Three or four days. That is how long Greta Lin had been living with Matthew and his parents in England before she told him the romance was over. The ring came off, the suitcase came out, and the 27-year-old lawyer from Norman, Oklahoma, walked out of the life she had crossed an ocean for.
Greta and Matthew met on a vegan dating app and starred on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Season 7. Her hardest goodbye was not to a person at all: saying farewell to her 11-year-old cat, Hazel, was the most emotional moment of her storyline — and now that goodbye sits at the center of a fan theory splitting the fandom in two.
Four Days, One Sentence, and a Returned Ring
Matthew put the number on it: Greta had been in the country only “three or four days” before the split. She told him, “The honest truth is, I don’t think I love you anymore,” handed back her engagement ring, packed a suitcase, and left for a hotel.
Greta admitted she had been “pulling back the last six months” and had already discussed not loving Matthew off-camera before the breakup ever happened. It read like a decision made long before the plane landed — and whether Greta and Matthew are still together stopped being a question almost as soon as it was asked.
The Goodbye That Hurt More Than the Breakup
Hazel was 11 when Greta left, and Greta had cared for her for two years after the previous owner moved away. Before relocating, she arranged for a friend to adopt Hazel, with one blunt condition: “If my friend were not willing to take her, I wouldn’t have moved,” she told Swooon. The handover was not seamless — the friend’s cat fought with Hazel — but Greta says Hazel found a stable home she has visited twice.
London, a Work Visa, and “Finally Dating as an Adult”
This is where a breakup became a conspiracy theory: Greta did not go home. She secured a UK work visa and “officially moved back to England,” took an animal-advocacy job, and is now casually seeing a London man who once starred on UK reality TV — “finally dating as an adult,” she says, “so happy” there.
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On November 12, 2026, a Reddit post floated what it called a “tin foil hat theory”: that Greta went on The Other Way to rehome Hazel “for love” — using the show, and Matthew, to get herself to England and her cat into a new home. It is fan speculation, not fact — nobody involved has confirmed any of it.
The case for it: the romance collapsed in days while the visa lasted, and Hazel’s adoption was arranged before Greta boarded the plane. The case against it: going on national TV would draw far more attention to rehoming a pet, not less. Reddit has been the franchise’s courtroom all week, and several fans argued a stable home for an 11-year-old cat needs no conspiracy.
Hazel’s Forever Home — and the Question That Won’t Go Away
Greta’s own words cut against the darkest version of the theory. She told Swooon Hazel will not move to the UK: “I’ve been a nomad for over a year now, and so it was not appropriate for Hazel to come with me.” Her job keeps her travelling too much to care for any animal. “This is her forever home, something she hasn’t had for her entire life,” she said. “Hazel is very happy in her new home.”
At the Tell All, Greta admitted she loved Hazel more than Matthew — the one line both sides now quote. Her critics read it as proof the cat mattered more than the man; her defenders call it the most honest thing she said all season. Greta says Hazel finally has the forever home she never had; she has visited twice. If that is true, the cat at the center of this theory is doing fine, which leaves one question: did she plan it all, or just land on her feet? If you were the friend who took Hazel in, would you call Greta’s goodbye selfish — or the most responsible thing she did all season?
