Love Is Blind star Kacie McIntosh says she needed to “defend” Patrick Suzuki throughout their TV breakup.
Kacie, 34, obtained engaged to Patrick, 31, sight unseen in the course of the actuality sequence’ ninth season, however the Colorado-based hair and make-up artist broke up with him shortly after they met in particular person.
She blamed her determination on a scarcity of bodily attraction, explaining in a confessional, “He deserves any person higher than me. He’s not a bad-looking man in any sense, however he deserves any person that’s so obsessive about him. I simply, sadly, don’t suppose my attraction to him is gonna develop that a lot, and it sucks.”
In a Monday, October 6, interview with Folks, Kacie stated she regretted how she ended issues with Patrick on the present.
“I used to be attempting to guard his emotions and his insecurities, and it got here off bizarre,” she informed the outlet. “It got here off fallacious. It was like gaslighting and I feel that was my greatest remorse. Sadly, no one knew what was going by means of my head. I’m a lover woman. I used to be like, ‘Wait, possibly this might work in Denver.’ However yeah, I remorse making him really feel extra insecure about his greatest factor, and never being fully trustworthy.”
Kacie added, “No one needs to say proper to their face, ‘I don’t know if the attraction can develop. Let’s go dwelling.’ I simply didn’t wish to say that proper then in that second. We simply got here off seeing one another [at the reveal] … I didn’t wish to break his coronary heart in that method.”
When requested if Patrick had at all times been her best choice within the pods, she replied, “Yeah. Day one, I’ve in my pocket book. Patrick was my quantity two. He was at all times within the prime for me. My primary, truly, to start with was Blake, however I don’t truly suppose we talked that a lot. I can’t bear in mind. It was just about simply Patrick by means of and thru for me.”
Kacie defined that they’d “actually related on so many ranges of journey, being vigorous, being well-rounded, eager to do all these actions and reside a full life collectively. And I actually liked how properly he spoke and the way a lot he was such a tough employee, and there was a lot about him that I used to be simply taken away by him.”
For the reason that newest Love Is Blind episodes started airing this month, Kacie has acquired fan criticism over her cut up from Patrick, who seemingly defended his ex through Instagram Tales on October 4.
“Hey everybody, I’ve been studying the feedback and DMs,” he wrote on the time. “I’m blown away by all of the love and assist — thanks. I’ll do my greatest to get again to everybody. Please bear in mind we’re all human.”
Kacie informed Folks that “I assume lots of people are coming after me proper now, and I simply need to say I wore my coronary heart on my sleeve. I did what I may and I’m human and I did an experiment that sadly simply didn’t work for me. And I really feel actually sorry that it didn’t work for Patrick both, and that it didn’t work for us. And the way I went about every thing, did I do it in the way in which all people needed me to? No, however I did it in the way in which I assumed was greatest on the time, and that’s all I can do.”
She affirmed, “I liked Patrick. We did this factor collectively, and I did the perfect I may with the weirdest expertise you’ll ever undergo that no one will actually ever perceive.”