A tangled internet! Kwame Appiah was concerned in a dramatic love triangle with fiancée Chelsea Griffin and fellow contestant Micah Lussier all through Love Is Blind season 4.
Kwame, 32, sparked instant pod connections with each Chelsea, 31, and Micah, 27, sight unseen. While the Portland, Oregon, resident was offered on proposing to Micah early on, she finally broke issues off in pursuit of her different pod romance with eventual fiancé Paul Peden. After some heartbreaking soul-searching, Kwame realized that Chelsea had been steadfast in her love all alongside and he determined to pop the query.
While the gross sales advertising supervisor and the speech pathologist loved exploring their bodily connection after assembly face-to-face, lingering emotions for Micah continued to floor after the forged’s Mexico pool occasion. Kwame even famous that she nonetheless held a “special place” in his coronary heart regardless of getting engaged to different folks.
Kwame and Micah in ‘Love is Blind.’ Courtesy of Netflix
“I think no matter what, especially when you start looking at the life that you have now, but when you think about the connection I have with Chelsea — Zack [Goytowski] mentions this a lot — the pod relationship you have with someone [is] completely different from the actual relationship you have with someone,” he solely informed Us Weekly forward of the season 4 premiere, referring to Zack’s personal love triangle with ex-fiancée Irina Solomonova and new fiancée Bliss Poureetezadi. “Like when I went past the pods with Chelsea, I was just like, ‘OK, this is almost a reflex for us, the way we interact, the way we under understand each other.’”
Kwame added: “I just don’t believe that would’ve ever been the case with Micah, and I can respect that. I think we had a great relationship in the pods, and that’s what I meant [by] ‘She has a special place in my heart.’ But I knew deep down in my soul that there was just no possibility of us going past that and having anything that was actually of value to us as human beings [and] as people who are in love. Like, we had a great time in the pods. It was great to move on from there.”
Micah, who struggled at first to attach Paul’s voice to his bodily presence, additionally opened as much as Us about her emotions for Kwame.
“When I chose Paul, I chose Paul all the way and I never regretted that or have looked back on it,” the previous actual property dealer informed Us earlier this month of the 29-year-old Louisiana native. “I think that Kwame and Chelsea ended up [engaged] for a reason. And, you know, to my understanding, I think they [were] really happy and I think they both deserve that. He’s a great person and, in that way, he’ll hold a special place in my heart.”
Chelsea and Micah in ‘Love is Blind.’ Courtesy of Netflix
After shutting down her romance with Kwame, Micah was centered on her engagement to Paul. The environmental scientist, for his half, informed Us that he “really didn’t” really feel threatened by the pod bond.
“I feel that we were super open in the pods with each other and in the men’s lounge and I think it was obvious that we all had like very good intentions in that we wanted the best connection to be the one to move forward with, like, no matter who it was, you know?” Paul informed Us in March. “And so, it wasn’t a competition. We genuinely both wanted the best connection.”
While Kwame and Paul have been capable of maturely pursue connections with the identical lady, Chelsea was seemingly jealous after seeing her fiancé get near Micah through the Mexico getaway.
Kwame and Chelsea in ‘Love is Blind.’ Courtesy of Netflix
“Oh my gosh, you have to understand it, like, you go on the show knowing that the person that you may be falling in love with is talking to multiple other women and that’s something that is not for the faint of heart, but it’s part of the experience,” Chelsea recalled to Us. “It wasn’t in my nature to insert myself in their conversations and in their kind of closure and what needed to happen for them. I respected Kwame’s journey and his vetting process and he wanted to be really sure.”
She continued: “I have no hard feelings for her [and] the way I see it, if somebody likes the person I like, they must be like-minded and cool and awesome. … I think that we came to a really good conclusion with it and I’m understanding that it needed to be a part of their journey.”
Love Is Blind season 4 is at present streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop on Fridays.
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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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