[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Love Is Blind Season 9 Episodes 1-6.]

Not every Love Is Blind story ends in happily ever after. 

On Wednesday, the ninth season of the hit reality series debuted on Netflix. Cast member Anna Yuan entered the show’s famous pods with high hopes that she might meet “the one.” But despite forming solid connections with two other Denver singles, she made the decision to exit the show early, ghosting her suitors with no explantation. 

Anna was a ‘wreck’ when she decided to leave ‘Love Is Blind’ 

Like all Love Is Blind cast members, Anna wanted to meet her future partner, though she knew there were no guarantees. 

“I went in there thinking that anything could happen,” she told Netflix’s Tudum. “I’d be OK if I didn’t find somebody because it’s such a wild thing, and it’s so far off from how any of us have dated before.”  

Once Anna got into the pods, she connected with both Blake Anderson and Patrick Suzuki. But as time wore on, she found herself overwhelmed by the experience. 

“I started seeing myself being pretty vulnerable, and it scared me a little bit because this is an intimate part of my brain. These are very sensitive topics for me,” she said. 

Anna was also worried about her immigrant parents, who often rely on her to help navigate language barriers. They were a bit baffled by her decision to do Love Is Blind. 

“When I told them, ‘Hey, Mom and Dad, I’m going on this show, they’re going to take my phone, they were like, ‘Are you being kidnapped?,’” she said. 

Eventually, the worries about her parents became too much. She decided to leave the pods, but it wasn’t an easy choice. 

“I was a wreck,” she said. “My eyes were almost swollen shut from crying. I was embarrassed.”  

Anna was so ready to be done with Love Is Blind that she left without saying goodbye to either Patrick or Blake. While she wishes she hadn’t ghosted her connections, she doesn’t have big regrets. 

“I don’t think I regret it because I don’t think the connections were strong enough to have a successful marriage from there,” she said. 

Blake and Patrick react to Anna’s decision to leave Netflix show 

Though Anna’s exit was abrupt, there were no hard feelings on Blake’s side. 

“We certainly had a good bond and friendship. I don’t want to speak for her, but I think she made the right decision for herself at the moment, and I’m proud of her for doing that,” he told Tudum. 

Blake certainly can relate to how Anna felt. He also decided to leave the pods early. 

“[A]s the days ticked on, I just realized that a proposal wasn’t in the cards for me,” he said.

Like Anna, he ghosted his connection. In hindsight, he wishes he’s explained his decision to his strongest match, Megan Walerius. 

“In the moment, I think I was almost exclusively concerned with where my head was at, my emotional state, and I really thought I was doing the right thing,” he said. “So I didn’t play that out, which feels clumsy and foolish. If I could go back, I definitely would change that.” 

Patrick took Anna’s exit a bit harder than Blake. He told People he would have proposed if he’d gotten the chance. 

“1000%, yeah, for sure,” he said. “It sucked [she left]. And a part of it is [because] the last thing her and I talked about … she told me, ‘Don’t break my heart.’ And I told her I wasn’t going to.”

“So it definitely, definitely stung pretty hard to not see her the next day,” he said.

Love Is Blind Season 9 is streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays through October 22. 

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