What happened between Joo and Brooke from Below Deck Mediterranean?
AHEAD of the return of Below Deck Mediterranean, fans are wondering what happened to the reality television couple. Joo Franco recently opened up about his relationship with Brooke Laughton in a new preview for the show. At the beginning of Season 3 Below Deck Mediterranean, Joao revealed that his and Brooke's relationship is over. The 29-year-old explained that he ended the relationship after discovering that Brooke had cheated on him during the Below Deck Mediterranean Season 4 After Show. Joo shared that the couple had been grappling with their future when Brooke accepted a job that took her away from him which only added stress to the struggling relationship. "We saw each other a month after that for a few days. Seemed OK. In hindsight, I've figured out what was going on. Got to a point where she had broken up with me on my birthday, and then three days later, she begged me to be back with her. She got her mom to phone me," Joo explained in a preview. What do you want from me?' And she said, 'I need you to be here.' I said, 'OK.' The next day I flew to go see her." But when he was on his way to see Brooke, he discovered some incriminating text messages with another man. "Some texts had come up on my phone. Her Instagram was still connected to my phone. I saw texts between them and pictures and stuff. She was saying one thing to me and then she was saying to the guy, 'Oh my god, [Joo is] coming to Fort Lauderdale. I'm done with this. I can't be here. I need to leave,'" he recalled. "And then sending me a text off the bat saying, 'Give me a month, and I'm leaving this boat, and we'll be together on a sailboat.'" 4 Joo recently finished his certification to become a yacht captain Credit: Getty  The television star decided to follow through with his trip and confront his girlfriend in person. "I walked up to her boat, and I begged her to tell me. And then eventually she told me she had been with someone. Then she had said, 'We weren't together. We weren't going out,'" he said. "I made her admit to me, I just said, 'What do you want?' And she said, 'I don't know.' Well, you can't have me. I walked off, and that was the last time I ever spoke to her." He finished admitting that he "just felt broken." Brooke has denied Joo 's allegations that she cheated on him while she was in Florida. The 29-year-old defended herself saying, Although it initially hurt to hear Joo blamed our relationship break down on a false claim that I cheated on him, it is very true to his character and allows him some relief for his ego," she said. "In reality, there was absolutely no cross over between when I realized what kind of person I wasnt looking for and the kind I was and I absolutely did not cheat on him." Brooke continued, If this theory makes him sleep easier at night, then so be it but him saying this only makes me lose even more respect for him. I know exactly the kind of person I am and Im extremely content and secure in the facts of how everything played out. There is not long to go until fans can catch up with the new series of Below Deck Mediterranean kicks off on Bravo. Fans had feared the show would be put on hold due to the pandemic, but the Season 6 premiere episode airs on June 28, 2021, at 9pm EST. However, you can watch every episode a week early on Peacock, with episode one currently streaming. This season Below Deck Mediterranean returns to Croatia for the first time since Season 2.