“Love Is Blind” star Chelsea Blackwell says she’s confident she never would’ve said yes to marrying Trevor Sova — even if he’d popped the question prior to Jimmy Presnell.
Despite Sova’s claims that him proposing first could have changed the outcome, Blackwell, 31, insisted that timing would “absolutely not” have made a difference in who she chose to get engaged to amid one of the sixth season’s most talked-about love triangles.
“I had two really great men,” she told People in an interview published Saturday. “[But] Trevor just wasn’t lining up, and my gut was telling me something. My intuition was just telling me, ‘This isn’t it, but Jimmy is.’”
Sova, meanwhile, argued that the structure of the show is set up so that “whoever is freshest in your mind from the day before is who you’re kind of thinking of the most,” noting that Blackwell and Presnell, 28, had been on a nearly six-hour-long date in the pods the night before the latter proposed.
“Then Jimmy saw her right away in the morning, and that’s when he proposed, and then it was me later in the day,” Sova, 31, explained. “So I think if you switched it around, it could have gone either way. I’m not saying for sure, but there’s a possibility.”
But Blackwell insisted — despite not knowing who she was going to see first on Proposal Day — she had zero hesitation about picking Presnell in the hours before he got down on one knee.
“I went to bed that night, I prayed, I meditated, I did everything I needed to do to align my heart and my head and everything was guiding me to Jimmy,” she said. “It wouldn’t have changed my opinion.”
“I didn’t know if I was going to be going through a breakup first or getting engaged first,” Blackwell continued. “Either way would’ve been a total emotional rollercoaster — but it worked out exactly how it should have.”
Initially a “Love Is Blind” darling, Sova has since sparked backlash amid rumors he was engaged to someone outside of the show while filming. He appears to address the allegations in “Love Is Blind Reunion,” dropping Wednesday on Netflix, as seen in the trailer released this week.
Meanwhile, Blackwell has faced her share of criticism, both for the fights she’d pick with Presnell once they were out of the pods, and for saying that many people say she looks like Megan Fox. She has since expressed regret over both.