Lauren Speed reveals her Love Is Blind engagement ring was fake after it ‘turned green’
'I was heartbroken'
Lauren Speed, who is without a doubt one of the most iconic Love Is Blind cast members has revealed that the engagement ring she was given on the show was a fake.
Appearing on Cam Newton’s YouTube show, she shared that her ring from the show “turned green” and the “diamond fell out,” leaving her “heartbroken.”
Lauren revealed: “The show … [pays] for the weddings, they pay for the dresses, they pay for the rings. I think they got real rings now, but mine was not. The diamond fell out, turned green when I got in the pool. I was heartbroken, but now I think they have a jewelry partner, so they get real rings now.”
Lauren Speed also shared discussions that she and Cam had during Love Is Blind about the possibility of them having children together and how that would work. The pair welcomed their son Ezra in October last year.
She explained on the podcast: “Back before we even had children, this is one of the first conversations that me and Cam had while we were on the show. It was like, ‘What if we have kids one day?’ Cam and I, we were talking. I don’t even think they showed this, but I had a moment where I actually broke down and cried. I was like, ‘You know, I don’t want him to go through feeling like he doesn’t belong anywhere ‘cause some people who are biracial, they say they don’t feel fully accepted here, they say they don’t feel fully accepted there.’ I just didn’t want that for my son.”
She continued: “Just with him growing up being a Black boy, a biracial boy, there are some things that Cam won’t be able to relate to because he’s not black. He hasn’t had a Black experience. He didn’t grow up being afraid of the police pulling him over.
“[We are having] those types of conversations … now about that cultural difference of, you know, my son versus what [Cameron] experienced,” she said. “Of course, I have my brother and my dad’s brother who stepped in to be a granddad [after my father died]. We’ve all sat down and been like, ‘He needs to have these Black men leading him in areas that can teach him those things.’”
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