Love Is Blind’s AD Says Clay Promised Not to ‘Embarrass Me’ at Wedding

Amber Desiree “AD” Smith and ex-fiancé Clay Gravesande practically referred to as it quits a number of occasions forward of their Love Is Blind marriage ceremony day.

“Clay and I had so many conversations about not moving forward,” AD, 33, mentioned in the course of the Thursday, March 14, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “And I know it looks like I’m blinding following him off a cliff and he’s telling me, ‘I don’t want to marry’ and I’m like, ‘OK, let’s go get married’ and he’s like, ‘No, I don’t want to.’”

She continued, “There were so many questions where I was like, ‘I’m good to walk away.’ He’d be like, ‘No, AD, I really want to try. I really want to make this work with you.’”

AD and Clay, 31, acquired engaged sight unseen contained in the Love Is Blind season 6 pods regardless of his monogamy fears. (Clay witnessed his father cheat on his mother when he was youthful and apprehensive he would even be untrue in a wedding.)

“He would actually try and do things differently and show up for me in certain ways and then he would hit me with a sprinkle of ‘I’m just afraid to get married,” AD recalled on Thursday. “And [I’d say,] ‘Again, we do not have to do this. I’m OK. I’d rather not be humiliated in front of all of my family and friends.’ He’d be like, ‘AD, I’m not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to humiliate you.’ And I’m like, ‘OK.’ And then what did he do? Embarrass me!”

Clay referred to as off their engagement throughout their marriage ceremony ceremony after she already mentioned “I do” at the altar. A heartbroken AD walked again up the aisle in tears earlier than leaving the venue on her personal.

Clay and AD reunited on the season 6 reunion, which aired on Wednesday, March 13, the place he revealed that he “made a mistake” as a result of AD is “the love of [his] life.” AD, nonetheless, has moved on.

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“Clay and I [are] flirty friends,” she informed podcast host Nick Viall. “If we see each other outside, we’re in each other’s faces, like, we hug and cuddle and we’re all over each other. But again, we’re friends.”

AD additional famous that she enjoys reminding Clay what he missed out on “every chance [she gets],” which has confirmed to be “100 percent” efficient.

AD is now “so single” together with her DM’s large open, she quipped on Thursday, regardless of briefly relationship fellow contestant Matthew Duliba after Love Is Blind. AD had one other sturdy pod reference to Matthew, 37, however they broke up after he repeated strains to each AD and Amber Grant. During the reunion, AD famous that she and Matthew went on two in-person dates however their flame fizzled out since they’ve “different lifestyles.”

Love Is Blind season 6 is at present streaming on Netflix.