{"id":41656,"date":"2026-01-02T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=41656"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:30:12","slug":"love-is-blind-villain-reveals-her-mormon-family-disowned-her-after-going-on-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/02\/love-is-blind-villain-reveals-her-mormon-family-disowned-her-after-going-on-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Is Blind villain reveals her Mormon family \u2018disowned\u2019 her after going on the show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"702\">Kacie McIntosh didn\u2019t walk into <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/23\/hes-the-biggest-villain-on-love-is-blind-italy-so-heres-everything-giovanni-has-been-up-to\/\">Love Is Blind<\/a> expecting a fairy-tale edit, but even she seems shocked by how heavy the fallout has been.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"702\">Yes, she\u2019s the season nine cast member people seemingly love to side-eye, but behind the &#8216;villain&#8217; chatter is a woman saying she\u2019s been quietly grieving something way bigger than pod drama, her relationship with her family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"702\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/04\/alex-hall-breaks-down-exact-reason-people-think-she-cheated-with-tyler-on-selling-the-oc\/\">Selling the OC<\/a>&#8216;s Alex Hall, Kacie opened up about growing up Mormon, feeling shunned, and why the internet pile-on hits differently when the people who are supposed to love you most won\u2019t even ask how you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"746\">Kacie reveals her family \u2018disowned\u2019 her<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQr2JWlAcyy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; 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text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQr2JWlAcyy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Kacie McIntosh (@anita_bigmac)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"748\" data-end=\"1130\">If you\u2019ve been keeping up with the post-season interviews, you\u2019ll know Kacie has been on a bit of a \u201clet me tell my side\u201d tour, and honestly, it\u2019s giving human being, not villain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"748\" data-end=\"1130\">On the show, Kacie got engaged to <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/10\/09\/patrick-spent-thousands-on-therapy-every-week-to-get-over-kacie-after-love-is-blind\/\">Patrick Suzuki<\/a> in the pods, only for their relationship to implode almost immediately once cameras moved into the real world.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1671\">But in the conversation that\u2019s now making headlines, Kacie shifts the focus away from Patrick and onto her upbringing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1671\">She says she grew up Mormon and that her family is now essentially not in her life, especially her mom, who she describes as deeply anti-Netflix-fame and unwilling to engage with anything connected to the show.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1671\">On Pretty Dirty with Alex Hall, Kacie talks about her mom not asking questions when she travels, hating public attention, and the relationship feeling like a wall she can\u2019t climb.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"2137\">This also isn\u2019t the first time she\u2019s linked her family dynamics to her experience on the show. In another interview, Kacie acknowledged her Mormon background and the discomfort her family has with how she came across on-screen, per <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-[15ch] grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/love-is-blind-kacie-mcintosh-interview-patrick-suzuki-breakup-regrets.html\">Vulture<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"2137\">And in coverage of her podcast comments, she\u2019s quoted describing her family as basically \u201cdone\u201d with her, a stark way of explaining what she feels is &#8220;shunning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"2137\">Why she thinks her family &#8216;shunned&#8217; her<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"533\">So what actually pushed things to the breaking point? According to Kacie, a lot of it comes down to religion, shame, and one very infamous \u201csex day\u201d moment on <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Love Is Blind<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"533\">She explained that her Mormon upbringing made the show\u2019s more candid conversations feel especially explosive back home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"535\" data-end=\"861\">Kacie claims her family was horrified when Netflix aired her openly talking about sex, something producers had apparently suggested would not make it into the final cut. When it did? She says that was it. The reaction wasn\u2019t concern or curiosity, but embarrassment. For Kacie, that hurt more than the internet dragging her.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"1234\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">She\u2019s been open about feeling \u201cscarred from the church\u201d and says the response from her family felt less like disappointment and more like outright shunning,\u00a0 a dynamic many former members of strict religious communities quietly recognise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"1234\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">What people at home saw as messy reality TV, her family reportedly saw as a moral failure, and one they didn\u2019t want to be associated with.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"2139\" data-end=\"2189\">She said it wasn&#8217;t worth going on Love Is Blind<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kacie McIntosh on Love Is Blind, the Villain Narrative, &amp; the Truth That Cost Her Everything\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X5UKkxfzDa8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2191\" data-end=\"2516\">Here\u2019s the complicated part&#8230; Kacie doesn\u2019t exactly say she fully regrets doing Love Is Blind.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2191\" data-end=\"2516\">She\u2019s clear that the experience has brought some positives, and she doesn\u2019t want to erase that. But she also paints a pretty bleak picture of what it\u2019s like when the cost of your \u201cbig TV gamble\u201d is your peace and your family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2518\" data-end=\"2904\">Speaking to Alex, Kacie says she had a good life before the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/09\/05\/seafood-shacks-to-finding-love-where-all-the-biggest-netflix-reality-tv-villains-are-now\/\">Netflix<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2518\" data-end=\"2904\">She mentions business, travel, close friends, and having a relatively quiet time. Now? She\u2019s dealing with public judgment, nonstop commentary, and the particular kind of heartbreak that comes from feeling like your own family is embarrassed by you.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2518\" data-end=\"2904\">That\u2019s the part she struggles to make &#8220;worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2906\" data-end=\"3238\">And zooming out, you can see why the backlash got loud: the Patrick breakup scene was uncomfortable. Even Kacie has admitted she was overwhelmed, conflicted, and not fully honest in the moment about her lack of attraction, which contributed to the mess.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2906\" data-end=\"3238\">She said she &#8220;really wanted to find love&#8221; on Love Is Blind, adding: &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to relive it almost two years later, over and over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Reality Shrine reached out to Netflix for comment. 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