Love Is Blind’s Chelsea Griffin and Kwame Appiah’s Relationship Timeline: From the Pods to Wedded Bliss
usmagazine.comLove really is blind! Kwame Appiah and Chelsea Griffin knew they would each say “I do” before the Love Is Blind season 4 finale.“I think a couple days before though, I knew that I had to make up my mind because I felt like if I was on the fence on that day, I would’ve made a decision and then regretted it later,” Kwame exclusively told Us Weekly in March 2023. “So, I just wanted to make sure I was solid in my decision.
So we went ahead and actually got a lease to an apartment in Seattle a couple days before — we signed the day before the wedding.
So we kind of just put ourselves in a position to know, like, ‘Hey, at least we’re willing to take this next step and see how it goes from here.’”The Ghana native, who was previously based in Portland, met Chelsea during the Seattle iteration of the Netflix pod experiment.
While connecting sight unseen, Kwame and the speech pathologist quickly found similarities in the type of dream partner they each sought.“Obviously, the concept here of love being blind, we want to get to know each other [by] who we are on the inside, [but] what I hope that does is nurture what we see outside as well,” the former soccer player confessed to Chelsea during the first episode of season 4, which aired in March 2023. “It is wild when you’re just so connected with someone that you can’t walk by them without thinking about how infatuated you are, you know? … The only reason I want to put my hands all over your body is because, essentially, I feel like I have myself all over your soul.”While the Washington native was all-in on Kwame, the sales development manager also had a strong connection with fellow contestant Micah Lussier.
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