Love Is Blind season 9 star Madison Maidenberg has a theory about her ex-fiancé Joe Ferrucci briefly dating fellow contestant Kacie McIntosh.
“I don’t know if we can call it dating, first of all,” Madison, 28, said on the Wednesday, November 5, episode of the “What’s the Reality?” podcast. “I think they were mutually using each other’s bodies. That’s what I think was going on.”
Madison and Joe, 29, got engaged sight unseen during Love Is Blind season 9 but didn’t make it to the aisle. Joe ended their engagement after his wedding tux fitting, claiming that he suddenly realized Madison wasn’t The One.
Within weeks, Joe started seeing Kacie, 34. (Kacie had been single after ending her Love Is Blind engagement to Patrick Suzuki hours after they met in person.)
The Love Is Blind season 9 reunion saw ex-fiancés Joe Ferrucci and Madison Maidenberg pointing fingers regarding their broken engagement. “At this point, I’ve accepted that I’m not going to get a full sentence from Joe as far as what actually happened,” Madison, 28, said during the Wednesday, October 29, special. “So, that’s OK.” Joe, […]
“I knew that it started probably a month after our engagement ended,” Madison told podcast host and franchise alum AD Smith. “It’s alleged. I don’t know exactly the timeline. I can’t totally speak to it, but I do know the night of tux fittings, we had gone to [meet] a few of the couples — and a bunch of singles showed up.”
While Madison told several of Joe’s friends that she picked her wedding dress and was “so excited” to tie the knot, she allegedly looked across the room to find Joe in conversation with Kacie.
“As I’m standing there with a ring on my finger, I look over and Kacie has both hands on Joe’s chest, talking to him,” Madison claimed. “In Joe’s words, he said, ‘She was giving me googly eyes.’ … I don’t know if it started then or later.”
Both Joe and Kacie denied Madison’s version of events, stressing that they only explored a romantic connection after her engagement had already been called off.
Another month later, Kacie confided in Madison about the nature of her relationship with Joe at costar Mike Brockway’s pool party.
“I was standing in a group. Kacie came to the party, she’s making rounds [and] saying hello,” Madison recalled on Wednesday. “She came up to a group of us girls and I was asking her, like, ‘How’s wedding season going?’ I already [knew] about the her and Joe thing, [so] I said, ‘How’s dating going?’ She was like, ‘Oh, you know, good.’”
According to Madison, the hairstylist said that she was “meaning to talk to” her about the situation.
Love Is Blind season 9 star Joe Ferrucci is speaking out following his shocking split from ex-fiancée Madison Maidenberg, filling in what you didn’t see on TV during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly. “My connection with Madison in the pods was great. There were a lot of butterflies. It was a very deep connection. […]
“We go sit down, there is no recognition of the fact that [she was] talking to his ex-fiancée,” Madison said. “She immediately starts talking to me about how he treated her poorly, [and] she went so far to say, ‘Oh, we’re Eskimo sisters’ to me. I said to her, ‘I’m gonna say to your face what I’ve been saying. I don’t respect your choice. The way that you’ve gone about this has been classless and it does hurt me.’”
Joe and Kacie both shut down Madison’s accusations during the season 9 reunion, which aired late last month.
“[It was] a month and a half. I think it just kind of fizzled out. It just ultimately didn’t work out,” Joe said of his connection with Kacie. “That has nothing to do with [my engagement]. That was after, and that was never in my mind when I broke it off.”
Madison and Kacie are both still single, while Joe has since moved on with Denver-based dating coach Averee Madison.
Love Is Blind is streaming on Netflix.