Jordan Keltner was ready to stroll down the aisle on season 9 of Love Is Blind when his then-fiancée, “Sparkle” Megan Walerius, referred to as off their wedding ceremony.
“We spent that final week collectively, and I feel she actually gave it her all, and she or he waited till the final potential second,” Jordan, the 30-year-old single father, recalled to Us Weekly throughout an unique interview. “We did decide to not leaving one another on the altar. I do know that's what lots of people need to see, however we nonetheless cared so deeply for one another, and we simply didn't need our lives to be placed on stage like that, particularly with my son in attendance. I feel she made up her thoughts that Friday morning. The marriage was on a Saturday, and through the filming, she mentioned she wakened crying at 4:30 within the morning and that's when she knew it wasn't going to work for her.”
Jordan instructed Us that he was able to say “I do,” noting that the concept that opposites entice applies to him and Megan, 35. “I'm a persistent underthinker. I feel Megan's a persistent overthinker. That's the place the worlds didn't collide,” he mentioned. “However yeah, she checks all my containers. She nonetheless does.”
Nevertheless, he acknowledged: “There's no proper or flawed reply. She did what was proper for her, which [ultimately] was proper for me and my household. And there's nothing flawed with that.”
Megan ended issues with Jordan whereas expressing considerations about being a precedence in his life.
“I had a really demanding job on the time. The movie schedule could be very demanding. Being a father is demanding,” Jordan instructed Us, explaining that working as a way to pay his payments needed to be his No. 1 precedence on the time. “On the finish of the day, manufacturing, [my son] Luca and Megan obtained to separate the remaining. And Megan obtained the brief finish of the stick. She wasn't OK with that. … I used to be working on [empty].”
When requested whether or not he and Megan might need been capable of make issues work in the event that they met at a distinct time, he admitted: “There's chemistry. We have now such robust chemistry. I simply assume we're on completely different enjoying fields. and nothing flawed with that.”
Throughout a separate chat with Us, Megan didn't utterly agree.
Jordan Keltner and Megan Walerius Courtesy of Netflix (2)
“I feel we're a bit of misaligned there,” she instructed Us. “Nevertheless it's onerous to say. You by no means know — had we met two years down the road [what could have happened]. I feel he give up his job and is doing [social media] influencing full time. However at that second in time, it was actually onerous. However I additionally assume we're two very completely different folks, and numerous that wasn't clear to me till we have been actually within the thick of actual life collectively.”
Followers discovered on the reunion that Megan went on to satisfy her now-boyfriend, Paul Wegman, a number of months after ending issues with Jordan. Shortly after, Megan and Paul welcomed a child boy after getting pregnant three months into their relationship.
Whereas some followers have criticized Megan's timeline, Jordan doesn't really feel it's his place to query what occurred when.
“She broke up with me. It's none of my enterprise,” he instructed Us. “We have been 100% damaged up with and she or he was free so far and see whoever she happy.”
He added that he obtained “closure” from watching the season and going to the reunion, which Paul attended.
“It's onerous since you watch your self fall in love and you might be reminded of why you probably did fall in love with this individual,” he mentioned. “However no, I'm joyful, healed and thriving. So I'm completely fantastic. I've gotten so many DMS, folks being like, ‘Are you OK?' I'm doing greater than OK. Luca's is doing superb. We're simply simply hanging out, having fun with life.”
Jordan credited being a father for serving to him take the excessive highway in life.
Jordan Keltner and Megan Walerius Courtesy of Netflix
“Children take a look at your persistence in each manner possible. Being placed on this, ‘Oh, you're such an important man, excessive horse' [from Love Is Blind viewers] — It sort of bothers me a bit of bit, as a result of I've made 1,000,000 errors. I'm gonna make 1,000,000 and another,” he mentioned. “I simply attempt to get up daily and do 1 p.c higher. And for certain, my son is a big inspiration to how I lead my life.”
He additionally revealed that he hasn't met Paul but, however there are potential plans to get collectively.
“We're speaking about getting dinner,” he mentioned. “There's no unhealthy blood wherever, and nothing however love for his or her household.”
