Love Is Blind’s Alexa Alfia and Brennon Lemieux Share Cole Barnett Friendship Update Post-‘After the Altar’ Feud: ‘We Have Different Lives’

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While Alexa Alfia and Brennon Lemieux were firmly Team Zanab Jaffrey amid her Love Is Blind drama with ex-fiancé Cole Barnett, things reached a boiling point during Love Is Blind: After the Altar.

Now, the married couple is breaking down where they currently stand with Cole.“I don’t have any ill will towards Cole,” Brennon, 32, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of After the Altar’s Netflix premiere, which dropped on Friday, February 10. “I told Cole, ‘If he wanted to be friends with me, he could have reached out.’ We’re different people, we have different lives and just because we filmed the show for two months doesn’t mean we have to be best friends, and I told him that.

I was like, ‘You know, we don’t have to be best friends. You don’t have to live your life based on what I think.’”The water treatment engineer and Alexa, 27 — who were one of two couples to wed in the season 3 finale — fervently supported Zanab, 31, after she accused former fiancé Cole, 26, of body-shaming her during their romance.

The twosome’s argument came to a head during the Love Is Blind season 3 reunion, which aired in November 2022, in which Alexa stuck up for her pal.“I’m not blindly following [Zanab] because she’s a woman,” Alexa said during a November 2022 appearance on the “Chicks in the Office” podcast. “I’m not just blindly ‘Team Zay’ on something and I’m not, like, anti-Cole.