Spencer Morrill contacted "Catfish" about being in a six-year relationship with Katy Perry. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I think Katy Perry, who has been in many relationships throughout those six years and is a huge pop star, is not going to date someone over the internet.
Spencer describes himself as a “typical guy,” and that their relationship began on a messaging site the real Katy would probably never use.
When the "Catfish" co-hosts pressed Spencer for proof, he told them that the singer relayed to him messages and stories only Katy would know. He, like fake Katy, decided to verify the information via Google. Genius right?
The story gets even better from there. The two conversed by message for six years and only talked on the phone once-- and the number that he had was a Canadian phone number. Funny, because Katy is actually from California. The episode offers further proof that when you believe in something enough, anything can be invented inside your own brain.
Katy eventually pulled the plug on their romance, but Spencer didn’t understand why. They were in it deep, he claims, totally in love. He even got her an engagement ring, which mostly no one will ever get.
But Spencer seems to somehow not notice how crazy he’s being. He never even thinks that this could be fake. He hasn’t even told anyone that he knows, that he’s dating Katy Perry, which could mean that his brain is trying to tell him something subconsciously.
The hosts find evidence that Katy is actually from the UK and is named Harriet. After showing Spencer the stuff about Harriet, he’s still in denial, saying the tone of Harriet’s profile doesn’t match the woman he’s been speaking to for so long.
Of course, he’s wrong and all he needed to do was a reverse phone number search and find Harriet’s information. He could have saved himself a lot of embarrassment years ago, but Spencer’s continued delusion offers the "Catfish" crew a trip to England to confront lair Harriet, so everybody wins.
Before they left, Spencer confides with his brother that he’s been in a relationship with 2015 Super Bowl performer Katy Perry that spans more than half a decade. His brother's reaction can only be described as “WTF?”
They travel all the way to England and the whole time he still thinks he going to meet Katy, even when he meets Harriet and hears her tell him how she made the whole thing up, but instead he chooses to believe that Katy herself has set this up and that she hired Harriet as a part of her ruse.
In the end, he finally realizes that he actually wasn’t in a relationship with the pop star Katy Perry, but can we even really trust that he really even believes that he’s Spencer? Silly, I know, but he now has to reevaluate his life. Are the people he trusts really who they say they are?
