Hi everybody.
Hi!
Hi Ellen!
OK.
I'm really-- I'm pleasantly shocked that as many people
know about this show and are watching the show as I
am because when I started watching it
nobody here was watching it.
I told all of the producers, the writers to watch it.
Before we get into this, you explain
what the show is briefly and then why the hell
you'd want to do it.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you know, the show is basically about 15 women,
15 men.
We meet and we talk through a wall.
We try to find love, right?
If it works out then you get engaged and possibly
married in the end.
Right.
So through a wall.
So the whole point is about personality only.
Right.
And why did you choose to do this?
I mean, I chose to do it because, you know,
basically my dating life wasn't going that well and, you know,
I was like let's see what happens.
And a year and a half later, here I am with this awesome man
right here.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what's amazing.
Just a year and a half ago.
All right.
So who went in thinking that you were going to find love.
Anybody going in going this could work.
I honestly only chose to do it because I was out of work
at the time and I was going stir crazy
because I was on workman's comp so I couldn't leave,
I couldn't do anything.
I was like, "I might find love, this could be interesting.
Why not?"
And I ended up with a whole husband like what?
For me, it was very cosmic.
I was at a bar with a group of girlfriends
and I was telling them how there are no men for me in the city.
And at that moment, I got a DM on Instagram,
and it was this person telling me, "Hey, you can fall in love
and potentially get married."
And I was like, "This is the universe speaking to me."
Wow.
I'm probably one of the most interesting cases
because they actually found me on Tinder so.
I started chatting with this girl, hit it off,
she's like, "Add me on Instagram."
Had a pretty good connection and then she's like,
"I'm a casting producer."
And I'm like, "Catfish haha."
And then now I'm here.
But how-- you get to the altar and you
seemed genuinely surprised.
Did you?
I mean, I was surprised too although Portia
said he's crying and that was the giveaway
that you were going to say no.
Well, he loves to cry.
He's always crying.
He's a big softie.
But-- but really, that was a surprise to you?
Yeah.
I just-- I went in hoping for the best.
I went through trials and tribulations with him
and not knowing what to expect but hoping.
I'm in my wedding dress, I'm going to get married.
And at that moment where he was like, "I do not."
I went through shock, anger, sadness, understanding,
and acceptance all in a really short time frame.
And you saw a little tumble.
Yeah, fell down.
But I got back up and dusted it off.
But I really just wanted to have a time to myself
and start the healing process.
Right.
But then you went back to him.
Yes I did.
Yeah, because you knew-- because he was saying he does love you,
but he just didn't want to marry you.
Yes.
Because you were kind of all over the place
with your emotions.
Yeah.
And I mean, I think that's just--
you know, marriage is such a final thing.
And obviously, I'm so happy that you guys
all decided to take the plunge.
And I really wanted to go through
what is it going to be like when things get hard
and when that was--
when that was happening, he realized
maybe we need to be best friends first
and you know, I respect his decision.
Obviously, we're dating, and everything
happens for a reason.
So y'all are dating, you're not married.
Right.
Because it was a year and a half ago that this was--
I didn't know it was that long ago that it was shot.
So y'all have been married for a year and a half.
A whole year and a half.
You've been married for a year and a half.
Yeah.
Wow.
So y'all moved in together right away when this show was over?
Well, for me, I actually kept my place for about three months
after we were done.
I had to make that transition.
But after that, I got rid of my place.
Now we're in our home.
Right, our home.
And I was so proud of her because she had never
lived with another man before, but she kept a level head
the entire time and I'm just proud of her for that.
And y'all moved in right away.
We did, and then I found out the house was haunted
when he left me by myself there while he went to Amsterdam,
and I was like, "Um, I don't know.
Should we stay here?"
What do you mean it was haunted?
It was haunted, Ellen.
Our dog--
All right, that's my show.
Nobody take this one.
I'm doing a show with the haunted house y'all live in.
Our amazing dog Goda was laying in the bed with me one day
and she started growling and barking
at absolutely nothing in the closet,
and I caught something moving across the screen
when I started recording her.
I was like, "No, thank you."
All right.
I have a lot of questions so we're going to take a break
and we're going to have more.
More questions, more answers.
We'll be back.
We're back with the cast from-- you're not really a cast,
from Love is Blind.
You're people, you're not actors.
All right.
So there was a incident with Jessica
who also was very interested in you,
and she wasn't completely honest during the show.
And so I want you to see the clip for those of you
who haven't seen it.
And then Amber, I would like you to address it.
And the Barnett thing that happened in the pods,
it's over.
It was a complicated situation to begin with and getting over
that might take a while.
But if it was still a thing, if it was still
in your head, that would have been disrespectful
and that would have made me literally beat your ass.
Baby, for sure.
If you were to ever to actively go after my husband,
I would destroy your life.
Look at me.
OK.
Baby, I'm not worried about you, I never have been.
Promise me.
Never not ever.
All right.
That was fun.
Yeah.
That was fun to watch, I bet, a year and a half
later when all this time you thought
that she was really saying, you know,
"I don't have those feelings."
Then at the reunion, you had a chance to address her
and how did that feel?
So obviously, there's a lot of things in this show
that I didn't know about.
I thought maybe she had a crush on him.
So seeing everything when the show aired, I was not happy.
And Matt was doing--
Super fun.
Matt was doing his best to like calm me down.
He's like, "All right.
We're going to compromise here."
Because obviously, I'm a very open person,
I'm very honest about my feelings.
So something was going to be said.
And we compromised in keeping it--
We brought it down to like 20%.
Like 20%, we brought it down.
Oh, that was 20%.
That was 20%.
That was a lot.
All right.
So what's next for everyone?
What's next for you guys?
Well, for us, definitely we want to have another wedding
reception.
You know?
Because all of our family and friends
couldn't come to the first one.
So you know, we need to party It up.
Yeah.
And then what's next for you guys?
I think for us, we're still like--
I think we've become best friends now.
So we really want to travel together a little bit more.
We're still not living together which is sort of exciting
but we hang out all the time.
Taking it by our own pace which is nice.
OK.
So are you engaged at all or no?
You're just--
No.
She threw the ring, understandable.
OK.
I was like, "Bye."
And then what's next for you guys?
Really, we're just going with the flow right now.
We got a new lease so we're probably
going to be in that place, and then
buy a house eventually and have kids soon, but not--
no timeline.
Yeah.
Get a great apartment, great dog,
and we're having a lot of fun right now.
We're going to take a break, we're
going to play Never Have I Ever after this.