Georgia Woman Sells Recliner on Facebook Marketplace. She Ends Up Livestreaming an Affair Instead: ‘It Looks Like Your Face Opened the Adultery Phone’

Being unfaithful to a partner can have serious social consequences. Couples split, marriages break down, and the community often shuns the offending party. When a grandmother from Georgia made a Facebook Market listing for an old recliner, she didn’t think she’d find a device that would expose her son’s infidelity.

Hank Lank (@hanklank) told TikTok that someone from Georgia informed him about an ongoing drama on Facebook Live. Apparently, the grandmother accidentally aired her son’s dirty laundry on Facebook Live. Lank refused to name the county to protect the identity of the people involved in the story.

It all started with a high school football coach, who seemingly had an upstanding reputation in the community. Lank claimed that the man is a chairman of the trustees of the Methodist church. He also sells insurance during the day. The man was ‘Coach’ for so long that it eventually became his moniker.

Coach had been married for almost 20 years. He has three children with his wife and a nice house. Basically, the man was living the commercial American dream.

“This dumbass had apparently been conducting an entire second relationship from a prepaid phone buried inside his mama’s recliner without anybody knowing,” Lank said. The grandmother, whom Lank nicknamed Ms. Cheryl, wanted to downsize her belongings. Lank said that Ms. Cheryl was not too adept with Facebook but knew that she could sell items on the platform.

She accidentally broadcasted her son’s affair

Most people would post the items they want to sell on Facebook Marketplace. But Ms. Cheryl decided to do a small tour of the items she wanted to put up for sale. After having shown the lamps, ceramics, and other items, she finally arrived at the recliner. Apparently, Coach owned the recliner when he and his family lived with Cheryl during “a difficult patch.”

“That phrase is important in the South. In a small town, a difficult patch can mean anything from depression to adultery to someone refinancing a pontoon boat without telling his wife,” Lank explained.

Cheryl kept advertising the recliner, telling people that it has “good bones.” But as she flipped the footrest, a black phone came out. Cheryl did not recognize the phone. Then, the screen lit up.

Cheryl started reading the notifications on the phone with approximately 300 people watching.

“Tell your wife the booster club meeting ran late. I left the back door unlocked,” one notification said. By this point, Cheryl should be ending the livestream, but she just continued reading in horror.

“Well, that sounds dishonest as hell,” Cheryl commented as she continued perusing the messages on the burner phone. But to make matters worse, Coach’s wife, an elementary school teacher, was watching the Facebook drama unfold at her office.

“Cheryl, what phone?” the wife commented on Facebook.

“I do not know, baby. But the wallpaper’s a picture of your husband without his shirt. He needs to put that shirt back on,” Cheryl told her on live. Lank said that the audience began to double.

She busted the mistress on Facebook Live

Then, the burner phone started ringing. The caller ID had ‘Hair Appointment.’ Cheryl picked up the phone on speaker and confronted the woman.

“Are you coming over after the game on Friday or not?” A voice on the other end of the line asked. Cheryl paused in recognition.

“Is this Tammy from Sheer Perfection?” Cheryl asked. The woman dropped the call without confirming her identity. Apparently, Tammy had been cutting Coach’s wife’s hair for eleven years. If the other woman is Tammy, then the betrayal would be unimaginable.

“This woman had been shampooing that wife’s head while listening to her complain about her husband being distant. This is not just an affair—that’s customer research with a conditioning job,” Lank commented.

Nevertheless, the wife wanted Cheryl to keep the Facebook livestream up.

“Honey, I don’t know if we need all these people in our business,” Cheryl said. But she didn’t end the broadcast there. Coach, the star of the show, just arrived. He had apparently heard from Tammy that his mother was exposing their affair on Facebook.

Coach could be heard from the kitchen, yelling for his mama.

“Mama! Turn that off!” He said.

“I have been trying to turn this thing off on Facebook for 40 minutes, but apparently, God wants witnesses,” Cheryl responded. Throughout that time, she had been reading notifications about the alleged infidelity.

Coach denied the affair, stating that the phone belongs to one of his assistant coaches. It would have worked, but when he picked the phone up, the screen unlocked because of face recognition. Cheryl realized that she had caught her son in a lie, looked directly into the livestream, and cussed him out.

A marriage-ending broadcast

The wife arrived later, still wearing her school district badge. She confronted him and asked how long he’s been having the affair.

“This is not what it looks like, babe.” Coach still did not want to admit to the affair. But Cheryl was unwilling to cover up for her son and revealed that his face was recognized by the burner phone.

“Son, it looks like your face opened the adultery phone,” Cheryl said. At this point, the town’s people were as invested as that lady in Detroit who livestreamed her neighbors’ fight on Facebook. Tammy even came out with a post, saying that it was all a misunderstanding.

People didn’t exactly believe her. One commenter on the livestream revealed that Tammy’s car has been parked behind the Methodist church during trustees’ meetings for months. Again, Coach is the chairman of the board of trustees in the church. What made the scenario all the more suspicious is that Tammy attends the Lutheran church.

After all this, the wife neither screamed at her husband nor did she get violent with him. Instead, she picked up the burner phone—the device that contained evidence of the affair.

“You can stay with your mama.” The wife was done with her husband’s dishonesty. Although he’s her son, Cheryl wasn’t willing to put up with him either.

“Like hell he can!” She said, and the livestream was still going on at this point. By the time Cheryl ended it, there were at least 1200 people watching. The wife filed for divorce, and Tammy had to close her salon temporarily after the controversy.

Facebook users got a free story from start to end—all because Cheryl wanted to sell a dusty recliner.

(featured images: Anton, Hank Lank, Berna)

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