Kacie McIntosh actually caught numerous flak throughout the Love Is Blind season 9 reunion — however at the very least considered one of her castmates has her again.
“My lady Kacie did numerous issues flawed — I wouldn't even say flawed — however poor lady is getting some warmth,” Megan “Sparkle Megan” Walerius mentioned on the Thursday, October 30, episode of the “What's the Actuality” podcast. “I felt for her as a result of she simply grew to become, type of, the simple goal.”
Kacie, 34, appeared on the Wednesday, October 29, reunion particular to rehash her damaged engagement to Patrick Suzuki — and get into yet one more back-and-forth about who's entitled to maintain the production-provided sparkler. After Kacie and Patrick cleared the air, the hairstylist revealed that she briefly dated fellow contestant Joe Ferrucci for a “month and a half” after he broke up with fiancée Madison Maidenberg.
“I didn't notice [that] she was intertwined in everybody's story one way or the other,” Megan, 35, recalled on Thursday's podcast episode. “All people simply appeared to have some stress nonetheless and a bit fireplace.”
She continued, “A few of it was arduous to look at, and I like Patrick saying, ‘Take some accountability, say you're sorry [and] let's transfer on.' However, it's simpler mentioned than performed to try this.”
Throughout the reunion, Kacie and Joe, 29, defended their post-pod fling, clarifying they didn't discover a romantic connection till they have been each single. Madison, 28, nevertheless, believed in any other case and claimed their temporary romance “affected [her] engagement.”
“The night time of marriage ceremony gown and tux fittings, we had all gone out. I'm standing there with a marriage ring on, telling your groomsman how a lot I like you,” Madison alleged. “I look over, Kacie has two paws on Joe's chest. In your phrases that night time, you mentioned, ‘Kacie was giving me googly eyes.' Then, the subsequent night time, we break up.”
Each Kacie and Joe subsequently shut down Madison's accusations of relationship “overlap.” The drama then appeared to achieve a fever pitch when the trio, in addition to Joe's new girlfriend, Averee Madison, all attended costar Mike Brockway's pool occasion that summer season.
Throughout the bash, Madison claimed that Kacie cried over her personal breakup with Joe and recommended that the 2 girls have been “Eskimo sisters.” Kacie has since asserted that her remark was meant in jest.
Joe, for his half, denied that he was in a relationship with Averee, who didn't seem on Love Is Blind, on the time.
“[Averee and I] weren't courting on the time,” Joe quipped. “Don't get me in bother at dwelling. No, [and] my relationship now was rocky for the primary three months, and he or she didn't need to date me. There was numerous breaking apart, coming again collectively, breaking apart, and we have been off [in] October as properly, then we acquired again collectively and began courting in November.”
As for Megan, she eliminated herself from the drama and is targeted on her new relationship and child. The wellness entrepreneur introduced throughout the reunion that she welcomed her first baby, son Brooks, two months earlier than the reunion taping with new boyfriend Paul Wegman.
“Paul and I acquired launched via a mutual good friend, most likely 5 months after Jordan [Keltner] and I ended issues. His good friend launched us, and we simply instantly hit it off,” Megan recalled on Thursday. “We've had our ups and downs, for certain. I'm not going to say it's all been rainbows and butterflies, however we've a good looking little boy now.”
Love Is Blind is streaming on Netflix.
