It wouldn’t be a season of Love Is Blind without a heap of drama and season 7 is absolutely delivering. Stephen and Monica got engaged, and then she discovered that he’d been sexting another woman while he claimed to be “drunk” during a sleep study (er, dude, you can’t be drunk for a medical assessment, nice try though).
Stephen, an electrician, proposed to Monica, a sales executive in The Pods. “I’ve been waiting 36 years to find you,” Monica tells him, accepting the proposal. “You’re the kindest, nerdiest, chattiest, most loving, compassionate, caring, and sweetest man.”
But things began to fall apart when he confessed, “I did something completely stupid while being drunk at a sleep test with somebody who texted me.” Monica didn’t fall for it. “You were doing it today, Stephen. And the really gross ones too.” When Monica asked to see the text messages, Stephen admitted that he deleted them because he didn’t want to be reminded of them.
“I was so devastated. I was completely caught off guard,” Monica told EW about the moment she found Stephen was cheating. “One thing that you don’t get to see a lot of is how much Stephen and I talked about my past with infidelity, and how it’s been very brutal, and he promised… I felt so safe in knowing that that would never be an issue because of how open and honest I was about it.”
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Monica revealed she opened Stephen’s phone to read a text from fellow cast member, Garrett. “And when I went to click on Garrett’s text, I was in his text messages, and there was one at the top right under Garrett that was a girl’s name, and I could see some writing, and it was just … yeah,” she said. “It was such a quick decision, but I was like, ‘Push,’ and yeah, I saw a bunch of texts.” She went into “detective mode.”
“There was definitely a history there, for sure. I don’t know if it was, like, romantic, loosely, I don’t know if it was just a physical thing.”
“I was scrolling to the top because I wanted to see when they started, and they started some time ago, certainly before he left to do this [show],” Monica told EW. “It was like a dagger to the chest in that moment. Five seconds after, Taylor was asking me, ‘What did they say?’ And I couldn’t even remember the girl’s name, but I do remember they were really very sexual. I remember one specifically said, ‘No one’s ever been able to satisfy my kinks the way you do.’ And they were just going back and forth.”
“In that moment, he wasn’t saying, ‘I’m not going to tell you,’ but he was trying to, very quickly, kind of shift some of the blame, just saying, ‘I’m a piece of s—. You’re right,'” she said. “That’s all I could get from him. He wasn’t really saying much… I was so devastated. I was completely caught off guard. One thing that you don’t get to see a lot of is how much Stephen and I talked about my past with infidelity, and how it’s been very brutal, and he promised… I felt so safe in knowing that that would never be an issue because of how open and honest I was about it.”
