushing going on, like real, like not just for the camera,” she said. “There’s some crushing, that’s a fact.”

And in a video Jake uploaded on May 28, titled “Tana & I Got Matching Tattoos,” they (you guessed it!) got matching ink designs. Wow, talk about a big step. What was the tattoo, you ask? They each got tally marks to represent every week they’ve been together. Jake got his on his thigh, while Tana got her ink on her hand.

In an episode of Jake’s Team 10 Uncut series called “The Secret Behind Our Relationship,” the YouTubers finally admitted that after the snap of Tana laying in Jake’s bed hit the web, they decided to just go with it. The video actually shows a phone call between the two social media stars which took place on the morning after the photo came out.
“We can just play off this and like get a bunch of views and like who really cares,” Tana could be heard saying to Jake, to which he responded, “I love the way you think.”
In another segment of the video, Tana admitted, “If anything, this is put in our laps to get some clout off of, you know? It happened, we can either sit around and b***h about it or we can make the best of a crazy situation.”

Tana explained on her MTV show that even she was confused by their relationship.

“Jake and I are both two very exaggerated, dramatic, crazy people who love to play into s–t. Who love to make things crazy for our viewers,” she explained. “It is weird to decipher what feels real and what doesn’t. When you’re elevating the f–k out of something online, but you still really care about each other, you’re kind of like, ‘What’s real and what’s not?’”

And in a video uploaded on the morning of their wedding, Tana finally opened up about her true feelings for Jake. And if you weren’t shipping them already, prepare to fall madly in love with the couple. In the vlog, titled, “I Love You, Jake Paul,” the influencer listed all the things she loved about her boyfriend, and our hearts were seriously bursting.

“The other day in an airport a girl came up to me and asked me why I love you, Jake. I realized in that moment that the only person I never want to question why I love you is you. Because I love you,” she said. “It actually still scares me so much to say it. Because once I say it and it’s somewhere other than my head it becomes completely real. And to be quite frank, I’m so used to losing everything I love, and I don’t want to lose you. But I love you, Jake Paul. So I’m making you this video. Russ has this song lyric, ‘I wanna slow dance while they’re screaming.’ I remember where I was the first time I looked at you and realized every moment of my life since I was first enamored by that song lyric was leading me to you. It’s not the idea of fame, or people liking us that entices me about that song lyric. It’s the idea that it’s us against this world.”

Tana admitted that with the life she leads, it’s been hard for her to find people who truly understand her.

“To me, that’s what the truest form of love is — someone who understands, and not just fake understands,” she continued. “Someone who could look at you from across a room full of people and know exactly what you’re thinking. I could never speak again and you could write out exactly what’s in my head. We could close our eyes and walk through this life completely blind and we’d still manage to take the same steps. It isn’t just, ‘I love you.’ It’s, ‘Thank you.’ I’m thankful for everything bad that’s ever happened to me because it led me straight to you.”

“Thank you for going through every single thing I’ve gone through but 10 times worse, so you know exactly what to say to make it all OK. Thank you for lighting a fire in me that no one could light a match to. Thank you for waking the kid in me and making it all fun again. Thank you for working so hard that I wake up every single morning thinking, ‘If Jake can do that, so can I.’ Thank you for freeing the creative juices in my head like a f–king river. Thank you for loving me even when it might be so hard to. Thank you for never, ever giving up on me, or losing patience and for always pushing me to be the best version of myself because that is the truest form of love you could give me. Thank you for walking into my life and showing me who I am with you because I f–king love that girl,” Tana professed. “My best ideas are the ones I think of with our brain and my best self is the reflection I see when I look into your eyes. And my best life is one lived by your side.”

OK, find us a romance like theirs, please.

“I can’t even begin to express the joy I felt when I first realized that our two broken pieces could fit together perfectly like a f–king puzzle,” she said. “You made me realize that it’s OK if people never understand, if they hate us for who we are or if they write us off and they cancel us because that’s easier than figuring us out. It’s finally OK if we go the rest of our lives with dirty looks and confused reactions while holding up a smile because at least we get to do it together. Because when you and I are in sync, we are unstoppable. The world stops spinning for a second when I’m standing on your feet. I’d search the rest of my life for that feeling, even if I only got to feel it once. And that’s why ‘partner in crime’ would be a f–king understatement. I love you Jacob Joseph Paul. I love you for exactly who you are and every part of yourself that you don’t.”

Wow. For those of you who had any doubt that their relationship was real, Tana really squashed it with this video.

“It mends my soul to mend yours. You could build a thousands walls but I would know exactly how to climb over every single one,” she concluded. “Home is a feeling, and never a place. And I could pick up right now and never go home again, as long as I’m by your side. I’d give you every last ounce of my youth without thinking twice because I couldn’t spend it better anywhere else. And I have no idea where this crazy f–king rollercoaster is headed but I can’t look forward because I can’t stop looking at you. Thank you for slow dancing with me, while they scream.”

Tana also addressed rumors that she was only with Jake for his money.

“I would be with Jake if he literally worked at a f**king Target,” she said. “He’s such a humble, generous person. I watch him every single day give everything he has to everyone around him. Jake really is the type of person that, like, anything you say you want to happen, he will make it happen. … I’m not just with him for his money, I’m truly with him because he understands me unlike anybody else.”

She also gave some insight on how their romance started. Tana explained that because her past relationship was so toxic, it made her really “value what it is to have someone who understands you. And someone who makes you your best self and makes you grow.” The MTV star also said that she and Jake had been friends for years before they started dating.

“Any time I ever needed serious advice about business or what I was going through, the person I was going to as a friend was Jake,” she said. “I had been broken up with my ex for an hour and I texted Jake like, ‘I miss you. I’ve been wanting to say that for a really long time.'”

“For my ex and I to break up, and to find out that Jake had been going through things so similar to me, was a very warm feeling and it was exactly what I needed,” Tana continued. “I went to his house, and the way I felt that night, I don’t think I felt at all throughout my entire relationship. I think that we both always kind of knew we were similar people and that we f**ked with each other, but it caught us both off guard to see how well our energy and worlds worked together.”

“I don’t think it really was that I fell in love with Jake in two months, I think it was that the moment I met Jake two years ago, I always knew I might fall in love with him,” she concluded.

“I’ve known Tana for a long time but it kind of happened over the course of like one month of spending a lot of time together,” Jake told ET about falling for Tana. “She’s super elaborate and intricate and the way she thinks is beautiful. She teaches me a lot about emotions.”

Tana opened up about how the relationship started in another YouTube video on December 29, 2019. She explained that her ex-boyfriend Brad didn’t treat her right, and the second they split up, she started dating Jake.

“I spent a lot of my relationship with Brad thinking about Jake, wanting to text Jake and even texting Jake sometimes as a friend, just to like, have that conversation with someone who understands you. I don’t know what it was, off camera no one knew about this. I was dating Brad and filming outfit videos with him, but I would think about Jake a lot and I didn’t know why. I knew what people thought of him and anytime I told anyone in my life, ‘I miss Jake Paul,’ or s**t like that, people would warn me, and that almost drove me more to him because it was like, I’ve wrongfully been that person that other people are warning other people about. I’ve spent so much of my life being misunderstood. I felt like him and I have gone through so much of the same s**t that I wanted to be the one to like, save him, in a lot of ways,” she explained. “Towards the end of my relationship with Brad, I was begging God everyday for a way out cause I just knew it wasn’t going to work … I ended up finding out that he had been cheating on me so much and I remember that moment, I was initially upset but I was so excited that I now could pursue Jake — which is dark. When your boyfriend is doing terrible s**t to you and cheats on you, and you’ve piled up all this pain, I should have spent the next year being single and finding myself.”

“Brad and I broke up over weekend two of Coachella,” she continued. “Everything he did was so dark and irreversible that I was almost thankful I was out. So I texted Jake. The second I got back to Los Angeles I was going to his house.”

“The second I walked into Jake Paul’s world, there was no taking me out of it. I was so consumed, and I wish we would have relished in that time so much longer — long talks and hooking up and no one knowing. It was so simple and amazing,” the blonde beauty continued. “When I posted that Snapchat and people found out, Jake and I both have never been the type of people to back down or hide from something like that. I think we both turn negativity and s**t like that into the best situations we can for ourselves. It was the best feeling in the world to be so on the same page with someone. It was like a drug. It was like finally feeling that understanding that I longed so badly for, and it worked. Something that was making me the happiest, most motivated and inspired I had ever been, was also simultaneously helping me succeed and achieve so many dreams that I had had. I was just so enamored, and still am, and always will be, by Jake and his world and the way that he operates.”

Tana explained that entering into Jake’s world was the first time she was truly happy in years.

“Everything Jake did and said inspired me to do this again and do it with everything I have. When someone can make you fall in love with the only thing you’ve ever loved again, it’s a drug. You fall in love with them in so many ways, just as a person. I think I was so in love with the idea of his world, and I loved the time I spent with Jake so much, and who I felt like he was making me so much, I loved who I was when I was with him so much that I kind of put on rose colored glasses and I realized I would do anything to feel this feeling forever,” she said. “I wanted to be in the place that we were in at that time for a long time. It’s almost like a switched flipped in my head that was like, ‘Whatever he wants to do, I want to do. Whatever I have to do to stay and fix this person that I care about and keep feeling this feeling, I’ll do it.’ That came with a lot of me compromising, and again, I can’t stress this enough, it is not to blame Jake because if I’m sitting there saying, ‘Let’s do it,’ he thinks everything’s fine. I knew in the back of my head that I was doing a lot of s**t that I wouldn’t do for anyone else. I think I just put so much of myself into Jake that I lost myself. And that’s not his fault, and I’m not blaming him at all, it’s just a reality.”

Did Jake really get Tana a car?

We were all pretty shook when Tana shared the news on Instagram that her bae had gotten her a $124,000 car for her birthday. Wow, talk about an epic gift! The blonde beauty posted about it all over her social media. But in a YouTube video uploaded on June 26, 2019, called “I BOUGHT MY FIANCÉ THE CAR OF HER DREAMS!” But Jake actually revealed that it was all an elaborate prank!

In the vid, the influencer brings one of his friend’s cars to the dealership and puts a big red bow on it, in an attempt to trick Tana. She totally fell for it, and started screaming and crying as he presented her with the sweet gift — only to have her heart broken a few minutes later when he revealed it was all a joke. Tana took it like a pro though, and she wasn’t as upset as we all thought she’d be. So in conclusion, no, Jake didn’t really get Tana a car.

He did, however, get her a $100 thousand diamond encrusted Rolex watch! Tana shared a photo of it to her Instagram Stories on July 25, and boy, were we jealous! Naturally, Jake documented the moment he gave it to her and Tana was so happy she called him the “love of her life.” Woah, talk about a huge statement.

Are Jake and Brad fighting?

Things got even more complicated on May 11, when Jake posted a YouTube video titled, “Tana’s Ex-Boyfriend Wants To Fight Me.” In the video, he said, “Guys, if you don’t know, [Tana’s] ex-boyfriend cheated on her. We don’t like cheaters… but he posted on his [Instagram] Stories making fun of me and saying he wanted to fight me… Brad, I couldn’t be more down. I would love to fight you. I think once this video’s posted, I’m going to DM you and ask you like how you want to settle this.”

Jake then took to Instagram to share some DMs that he and Brad exchanged. The drama just never ends, does it?