Love Is Blind’s Jackelina Explains Season 4 ‘Mental Breakdown’

Homesick. Jackelina Bonds revealed why she actually broke down throughout her and fiancé Marshall Glaze’s Mexican getaway on season 4 of Love Is Blind — and the way she feels now.

“My father, he’s sick,” Jackie, 27, informed Entertainment Weekly on Friday, March 24. “He has cancer, so I have to take care of him when I go home every weekend. I make sure that my parents are good, the bill is paid — my dad can’t work no more. I have a lot of family stuff that I have to tend to.”

The dental assistant defined: “Family always comes first. And also, my brother being released from prison, it’s like I have another person to take care of.”

Fans first realized of Jackie’s household turmoil throughout episode 4 of Love Is Blind, which is at the moment streaming on Netflix. During the “Playing With Fire” episode, newly engaged couple Jackie and Marshall, 27, explored Mexico as a method to get to know one another exterior the pods.

Their playful lunch date, nonetheless, shortly turned bitter when viewers noticed Jackie begin crying of their lodge whereas interested by her household again dwelling. She famous that she was afraid she’d push Marshall away as a result of her family members aren’t “perfect” and proceeded to have one other meltdown after locking herself within the toilet.

“My life is not for someone who can’t be up to par in supporting me, and just making sure that you understand my life and knowing that this is always going to be a part of me,” Jackie informed EW after followers noticed Marshall attempt to assist her on digital camera. “That was an emotional moment for me because I didn’t feel like, at that moment, Marshall was up to par and ready for all of the reality that I have back home.”

The actuality star additional defined her self-proclaimed “mental breakdown” by way of Instagram on Monday, March 27.

“My father at the time was fighting Stage 2 head and neck cancer [and] had a feeding tube in his stomach, had the back of his tongue removed and had 11 cancerous lymph nodes removed from his neck a few months before I filmed the show,” Jackie wrote on the time. “I come home every weekend to make sure I pay his bills, clean the house, and make sure my father and mother are good.”

She confessed: “I felt guilty being happy and enjoying my time in Mexico because my family deserves time away. My ‘mental breakdown’ in Mexico was all the emotions of being head of the house, having my family depending on me and having the weight of my emotions and feelings all colliding at once.”

The Washington resident added that she “will always take care of my father, cancer will never take him from me.” While Marshall informed EW on Friday that it was “not my place” to speak about Jackie’s hardships, he revealed he was “glad” he may very well be there “to help her through that.”

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All-new episodes of Love Is Blind season 4 drop on Netflix each Friday.