Love Is Blind star Devonta Anderson had some big news to share at the season 10 reunion.
“I wanted to go into this to be a husband and a father, those were two of the most important things for me,” Devonta, 32, said during the reunion, which dropped Wednesday, March 11, on Netflix. “I got some exciting news that I am gonna be a father this year.”
Devonta further confirmed that he is engaged to his new partner, who does not live with him in Arizona. (Devonta lives in a house with Love Is Blind costar Alex Henderson.)
Devonta proposed to Brittany Wicker sight unseen during Love Is Blind season 10, which was set in Ohio. He notably struggled with his attraction to Brittany, 33, once they met in person. The couple ultimately called off their wedding days before their would-be ceremony.
“The more I’m clinged onto or the more I’m pressured, the harder I push back,” Devonta said in a confessional during the finale, which aired earlier this month. “She is sometimes like a shadow to me and sometimes I’m, like, ‘Just wait out there, I’ll be right back. I’m just going to change my shirt.’ It’s something I don’t want to keep dragging down the road if it’s not going to work out.”
According to Devonta, he had “self-doubt” about whether he could love Brittany in a way that she wanted from her husband.
Brittany was admittedly shocked by Devonta’s decision to end their engagement, but she still had hopes that they could date after Love Is Blind wrapped.
“I feel like we’re still together, and we’re just taking a slight pause on when we actually get married,” Brittany told Devonta on the show. “I think when it comes to you feeling more comfortable with a prenup. For me, say we would have got married today, I was willing to make adjustments to what I believe.”
She continued, “We’re still gonna be together. We’re still engaged. I do see [us] 100 percent marrying each other.”
While it appeared that Brittany was blindsided by Devonta’s decision, she actually could sense his wavering throughout their relationship.
“I think that [Devonta] was processing so much emotionally with the loss of his grandfather,” Brittany exclusively told Us Weekly last month, referring to Devonta questioning his pod participation after his grandpa died during production. “It would be, like, sometimes he was so in [and] ready to build this life together, and we were on the same page.”
While Brittany felt that she and Devonta were “very much in alignment” on their future, she did occasionally see pockets of doubt creep in.
“There would be days where he would just wake up and he was feeling the weight of the world and everything that was happening,” she recalled to Us. “I would feel that in return.”
Brittany also got to confront Devonta during Wednesday’s reunion, revealing that his “shadow” comments were “highly offensive.”
“He said that I was a ‘shadow,’ which I found very offensive because I gave him so much space, so much so, that I felt my love language was not being fulfilled,” she stated on Wednesday’s special. “[His comments were] highly confusing to me. … I feel like as soon as he walked out of my doors, he was done with the relationship and he just didn’t want to say that to me. He still dragged it out for weeks.”
When asked about Devonta’s baby news, Brittany added that she wasn’t “fazed by” the news and is currently single herself.
Love Is Blind season 10 is now streaming on Netflix.
