>> reporter: what tim, the starving artist could offer, beyond love and loyalty, was a whole lot of nothing. todd, on the other hand. >> we went to orlando with them -- to disney world. >> reporter: and he was picking up the bill for this stuff? >> yeah. most of the time, yeah. >> don had no way of knowing that tim was, for a time, still in rachel's life. sort of. >> reporter: you didn't lose touch completely. >> no, we really kept in touch, >> reporter: why would they do that? maybe because her marriage, her marriage, rachel led tim to believe, wasn't all apple pie and ice cream. >> because she wanted to share with me what was going on. >> reporter: what did she tell you? >> she shared with me that todd took her credit cards and maxed them all out and bought a plane and just put her in debt for, like, $45,000. >> reporter: whoa. >> i was, like, "whoa." i'm all, "aren't you freaking out?" and she said, "yeah, but we -- he'll take care of it." >> reporter: which when he thought about it sounded less like complaining than maybe