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Brooks Nader is revealing exactly what she claims led to her breakup from Gleb Savchenko.
Months after the model, 28, split from the Dancing with the Stars pro, 41, fans are getting a look into the moment she allegedly discovered that he was cheating on her.
In the debut episode of Love Thy Nader, which aired on Aug. 26, Brooks says she decided to go through Gleb’s phone when he accidentally left it in New York City.
“I’m just a girl at the end of the day,” she joked. “We’ve all gone through our man’s phone before. It’s literally right in front of me. I have to, right? Who wouldn’t?”
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When she and her three sisters went behind closed doors to start looking, she says they were “shocked” by what they found.
“All these screenshots of my boobs,” Brooks declared in the episode. “What the f— is this? There’s like a million girls in here. This is a week ago.”
She says she then found a contact labeled, “Threesome girl, Joshua Tree,” and broke down in tears.
“I don’t even know what to say,” she cried. “I feel really betrayed.”
A title card at the end of the episode indicates that Gleb denied all of these allegations. PEOPLE has separately reached out to Gleb for comment.
In the next episode, which aired as part of the two-part premiere on Freeform, Brooks and her sisters discussed her next steps.
“It’s always the people that are so worried about you cheating that are the f—— cheaters themselves,” Grace Ann said.
“This is bad,” Brooks responded, as she claimed, “They’re doing threesomes in Joshua Tree.”
Sarah Jane, 23, quipped that this was “cheating on steroids” and suggested Brooks mail the phone back and never speak to Gleb again.
“I feel so stupid,” Brooks confessed. “I had no idea this whole time that this was all going on, and to make matters worse, it’s just like, what if I hadn’t looked through his phone? Would I have continued to date him and gotten married and had babies? Would I have fallen for it?”
Sarah Jane then speculated that Gleb “probably wanted a sister threesome,” as Grace Ann claimed he was “always” inviting them out to Joshua Tree at the beginning of the relationship.
“It’s so demeaning to women the way they’re talking about them,” Brooks said. “It’s disgusting. They’re treating them like they’re animals. It’s so f—— gross.”
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The sisters had been warning Brooks of Gleb’s “red flags,” with Sarah Jane claiming he was constantly worried about Brooks cheating on him.
“I knew some s— was gonna go down,” Brooks revealed. “I knew he was up to something.”
Later that night was the launch party for her collection with Hudson Jeans, so Brooks went to get her hair and makeup done and “be strong.”
“I’m all for sexual freedom, but this is like an episode of Law & Order: SVU,” Sarah Jane said. “It’s disgusting.”
At the event, Brooks struggled to avoid conversations where Gleb’s name was brought up but did her best to maintain her composure.
“I’m not ready to talk to him,” she said in her confessional. “I’m disgusted by him. I’m scarred by what I saw. I can’t even mentally go there because the worst thing that could ever happen would be my personal life bleeding into my professional life and ruining an opportunity.”
When they got home, she broke down, sobbing on the bathroom floor that she was “really not okay.”
Admitting she was “mindblown,” Brooks confided in her sisters about feeling upset that he had just been around her entire family professing his love for her.
“I’m such an idiot,” she said. “I just feel so like such a f—— loser.”
“I really did believe everything he said about how special I was to him and what I meant to him,” she continued. “I gave a little piece of me away to this relationship because I was so all in on it, and I really did love him.”
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To distract her from her “first breakup,” Brooks and her sisters decided to go on a girls’ trip to Miami a few days later.
She shared that she didn’t contact Gleb while she processed everything, so she was caught off guard when she opened her phone to see that he was talking to the press. In his statements, he denied cheating and any wrongdoing.
“He’s talking to everyone,” Brooks realized. “I don’t understand what gives him the right to call all these people.”
As the episode came to an end, she exclaimed: “I’m gonna f—— bury this motherf—–”
After PEOPLE reported that Brooks broke up with Savchenko over cheating allegations in April, he issued a statement which indicated that he was “surprised to learn” through the news that they’d split.
“The last communication I received from her was a text on April 6th, asking to speak. I called her today in response, but she has not replied,” he said at the time.
The dancer said he was “still processing everything, and while I don’t have all the answers, I wish Brooks the best moving forward.”
He later called the breakup “really upsetting” as he told E! News, “I’m not a cheater. I’m actually a family guy. I’m a relationship guy. I’m not a f— boy who goes around and goes on all these dates. I’m not even on dating apps. This thing that happened broke my heart.”
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New episodes of Love Thy Nader will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Freeform. The entire season will be available to stream Wednesday, Aug. 27, on Hulu.