Love Is Blind’s Deepti Vempati Opens Up About ‘Cordial’ Friendship With Kyle Abrams After Split: ‘We’re Doing Our Own Thing’

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Days after Kyle Abrams and Deepti Vempati announced their romantic relationship was over, she shared an update about where they stand now.“Our experience was great, but we just realized that we’re better as friends,” the Love Is Blind alum, 31, told Entertainment Tonight on Friday, September 23. “We have a different type of friendship now and obviously it’s hard to go back to the same type of friendship you had before when you cross that line.”She added: “We’re cordial but we’re doing our own thing.”Abrams, 30, and Vempati were costars on season 2 of the Netflix dating series.

While the I Choose Myself author initially got engaged to Abhishek “Shake” Chatterjee, Abrams proposed to Shaina Hurley with his mother’s engagement ring.

After the two couples couldn’t transition their pod bond to the real world, both duos split ahead of the finale.The construction worker later made headlines at the cast reunion when he hinted that not pursuing the data analyst was his “biggest regret” from the experiment.“I should have tried harder for [Deepti],” Abrams said during the March special. “I love her so much, she’s the best.

And I wish I saw what was right in front of me and that’s my biggest regret. I’m sorry.”The twosome continued to spark relationship speculation with flirty social media exchanges and frequent hangouts.“A lot of people don’t know that Kyle was actually my No.