A man who says he engaged in a 10-month affair with convicted killer Chris Watts has opened up about details of the relationship.
Trent Bolte, 29, spoke to Inside Edition, claiming to have met Watts on the dating app MeetMe in 2017.
“He said he didn’t know if he was bisexual or gay,” Bolte said. He also remembers Watts disclosing that he had a family, but suggested he was estranged from his wife, Shan’ann, whom he would later kill along with their two daughters.
In August, just after Watts’ arrest, Bolte called in anonymously to Ashleigh Banfield’s “Crime & Justice” on HLN to discuss the affair.
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“You never really know what someone is capable of and the way he portrayed himself as the victim and made me feel sympathy for him,” he said at the time. “Sociopaths can easily lead to different lives and different emotions.”
Now he’s come forward with more details, some of which are disturbingly mundane.
The two allegedly enjoyed watching Netflix together — “I got him into ‘Orange Is the New Black,'” Bolte said.
He added that Watts paid for him to have cosmetic work done, like lip injections and Botox.
When Bolte eventually found out that Watts was still living with his family, he confronted him.
“I said, ‘Why don’t you just file for divorce?’ He said, ‘I’m just worried that she won’t let me see the girls,'” Bolte recalled.
Looking back, Bolte says there were some red flag moments, but he could never have expected what was to come.
On one instance, Bolte remembers hearing Shan’ann shouting at Watts on the phone, then Watts saying: “There’s gotta be some way to get this effing b*tch out of my life.”
Just days before the murder, Bolte says he received a text message from Watts, whom he’d parted ways with in May 2018.
“Chris said that he was in love with me,” Bolte said. “He said he had never been so comfortable with someone. He said he felt like he could actually be himself around me.”
“I got ill,” Bolte said after he saw the news of Watts’ arrest shortly after. “I wish I had never met him.”
Watts was sentenced to five life sentences in November.
Vince
Yeah I’m sure he just made you get those duckbill lips and Botox at 29. Ha
Kind of interesting though.
darkanser
I found that detail raising my eyebrows. It wasn’t until I read the details about the murder of the wife and their two daughters did it occur to me “Are we talking about that guy from Colorado?” I didn’t remember the killer’s name initially. There’s evidence that Chris Watt’s had gotten very fit up to the time of the murders — not that that’s a correlation to anything. Just saying.
Xzamilloh
You want to mention the fact that the police interviewed this guy and found his story to be lacking any credibility and could only provide generic details about Watts that were already public information? This guy is a clown and an opportunist… that’s it.
andrewl
Thank you for actually reporting the facts.
Doctor Benway
«Disturbing details»
I think the mediocrity of the article and, in general, of queerty (which is turning more & more into a vulgar gossip website), is more disturbing.
niles
My BS monitor went off just from the title.
Toofie
10 months. Show us a pic, a text. This doesn’t ring true at all.
Also as gross as that murderer is, he’s certainly good looking enough to have done better!
jpcolter
I don’t believe a word of this guys story. Even if Watts was on a gay hookup site he’d be able to do a lot better than this mess.
Daggerman
..those lips and whiskers surrounding make me wanna throw-up!!!
Hdtex
Seems legit. So hot. So sexy. Duckface never looked so good.
JED08
The fact that this guy has absolutely nothing to prove his 10-month affair, means that it never happened. I have all my text messages, why don’t you?
crazycorgi
Hmmm. . . I don’t see that Watts has ever refuted this guy’s claim of being in a relationship with him. Seems odd that he would let this guy plaster himself all over TV if it was a lie. However, he was also having an affair with another woman who authorities did find plenty of evidence for, so who knows who he intended to be with after killing his family. I mean, Watts isn’t a terrible looking man, and could definitely do better, so I don’t think it was all for this guy.
iluvcakes
Clout chaser, this is why i am always skeptical about witnesses in high profile cases.. also his lips are ridiculous