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90 Day Fiancé star Sarper Güven is sharing an update on his relationship with Shekinah Garner.
“Yes guys, as many of you can probably imagine, our fairytale love story has come to an end. 💔,” Sarper, 44, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, September 22, alongside a wedding photo with a tear down the center.
“It started four years ago in Turkey, and unfortunately, this chapter of our lives has now ended,” the reality star continued. “I’m really upset even writing this because I still love the SHEKINAH I met in Turkey. She was the first real love I’ve ever had in my life, and that’s exactly why this still hurts. But there is one thing I’m sure about: we simply couldn’t make it work anymore.”
Sarper added that he and Shekinah, 43, did their “best” to make the relationship work after navigating a long-distance dynamic from when they met in 2022 until late 2024, when Sarper moved to the U.S. on a K-1 visa.
“But sometimes, even [if] you do your best, simply not enough!” he wrote. “I don’t want to attack her or speak badly about her online, regardless of what has been said about me, talked s*** about me, and tried to drag me down. Whatever happened between us happened, and I don’t want to turn four years of memories into an online war.”
Sarper and Shekinah appeared on 90 Day: The Last Resort season 3 in an attempt to save their relationship. Though the pair recommitted to each other at the end of the season, they later confirmed during the tell-all on Monday, September 21, that they had split.
Shekinah took to Instagram last week to claim that Sarper used her for fame.
“When the ego fades, I hope you realize how you handled this. It wasn’t strength, it was cowardly, destructive, humiliating, deceptive, and above all a deep betrayal,” she wrote. “I learned last night that you only recommitted that day because you felt pity for me, and you did this speech while simultaneously planning to leave me later. The Last Resort was a promo for your comedy career, not an attempt to save our marriage.”
She concluded, “The deepest wounds don’t come from enemies, they come from the ones who promised to protect your heart.”
Sarper denied his ex’s claims in his post on Tuesday.
“I do want to make one thing clear. Despite what she has claimed, I never chose fame or money over her,” he wrote. “I wish we could have found peace together. I wish I could have shared everything I have with her and built the simple life we once imagined.”
Sarper also clarified the timeline of their split, noting, “To make it clear, we have been separated for at least eight months since the beginning of 2026, and neither of us sees ourselves as married anymore. In my heart and in my mind, I am SINGLE now.”
He continued, “Until I reached that point, I was 100 percent loyal to her. But when I finally took off my ring and, as painful as it was, took her out of that place in my heart, I started living my life as a SINGLE person.”
Writing to his and Sarper’s fans, he added, “I know some of you will be upset. Some of you believed in us and supported our relationship from the beginning. But this is life, guys. We are not the first couple going separate ways.”
Sarper concluded, “When I see our old pictures or watch our clips on TV, it still hurts. Because the SHEKINAH I knew during those first two years, before coming to the U.S., will always have an irreplaceable place in my memories. There was real love there. There were real memories. And despite how it ended, I will never pretend those years meant nothing to me. I truly wish her the best in her life. Sometimes a fairytale doesn’t have the ending you expected.”
Sarper and Shekinah met while the latter was vacationing in the former’s native Turkey, as seen on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way in 2023. The pair tied the knot in November 2024.
The 90 Day: The Last Resort season 3 tell-all continues on Monday, September 28, at 8 p.m. ET on TLC.
