Netflix 'Love is Blind' contestant leaves would-be groom at altar over politics
A participant on Netflix’s “Love is Blind” reality show left her fiance at the altar, saying they were on a different “wavelength” when it came to politics.
In the show’s Season Eight finale, which was released Friday, Sara Carton told fellow contestant Ben Mezzenga that she couldn’t marry him, when it came time either to say “I do” or walk away.
“I love you so much, but I’ve always wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength, and so today, I can’t [marry you],” Carton told Mezzenga.
“I know that the connection we have is so real, and my heart is there, but we talked about a lot of the values that I hold so close to my heart. Making this decision, my mind is telling me I can't,” she added.
Carton elaborated on her decision later in the show, telling her confidants she was disappointed he was not more engaged on issues including the Black Lives Matter movement and gay rights.
“I remember, like, I asked him about, like, Black Lives Matter, and I'm no expert, but, like, when I asked him about it, he was like, ‘I guess I never really thought too much about it,’” Carton said about her former fiance. “That affected me, especially in our own city, like, how could it not? How did it not make you think about something?”
The latest season of the show recruited a cast from Minneapolis, which was riven in 2020 by protests following the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer who was later convicted.
“I asked him too, like, what his church's views are [about the LGBTQ community], and he said he didn't know,” Carton added.
Carton said she watched an online sermon from his church about sexual identity, “and it was traditional,” she said.
“I told that to Ben, and he doesn't really have much to say about it, you know? I want somebody to think about that stuff.”
In an exclusive interview with People magazine, Carton stood by her decision, which she said was largely about a lack of depth and misaligned values.
"The whole entire time, I wasn't looking for a right or wrong answer. I just wanted to have depth and be able to understand one another, where we came from, how we grew up, why are we thinking and having this perception of life and the world and the people around us the way we do. I love having those deep conversations,” she said.
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