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Love Is Blind’s Stephen Richardson Reacts to Cheating Scandal After Sending Explicit Texts to Another Woman
Love Is Blind’s Stephen Richardson shocked fans when he was busted for sending explicit texts to another woman while engaged to Monica Davis. Now, the electrician has spoken out about the incident.
“It is probably smart to put a password on your phone,” Stephen, 34, told People in an article published on Thursday, October 10, when he was asked what he learned from his time on Love Is Blind. “But in all seriousness, the main things are self-talk, self-reflection, and a lot of the things that I believe, I said it in the pods, where it’s like you don’t know if you’re fully healed until your next relationship.”
Stephen continued, “And you see a lot of people talking about, ‘Well, you should have completed therapy before you entered this.’ And I’m always like, ‘Is therapy a completion? Do you complete therapy?’ No, it should be an ongoing thing because you’re always growing and learning and there are traumas that might’ve affected you that were never a problem until your thirties or forties.”
Monica, 37, also opened up about the moment she decided her engagement to Stephen was over. Cameras didn’t catch the moment Monica actually discovered the “sexual” texts that Stephen sent, but she revealed how she stumbled across the messages in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“I discovered the texts just by total coincidence,” Monica said in the article published the same day’s Stephen’s interview was released. “We were in our apartment that day, and in the morning, Taylor [Krause] and Garrett [Josemans] had sent all of the couples a text that said, ‘We’re going to be baking fall goods for everyone, and we’re going to drop them off later tonight.’ We were expecting them to come by soon, and he had to go to the bathroom, so he left his phone, and it lit up.”
The Love Is Blind star said she “didn’t think twice” about checking Stephen’s phone because she assumed it would just be the message from their costars. However, what she was was a message “under a girl’s name,” so she clicked on it to read the exchanges between Stephen and the woman.
“I was scrolling to the top because I wanted to see when they started, and they started some time ago, certainly before he left to do this [show],” Monica continued. “It was like a dagger to the chest in that moment. Five seconds after, Taylor was asking me, ‘What did they say?’ And I couldn’t even remember the girl’s name, but I do remember they were really very sexual. I remember one specifically said, ‘No one’s ever been able to satisfy my kinks the way you do.’ And they were just going back and forth.”
While Monica said she doesn’t believe Stephen physically cheated on her in their relationship, she claimed that “there was definitely a history there.”
“In that moment, he wasn’t saying, ‘I’m not going to tell you,’ but he was trying to, very quickly, kind of shift some of the blame, just saying, ‘I’m a piece of s–t. You’re right,'” the sales executive added.
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