In the first batch of episodes, which were released on Netflix last Friday, fans learned that Uche, 34, and Lydia, 32, previously dated before coming on the show.

1. Love Is Blind’s Aaliyah Reveals
Her Take on Uche and His Ex
— and If She Thinks They
Plotted Together
HomeUche Okoroha Love Is Blind‘s Aaliyah Reveals Her Take on Uche
and His Ex — and If She Thinks They Plotted Together

2. Love Is Blind‘s Aaliyah Cosby is providing her two cents on the drama
involving Uche Okoroha and Lydia Velez Gonzalez.
In the first batch of episodes, which were released on Netflix last
Friday, fans learned that Uche, 34, and Lydia, 32, previously dated
before coming on the show. The revelation was particularly shocking to
Aaliyah, who had been connecting with Uche in the pods and also
forming a close friendship with Lydia in the women‘s quarters.
In the new episodes, it was finally revealed that Aaliyah, 29, left the
experiment right before Uche was going to propose because she had
enough of Lydia‘s commentary about Uche, and she had an off-camera
exchange with Lydia that ultimately set her off. Uche was heartbroken
by her sudden exit and tried to convince Aaliyah to give them another
chance, but she shut him down.
Later, the pair met up over lunch and discussed everything that had
unfolded. This time, Aaliyah was ready to give things a second try, but
Uche was the one who rejected the offer, citing his frustrations with
Aaliyah‘s inconsistencies and up-and-down behavior after the
experiment.
―You didn‘t have confidence in me and you didn‘t have confidence in
our relationship,‖ he said during episode 7. ―I think it‘s over between
us.‖

3. During that same conversation, Aaliyah admitted to Uche that she was
―questioning‖ whether he and Lydia had ―planned to be here together.‖
Though Uche denied it at the time, Aaliyah is now opening up about
whether she feels his response was genuine.
―At this point, I am really unsure on a lot, but I just hope that they both
are in a better place because I feel like there‘s a lot that they had
experienced prior to the show that just didn‘t really have much to do
with me,‖ she says of Uche and Lydia. ―I think that‘s for them to kind of
share with people if they choose to. But I feel at peace with it now.‖

4. ―For a while it was kind of difficult for me to navigate my feelings, but
I‘m not really sure,‖ she adds. ―I don‘t know. Maybe they can kind of
speak to it more and then we can all get our closure together on that
and get our answers together.‖
Reflecting on her own journey on the show, Aaliyah admits that her
exit may have come off as sudden, but it was something she thought
long and hard about.
―I considered a lot of different things when it came to my situation. I
was very analytical,‖ she explains. ―I had to kind of take my emotion
out of it when it came to certain aspects and points along that journey

5. for me. My conversation with her, my conversation with him, when I
had time to myself to just process, it was tough.‖
―I ultimately just felt like I had to do what was best for me in the end,‖
the ICU travel nurse continues. ―Marriage is such a huge step. It‘s very
sacred and it‘s something that I take very seriously and I just wanted to
really enjoy that moment. I was like, ‗If I‘m going to be engaged once
and marry once, because that‘s my goal, I want to be happy and enjoy it
and be at peace.‘ So it‘s just one of those things where I felt like I had to
do what was best for me and really follow my intuition.‖
Asked whether she thinks Uche would‘ve left the show with her after
expressing her desire to leave, Aaliyah says, ―I don‘t think so. It‘s hard
to say now, but I don‘t think he would‘ve. Honestly, I think he probably
would‘ve stayed, but I think that might be a better question for him.‖

6. Following her exit, Aaliyah says she agreed to meet up with Uche
because ―he deserved that in the end.‖
―If he had any feelings that he wanted to express or if there were things
that were just left open-ended, we needed to have that closure,‖ she
explains. ―If we were going to have that, if we were going to continue
on, we could put all of our cards on the table and really give each other
that moment to say, ‗Look, this is where I was emotionally. This is how
I felt.‘ And same for him. So I felt like it was only fair that we have a
conversation and we really speak and be open about where we were
emotionally.‖

7. Now that the two have gotten their closure, Aaliyah says she‘s on good
terms with both Uche and Lydia — and more importantly, focused on
moving forward.
―I am in a good place. I respect them both as people,‖ she says. ―I think
that we all want one another to be happy, and I am most definitely
living my best life. I‘m happy.‖
Episodes 1–7 of Love Is Blind season 5 are currently streaming on
Netflix. The next batch of episodes will drop on Friday.

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