


Love Is Blind stars Jackie Bonds and Josh Demas have called it quits.
Bonds revealed their breakup during a recent Instagram Live session, in which the 27-year-old dental assistant pointed directly to Monica Rodriguez, Demas’s ex-fiancée from the pods, as a reason for their split.
“Instead of ignoring it, like I was told by him, I ended up having a conversation with her and that’s why we broke up,” Bonds said.
“I’m still sick about it lowkey, I love that man,” she went on to admit. “I was like, damn I have all of these life plans with you. And you just don’t even care.”
Bonds maintained that she “did everything” she could to “fix it,” but to no avail.
“What’s crazy is, I’ve never begged nobody to be with me. Looking back on these messages, I’m sick, enough to where it’s like, how am I begging?” she said. “That’s crazy, but it is what it is.”
Demas and Rodriguez’s brief engagement wasn’t revealed on the show until the post-season After the Altar special, which premiered on Netflix Sept. 1. The special showed Bonds and Rodriguez having a heart-to-heart about Rodriguez’s recent social media posts that spoke about her engagement to Demas, a move that he slammed as “disrespectful.” He also called her a “clout-chaser” during the tense confrontation that devolved into a screaming match, per Insider.
It appears that Demas had asked Bonds not to confront Rodriguez again, though she did anyway, causing them to break up.
Demas and Bonds were known for stirring up trouble during their time in the pods last year. Though Demas and Rodriguez may have been briefly engaged, Bonds also accepted Marshall Glaze’s proposal and moved in with him in Seattle. There, they argued frequently about whether he was “masculine” enough, with Bonds telling him to “boss up.” After they broke up, she and Demas reconnected and revealed they were together during the Season 4 reunion.
Bonds shared a post in August explaining her perspective on her breakup with Glaze, in which she apologized for her “actions and words” in their relationship.
“I understand that it was a quick transition from one relationship to another but this relationship did not start as most do in the real world,” she said at the time. “To some it may seem as if ti was a quick transition, however, there is only a small percent that can be shown on tv and my connection with Josh was much deeper than it seems from a viewer’s perspective.”
Since the breakup, Demas has made his social media accounts on TikTok and Instagram private. He did not return Decider’s request for comment.
Love Is Blind Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix. Season 5 premieres Friday (Sept. 22).