Are Clay and AD Still Together?
Clay and AD hit it off immediately, but things took a sharp turn when the entrepreneur explained how important a physical connection was to him.
“I just feel like my worst fear is like we fall in love, we have this beautiful connection, we do the reveal and it’s like, ‘Oh, wow. We never really talked about the physical.’ That is important to me,” Clay said during one of their first pod dates. “I just have to be attracted to you.”
He later described his ideal woman as “petite,” adding that his “favorite attributes” are lips and butt. “If I’m gonna propose, that’s something that I need to know regardless of the emotional connection.”
Despite being able to move on from the roadblock, the topic of appearance was brought up again in Punta Cana.
“I wouldn’t even let you get out of shape,” Clay told his fiancée after she explained her workout and diet routines. “I’d be like, ‘AD get in that motherf–king gym.’”
Despite their bumps along the way, Clay and AD seem to be going strong as she even met his mom and sister and he met her mom. The day of the wedding both couples seemed to be on board with moving ahead with their marriage. However, AD was the only one who said, “I do.” Clay decided that he wasn’t ready for marriage.
“This has been the best process,” Clay began. “AD, I love you. I don’t think it’s responsible for me to say, ‘I do,’ but I want you to know that I’m rocking with you.”
He continued, “I still need work. I still need to get to the point where I’m 100 percent in, and I’m not gonna have you over here thinking that this isn’t going to work.”
AD was surprised by his decision and after heading back to her dressing room she wondered when she was “going to be enough.” Despite Clay apologizing and seemingly wanting to continue dating, AD told producers she couldn’t see herself and Clay dating anymore.
After the Love Is Blind reunion premiered on March 13, 2024, AD gave fans some more insight into her feelings after Clay left her at the altar.
“It was a shock that he said no at the altar,” AD told ExtraTV in a TikTok. “I thought we had built a mutual agreement and an understanding that we were in it for the long run, so it did catch me off guard when he said no.”
AD also admitted that there were “so many red flags with Clay,” but because he was a “trying man,” she didn’t want to give up on their relationship.
The North Carolina realtor also said it was a “hard no” on trying a relationship with Clay after he chose not to get married.
“You had your chance. I gave you my everything,” AD said. “Going backwards just didn’t make any sense to me, and I think right now I don’t want to be his girlfriend after being his fiancée.****”***