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Nick Lachey Talks Love Is Blind, Family & Netflix's Perfect Match
For Raven Ross, emotion is some unsighted and a gut feeling.
The Netflix prima has been connected a roller coaster of emotions ever since she joined play 3 of Love Is Blind—but particularly erstwhile the satellite got to spot however her narration with SK Alagbada fell isolated owed to his cheating successful After the Altar.
"We did pass after, but that wasn't serving me," Raven confirmed exclusively to E! News. "So since then, we've drawn immoderate boundaries and we haven't communicated successful a while."
The Pilates teacher initially said yes to not one, but 2 proposals from SK connected the show. However, the latest batch of episodes, retired Feb. 10, confirmed his infidelity. Now conscionable successful clip for Valentine's Day, Raven has proposal for anyone who mightiness beryllium going done a atrocious breakup of their own.
"For radical who are going done a akin situation, my biggest takeaway was: ne'er disregard your gut feelings and talk up," she explained. "I was idiosyncratic who ne'er wanted to person hard conversations, and that hasn't served me. So, it's hard to bash it successful the infinitesimal but you volition person truthful galore much answers. Just talk from your heart, fto your defender down and don't disregard erstwhile you person a atrocious feeling."
While she didn't find her soulmate connected the Netflix series, the 27-year-old did form close, idiosyncratic bonds with some of her different castmates—the pistillate fractional of the cast, successful particular.
"All of the girls from Love Is Blind person been supporting maine truthful much," Raven shared. "Zanab [Jaffrey] was determination for maine erstwhile each of this was happening. Nancy [Rodriguez] and I person spent truthful overmuch clip together. Alexa [Lemieux] and Colleen [Reed] and I are truthful close. They've each truly been determination for maine and similar they truly are immoderate of my champion friends."
Despite her rocky romance with SK, Raven wasn't wholly turned disconnected by the principles that were established successful Love Is Blind, though she called their face-to-face uncover 1 of the "weirdest" and "most nerve-wracking" moments of her life.
"I deliberation everyone should beryllium dating similar we did successful the pods," she said. "I deliberation it's the best—asking hard, awkward questions. There's nary extracurricular distractions. Literally you're talking to 1 idiosyncratic for 4 hours. You don't bash that connected a date."
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She continued, "I was learning things astir radical and I realized, 'Oh my god, I've dated truthful galore guys and did not cognize fractional of this.'"
The streaming work has already renewed the show—which is hosted by Vanessa and Nick Lachey —for seasons 4 and five, truthful hopefully those caller contestants tin vicariously larn from her proposal and experience.
But until then, you tin spot Raven's full emotion communicative (and consequent heartbreak) connected Love Is Blind connected Netflix.
Watch E!'s archetypal movie Why Can't My Life Be a Rom-Com? Sunday, Feb. 19, astatine 9 p.m.
