2021’s craziest love trio involves a random woman, Bret Michaels, and Nikki Sixx and it simply will not be topped. 

If you always thought the one thing that Dr. Phil was missing was heavy metal bands, then you’re in luck. No stranger to the disillusioned and the downright nuts, Dr. Phil McGraw this week played host to Tina the avid metalhead, as per Blabbermouth.

She claims to enjoy way more than a casual fan relationship with Mötley Crüe’s Sixx and Poison’s Michaels. Tina’s friend Vivian explains that she fully believes she’s being catfished by someone pretending to be the legendary rockers.

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Vivian says that Tina has been scammed to such an extent that she believes she is actually engaged – engaged to be married engaged – to Michaels and is also in a nice little loving friendship with Sixx on the side.

While Tina says that she texts Sixx many times throughout each day, he’s unable to ever call her because “his management won’t allow it.”

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The Michaels story was somehow even more outlandish: “I love Bret Michaels, and he loves me,” she says. “After three weeks of talking back and forth, he said he was falling in love with me… Several months ago, we were talking, and he had us take the oath over the Bible that we would be devoted to each other. After we took the oath, he proposed to me, and I said yes.”

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Like the alleged Sixx situation, Tina has never spoken to Michaels on the phone (they met on Instagram) and they talk solely through text messages.

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“He tells me management pretty much controls him, that he can only text me,” she insists. “He can’t talk to me on the phone or send a video for privacy and security reasons.”

See for yourself how the whole crazy thing unfolded on Dr. Phil, including a fake driver’s license and everything. And let this be a warning to anyone else out there in a similar situation: the likelihood that it’s Harry Styles or Lars Ulrich messaging you back is quite slim.

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