Love Is Blind star Monica Danús ended up breaking off her engagement with Joey Leveille at the altar in the season 8 finale. The reunion showed fans that they were no longer on good terms, and it seems as though that’s still the case.
Monica, 28, posted an Instagram Reel on Wednesday, March 12, and she seemingly threw some shade at Joey, 35, with a reference from the popular book series A Court of Thorns and Roses.
“Remember when we all liked Tamlin in book one?” Monica asked in the video. “Yeah, we wait for our Rhys … and Cassian.”
The character Tamlin was the love interest of the female main character, Feyre, for the entirety of the first book, while the character Rhysand (Rhys) was seemingly the villain. However, things took a wild change in the second book, A Court of Mist and Fury. In A Court of Mist and Fury, Tamlin transformed into the villain while Rhys was revealed to be Feyre’s true soulmate.
Author Sarah J. Maas shocked readers with the switch-up and the series has exploded in popularity over the years. When Joey and Monica visited Monica’s family home, viewers saw the book series sitting on the shelves in her bedroom and suspected the reality star was a fan.
Monica’s reference to Tamlin seemed to be aimed at Joey. Their relationship appeared to be one of the sturdiest of Love Is Blind season 8, but Monica revealed at the reunion that a few things happened that fans didn’t see.
“A lot happens in a year, and you find a lot of things out in the year that you wish you would have known about in the moment,” Monica said. “The truth always comes out, and I’ve been hearing a lot.”
Host Vanessa Lachey asked what she had heard and Monica replied, “Well, when we were at Buck Hill, the tubing place, it was the very first day that everybody from the pods here came together. I found this out a month ago that next day or very, very shortly after – mind you, we [were] still engaged. I have a ring on my finger. I’m sleeping next to this man. He slid into one of the other cast member’s DMs after he saw her.”
Monica added that she still “didn’t know exactly what was said,” she felt that the fact that Joey did that was a “slap in the face.”
While Joey admitted that he “reached out to a few people” and said it was because he “liked to check in,” he revealed that the woman in question was Madison Errichiello and she confirmed that he did.
However, her recollection of the DM seemed flirtier than Joey’s and said that it read, “Loving the pink hair. Wish we could have talked more.”
Monica then revealed that Joey had told her that Madison, 28, had been the one to “come onto him” the couple of times they had run into one another at bars in Minneapolis. When she eventually approached Madison about the situation, they decided to pull Joey to the side, who then denied ever telling Monica that in the first place.
Fans quickly saw that Joey and Monica were never meant to be and it appears as though they officially ended things on a rough note.
