‘Love Is Blind’ Star Deepti Vempati Slams Shake Chatterjee’s ‘Fake’ Apology: ‘He’s Just Doing Damage Control’

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The fraught relationship between one of the couple’s in the second season of “Love Is Blind” has become even more so. On March 9, Abhishek “Shake” Chatterjee took to Instagram to share a video in which he apologizes to Deepti Vempati — to whom he got engaged on the show but who ultimately left him at the altar — due to some insulting comments he made during filming.

As the Daily Mail outlined, Chatterjee told another member of the cast that he wasn’t “physically attracted” to Vempati, complaining, “It feels like I’m with my aunt or something.” He also raised viewers’ hackles when he asked Deepti, during one of their earliest conversations, whether he would “have trouble picking her up.” READ MORE: ‘Love Is Blind’ Star Shake Chatterjee Issues Public Apology To Ex Deepti Vempati Amid Controversy In the wake of the backlash, he told Vempati in his video that he “wanted to take this opportunity to really just say sorry to a woman that I know I hurt,” adding that he was “truly sorry for some of the things that I said.” He continued by stating, “And even though I knew our relationship wasn’t going to end in marriage, I didn’t want what we had to end, either.

I loved every second of it. And I’m so, so sorry that I hurt you with my words. That’s the last thing that I wanted from all this.

I’m sorry.” Vempati, however, is not buying his apology, dismissing his words as “fake” and “insincere.” “This is the first time he’s apologized.