Stephens’ Love Is Blind Cheating Scandal: Here’s What Happened
Love Is Blind is a Netflix show in the reality television format that always stirs a bit of controversy. It premiered in 2020 on the streamer and quickly became a success. This allowed the makers to renew it for many seasons and all of them followed almost the same format.
Season 7 premiered on October 2nd, 2024 and a new scandal has made this show popular. It involves two of the contestants Stephen Richardson and his fiancé Monica Davis. If you want to know what the entire thing is, read on.
Stephen Cheated On Monica
Love Is Blind Season 7 has been airing since October 2nd and the most recent episode really shocked the viewers. Monica Davis and Stephen Richardson are truly love birds who were planning to get engaged soon. However, something happened that led Monica to cancel their engagement.
Episode 8 showcases that Richardson has been sending lewd messages to a girl. After a confrontation with Monica, he stated that they were sent when he was really drunk the night before and it was a test of sleep.
Richardson called it a stupid mistake and was apologetic about his actions. In the messages, he talked about his fetish and other things that are quite sexual in nature. Monica had sensed something when he expressed being unsure about their marriage.
Post that, she looked into his phone and found out that he was constantly texting another woman. Monica is obviously angry and asks him to give all her money back that she had spent on him recently. After a heated argument between them, Richardson apologized and left the house.
Discovery of the Chats
As per Entertainment Weekly, Monica revealed that Garrett and Taylor had texted everyone about baking something and dropping it at their house later. The couple was inside their apartment that morning as they waited.
Richardson went to the loo when the message popped on his phone. Monica picked up the phone expecting a message from Garrett. At the top, she noticed that a girl had sent him a text.
She started to look into all the messages and realized that the conversation began before he started doing Love Is Blind. While Monica doesn’t remember most of the texts, she is adamant that they were very sexual as they wrote about their kinks. Monica is certain that they have some history and the texting was happening in the post-pod time.
Richardson started blaming himself for the cheating and apologized. Monica, who is emotionally broken, revealed that she had cheated in the past and felt that it wouldn’t play a role in their relationship. Hence, Monica decided to ensure there were cameras when she parted ways with him.
He has confirmed that they have broken up. Meanwhile, Monica has insisted viewers watch the reunion to get a complete picture of their relationship status. In an interview, Richardson joked that he should have put passwords in his phone. He then expressed his willingness to fix the mess he intentionally created.
Conclusion
Love Is Blind Season 7 ended up shocking everyone after what Monica found out about Richardson. He seemed like a faithful and loyal person. However, all that was a facade and he was cheating on his partner. The chats have clearly affected Monica and she has cut ties with him.
The two were weeks away from their engagement and hence, the cheating scandal has really hit her very hard. All the viewers want to know where things will head. The reunion episodes might reveal certain things and the status of their being together. It’s hard to think that they will be together again.
