Brandon Johnson was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Don’t Date Brandon now reaches viewers in the United Kingdom and after Channel 4 placed both parts after The Digital Detectives on July 30. The documentary turns a private pattern into a public record, and Amber Rasmussen and Athena Klingerman remain at the center of that shift.
Ex-Wives Undercover in 2020
In 2020, Rasmussen and Klingerman launched Ex-Wives Undercover after each reported similar experiences with Johnson. Rasmussen met him on Tinder in the 2010s and married him in 2017, a sequence that the documentary uses to show how the relationship moved from app match to marriage before the lies surfaced.
Their account says Johnson lied about working for Nike, faked cancer, and kept cheating while married to Rasmussen. The documentary also says he set up a fake co-parenting app and pretended to communicate with Klingerman about their daughter, a move that pushed the dispute beyond a breakup and into a broader warning campaign.
Six women, three states
Johnson was described as the subject of at least 17 protective orders filed by six women in three states, along with allegations of stalking, harassment, threats, and a break-in. Several women later contacted the documentary after its viewership grew with stories about his past, which is the point where a personal account became a wider pattern.
In 2023, Johnson was charged with assault and attempted kidnapping with the intent to commit rape, then took a plea deal in court. He admitted to 10 counts of attempted first-degree theft, three counts of domestic violence, and one count of entrapment before receiving the 10-year prison sentence.
Channel 4 on July 30
Channel 4’s move gives the documentary a second life after its original run last year on Paramount+ in the United States, and the broadcast lands immediately after The Digital Detectives finishes its third episode. Viewers who already know the headlines still get the cleanest version of the sequence here: the podcast came first, the allegations multiplied, and the criminal case followed.
Rasmussen and Klingerman remain close friends and continue to produce Ex-Wives Undercover, which keeps the story from ending with the sentence alone. Johnson will be eligible for parole next year, so the broadcast arrives while the punishment clock is already moving and the public record is still expanding.
