A year and a half on, Rob comes clean about what caused his Love Is Blind crash out
'I don't want to blame anybody but myself'
In the interviews following Rob and Michaella’s split after his awful behaviour on Love Is Blind, we didn’t actually get any definitive answers on what caused his crashout on the show. But a year and a half after filming he’s finally revealed what really caused his actions.
Speaking to E! Online, Rob shared that he didn’t want to sit down with Diana during the party, explaining: “When I go in with Michaela, I don’t need to see another girl. I don’t need to see these people. I don’t need to have a conversation with Diana. We ended in the pods respectfully. I think she might have even got engaged herself at some point after. It’s Michaella I care about. I just thought it was inappropriate to put me at a table and try to speak to [Diana]. We had closure.”
He continued: “I don’t need to be put in the situation where I have to speak to somebody who I dated in a pod, because I chose Michaella. It wasn’t anything where I had something specific to say to Diana. It was more respecting Michaella than it was anything else.”
Rob shared that the “pressure” of Love Is Blind got “so immense” that he “didn’t know how to deal” with it, adding: “I probably wasn’t in the right mindset going in with some other things I experienced. Not a crutch by any means, but I tried to look past that. And when it came down to it, I just felt like maybe this isn’t for me. I didn’t handle it the best, and I just felt like all the pressure just got to me, the filming, and I just cracked.”
Following his split from Michaella, Rob spent 50 days completely sober and just focusing on his work, and did 75 days of “eating right, no cheat meals,” as well as getting therapy and doing cold plunges.
He added: “I acted not in character. That’s not really who I am. Those couple scenes weren’t who I am. I don’t want to blame production. I don’t want to blame anybody but myself.”
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