Love Is Blind‘s Monica Davis is revealing how she discovered these texts.
Throughout the Oct. 10 episode of The Viall Files podcast, the gross sales government, 37, opened up in regards to the fateful second she found her fiancé Stephen Richardson’s specific messages to a different girl whereas they had been outdoors of the pods.
After leaving the season 7 pods engaged, Love Is Blind contestants are supplied an condo area in the identical constructing to stay as a pair earlier than heading to the altar. Monica defined that their fellow costars, Taylor Krause and Garrett Josemans, had been going to make everybody “fall cookies” and knowledgeable them they might ship a textual content as soon as they’re able to be dropped off.
“So Stephen and I had been hanging out within the condo, having an incredible, nice time laughing,” she recalled, including there have been genuinely having fun with one another’s firm with out cameras.
Ultimately, Stephen, 34, “stepped into the lavatory and as he did, his cellphone went off, and he acquired a textual content that we had been ready for,” Monica stated.
“And I stated, ‘Oh, babe, like Garrett simply texted, I am gonna reply. It is in regards to the cookies,'” Monica continued. “And I went to go, click on the message, and subsequent factor , I am in his textual content, and I see a woman’s title… This was one thing I used to be not anticipating from this individual, actually in any respect.”
Regardless of her higher judgement, the truth star opened the message and found Stephen had been sexting one other girl whereas they had been engaged. She confessed she did not keep in mind precisely what his texts stated, however felt “so greatly surprised” and like she “could not breathe” as she scrolled.
“Even proper after all of it went down, I did not even keep in mind the woman’s title,” she defined. “Really, I do keep in mind seeing, like, actually kinky, soiled discuss, like one particular message was simply speaking about how he is by no means been been capable of finding somebody who’s satisfies his kinks, the best way that she does.”
Monica clarified, “I am not kink-shaming. I have been accused of kink-shaming already. I simply did not know that this was the individual I used to be, , that I used to be sharing a mattress with.”
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Within the newest batch of episodes from season 7 of the Netflix hit, followers had been in for a shock because it was revealed that Stephen went off to do a sleep take a look at one night time, however ended up sexting one other girl whereas there, regardless of being engaged to Monica.
The emotional confrontation — which was notably poignant as Stephen had beforehand admitted to doing one thing related in a previous relationship whereas within the pods with Monica — finally ended with Stephen apologizing for his actions, Monica breaking down in tears and the 2 breaking apart.
“I am unable to do something to vary this, I’ll stay with this,” Stephen stated earlier than leaving their shared condo. “I really am sorry for hurting you, for losing your time, for approaching the present and doing this to you. I should not have come on the present.”
Monica finally refused to simply accept Stephen’s apology and clapped again when he claimed solely despatched the specific messages after “the dialog that we had final night time.”
“Do not you f—ing blame me in any respect for you being gross,” she replied. “I am virtually embarrassed about how a lot of my coronary heart I’ve given you. You had been gonna shake my dad’s hand this weekend? Whilst you had been planning on dishonest? I do not perceive.”
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Stephen later joked to PEOPLE of his actions: “It’s most likely good to place a password in your cellphone.” He then added, “However in all seriousness, the principle issues are self-talk, self-reflection, and plenty of the issues that I imagine I stated it within the pods, the place it is like you do not know should you’re totally healed till your subsequent relationship,” he continues. “And also you see lots of people speaking about, ‘Properly, it is best to have accomplished remedy earlier than you entered this.’ And I am all the time like, ‘Is remedy a completion? Do you full remedy?’ No, it needs to be an ongoing factor since you’re all the time rising and studying.”
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Episodes 1-9 of Love Is Blind season 7 at the moment are streaming on Netflix, and episodes 10-11 will drop Wednesday, Oct. 16.
