Love Is Blind star Dave Bettenburg has opened up about why he decided to walk away from his fiancée Lauren O’Brien.
Dave and Lauren got engaged in the pods, but after leaving the couple vacation and returning back to their hometown, Dave was shocked to find out from friends and family that Lauren had been hooking up with a mutual friend just days before entering the pods.
“I think the whole situation of her having a ‘boyfriend’ going into it and me having to experience and try to play — not play two different roles, but I was trying to be the best to everybody and trying to figure this out,” he told PEOPLE. “This is coming from not only my sister, who knows this guy’s best friend but also, my really close college friends that know him [and] were all telling me that they had been dating for three months, she was staying at his place the week before she left.”
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Lauren repeatedly told Dave that she and the man in question were just friends with benefits, but Dave was particularly upset that his sister could not let it go…and he could not move forward without her blessing.
“I am hearing all these things and I’m just like, there’s just no way I’m going to marry this person if that’s what she was doing coming into it,” he added. “I just can’t justify that.”
Episodes 1-12 of Love Is Blind season 8 are now streaming on Netflix.
