'Love Is Blind' S5's Aaliyah On New Bae And Uche & Lydia Drama

“Love Is Blind” season 5 participant Aaliyah Cosby didn’t discover love on the Netflix sequence, however her relationship life is prospering exterior of it!

Fans of the Athletically Declined Sports podcast just lately caught a glimpse of Aaliyah’s new boo once they shared a kiss throughout a digital interview. Aaliyah revealed that she met him — whose identify she withheld — just a few months after wrapping the “madness” with “Love Is Blind” in spring 2022.

“The way this man just poured into me and loved me. He didn’t care. He never judged anything I told him,” she shared of her present boyfriend. “I’m in such a good place with who I’m with because I know it’s real. I know it’s genuine. It’s the treatment I deserved all along,” Aaliyah advised the podcast host LIB contestant Robert Martinez.

Check out a sneak peek at her bae beneath.

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Aaliyah Cosby Claims Uche Okoroha Told Her She Wasn’t His “Ideal Type”

In a separate interview with “Love Is Blind” S1 alum, Cameron Hamilton, Aaliyah spoke about relationship Uche Okoroha post-show and why issues ended.

You’ll recall that Aaliyah and Uche dated within the pods throughout filming. However, their connection started to crumble after Aaliyah found Uche and contestant Lydia Velez Gonzalez dated exterior the sequence. To add, earlier than then, Uche had expressed discontent with Aaliyah’s previous of infidelity.

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Cosby in the end left the pods after an alleged off-camera alternate with Lydia. Fans of the sequence noticed a tense cellphone dialog between Uche and Cosby, provided that she left with out warning him. Following the pods, they met to debate her determination to go away the experiment. The tone of that reunion indicated the tip of their romance.

However, Aaliyah, like Uche, has confirmed they dated for a few month after the pods. She clarified that she ended issues, citing his alleged lack of attraction as one realization that their relationship wouldn’t work.

“I did try to ask him, ‘What is it? I thought we had this connection. What is it? I’m gonna be honest. I think he wasn’t truly attracted to me as well. He mentioned that I wasn’t his type, his ideal type, and that was kind of hurtful, too. I didn’t care how he looked.”

Additionally, Aaliyah alleged that a number of S5 forged members talked about him having a bunch chat during which he mentioned her. But she says she by no means noticed it.

“I dunno, I’ve never seen it, but multiple people telling me, ‘Aaliyah, this is what he said and you deserve more. You’re a great person, you’re real. You shouldn’t have to chase after someone,” Aaliyah stated on the Hanging With the Hamiltons podcast.

Aaliyah Cosby Reveals She & Lydia Had A Post-Series Conversation

During her dialog with Hamilton on his podcast, Cosby revealed she’s not buddies with Lydia. However, the LIB alums acquired an opportunity to talk post-series concerning the Uche drama.

Despite Uche saying his romance with Lydia lasted about three months, Aaliyah says it was an “on-and-off thing for two years.” The LIB star stated one other girl from the S5 forged organized a scenario for Cosby and Lydia to talk.

“She did reveal some things to me. I’m not sure I want to share it because that was more her experience and I feel like there were some pretty private things there so I feel like I’m going to allow her to tell that, if she wants to. Hopefully, she will cause I think the truth will set everyone free in the situation. I’ve had talks with both and to me it seems there’s truth to both stories and then there’s the truth in the middle there somewhere,” Cosby stated.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Cosby added that she’s wishing Uche and Lydia the very best and believes they do the identical for her.

“I feel like we just have a mutual respect that we both have conversations with each other where, you know, it was like, ‘OK, we need to be open and honest about everything.’ And I feel that that moment was reached with us on both sides with Uche and Lydia, and so I do respect them both. I wish them the best, and I want them both to be happy. And I believe that they want that for me as well.”