{"id":66415,"date":"2026-11-11T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=66415"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:11:37","slug":"flawed-and-very-peculiar-johns-ex-from-before-love-is-blind-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/11\/flawed-and-very-peculiar-johns-ex-from-before-love-is-blind-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flawed and very peculiar\u2019: John\u2019s ex from before Love Is Blind speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/08\/love-is-blinds-john-admits-sarah-split-was-his-fault-after-inappropriate-texts-with-escort\/\">John&#8217;s cheating confession during the Love Is Blind reunion<\/a>, it was only a matter of time before his ex girlfriends started to share their experiences of him, and now the first one has seemingly spoken out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A woman who goes by the name Isabella MacLea on TikTok has claimed that she and John dated for one year after meeting in 2021, and described him as a &#8220;flawed and peculiar human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isabella commented under the TikTok video of Ashley MacLea, who was also making a video about John. Ashley MacLea, who posted the TikTok, has shared a story about her own experience with John from Love Is Blind Boston. He dated her sister-in-law (Isabella MacLea) for a couple of years, and she says he even appears in her first daughter\u2019s gender reveal video, which is still on her account. She makes clear she won\u2019t speak about his relationship with her sister-in-law, only about her own dealings with him, and says one story \u201ckind of sums up\u201d what he was like.<\/p>\n<p><iframe height=\"578\" width=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/player\/v1\/7706564900881009933?embed_from=oembed&#038;music_info=1&#038;description=1&#038;autoplay=1&#038;muted=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The group went out to dinner to celebrate her sister-in-law landing her \u201cfirst big girl job\u201d. Ashley, her husband, her sister-in-law and John had ordered most of the food and drinks, while three of her sister-in-law\u2019s friends ordered little more than a starter and a drink each. When the bill came, Ashley suggested that her husband and John split it and the others pay them back on Venmo. She says John immediately replied: \u201cI\u2019m not putting all that money on my card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Describing herself as a \u201cballbuster\u201d, Ashley joked to the table that John had offered to pay for everything. She says John responded: \u201cOh, so you want me to slam your head into the granite?\u201d, referring to a granite feature in the restaurant. When she kept up the joke (\u201cOh, so we\u2019re definitely putting it all on your card\u201d), he allegedly replied: \u201cOh, so I\u2019m definitely slamming your head into the granite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ashley says she wasn\u2019t actually scared he would do it, but that his look was \u201cif looks could kill\u201d. Her husband, who she said \u201cdidn\u2019t know what to do in the situation\u201d, tried to calm things down by offering to put the whole bill on his own card. Looking back, she says, \u201cit all makes sense, how it all panned out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As for what John&#8217;s ex commented underneath, she claimed the Love Is Blind reunion &#8220;only affirmed what I already knew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height: 500px;\" data-embed-height=\"740\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LoveIsBlindNetflix\/comments\/1xt5xri\/johns_ex_comments_about_video_made\/\">John\u2019s Ex comments about video made<\/a><br \/>\nby<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Better-Conference127\/\">u\/Better-Conference127<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LoveIsBlindNetflix\/\">LoveIsBlindNetflix<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She claims she found nudes of another woman whilst in a long distance relationship with him and that he had &#8220;strange fixations on anime and infatuation for unrealistic female forms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Isabella continued: &#8220;I know I can be on high alert but he would leer when we were out together, his Instagram said a different story. She was right and so was I, but us good girls want to make it work &#8211; I feel bad as I see true sadness here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Reality Shrine<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;He had strange fixations on anime and infatuation for unrealistic female 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