Love After Lockup Season 5 Episode 53 Recap: Jakeema gets suspicious as Donny goes missing

Episode 53 of Love After Lockup season 5 aired on Dec 27, 2024, on WeTV, titled "Cruel Intentions." A season that kicked off in September last year is still going strong delivering ultimate drama, relationship struggles, romantic alliances, and so much more.

Love After Lockup follows the journey of couples who are trying to make their relationship work as one of the partner is a former inmate. The show covers the everyday struggles of these people as a relationship that begins on an online portal where people can write to prisoners involving families and friends.

This season has been featuring seven such couples for over a year now. The latest episode went live on WeTV yesterday. The synopsis of the episode read,

"Couples find love in spite of the prison walls between them, then they are united after years of supervised visits, recorded telephone calls and handwritten letters."

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Love After Lockup Season 5 Episode 53 Recap

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Jakeems grows suspicious when Donny goes missing

After her last conversation with Donny when he told Jakeema he was going to the hole, she hasn't been able to get a hold of him for a few days. This grew suspicion in her mind and she decided to meet his sister, Javen. Though she had no information regarding why he was in the hole and where has he been, the two discussed Jakeema's suspicions.

However, later in the episode, the Love After Lockup star received a video call from Donny where he told her that he had no idea why he was sent to the hole and had a heart-to-heart conversation with the twins.

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Kaleigh refuses to lend money to fiancé Hunter

While shopping for their next date, Kaleign gets a call from her fiance Hunter. While the conversation started sweet, it took a turn when Hunter confessed how he used the money (over $200) Kaleign lent him for necessities on shoes. Upon hearing the news, Kaleign got a little upset.

"I already send Hunter a little over $200 for the week I typically buy a $500 text message package and so the past 5 months have been expensive and I'm paying for everything by myself, like what the f*ck."

When Love After Lockup's star realized her Love After Lockup wanted more money, she clearly declined to send more as she finally got a feeling of being used by him for money.

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Tia's grandmother might not approve of her relationship with Rob

After dating for years, Tia finally decided to tell her grandmother about her incarnated boyfriend. As the 32-year-old Love After Lockup star revealed the importance of the grandmother and her opinion, she decided it was time to come clean.

She met her father's mother for a bite and when she told her about Rob, her grandmother got emotional.

"She had this relationship that she was in, they mistreated her a lot and when she tell me something like this it hurts me to my heart."

She said as she expressed her concern for her granddaughter.

Seeing her granddaughter vulnerable, Tia got serious about Rob not playing with her and showing up, with her grandmother now in the picture.

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