'90 Day Fiancé': Biniyam On Why He's 'Scared' to Lose His Family to Ariela's Ex-Husband
90 days fiancé Ariela and Binyam are addressing all the drama with her ex-husband, Leandro, coming to visit them in Ethiopia on this season of 90 days fiancé:the another way. ET's Melicia Johnson spoke to the couple ahead of the season premiere on Sunday, and Biniyam got candid about feeling threatened by Ariela's ex.
Ariela and Leandro, who hails from Argentina, tied the knot young -- Ariela was 19 -- and was married for 10 years before their divorce became official. The two are still very close friends, which, not surprisingly, bothers Biniyam as well as his sister. Biniyam is even more concerned given that his ex-wife, who’s also American, previously left him and took their son.
"Ari, she was married for a long time... Still now, they have a relationship," he tells ET of Leandro. "So, that's what we saw, my family and me. I don't want to destroy my relationship again. That's why everybody they're so scared and so freaked out. Even me, I'm so freaked out. Yeah, I'm so jealous. I have so many things in my mind."
"Ari, she has a very [close] relationship with the ex-husband," he continues. "So that's why I'm so jealous because I have complication if he close too much, I don't want him to start again. And then I don't want to lose again, my family. Because I lost my family before, I don't want to lose them; I can't. That's why I'm so worried."
Biniyam says he at one point felt suicidal when his ex-wife left him, which has definitely affected his relationship with Ariela.
"Like, with Ari, I start again another American girl," he says. "And she's beautiful, and she's talented. And then I don't want to lose her... And then I don't want to be hurt. Because when I lost [my ex], I'm so hurt. I'm so depressed. Even I tried to kill myself. So many things, situations in myself, so that's why I don't want it to happen with me inside. I don't want to lose her because I love her. She's given me a baby."
As for his thoughts on Leandro after meeting him, Biniyam says he's still unsure about his feelings and admits that Ariela and Leandro speaking in Spanish to one another bothers him.
"That for me, it's very hard, like, I don't know what it is they're talking about because it's not my language," he explains. "It can make me, like, more jealous. Like, what are you talking about? When I ask her, it's like, 'Oh, we're talking about America,' or about ... politics, that stuff. That's all they talk about, that's it? Like, for me, sometimes it makes me sad."
As for Ariela, she says Biniyam feeling jealous over her is a new feeling, given that Leandro never got jealous during their marriage. However, she also doesn't feel that bad, given that Biniyam still dances professionally with his ex-Girlfriend. She says she and Leandro have no animosity towards each other and explain why it didn't work out between the two.
"I think we got married when we were really young," she notes. "I was 19 years old. So it was like, at that time, I didn't even know what it really meant to get married. I just knew, like, 'Oh, I want to be with my best friend forever. I don't want us to be separated, so let's get married.' And I think we, as we grew older, we realized, like, there are so many things we didn't experience in life. And maybe staying together as husband and wife is not really the best thing for us. But I think we explore it a little bit in the season, like, Leandro and I get a chance to kind of talk about it. And I get a good chance to hear his perspective because I didn't really know at the time."
She teases that there could be "unresolved feelings" when it comes to Leandro.
"I definitely got to open up, like, when you see someone you haven't seen in a while, and you're in a new relationship, it does open up some thoughts," she says. "It made me realize and focus on some of possibly the traits that I have that I should work on. And then, it also made me feel bad because I started wondering maybe even though it's all over, are there still unresolved feelings maybe on his part? So we talked about, I think, a lot of that stuff for this season."
When it comes to what viewers can expect from Ariela and Biniyam this season, Ariela reveals that it will be both hilarious and emotional. At one point in the preview, Ariela returns to America and says she and their son, Avi, will never go back to Ethiopia after what Biniyam has done to them.
"My son, he gets sick, and I have to take care of that," she says. "And then Biniyam and I really had to make a decision what was the best thing for Avi to do. And then me and Biniyam, we had a lot of tough moments this season. I think it's going to be really difficult for the both of us to relive it and to re-watch it."
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