What Micah And Irina Have Said About Being The 'Mean Girls'
Netflix's hit social experiment relationship display, Love Is Blind is again with season 4. This time, hopeful couples don't seem to be simply coping with the pressures of marriage.
They additionally have to handle the "mean girls," Micah Lussier and Irina Solomonova who have now joined season 3's Bartise Bowen as one of reality TV's new "villains."
Here's what the duo feels about their "bully" popularity.
Micah & Irina Defended Their Mean Girl Behavior On Love Is Blind
In an interview with EW on March 26, Micah and Irina addressed the "mean girl" claims, pronouncing it used to be just a "coping mechanism" all through any such "nerve-wracking" time. "For us, it was really helpful to have a little sense of normalcy," said the former.
"Being able to laugh and make light and make jokes and, well, maybe sometimes the jokes didn't land or maybe it didn't look the best, but we needed that in that moment to feel like a normal person."
She added: "Because you're a part of this experience that is so beyond words. To be able to make a little bit of light out of such a hard thing was really helpful."
As for Irina, she said that the ones scenes the place they looked like they have been making a laugh in their co-stars weren't meant to hurt any person. "Everything was difficult. Everyone was experiencing the whole show in a different way," she said. "Me and Micah's coping mechanism was laughing about it."
"And I honestly will say on the record, 100 percent," she persisted, "I did not intentionally ever want to hurt anyone. [Hearing] that I hurt people's feelings genuinely breaks my heart."
Micah additionally said that they are "just people. [She] and I are both in our mid-twenties. We're just doing the best we can do. We just have to grow up from our mistakes."
Micah Apologized For 'Emotional Immaturity' On Love Is Blind
Two days after the interview was once published, Micah took to her Instagram Story to say sorry for her "emotional immaturity" during the display. She said that despite the fact that she has already "apologized privately to the people that were hurt on the show by my hands," she'd like to "apologize publicly," as "an emotional immaturity was shown and I will grow from it."
"To the viewers I've hurt. I'm sorry I've triggered so many of you with my behavior. Seeing that person on the screen would make me feel the same anger."
The marketing specialist also clarified why she had switched off her Instagram feedback. "I will turn them on in time. I am doing my best to protect my mental health (deserved or not)," she said. "It has always been something I've struggled with, and I know I can not better myself if I’m more unwell mentally. I hope you understand that I am taking accountability privately."
She concluded the textual content Story with "I promise to do better in the future." Still, it did not take a seat proper with viewers. One tweeted: "Ah classic 'I got destroyed by the public now let me post a story that will make up for all the damage.' This tells me that there is more mean stuff to come."
Another user wrote: "Hey, Micah maybe instead of apologizing, how about you grow the f--k up? Did you forget you were on a TV show? It's amazing to me that you were even casted, taking space from people that are MATURE and deserve love. #LoveIsBlind you have to get a better casting team! This is bad."
Irina Apologized For 'Mistreating' Love Is Blind Co-Stars
On April 2, Irina additionally released a public apology on Instagram. "The first thing I want to say is that I have privately apologized to the people that I have hurt and mistreated," she said in a video, nearly copying Micah's observation.
"Second of all, I wanted to say I am so, so, so sorry for the people that watched the show that felt frustrated, angry, hurt by the way that I was mistreating people on the show."
She admitted that "it was very immature and naive of me in a lot of those situations" and that "none of those people deserved to be treated the way that I treated them." She additionally noted that she is aware of "that none of those things were OK."
She ended the clip by way of announcing that like Micah, the revel in had additionally been a lesson to her.
"I feel like being on the show was like getting a mirror put in front of your face, in the sense of seeing yourself from a different perspective. That opened up so much to me and I'm still processing and going through everything that happened."
Again, fans concept the gesture wasn't even "slightly authentic," with one commenting: "What? Sorry..I only heard 'I'm posting this so I don't get fully cancelled and this is all about me' lolol."
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