Love Is Blind’s Jessica Batten Reveals Where She Stands With Amber Pike and Matt Barnett Following ‘After the Altar’ Special

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As season 2 of Love Is Blind continues to make waves, Jessica Batten is sharing insight about where the season 1 cast stands — and it’s safe to say some feuds may never be mended.The 37-year-old “Unsettled” podcast host was joined by several of the OG stars, including Amber Pike and Matt Barnett, for the Netflix special After the Altar: Two Years Later, which started streaming in July 2021.“I chose to go and I chose to go on my own.

I could have brought [my fiancé] Ben — he and I talked about that extensively,” Jessica said on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast about filming the reunion show. “And at some point, I thought I did wanna bring him, but I’m so glad I went alone because I don’t want the story to be that, ‘Oh, I ended up engaged and it’s a happily ever after.’ I really fought through, day by day, on my own.

And I wanted to walk into that room of people, you know, standing on my own two feet, just [saying], ‘I got through this and I’m happy to be here and wish you all well, and I hope there’s no ill will on your part.’ But as you see, it plays out a little bit differently than that.”During the 2020 season of the Netflix series, fans watched Jessica strike up connections with Mark Cuevas and Barnett.

While she got engaged to Mark — and Barnett found love with Amber — post-pods happiness didn’t last long. Jessica, does, however, recall a highlight of the experiment being the group trip to Mexico.“It was weird seeing Barnett and Amber, and it was not the person that I dated and felt a lot of feelings for,” she told Us about the honeymoons on the show. “It was a totally different dynamic between the two of them, which I was reconciling in my brain.”While Amber and Barnett exchanged vows — and are still