Spoiler alert: The next incorporates particulars by way of Episode 6 of Netflix’s “Love is Blind.”
Taylor Rue and Jared Pierce (aka JP) made it out of the “Love is Blind” pods in new Season 5 Netflix episodes (now streaming), however their relationship could not survive previous the primary few days of their engagement.
Seemingly on the crux of their breakup was a dialog about 30-year-old firefighter JP not liking Taylor’s dolled up look once they met. This made him act awkwardly over the subsequent few days of their Mexican trip, says Taylor, a 25-year-old trainer.
“It felt such as you have been pretend,” JP admits in Episode 6, referring to her seems in an Episode 3 reveal. “You had (a) caked-up face, pretend eyelashes. I’m being trustworthy, and I’m sorry that’s so laborious to listen to.”
Earlier this month, USA TODAY spoke with Taylor for a deep dive into this argument.
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“It was hurtful,” Taylor tells USA TODAY about JP’s criticism of her make-up.
“I used to be additionally actually confused, as a result of I do not know how one can utterly change due to the best way somebody seems,” she says. “We did construct that basically robust emotional connection. (However) there isn’t any approach that he is utterly completely different due to the best way I look.”
In Episode 6, Taylor confronts JP about not being the place they need to be as a pair. “What modified after the pods, then?” Taylor asks him in mattress.
“I perceive that you just tried to current your self and look as finest you can, however I really feel like when you would’ve offered your self like this, with none make-up, it will’ve been higher,” JP tells her. Later, he provides: “That’s what began the entire awkwardness. Simply don’t put on make-up,” he says.
“I’m going to do what I wanna do,” Taylor responds.
“How is that so dangerous that I don’t need you to put on make-up?” he asks. “99% of girls would love to listen to that.”
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JP ‘may have gone about it in a special method’, Taylor says
Though Taylor confirmed as much as the reveal in full glam — a floor-length costume, heels, a deep side-part coiffure, lip gloss and faux eyelashes — she doesn’t seem done-up days later, when the couple is attending to know one another at a Mexican resort.
“It was hurtful, as a result of I took so lengthy to prepare that day,” Taylor says of assembly JP in particular person for the primary time. “And I believed I regarded so good that to be instructed that principally I did not look good or it was an excessive amount of or no matter, he may have gone about it in a special method. I additionally assume that it was an excuse. There’s obtained to be extra to it.”
The day after their argument, JP tells Taylor he thinks they’ll work by way of their points. However Taylor disagrees.
“The best way I felt about you within the pods, I may’ve spent the remainder of my life with you. And right here, it’s simply utterly completely different,” she tells him. “You’re not the particular person I fell in love with.”
JP later apologizes for the way issues went down: “I’m sorry. Sorry I made you are feeling that approach,” he says.
“Love is Blind” episodes 8-9 premiere Oct. 6. The finale is due Oct. 13.
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