Love Is Blind: Joe Sparks Post-Show Romance with Kacie After a Few Dates

Love Is Blind season 9 participant Joe Ferrucci had a fleeting romance with Kacie McIntosh following his breakup with his former partner. The key word here is “fleeting.”

“When Joe and I started seeing each other—on our very first date—we were at a bar, and he bumped into someone he knew,” shared Joe’s current girlfriend of over a year, Averee, during an episode of the “Reality Receipts Podcast” aired on Sunday, October 19. “He mentioned he’d been on a couple of dates with her,” she added.

She went on to say, “I asked him, ‘Who’s that?’ and when I looked over, it turned out to be Kacie. I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’” Averee noted that she was not familiar with Kacie at the time but appreciated Joe being upfront about their brief history.

Averee also admitted that she is neither a fan nor a friend of Kacie’s.

“I think she’s burnt a lot of bridges in our friend group,” she said. “Obviously, from what we see on TV, it translates into real life. At least for other people, I can say [that] who they are on TV and who they are in real life isn’t really the same … but for her, it fully translates into real life.”

Averee added, “I mean I personally choose to surround myself with women that lift each other up and, like, follow girl code” but insisted “that will never be Kacie.”

“That’s not what I want in a room with me and I guess all I’ll say is, like, Joe getting a girlfriend did not stop her from continuously trying,” Averee also said. She insisted that there was “no overlap” between herself and Kacie, “but it was just one of those [things] where she just wanted to know, I think, that she could have him or, like, get him still.”

Averee also said Kacie will text Joe “every couple weekends” to find out what he’s doing or where he is. This happened “all while [she was] trying to be friends with me. We met at a cool party last year, she’s like, ‘I just love you, I think you’re so cute, I think you and Joe are great, like, it’s no hard feelings to you,’” and then she’s still trying to hook up with my man while she knows he’s my man.”

Joe opened up about another relationship from the show this month. While speaking exclusively to Us Weekly in an interview published Wednesday, October 15, Joe revealed that his break-up from ex-fiancee Madison Maidenberg was a little different than what is portrayed on the popular Netflix series.

“My connection with Madison in the pods was great. There were a lot of butterflies. It was a very deep connection. We had a lot of laughs,” Joe said. “When you’re going into [the pods], there is a little hesitation, and then the more you go forward, you get bought in and it is a pressure cooker situation. The conversations you have in there are very deep and exceed what would be in a regular relationship just by timeline. The more it went on, I could see it working out.”

Joe also addressed Madison’s claim that she developed an eating disorder after he made a comment about her body. “I did see that,” Joe admitted. “Obviously, kind of a horrible feeling on my end if that’s something that affected her long-term or for a little while after. It was a surprising comment. Madison’s always been very confident in her body image, but you never know how somebody’s really feeling inside. I didn’t mean it to affect her in that way. It’s not a good thing to hear.”

Ultimately, things between the two soured. “It seemed Madison was all in and what you would want in a person. I, on the other hand, had some concerns, nervous, scared, anxious. I never saw that coming from Madison,” Joe told Us. “I think it scared me seeing that as well, and I know she wanted to keep on with the experiment, go through, get as much as you can out of it, in the way of, ‘Is this my person?’ More time for discovering that. I think there was a certain breaking point for me where I couldn’t go on any longer.”