Love Is Blind star Sara Carton slammed ex Ben Mezzenga for ditching her after their wedding during the season 8 finale.
After fans watched Sara, 29, tell Ben, 28, that she didn’t want to marry him during the March 7 episode, he said he wanted to continue dating. However, she didn’t give him a firm answer and simply said, “We’ll see.”
Following the season 8 reunion on Sunday, March 9, Sara told People that she was put off by his response.
“With the whole entire concept of ‘you walk away forever,’ I was like, that’s disrespectful, in a way, of what we signed up for and the whole entire point of why we’re here,” she told the outlet. “Also, me saying ‘no’ to a marriage, why would I continue dating someone? If you’re going to say ‘no’ to that, why even continue the relationship?”
During the reunion, Sara revealed that she and Ben lived together for about two weeks after their split. They even planned to move to Nashville together for her new temporary job, though Sara said he abruptly ended their romance out of nowhere.
“After the wedding day, with all my hesitations I knew, I was like, I can’t say ‘yes’ to a marriage today,” she about her decision to not marry Ben. “But naturally, I’m constantly hoping that things could work or maybe without all the chaos of not living a normal life right now, but later, being able to get back into our routines … I was thinking possibly it could work.”
Sara then recalled Ben’s decision to end their romance. “We had a discussion of us being together, and that one day … he removed me from Find My Friends. I didn’t hear much from him because he was out with friends drinking, which is fine,” she said. “He was going to a Twins game, having fun. But I didn’t hear much from him, saw that he removed me from Find My Friends, and that’s when it told me the most.”
The Netflix star said that the experience gave her “the most clarity of who Ben is.”
“I was shocked and I felt super duped that he just waited for the time just to drop me. But I mean, it all made sense with everything that was coming to my attention throughout all of filming,” she continued. “He was like, ‘Oh, I thought we were broken up.’ I’m like, ‘That was never the discussion.’ It was bizarre. It was crazy.”
Over the course of season 8, fans watched Sara and Ben navigate many roadblocks. Not only did they have different religious views, but he came under fire when an ex claimed he treated her poorly in a TikTok video.
“I was questioning if he was there for the right reasons,” Sara said while reflecting on the “red flags” in their relationship. “I don’t doubt that we had a good connection because we really did. I wouldn’t have said ‘yes’ if I didn’t feel like we had a good connection. But after a while with everything happening and then the YouTube cards and then my friends telling me about their experiences with him at the U, it just didn’t add up. So there could have been underlying motive there.”
