Love Is Blind star Ben Mezzenga found himself in the hot seat during episode 9 of season 8 after his fiancée, Sara Carton, was sent a TikTok made by a woman who claimed to have dated him in the past. The woman didn’t have anything nice to say about him, but the former college baseball player said in the following episode that he’d changed since they dated.
“Obviously, it’s inevitable. People are going to talk about people they know on the show and things like that. I’m just confused as to why it’s such a big deal to her,” Ben, 28, told Sara, 29, as they sat at a diner in Love Is Blind episode 10, which premiered on Friday, February 28. “Obviously, I know I’ve grown as a person since this was a thing. I know who I am as a person. The people that know me and care for me, they know me. They’re not questioning my character. It’s annoying that someone is putting stuff out there for people that don’t know me, giving them this opinion about me before I even have a chance to, like, show them who I am.”
He continued, “Literally, the only thing that is in my head or that I’m worried about is us and it affecting how you view me. I don’t want this to be something that’s hovering over us, affecting our, like, growth in our relationship to the point where we get to the wedding and we’re like, ‘This took up so much time I wasn’t able to feel OK enough to say yes at the altar.’ That’s something that would be the only fear.”
Sara admitted that she was “worried” about the situation and the potential issues it could cause in their relationship. However, she added that she wasn’t “discrediting” what the woman said in the TikTok and that she was just being “protective” of herself and Ben.
“Everyone is human,” the oncology nurse explained. “There’s always going to be something we aren’t proud of.”
Viewers saw Sara seemingly learn about the TikTok in question for the first time during episode 9 of Love Is Blind, but she later revealed that the events didn’t exactly happen as they were shown on television.
“What happened was, we were at a brewery with his friends, and so I left to give them time to talk with one another,” Sara told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Tuesday, February 25. “I was outside with my assistant producer and I was on my phone. I was scrolling, and then I received that TikTok in the Love Is Blind girls’ group chat. They’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is about Ben.’”
She said that while it looked as though she first discovered the video while sitting on her and Ben’s couch in their apartment, she had already seen it earlier that day.
“I showed him the TikTok at the brewery first, and that’s when my assistant producer, of course, told my producer about the situation, so then they split us apart,” Sara continued. “We had to go back to the apartment and then film us talking about the TikTok, so that actually wasn’t his first time seeing it, it wasn’t my first time seeing it.”
