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Male friend stole my phone to look at my nudes

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LostStars39 · 01/10/2025 21:46

It’s a bit of a weird one and something I never expected would happen, please bear with as it’s so long but I don’t want to leave anything out.

I threw a party last week and I had a few friends over including me and DPs couple friend Kate and Tom (names changed obviously)
myself and DP have been really good friends with Kate and Tom for years now and all get on really well.

Last Saturday night of the party we were all having a great night, everyone was very drunk and drinks were flowing and we were playing games and just generally having fun. We all had a bit of coke but it wasn’t a massive bender or anything (might be relevant later)

Fast forward to about 2am and it starts winding
down, there are a few other people round who get taxis home but Kate and Tom stay over in our spare room as we’d planned.

I sleep with a Bluetooth eyemask and play music to help me fall asleep, I was quite tired and fell asleep quite quickly. A couple of hours later, around 5am I heard the door of the spare room going and assumed Kate or Tom needed the toilet (the only toilet I have in my house is my en-suite) although the sleep mask is good I’m a light sleeper and still hear most noises.
I try going back to sleep as I don’t hear any other movement. Suddenly my music cuts out and I can hear weird noises and a voice that sounds like myself through the eyemask. I jolt upright in bed feeling completely confused and disorientated. The noises I can hear playing is moaning and sounds like porn but also sounds like myself. DP is fast asleep next to me.
I go to grab my phone on my bedside table which is charging next to me but it’s not there. I was pretty drunk when I came up to bed so check under pillows, under the bed etc and then finally think to check my charger lead, it’s not plugged in.

I turn my lamp on and start walking out my room to try and find out what the hell is going on and Tom is sat outside my door holding my phone in one hand and his in another. I grab my phone back and ask him what the fuck he’s doing with my phone and he looks disoriented and sheepish and just keeps stuttering saying sorry and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He then eventually says he was being a pervert and that he “doesn’t have a boner” I’m really confused so get back into bed while Tom goes to the toilet. While toms in the toilet I wake DP and tell him somethings happened as by this point I’m terrified. Tom comes out the toilet and I pretend to be asleep as I can’t process anything right now. DP and Tom say a couple of words to each other but toms mostly completely out of it.

when Tom goes back to bed I tell DP everything and that I think Tom was watching porn on my phone, I then open my phone to see what it was and turns out Tom has gone into my “hidden photos folder” on iPhone that you need Face ID or passcode for and has been looking through my nudes and videos of myself with sex toys etc I’d sent of myself to DP around 3 years ago when we first got together! I’m absolutely mortified and was nearly sick when I realised. I never go looking in that folder and just save things I wouldn’t want in my main photo album in there. I guess I feel partly to blame as I don’t know why I’d kept the videos but they were saved in a private album!

i felt completely violated and disgusted and the next morning just pretended to be asleep so I didn’t have to see Tom until he went home.

I told DP everything on the night and he’s absolutely disgusted too. Tom never sleeps the night of taking coke so I don’t know if he’d been planning it the whole time he was awake or what. I remembered I’d told him the passcode to my phone that night so he could sort the music on my phone so that’s how he’d gotten into the private album.

I haven’t spoken to Tom since and he hadn’t told Kate, I messaged her the day after explaining everything and she confronted him and kicked him out. He’s now back living with her but staying in the living room, but they also work together and are very codependent. Kate is my best friend and she’s heartbroken but I feel due to codependency she will stay with him.

The 4 of us have lots of gigs, meals, events and a couple of holidays coming up and I just don’t know what to do.

Tom is going to get therapy and has sent an apology card but I still can’t face talking to him.
I don’t really know why I’m posting this but just wanted to get it off my chest.

OP posts:
MonetsLilac · 04/10/2025 08:17

HeadsWinTailsLose · 04/10/2025 08:16

All these people saying to report to the police, what is the crime? Looking through someone’s private folder on their phone that you inadvertently gave them the code for?

I was wondering the same, if she gave him access to the device.

Shessweetbutapsycho · 04/10/2025 08:20

BorgQueen · 01/10/2025 21:52

Sounds like you need better friends and better life choices. Sex videos on your phone? Grim.

Wow. Victim blaming, grim.

CheeseWisely · 04/10/2025 08:20

Ok the bathroom is a red herring here. I’ve seen plenty of places with that layout, albeit usually one bedroom flats (doesn’t mean guests couldn’t stay on the couch though).

How did he know you have a hidden folder OP? I have one where I put pictures of the wedding dresses I’d tried on but would have no idea if anyone else did, including my own DH.

Oh yeah, and knock the coke on the head. Nothing good comes of it.

London22 · 04/10/2025 08:20

Sounds made up. But if not- I couldn't be friends with someone who violated my privacy in such a way and done so under the guise of being completely off his head. He has no boundaries, his GF isn't safe, dare I say- he couldn't be around my children.
People watch porn- that doesn't make them predators. But to enter a bedroom with a vulnerable person sleeping- whilst their partner is there, access their private material (after being so out of it, but can still remember the pass code), makes you a very determined predator.

Aposterhasnoname · 04/10/2025 08:21

As someone on here regularly used to say…

How unlike the home life of our own dear, and sadly departed, Queen

Waterweight · 04/10/2025 08:22

A) i would bet your partner told him about the videos no matter how shocked & disgusted he claims to be given his response on the night & the history of them being old.

B) it's absolutely not your responsibility to call the police it was your partner & friends job to protect you while under stress & call them on your behalf - fuck them both

C) he was probably deffo planning this.

MonetsLilac · 04/10/2025 08:23

Aposterhasnoname · 04/10/2025 08:21

As someone on here regularly used to say…

How unlike the home life of our own dear, and sadly departed, Queen

I understand she was a bit of a lass, back in the day. Those dominos games at Balmoral could get a bit crazy.

SL2924 · 04/10/2025 08:25

Don’t take drugs. Never share passcodes.

i do think you need to make sure he has not got copies of these vids tho as it sounds like he has. They need to be removed from his device.

whatisgoingonandwhy · 04/10/2025 08:32

The toilet thing where you have to go through the bedroom I have seen several times in old properties, usually old cottages

DaisyChain505 · 04/10/2025 08:33

If he was holding both your phone and his phone in your hand he was probably airdropping or Bluetoothing the videos to himself.

This is a police matter. ASAP.

Kate8889 · 04/10/2025 08:34

MonetsLilac · 04/10/2025 08:23

I understand she was a bit of a lass, back in the day. Those dominos games at Balmoral could get a bit crazy.

Yeah she got pretty wild in her younger days. Was still judgy when one of ladies got cancer and she thought she was pregnant.

Conkersinautumn · 04/10/2025 08:36

Ratafia · 03/10/2025 23:19

I'm struggling to get past a house where the only toilet is in an en suite, to be honest. Does that even conform with building regulations?

Edit: just checked out of curiosity and no, it doesn't. So how come?

Edited

I've visited a few houses like this. All of them were Victorian terraces built as two up two down roomwise). The kitchen, an extension to the original house at the back, with a room above it connecting to the bedroom being turned into an inside bathroom. Originally being built with an outside toilet.

MonetsLilac · 04/10/2025 08:36

Kate8889 · 04/10/2025 08:34

Yeah she got pretty wild in her younger days. Was still judgy when one of ladies got cancer and she thought she was pregnant.

Yeah and don't get me started on all those "gifted" gems.

Livelovebehappy · 04/10/2025 08:38

Sounds like a very sordid night was had by all….coke, excessive booze, sex pics? Lovely…..

MonetsLilac · 04/10/2025 08:38

DaisyChain505 · 04/10/2025 08:33

If he was holding both your phone and his phone in your hand he was probably airdropping or Bluetoothing the videos to himself.

This is a police matter. ASAP.

As pp have said....how did he know what the content was? But I suppose the OP or her DH could have told him when the party progressed from Cluedo.

Thephantom · 04/10/2025 08:38

Do illegal things together, other illegal/unwarranted things will happen. Sleep with dogs and all that. You are all as bad as each other. The lives some people live eh

PipMumsnet · 04/10/2025 09:49

Hello everyone,
Given the volume of reports about this thread we wanted to pop on to say that we have no reason to believe the OP is anything but genuine - they have been with us a number of years now. And to remind you that we take a very dim view of troll hunting so may we ask that you please refrain from doing this moving forward. Those who continue may have their accounts suspended which is something we would rather avoid.
MNHQ

CantCallItLove · 04/10/2025 10:00

Ratafia · 04/10/2025 07:32

The problem is more that MN is infested by trolls. We've all been taken in by a post only to find it subsequently gets deleted with a message making it pretty clear that it was posted by.a troll, so people are understandably wary.

On threads about sexual violation, people need to give the benefit of the doubt and report quietly if they have suspicions. MN have now clarified this OP is a long term poster and there is no reason to call troll. Imagine going through this experience and then reading these comments - which will continue as people jump on thr bandwagon eager to show they're too clever to be fooled, making themselves look very stupid in the process and making the OP's awful situation even worse.

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 10:09

Thephantom · 04/10/2025 08:38

Do illegal things together, other illegal/unwarranted things will happen. Sleep with dogs and all that. You are all as bad as each other. The lives some people live eh

“You are all as bad as each other”
wow that was like a slap in the face - thanks for that

OP posts:
NorthernLass2025 · 04/10/2025 10:15

You lost me at you all being on drugs so anything after that who knows wether you did or didn't give permission etc your all out of it. Yuck!

CantCallItLove · 04/10/2025 10:20

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 10:09

“You are all as bad as each other”
wow that was like a slap in the face - thanks for that

It's nonsense, OP. Many of us will be typing our responses on devices made using slave-mines or wearing clothes sewn in sweatshops or enjoying the product of any number of other abhorrent exploitative practices. I don't take drugs but nor do I live a vegan, cruelty-free, ethical and eco-friendly life perfect in every respect.

Nothing you do, have done or could do justify being the victim of a sexual predator. No one with a whiff of a moral conscience seeks to blame the victim. The sanctimonious cruelty directed at you is sickening. None of this is your fault.

NaranjaDreams · 04/10/2025 10:21

I’d be concerned he’s Airdropped them to his own phone, if he was holding both. I can’t see why he’d be holding his phone too, unless he was either filming your screen or airdropping the images to himself. His phone would need to be unlocked and nearby for airdrop, hence why he was holding it.

But to be honest, I think the police is the only option you have here. If you don’t want to go to them, it’s just mentally putting it to bed and not seeing them again.

Tom was lucid enough to remember the code and think to check that album, and to sneak into your room unnoticed…

How strange of him to stay over if he knows he can’t sleep after taking coke. I wonder what he expected to do all night. Surely he’d have been better to leave, and recover his own way.

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 10:24

Thank you to the posters who believe me and thank you for all the advice.
It’s made me really unsure about going to the police as I’m getting torn apart on here. Plus I know I’m in the wrong as I gave him my passcode.
People questioning how he knew the videos were there, well I don’t know… it was stuff I sent DP over 3 years ago, if he was going to tell Tom about it why would he leave it 3 years? I also know for a fact I didn’t tell Tom as until that night I’d completely forgotten about them. I think he got my phone, went snooping through my photos and found the hidden album and assumed what would be in there, which is exactly what he found.

OP posts:
CantCallItLove · 04/10/2025 10:28

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 10:24

Thank you to the posters who believe me and thank you for all the advice.
It’s made me really unsure about going to the police as I’m getting torn apart on here. Plus I know I’m in the wrong as I gave him my passcode.
People questioning how he knew the videos were there, well I don’t know… it was stuff I sent DP over 3 years ago, if he was going to tell Tom about it why would he leave it 3 years? I also know for a fact I didn’t tell Tom as until that night I’d completely forgotten about them. I think he got my phone, went snooping through my photos and found the hidden album and assumed what would be in there, which is exactly what he found.

You are not in the wrong for giving him your pass code! If you had a friend's pass code, would you use it to go through their personal stuff? Help yourself to their online banking? Snoop on their private information? No, you wouldn't. A decent, normal friend can have a pass code and never use it for anything but changing the music as requested. The problem is him and only him.

ChaToilLeam · 04/10/2025 10:28

You and your DP need to go round un announced, get his phone, go through it in front of him and Kate, and ensure all photos and videos are permanently deleted. Though he may already have copied them further.

Then cancel any holidays and events and have nothing more to do with either of them. Kate is spineless and doesn't have your back.

Coke is a horrible drug and doesn't bring out the best in people but this could have happened after a perfectly legal night on alcohol too, so I don't think other posters can lay blame on you for that.

I doubt the police will do anything.