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Love Is Blind season 8 alums Sara Carton and Joey Leveille know they caused a stir when they started dating after respective broken pod engagements.
“[He] handled it way better than me,” Sara, 30, told Joey, 37, on the Wednesday, June 24, episode of the “Table for 1” podcast. “I mean, it was hard for everyone ‘cause everyone was going through like your own roller-coaster each day, negative, positive, whatever.”
Joey further pointed out that Sara frequently “has an issue with diving into the comments a little too much.”
“I take things personal, and that’s a pro and a con,” she explained. “I’m a very emotional person, but it took me so long to get out of [what] felt like a very deep dark hole for a little bit. I’m so grateful I met, you know, Joey and the great cast.”
Joey and Sara were among the singletons entering the Love Is Blind pods when season 8 filmed in Minnesota. While Joey proposed to Monica Danús sight unseen, Sara accepted Ben Mezzenga’s pod proposal. Both pairs broke up at the altar, weeks before Joey and Sara started seeing one another. (Joey and Sara have long denied any relationship overlap.)
“We didn’t even start talking until, like, eight months after the show was done filming,” Joey pointed out on Wednesday’s episode, noting they first discussed the possibility of dating shortly before the season aired on Netflix. “We had just started talking, ‘Hey, do we like each other? Do we not? Do we want to see if we pursue this?’ And both of us were like, ‘Maybe not yet.’”
Joey and Sara, who did have a connection in the pods, only agreed to pursue a romance on the heels of both breakups. Still, they were surprised by the onslaught of negative reactions from viewers on social media.
While Love Is Blind star Sara Carton has publicly denied that she’s dating costar Joey Levielle, his ex-fiancée, Monica Danús, says differently. “I’m so sick of the lies. Just own up to it at this point,” Monica, 28, told Elite Daily in an interview published on Tuesday, March 18. “I texted Sara [before the reunion], […]
“We are just regular people and then online hate is to an extent like you can’t anticipate that at all,” Sara recalled. “Some people thrive, but some people don’t do well. I just feel for everyone going through it.”
As Joey and Sara have grown closer, they claimed that they “trauma-bonded” after appearing on reality TV.
“I’m sure that’s a big part of it, like, you experience something that no one else really knows,” Joey acknowledged. “And we were both kind of there for each other through really tough [times], so that emotional support was a huge thing.”
