Love Is Blind star Kacie McIntosh says she needed to “defend” Patrick Suzuki throughout their TV breakup.
Kacie, 34, received engaged to Patrick, 31, sight unseen through the actuality sequence’ ninth season, however the Colorado-based hair and make-up artist broke up with him shortly after they met in individual.
She blamed her resolution on an absence of bodily attraction, explaining in a confessional, “He deserves anyone higher than me. He’s not a bad-looking man in any sense, however he deserves anyone 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 Individuals, Kacie mentioned 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 incorrect. It was like gaslighting and I feel that was my largest remorse. Sadly, no person knew what was going by way 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 largest factor, and never being utterly trustworthy.”
Kacie added, “No person desires to say proper to their face, ‘I don’t know if the attraction can develop. Let’s go house.’ 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, at first 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 way of and thru for me.”
Kacie defined that they’d “actually linked on so many ranges of journey, being vigorous, being well-rounded, eager to do all these actions and stay a full life collectively. And I actually liked how nicely 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 obtained 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 finest to get again to everybody. Please bear in mind we’re all human.”
Kacie informed Individuals that “I suppose lots of people are coming after me proper now, and I simply must 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 little thing, did I do it in the way in which everyone needed me to? No, however I did it in the way in which I believed was finest 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 person will actually ever perceive.”