Love Is Blind star Stephen Richardson is revealing how a lot cash he despatched Monica Davis on Venmo following their breakup.
Taking to Instagram Tales on Saturday, October 12, the 34-year-old Netflix character created a “How a lot do you suppose I owed her? How a lot did I ship ballot?” for followers. Stephen revealed in a single slide {that a} $500 guess was “nearer than most” and a follow-up slide hinted that the sum was greater than $200, however lower than $600. A $450 response was additionally “really fairly shut.”
Stephen declined to share the complete quantity, redacting further guesses that have been appropriate. The electrician did make it clear that he “all the time” supposed to pay Monica, 37, again.
“I all the time pay what I owe,” he wrote through Tales, claiming he even emptied his checking account to make the cost. “Even when it’s the final quantity in my checking account whereas already I’m unemployed.”
Stephen and Monica bought engaged sight unseen throughout Love Is Blind season 7, which was filmed in October 2023 and started airing on Netflix earlier this month. Whereas their bodily relationship grew after assembly face-to-face, issues shifted after they returned from the post-pod Mexican trip.
Monica discovered that Stephen had been texting one other lady about “soiled” sexual fantasies and subsequently tried to lie about it. He claimed that he was “drunk at a sleep check” when he despatched the message earlier than deleting the whole chain. Stephen and Monica in the end ended up calling off their engagement as soon as he got here clear concerning the messages. She additionally requested him to ship her his half of their shared residing bills through the Venmo app.
Monica, for her half, was “rolling [her] eyes” when she bought the Venmo notification due to how he named the entry.
“It was one thing so traditional for a way he was behaving in that second, which was just a little bit like, ‘Woe is me,’” Monica advised Vulture in an interview printed in October. “I believe it mentioned ‘I’m the most important piece of s—’ or one thing like that. Not ‘I’m sorry,’ not an emoji. It was simply one other, like, you realize, ‘Really feel unhealthy for me as a result of it is a downside that I’ve.’ I used to be rolling my eyes so onerous in that second.”
Monica holds no ailing will towards her ex-fiancé, even noting on the Thursday, October 10, episode of “The Viall Recordsdata” podcast that she nonetheless thinks of Stephen as a “good particular person.”
Stephen additionally doesn’t remorse the expertise.
“You understand for a present based mostly on context clues and meant to be about not judging a guide by its cowl,” he wrote through Instagram earlier this week. “Its followers actually wish to take a LOT issues at face worth. These are all stunning recollections of mine that I might by no means commerce for the world. Each on and off digicam. Reminiscences I’ll perpetually share with superb folks in an expertise I by no means anticipated to be part of.”
Love Is Blind season 7 is at present streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop Wednesdays. The reunion airs Wednesday, October 30, at 9 p.m. ET.