This season of Love Is Blind has been one of the most turbulent of all time.
Not since the show debuted in the pandemic have we been as invested in the twists, turns, and crash outs.
Now, with the reunion episode announced (it airs October 29, FYI), the cast are taking to the press to clarify some of their actions on the show.
This includes Joe Ferrucci, who was paired with Madison Maidenberg in the pods but who called off their engagement after a) explaining that he usually dated “thinner” women (we wish we were joking) and b) a drunken argument between the couple.
However, he's now opened up about the real reason for the breakup to US Weekly in a new interview.
“My connection with Madison in the pods was great. There were a lot of butterflies. It was a very deep connection. We had a lot of laughs,” he said. “When you’re going into [the pods], there is a little hesitation, and then the more you go forward, you get bought in and it is a pressure cooker situation. The conversations you have in there are very deep and exceed what would be in a regular relationship just by timeline. The more it went on, I could see it working out.”
Continuing, he explained the after-effects of their argument and further tense moments. “It seemed Madison was all in and what you would want in a person. I, on the other hand, had some concerns, nervous, scared, anxious. I never saw that coming from Madison. I think it scared me seeing that as well, and I know she wanted to keep on with the experiment, go through, get as much as you can out of it, in the way of, ‘Is this my person?’ More time for discovering that. I think there was a certain breaking point for me where I couldn’t go on any longer.
“I definitely crashed out. At that certain point, [I’m thinking], ‘Why am I going through these motions if I have in my head that, ultimately, I’m not going to be able to say yes on that wedding day?’ It felt a little faulty on my part, and I could have handled it better. That’s the story of my experiment on TV. It just felt disingenuous on my part to even be there, if I didn’t think we had enough time to get there or if I knew this wasn’t my person.”
He then admitted that these feelings had been building up for some time, saying: “In simple terms, I had these emotions that I was aware of, and I was trying to mask them with other things. [I was trying] not to be in the moment and feel what I was feeling, because it is super emotional, high pressure, anxiety ridden, and I just couldn’t do it anymore. The light bulb definitely came up, like, ‘Why am I still here?’”
Our thoughts are with these two, and we hope they can work it out at the reunion.
