Recently, Netflix aired a much-hyped Love is Blind Season 7 reunion episode on October 30, 2024. The reunion featured singles, married couples, and formerly engaged—now broken-off couples. Among all the participants from the show’s current season and previous seasons, fans were eager to know about Tyler and Ashley.
The duo was one of the two couples who married in the seventh season of Love is Blind. Fans must remember how a sensitive matter and controversy was surrounding Tyler when the information regarding his sperm donation was revealed.
Regarding the paternity scandal, Love is Blind star Tyler opened up during the recently aired reunion episode.
Female co-host Vanessa told Tyler:
"Tyler, you had spoken on the show, and everybody was shocked when you revealed that you had donated sperm to help a friend and her wife have children. And then, since then, there has been online chatter about your involvement in these children’s life and it being more than you had initially let on."
The host asked Tyler to "clarify" the incident and explain how things had unraveled since the show's initial days.
Love is Blind: Tyler opened up about paternity scandal on the reunion
After the co-host asked Tyler to share about what happened with the "paternity" situation, the Love is Blind cast member opened up.
"Those kids, that family, they did not sign up for this. So what is happening now is I try to keep that from happening. Their birth certificates are online. Things that shouldn’t be happening are now happening. And to get into the story, I did help a friend and her wife start a family, but her wife ended up leaving her and left her high and dry."
Tyler also shared that it was his "very close friend" who was the reason he had to step on. He mentioned that there were many pictures of himself with many of his friends and their kids.
He added:
"Ashley knows all this. This is news to the world. This has never been news to us. And I’m giving this explanation now because I feel like the world is waiting for it. But I don’t owe anyone an explanation but my wife. And if she’s sitting here with me…"
While Tyler was sharing all these things that had happened, he got emotional. Fellow male cast member Garrett chimed in and supported Tyler by saying they have got "his back."
Love is Blind star Tyler said that he was good and that things between him and his newly married wife, Ashley, were good.
"I'm not gonna keep harping on it."
After Tyler shared his side, his wife, Ashley, chimed in on the situation,
"It’s funny, everyone kept saying I said "Mm-hmm" a lot in the pods. But not today. I have some things to say. Staring with…like, who do you think has better insight on what’s going on, social media or me? So for people to imply that, like, "She was blindsided, she didn’t know," it’s, like, insulting to my intelligence. That’s number one."
The Love is Blind star added that Tyler never wanted to share any of these paternity things on camera. However, she insisted on keeping the social experiment an "authentic" experience. She also mentioned how she couldn’t hide her facial expressions.
"So there would have been a disconnect and the viewers would’ve noticed, my friends would have noticed when he went to meet them. So I told him, in some capacity, we have to talk about this. And, you know, there were things he was comfortable sharing and things he wasn’t."
Ashley added further how Tyler grew up in a "single-parent" household.
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