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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:
Doseofreality · 04/10/2025 10:39

I think you need to cut all ties with Tom and welcome Jesus in to your life.

My money is on your DH telling Tom about the existence of those photos and videos because he wants some freaky foursome fun.

Windowless1995 · 04/10/2025 10:50

That's awful OP I don't have any advice for you but I hope your OH is giving you plenty of support...and you don't feel any pressure to go through with those upcoming events and holidays!

Windowless1995 · 04/10/2025 10:58

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

Oh WOW Mumsnet, I thought you just took posts down when they had been reported.

It would've been awfully nice of you to extend this courtesy to me when I posted about being the victim of racist abuse ...you know, instead of telling me that my abuse made other people uncomfortable and passive aggressively insinuating I'd used "dog-whistles" (there were no such things btw).

Sorry OP I don't want to derail your thread, but Mumsnet's attitude to my abuse hurt deeply and was shocked to see that they do take the time to respond and defend OPs.

ginasevern · 04/10/2025 11:12

I'd give him fucking therapy alright. Cut this vile man and his co-dependent partner right out of your lives OP. And try not to take coke in future for the sake of your health.

IAmJustAGirl · 04/10/2025 11:29

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 04/10/2025 07:53

Then the protocol is to highlight your quote in some way using bold, italics or speech marks, so we can tell the difference between the quoted poster's words and your response to them.

Are you new to the internet?

Sorry I didn’t Mumsnet properly for you.

Perhaps if you knew what you were doing you would know that name changes don’t work on threads you’ve posted on. It will post as your original name.

Bodypumpmum · 04/10/2025 11:33

Cocaine and stored filthy photos. What could possibly go wrong here.

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 11:36

Bodypumpmum · 04/10/2025 11:33

Cocaine and stored filthy photos. What could possibly go wrong here.

Yes I absolutely deserved what happened to me…

🙄

OP posts:
Bodypumpmum · 04/10/2025 11:43

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 11:36

Yes I absolutely deserved what happened to me…

🙄

No need for that, where did i say you deserved it. You are the one talking about filthy photos and cocaine use. Recipe for disaster, however i havent said you deserved it!

ForZanyAquaViewer · 04/10/2025 11:45

I still don’t understand why you bumped this thread. Everything had already been said, so now people are just repeating it all, while you complain about people being horrible to you. What’s your end goal, here?

Most people think you ought to cut this idiot off and go to the police - even the people who are also questioning your drug use and bathroom setup. Either do it or don’t. What else is there?

ForZanyAquaViewer · 04/10/2025 11:46

IAmJustAGirl · 04/10/2025 11:29

Sorry I didn’t Mumsnet properly for you.

Perhaps if you knew what you were doing you would know that name changes don’t work on threads you’ve posted on. It will post as your original name.

I think their objection was pretty reasonable. If you don’t highlight the OP text in some way (bold, italics, etc) there is no way of differentiating between when you’re quoting and your actual comment.

justanotherdrama · 04/10/2025 11:51

I’m massively anti drugs because I’ve seen lives wrecked by it so I read that but and lost all sympathy really.
The knock on effect for the whole distribution from smuggling them in to county lines is horrendous and it’s disturbing you clearly haven’t even considered that and that you’re more bothered someone has seen a private video when you actually gave them the password!!!
I agree with needing to have better friends and life choices, perhaps an opportunity to have a think about everything OP.

Mwnci123 · 04/10/2025 12:03

BorgQueen · 01/10/2025 21:52

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

Oh piss off you supercilious misery. OP has done nothing to be ashamed of and your contribution is so unhelpful.

3luckystars · 04/10/2025 12:07

What is your husband saying this morning ?

It must feel like the worst hangover on earth today. I have had low points like this where I have made big changes to my life afterwards.

I hope you are alright x

MadisonMarieParksValetta · 04/10/2025 12:09

ColinOfficeTrolley · 04/10/2025 07:44

You aren't getting to sleep at 2am if you've been taking coke. That's bs.

'playing games'. Like what?

The whole tone of your OP sounds very flowery but the issue is rather disturbing. It doesn't sound right. It sounds like the prefix for a porn movie. And you filming yourself moaning whilst playing with a variety of sex toys, nah. Not buying it sorry.

You're talking bs actually. Absolutely you can go to sleep on coke. Unless it's prop. Then you're fucked and awake for days.

3luckystars · 04/10/2025 12:15

Thanks be to God for my boring life 😂

ThreeLocusts · 04/10/2025 12:22

OP this is horrendous, I'm so sorry this has happened. And this thread is a sad, infuriating case study in victim-blaming.

I say this as someone who's never taken cocaine or nude photos of herself. It's possible to not make the same choices as you and still see your now-ex-friend's behaviour as violating, predatory and criminal. That he was apparently in the process of copying images is particularly disturbing. Can you send your DP over to go through this man's phone and make sure there is nothing left in there? Though even then, you can't be sure he hasn't hidden the images somewhere else in the meantime. What a nightmare.

You'll have a lot of choices to make about how assertively to pursue your ex-friend. Part of me hopes that you'll get the police involved, on behalf of all women who have had intimate images stolen. And perhaps the police would at least go through all his electronic devices and make sure that your images aren't retained anywhere in there?

But there's also reason to be very wary of the police here. And much depends on how steadfast your DP's support is going to be. The ex-friend's girlfriend will have choices to make, too... I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect this may take months to shake itself out. I wish you strength, and look after yourself.

dumberthanaboxofrocks · 04/10/2025 12:51

If you didn’t wear a Bluetooth eye mask he’d have got away scott-free. The two phones look like he’s been airdropping. I reckon he had a quick look through your photos earlier, saw the nudes and decided to do some transferring later. I agree this should have been referred to the police. Having a nosy at something you shouldn’t is one thing (not a decent or kind thing but perhaps something a thing a pissed person might do without thinking too deeply about it) but sneaking into a woman friend’s bedroom, stealing her phone and making copies of images of her naked/having sex is something else. Shows you what he thinks women are for. Kate must be in a very bad way to have him back. He’s scum, to be honest.

MonetsLilac · 04/10/2025 12:54

dumberthanaboxofrocks · 04/10/2025 12:51

If you didn’t wear a Bluetooth eye mask he’d have got away scott-free. The two phones look like he’s been airdropping. I reckon he had a quick look through your photos earlier, saw the nudes and decided to do some transferring later. I agree this should have been referred to the police. Having a nosy at something you shouldn’t is one thing (not a decent or kind thing but perhaps something a thing a pissed person might do without thinking too deeply about it) but sneaking into a woman friend’s bedroom, stealing her phone and making copies of images of her naked/having sex is something else. Shows you what he thinks women are for. Kate must be in a very bad way to have him back. He’s scum, to be honest.

Yeah, that's not just stupidity after too much booze and drugs, is it? Premeditated and definitely chilling.

Weenurse · 04/10/2025 12:58

Agree, go to the police.
i am sorry this happened to you.

Moonlightdust · 04/10/2025 13:28

MayaPinion · 04/10/2025 07:49

It sounds like he was using Airdrop to send stuff from your phone to his phone. How would he even think to access your photos - especially your private folder - when he was only supposed to be sorting the music? I’m reaching here but I don’t suppose he already knew about the folder because your DP told him?

On an iPhone if you scroll down in photos you can see all the albums including hidden ones that are Face ID or or password protected! I’ve used a hidden album for putting xmas gift ideas in and pics of our new kitten I was keeping a secret from the kids!
He obviously was snooping on her phone when she gave him access to use it for the music and thought he’d come back later to look through it! And sounds like he was air dropping to his phone too 🤦‍♀️

secureyourbook · 04/10/2025 13:38

Tom is going to get therapy? Don’t tell me - he did it because he’s struggling with his mental health…the get out of jail free card for any bloke caught doing something he shouldn’t 🙄.

I get that you don’t want to let go of your “friends” but seriously this is such a massive breach of trust and privacy that I don’t think the friendship can recover. He has no excuse for this.

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 13:59

secureyourbook · 04/10/2025 13:38

Tom is going to get therapy? Don’t tell me - he did it because he’s struggling with his mental health…the get out of jail free card for any bloke caught doing something he shouldn’t 🙄.

I get that you don’t want to let go of your “friends” but seriously this is such a massive breach of trust and privacy that I don’t think the friendship can recover. He has no excuse for this.

Yeah I can’t say I was surprised when he went down the therapy route 😂 it’s so true what you’ve said about the get out of jail free card for men!

OP posts:
BMW6 · 04/10/2025 13:59

FirstdatesFred · 04/10/2025 07:37

The weirdest thing about this is why you would rent or buy an at-least 2 bed house where the only toilet is through your bedroom!

How about "it was what we could afford" 🙄

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 14:01

BMW6 · 04/10/2025 13:59

How about "it was what we could afford" 🙄

Yes god forbid I don’t have millions to spend on a house and had to compromise 😂 wait until they all hear I also don’t have a drive or any parking so can sometimes have to walk a 5 minute walk to get to my house 🤯

OP posts:
Pollyanna87 · 04/10/2025 14:51

LostStars39 · 04/10/2025 14:01

Yes god forbid I don’t have millions to spend on a house and had to compromise 😂 wait until they all hear I also don’t have a drive or any parking so can sometimes have to walk a 5 minute walk to get to my house 🤯

You have money to spend on coke.

Hopefully this will be a wake-up call for you to sort your life out.