Love Is Blind ’s Trevor Was in a Relationship During Filming, and It’s Worse Than We Thought
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Someone put these text messages in the Receipts Hall of Fame.
At the reunion for Love Is Blind season 6, Trevor Soa was roasted over an open flame after he admitted to telling someone else outside of the show, before and after filming, that he was in love with her.
Exhibit A: “I love you so much honey. I’m excited for it but more excited to get back to you after and start our life together,” reads the first of several damning messages.
After he left the show, he told the same person that he loved her and wanted to marry her, and that’s not even the worst part. “I hope you know how much I love you, and had to pretend that this wasn’t real life to say anything I said,” he wrote. Big yikes.
If you need a refresher, Trevor, Chelsea Blackwell, and Jimmy Presnell were in a bit of a love triangle. (Or is it a love square? A love rhombus? I'm not a mathematician, sorry.) Toward the end of their time in the pods, Chelsea was torn between Trevor, who had confessed that he was head over heels in love with her, and Jimmy, who himself was torn between Chelsea and Jessica Vestal. In the end Jimmy proposed to Chelsea and she said yes, leaving Jessica and Trevor in the lurch.
When season 6 aired, Trevor had a committed fan base who wanted Chelsea to choose him. They adored his golden retriever energy and, for some reason, his scruffy mullet. When Chelsea chose Jimmy in the end, Trevor seemed genuinely devastated, and that endeared him to fans even more.
All of which makes it that much more surreal that Trevor (1) was in a relationship with someone else and (2) decided to come to the reunion in the first place when he could have just…not. (Declining the reunion invite may have been the smartest thing fellow two-timer Matthew ever did.)
When asked what we had to say for himself, Trevor said, “Um…,” and then stared into space for so long that AD called out, “Nah, say it with your chest.”
He fumbled his way through an explanation, which included the words “I was not dating her dating her, technically, like I never said like ‘Will you be my girlfriend?’ before the show started.” He went on to say that he understood that what he did was “fucked up,” and that he and the woman he was texting with were both “toxic.” But as for the why of it all, he said, “There isn’t an answer for that.”
Chelsea, for her part, reacted calmly. “I’m definitely not here to grill you by any means, it didn’t work out for us,” she said when asked how she felt about the messages. “I had this intuition for why I shouldn’t have picked you. I couldn’t explain it, but now I can.”
Trevor stayed on stage for a few more minutes to tell his piece, and suggested that the reason he texted his not not girlfriend that he wanted to marry her after he left the pods was because he was so heartbroken over Chelsea.
“Johnny saw me,” he said, referring to his breakdown post-breakup. “Johnny was in the lounge and saw me, and I know you guys trust Johnny.” (It’s true, we do trust you, Johnny!)
Finally, after a few more excruciating moments, Love Is Blind’s Trevor was released from the couches. Hopefully he walked straight out of the studio and into that therapy he kept saying he needed.
Originally Appeared on Glamour
