Love Is Blind season 10 star Chris Fusco began to spiral during the second batch of episodes of the Netflix series.
Warning: spoilers ahead for the first nine episodes of Love Is Blind.
After ending their own relationship in the pods, Chris and Brianna “Bri” McNees got engaged to Jessica “Jess” Barrett and Connor Spies, respectively. While Bri and Connor have continued to develop their relationship, Chris confessed to Jess after the trip to Cabo that he was not sexually attracted to her.
During the tough conversation, he noted he was more into his second pod connection — Bri. As a result, Chris expressed his feelings to Bri during a group hangout at Pins in Columbus, Ohio, attempting to throw Connor under the bus as someone who wasn’t good enough for Bri.
“He was a good buddy to all of us in the pods. He came to Cabo with us,” Connor told Us Weekly in an exclusive interview. “I had a great relationship with him until, like you see, who you thought was a friend use some of the things that you told him in confidence against you to try and win your girl. It’s not usually going to work, especially in this situation, but it brought me and Bri together.”
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Things between Connor and Chris, however, are rocky. “I was surprised at the way he tried to do it,” Connor said. “But it is what it is. We don’t really talk anymore, as you can imagine.”
Bri, for her part, said that her relationship with Connor was over when they ended things before they met IRL.
“That ship had sailed at the pods,” she told Us. “When we called it off, it became friendly. And then, at Pins, it was one of those things that we were all taken aback by, like, ‘Who is this person?’ That just goes to show anyone could show up as anybody in this experiment. It was not only disrespectful toward Jess, but also Connor. They were best friends in the pods, and to see him flip a switch like that … it was crazy.”
Bri and Brittany Wicker both agreed that the group was all “very confused” by Chris’ behavior at Pins.
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“He was completely different from who he was in Cabo,” Brittany told Us. “We didn’t understand how he did a complete 180 and was disrespecting both relationships. It was a lot to process of, ‘Who is this person?’”
Bri previously gave Us insight about Connor being her “No. 1.”
“What was fantastic is I actually learn[ed] this other side of myself and what I need through Connor and how Connor shows up for me in ways I never knew I needed,” Bri said. “[He broke] down walls that I’ve never been able to break down by myself. That comparison is, kind of, what I’m used to and what’s new to me. He has a really strong grasp of who I am and what I need.”
Chris, meanwhile, is a “good example of the kind of guy” that Bri would “typically date.”
“There’s a lot of attributes and characteristics of things I learned about him in the pods that I was like, ‘Oh yeah, this checks [out].’ I want someone that operates at 1,000 miles an hour,” she said. “He’s intense, like, he challenges himself every day. These are all things that are true to my identity.”
Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix.
