Love Is Blind Kacie McIntosh defends breakup with Patrick Suzuki

Kacie McIntosh, a contestant on season nine of the Netflix dating series Love Is Blind, has defended her on-screen actions after breaking off a sight unseen engagement to fellow participant Patrick Suzuki hours after meeting him in person. The episodes, which began streaming in early October, show McIntosh accepting Suzuki’s proposal in the pods and then reversing course once the couple met face to face, prompting sharp reactions from viewers and competing accounts from the two participants about what happened after filming.

On camera McIntosh told producers she did not expect her attraction to Suzuki to increase and said it would be unfair to continue the relationship. In a confessional she said, "He deserves somebody better than me" and described a sense that "the attraction...isn't going to grow that much." In scenes that followed she declined to join Suzuki on the couples' post-reveal trip to Mexico and, at times, embraced and kissed him, behavior some viewers called confusing. Suzuki told producers he still intended to try dating McIntosh after the pods.

McIntosh addressed the backlash on Instagram Stories on October 4, acknowledging mistakes and saying that "there is far...