Rob explains what made him go to the Love Is Blind reunion after initially wanting to skip it

The Love Is Blind season 11 reunion was a lot, but one person who got off extremely lightly was Rob Feeley. He very briefly chatted to hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey about his relationship with Michaella, but avoided much heat.

Realistically, he probably should have been called out more for his behaviour around his friends, and then the “crash out” at the cast mixer party. And it seems he expected a bit more of a grilling too, because during the reunion he admitted that he very nearly skipped the whole thing, and didn’t want to show up. 

But, he was there, so obviously something changed. He’s since spoken in an interview with Variety, to explain what changed his mind. “I’m a human being just like all of us,” he said. “One of my worst moments was caught on Netflix.”

In the interview, he admitted to struggling to watch some of his lowest moments on the show back, but said he did just before filming the reunion. “All the text messages, all the hate online. I’ve never really been through that,” Rob said. “It was a hard time, to be completely honest. It still is.”

via Netflix

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He explained that his time on the show felt like “a pressure cooker” with everything going on, plus what he was going through in his personal life. He didn’t really want to go through it all again, so nearly skipped the reunion. 

When asked what changed his mind, and why he did in the end attend, Rob said: “Out of respect for Michaella, I owed it to her to come and talk. She and I have talked since the show, but I felt like I couldn’t just leave her on an island. Whatever she had to say about how I behaved publicly, she deserved an explanation publicly. That was a big part of it.

“But who wants to go in front of America and be a punching bag? I was ready for it, though. Be a man in the night, be a man in the morning. Michaella deserved for me to go to the reunion.”

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