The Love Is Blind season 9 reunion saw ex-fiancés Joe Ferrucci and Madison Maidenberg pointing fingers regarding their broken engagement.
“At this point, I’ve accepted that I’m not going to get a full sentence from Joe as far as what actually happened,” Madison, 28, said during the Wednesday, October 29, special. “So, that’s OK.”
Joe, 29, had called off his engagement to Madison after running out of his wedding tux fitting. Less than one month later, he went on a few dates with Kacie McIntosh. (Kacie, 34, was briefly engaged to Patrick Suzuki, though their engagement never left the pods.)
“[It was] a month and a half,” Joe said. “I think it just kind of fizzled out. It just ultimately didn’t work out.”
According to Kacie, she and Joe hadn’t been “ready” to date so soon after their respective broken engagements.
“It got too intense too quick,” she said, noting they did have a connection in the pods during the 10-day experiment.
Madison, meanwhile, chimed in to note that she was aware of Joe and Kacie’s connection and claimed it “affected [her] engagement.”
“The night of wedding dress and tux fittings, we had all gone out. I’m standing there with a wedding ring on, telling your groomsman how much I love you,” she recalled, claiming, “I look over, Kacie has two paws on Joe’s chest. In your words that night, you said, ‘Kacie was giving me googly eyes.’ Then, the next night, we break up.”
Madison added, “Let’s just tell the truth here. It seems like there was overlap.”
Joe and Kacie subsequently denied Kacie put her hands on Joe’s chest or any relationship overlap whatsoever.
“I don’t think that’s the case at all,” Joe said. “If that’s why you think you broke up, that is not the case. That has nothing to do with our story. That was after, and that was never in my mind when I broke it off.”
Kacie further pointed out that she didn’t start speaking with Joe “until the end of May,” weeks after the breakup.
“I found out right before Mike [Brockway’s] pool party,” Madison said of the bash held the next month. “At the pool party, I saw Kacie, and she had the audacity to tell me that we are Eskimo sisters. Class act, and then you continued to bitch to me about how he treated you, completely disregarding the fact that this was my ex-fiancé.”
While Kacie stressed that her “Eskimo sister” comment was meant in jest, she also revealed that she had “real feelings” for Joe.
“I really liked him,” the hairstylist added.
Joe had also brought his new girlfriend, Averee Madison, to the party, which sparked even more conversations about dating timelines.
“We were not dating at the time,” Joe said of his connection with Averee. “Don’t get me in trouble at home. No, [and] my relationship now was rocky for the first three months, and she didn’t want to date me. There was a lot of breaking up, coming back together, breaking up, and we were off [in] October as well, then we got back together and started dating in November.”
Love Is Blind is streaming on Netflix.
