A person’s secret rendezvous on the highest deck of a cruise ship took a wild turn when his girlfriend spotted him rubbing shoulders with one other woman via the boat’s security cameras.
One among influencer Kayla Gardner’s friends was innocently scrolling through CCTV footage available on the TV inside their cabin when she caught Gardner’s boyfriend within the act.
The “gut-wrenching” moment and the Disney World worker’s response to her partner’s unfaithful deed went viral after Gardner posted several videos of the incident to her TikTok.
In the primary installment of the four-part story, Gardner explained her partner told her that he was going to “get some food” as an excuse to go away the cabin before she gave a recap of the entire situation.
Then within the second video, titled “My friend caught him cheating real-time due to the ship’s live cameras”, her followers got a front-row seat of Gardner’s response to her boyfriend “cheating”.
“Who’s she?,” Gardner asks her friend as they squint on the screen, which shows the ship’s pool deck area.
The pair debate over whether the person within the footage is definitely Gardner’s boyfriend before one other camera angle pops up revealing that it’s him.
“Stop that’s the girl, oh my God, oh my God, this isn’t happening,” the Disney Princess impersonator screamed as her friend gasped.
The chums then watched the person put his hand on the unknown woman’s shoulder, sending Gardner right into a panic before the video cuts out.
Then within the third video, the person might be seen pulling the lady in so her head rests on his shoulder.
In response, Gardner might be heard screaming as she runs towards the cabin door to go and find him.
“I’ll be right back,” Gardner said, nevertheless, she was suddenly stopped in her tracks when her friend exclaimed: “he’s giving her his number”.
Gardner is then filmed yelling right into a walkie-talkie, telling the group there’s a “911” emergency.
“Now we have a 911 on the upper Lido deck,” she said before screaming again resulting from the couple hugging.
“911 everybody goes to the upper Lido deck without delay!”
While it’s not clear what happened to the boyfriend, a fourth video titled “cruise cheater part 4” showed some footage of a fireplace and rescue boat surveying the ocean next to the cruise ship.
The video was accompanied with a comment: “What happened with the cheater on the cruise? Hope you threw him off board”.
Gardner replied with the caption: “Use your power of deductive reasoning to piece together what happened … not tryna (sic) incriminate myself but.”
The videos sent the web right into a spin, with the clips receiving hundreds of comments and collectively scoring just below 25.5 million views.
“Oh girl … I don’t know whether or to not congratulate you each on being a genius or apologize,” one empathetic woman said.
“I’m so stressed without delay and it’s not even my boyfriend,” one other comment read.
Meanwhile, others pleaded to see the confrontation between Gardner and her partner.
“OK, but what happened whenever you confronted him? What words were exchanged? How did you cope with rooms thereafter? I would like to know!!!!,” one person begged.
While no confrontational videos were posted, Gardner did share two final installments revealing how she handled the break-up and her relationship status.
In a single post titled “cheating aftermath”, the Disney worker was filmed throwing her ex’s clothes outside her apartment window.
Then in a second clip, she thanked her followers for embarking on her end-of-relationship journey and revealed she was single.
“Good evening passengers, that is your captain Hot Girl Summer speaking,” the video captioned.
“Thanks for joining us on the Carnival cruise … as we start to arrange for takeoff please make sure that your feelings are on aeroplane mode and your ex is left on read.”
Security footage is made available to passengers on most cruise ships through the cabin TV for a lot of reasons as suggested by cruise lovers who commented on Gardner’s videos.
“It’s for convenience in case you would like to see how busy (an area is) or the weather before traveling across a large ship,” one person said.
“They’ve cameras in case of accidents, assaults, etc but this works too,” one other comment read.
Carnival Cruises cited on its website that a lot of cameras are around their ships for guest safety and security, with some cameras using facial recognition technology to make sure the right passengers board the ship.
