Several of Angela Connell’s (formerly Angela Diaz) lies were depicted in Netflix’s July 2026 documentary A Toxic Love Story.
Before her whirlwind romance with Ian Diaz, it was revealed that she previously lied about being an attorney with the Department of Justice and falsely claimed to her loved ones that she had cancer.
After she got caught in her web of lies, she started over with Diaz and claimed she was pregnant with their twins shortly after they got married.
Read below to find out if Connell was really pregnant.
Was Angela Diaz Pregnant in ‘A Toxic Love Story’?
It was confirmed that Connell did lie about being pregnant with Diaz’s twins, and she even went to the extent of faking ultrasounds to make the lie more believable.
In A Toxic Love Story, it was explained that Diaz learned about the lie when he found a doctored sonogram and pregnancy tests that had been altered with blue markers.
Ian Diaz Learned More About Angela Diaz’s Lies in ‘A Toxic Love Story’
Police interview footage featured in the documentary showed Diaz learning that Connell also lied to him about having a job during their relationship.
Diaz’s longtime friend, Leslie, appeared in the documentary and said that Connell’s lies made her believe that Connell was behind the threatening messages the couple claimed they were receiving from Diaz’s ex Michelle Hadley.
Angela Diaz and Ian Diaz Tried to Frame Michelle Hadley for Stalking
During Hadley and Diaz’s romance, the couple bought a condo together. Hadley covered a large portion of the home by paying the down payment, and they agreed that Diaz would help pay for the mortgage.
Following their split in August 2015, Diaz married Connell five months later in February 2016.
In May 2016, Diaz and Connell claimed they started receiving threatening messages from an online account called “Lilithistruth.” They then reported the messages to police and claimed they believed Hadley was behind them.
The following month, Connell called 911 a second time to report that a man attempted to rape her after he broke into her garage. Connell told authorities that she believed Hadley was behind the attack.
Hadley was arrested for the crimes and was charged with attempted forcible rape and stalking. She was in jail for 88 days until authorities determined that Connell and Diaz were actually the ones sending the messages.
Hadley was released from jail in January 2017 and all of her charges were dropped.
Were Angela Diaz and Ian Diaz Arrested?
Connell was arrested the same month as Hadley’s release and eventually pleaded guilty to kidnapping, false imprisonment by menace, fraud or deceit, forgery, possession of a forged check over $950, perjury and grand theft, falsely reporting a crime to a police agency and falsely reporting a crime to a peace officer.
She was sentenced to serve five years in prison and was released in July 2020.
Diaz, meanwhile, wasn’t arrested until May 2021. In March 2023, a federal jury convicted him of conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, cyberstalking, perjury and obstruction of a federal matter. He was then sentenced to serve 10 years and one month in prison and is still in custody.
