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Love Is Blind\u2019s<\/em><\/a> Stephen Richardson<\/strong> shocked fans when he was busted for sending explicit texts to another woman while engaged to Monica Davis<\/strong>. Now, the electrician has spoken out about the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is probably smart to put a password on your phone,\u201d Stephen, 34, told People<\/em><\/a> in an article published on Thursday, October 10, when he was asked what he learned from his time on Love Is Blind. \u201cBut in all seriousness, the main things are self-talk, self-reflection, and a lot of the things that I believe, I said it in the pods, where it\u2019s like you don\u2019t know if you\u2019re fully healed until your next relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n Stephen continued, \u201cAnd you see a lot of people talking about, \u2018Well, you should have completed therapy before you entered this.\u2019 And I\u2019m always like, \u2018Is therapy a completion? Do you complete therapy?\u2019 No, it should be an ongoing thing because you\u2019re always growing and learning and there are traumas that might\u2019ve affected you that were never a problem until your thirties or forties.\u201d<\/p>\n Monica, 37, also opened up about the moment she decided her engagement to Stephen was over. Cameras didn\u2019t catch the moment Monica actually discovered the \u201csexual\u201d texts that Stephen sent, but she revealed how she stumbled across the messages in an interview with Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI discovered the texts just by total coincidence,\u201d Monica said in the article published the same day\u2019s Stephen\u2019s interview was released. \u201cWe were in our apartment that day, and in the morning, Taylor<\/strong> [Krause<\/strong>] and Garrett<\/strong> [Josemans<\/strong>] had sent all of the couples a text that said, \u2018We\u2019re going to be baking fall goods for everyone, and we\u2019re going to drop them off later tonight.\u2019 We were expecting them to come by soon, and he had to go to the bathroom, so he left his phone, and it lit up.\u201d<\/p>\n The Love Is Blind<\/em> star said she \u201cdidn\u2019t think twice\u201d about checking Stephen\u2019s phone because she assumed it would just be the message from their costars<\/a>. However, what she was was a message \u201cunder a girl\u2019s name,\u201d so she clicked on it to read the exchanges between Stephen and the woman.<\/p>\n \u201cI was scrolling to the top because I wanted to see when they started, and they started some time ago, certainly before he left to do this [show],\u201d Monica continued. \u201cIt was like a dagger to the chest in that moment. Five seconds after, Taylor was asking me, \u2018What did they say?\u2019 And I couldn\u2019t even remember the girl\u2019s name, but I do remember they were really very sexual. I remember one specifically said, \u2018No one\u2019s ever been able to satisfy my kinks the way you do.\u2019 And they were just going back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n While Monica said she doesn\u2019t believe Stephen physically cheated on her in their relationship, she claimed that \u201cthere was definitely a history there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn that moment, he wasn\u2019t saying, \u2018I\u2019m not going to tell you,\u2019 but he was trying to, very quickly, kind of shift some of the blame, just saying, \u2018I\u2019m a piece of s\u2013t. You\u2019re right,’\u201d the sales executive added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n