Love Is Blind’s Micah Lussier Defends Costar Irina Solomonova

Warning: This submit incorporates spoilers for Love Is Blind season 4.

In the Love Is Blind season 4 pods, Irina Solomonova made headlines for her outspoken nature — which appeared to rub a number of of her fellow contestants the unsuitable manner, apart from pod bestie Micah Lussier.

“I mean, you know what? So be it,” the advertising and marketing supervisor, 27, completely instructed Us Weekly forward of the season 4 premiere earlier this month. “What she did for me was make me laugh and reminded me who I am [and] that I like to laugh. I like to joke, like, this is a really serious situation, but I don’t have to be miserable. Like, I can enjoy myself a little bit and she gave me that, and for that, I don’t regret it.”

Micah continued: “I think there’s gonna be a lot that you don’t see on the show of amazing connections that I had with other girls and stuff, but you know what? [Irina] was what I needed at the time, and I think she’s a great person. I really do.”

Both Micah and Irina, 26, have been forged as contributors on the Netflix actuality sequence, which premiered its fourth season on Friday, March 24. Within the primary few episodes, they every discovered themselves within the middle of a love triangle. Micah, for her half, was torn between Kwame Appiah and Paul Peden — who every struggled to select between her and both Chelsea Griffin or Amber Wilder, respectively. Irina, in the meantime, shortly hit it off with felony protection lawyer Zack Goytowski regardless of his personal challenges to decide on between the Solo founder and fellow contestant Bliss Poureetezadi.

A rivalry between Irina and Bliss, 33, intensified as their respective emotions for Zack, 32, continued to develop within the pods. Things reached a boiling level when Irina appeared jealous that the senior program supervisor was baking cupcakes for Zack’s birthday — whereas she forgot what day it was. Both girls even complained about each other to the Seattle resident, leaving him feeling torn about his ultimate choice.

After going forwards and backwards, the health fanatic in the end ended his romance with Bliss in favor of Irina, who he proposed to sight unseen.

“I think that no matter what choice I made, my heart was going to break, and it doesn’t mean that I’m not in love with Irina, it just means that I’m hurting from what I had to tell Bliss that I’d made up my mind,” Zack stated throughout a confessional interview. “I chose Irina because she’s the one I trust the most.”

While the lawyer was overjoyed to finally stroll down the aisle with Irina, their post-pod connection hit a snag after his fiancée admittedly didn’t really feel an in-person spark. The Russia native, nonetheless, did really feel “so inspired” by her transient dialog with Paul, 29, who bought engaged to Micah on the present. In a teaser for the upcoming episodes, Irina is seen confessing her emotions to her Love Is Blind pal, who didn’t have an opportunity to reply earlier than the display reduce to black.

The first 5 episodes of Love Is Blind are presently streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop on Fridays.

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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi