’90 Day Fiancé’: How Jihoon Lee’s Mom Felt About Deavan Clegg’s Miscarriage

'90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way' stars Deavan Clegg and Jihoon Lee suffered a miscarriage last year. Jihoon's mother Jung had a surprising reaction to the news.

by Christina Montford

Published on November 10, 2020

2 min read

Deavan Clegg’s miscarriage

News broke about Clegg’s miscarriage last year but fans are just now getting to see it play out on tv. Clegg opened up about the experience on Sunday’s episode.

“At first, I was really scared,” she said. “We just barely had Taeyang, and we are definitely not financially stable for another one. But then I got really excited. Stuff happens for a reason. A baby is always a blessing, and I was accepting it and ready to do it. However, we did get some devastating news recently. When I went to a checkup and they did an ultrasound, that’s when they figured out… That we had lost the baby. We had a miscarriage.

“I’m just very sad, and it’s just something that I thought would never happen to me in my lifetime,” she continued. “It was the hardest thing in my life. I was just very devastated. I think it’s just something that takes time to heal from. I’m really sad, too. It’s just, you know, the stress, and we just had Taeyang. And my body, just for some reason, just couldn’t handle it.”

Jihoon and Clegg had not been on the best of terms when they found out about the baby. They had been constantly arguing about everything from money to whether they should actually be together. But going through such a traumatic experience made Clegg realize what was important.

“It made me realize with Jihoon, like, us fighting about money, fighting about the apartment, fighting about loyalty — losing this baby made us realize, like, how much we care about each other and not … it’s not worth the petty little fights anymore,” she said on the show. “And it’s really caused us to bond and stop fighting and be there for each other.”

How did Jihoon Lee’s mother react?

Jung has never been really warm toward Clegg. The cultural differences and language barriers made it really hard for the two to connect. When Clegg got angry at Jihoon for lying about how much money he had saved, his mother sided with him and thought that Clegg should be appreciative that he had started saving at all.

On Sunday’s episode, Jung took Clegg to a Korean history museum to spend some time with her alone. When they spoke about the miscarriage, Jung was surprisingly kind.

“As a woman, I think you have courage,” Jung said to Clegg.

“It’s nice to hear that Jihoon’s mom is starting to accept me,” Clegg said on the show. “That’s all I could have ever wanted. And it’s starting to finally feel like a real mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship.”