Sara Carton initially rejected Ben Mezzanga on the altar within the Season 8 finale solely to agree to maneuver in with him to “develop” their relationship — earlier than he disappeared per week or two later.
Do you are taking this rejection and promise to reject in flip? I do.
After getting rejected on the altar throughout the Love Is Blind Season 8 finale, Ben Mezzenga managed to show the tables and reject Sara Carton by ghosting her only a week later — this in keeping with Sara.
Speaking with Leisure Weekly after the finale aired on March 7, Sara admitted she was “hesitant” as she made her approach to the altar, having already decided she “could not say sure.”
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“However I nonetheless was very hopeful,” she added, referring to the potential for her and Ben as a pair. “I used to be pondering, ‘With out the cameras and the chaos throughout me and us, would we have the ability to work?’ And so I used to be excited to get again to only common life, a routine, get structured, and see how that’s with Ben.”
On-screen, followers noticed Sara reject Ben on the altar, however nonetheless provide him a “We’ll see” when he requested if they might nonetheless proceed so far. The premise of the present sees {couples} meet in pods and develop relationships sight-unseen. Then, they’ll suggest and are available face-to-face to begin planning their weddings.
Rejection to Ghosted
Sara advised EW that issues gave the impression to be going easily with Ben after the cameras stopped rolling … till they did not. “We lived collectively for a couple of week or two, after which I obtained again to my dwelling, after which he really did drop me,” she stated.
“He eliminated me from Discover My Associates, and I did not hear a lot from him. I used to be very confused. It was out of nowhere. I used to be shocked,” she admitted. “That is once I had probably the most readability of who Ben was.”
It wasn’t complete silence, although … not less than not at first. Sara stated she did attain out to him after he’d ghosted her to inform him she would have “appreciated you speaking to me about this somewhat than me discovering it unexpectedly,” hoping they might proceed “on a great web page” and supporting each other transferring ahead.

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“He simply despatched fairly scripted apologies again. There was no weight to those phrases. And yeah, did not hear from him after that. It was fascinating,” she stated.
She stated that issues are cordial between her and Ben now with no exhausting emotions, “however yeah, finally, simply not my particular person. It is no unhealthy blood, nevertheless it’s simply my understanding of simply who he’s. It’s what it’s, and we simply transfer ahead.”
She additionally admitted to Folks to questioning if he was even on the present to search out love. “Ben advised me he needed to be an actor. He moved to California to try this and pursue his goals,” she claimed.
“When he advised me that within the pods, I used to be like, ‘I needed to be Hannah Montana once I was younger.’ I used to be giving him the advantage of the doubt,” she stated.
TikTok Breaking Level
Sara credited a TikTok video from a girl claiming to be an ex that accused Ben of mistreating ladies prior to now as a “enormous” think about her final resolution to reject him on the altar. It is not that she was outright rejecting him, or believing the TikTok outright, however that it gave her pause earlier than a wedding.
When she requested him about that exact girl and her claims, Ben initially stated that he did not bear in mind because it had been a number of years prior. However when the lady posted a second video and stated the person had blocked her, Ben admitted it was about him and sure, he’d blocked her.
“At that second I used to be like, ‘I’ve a lot extra I must study only for this to be the most secure and smartest resolution for myself,'” she stated, admitting that she struggled nonetheless to press pause in any case they’d been via to this point on the present.

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Finally, although, she advised EW it was too many purple flags. “I may really feel my coronary heart and my thoughts torn in so many instructions,” she stated. “I simply knew with all these hesitations that there isn’t any method I may say sure to and have it really feel proper. I might’ve liked to and be married, have my particular person, and have a brand new chapter in life, nevertheless it didn’t sit proper with me.”
Add to that the truth that Ben was giving little or no when it got here to weightier subjects and he or she began to query the authenticity of him saying he liked her “always.”
On prime of that, Sara stated that different individuals started reaching out to her about him, claiming to have had experiences at school with him. “It was by no means something like one thing he really did that was unhealthy that I might hear, it was simply extra like his persona,” she defined.
“After which additionally, I used to be despatched the YouTube subscription card sooner or later, so I used to be like, ‘Ooookay, that is fascinating. I am studying lots about Ben.'” As reported by Folks, ladies began coming ahead on-line claiming that Ben had left enterprise playing cards selling his YouTube web page with ladies after he’d slept with them.
Disconnected Pink Flag
That alter resolution was the fruits of a season of Sara poking and prodding at Ben’s perception system to see the place he stands on many points — together with the Black Lives Matter motion — solely to find that he simply does not really feel that strongly about any of it.
“I’ve at all times needed a associate to be on the identical wavelength,” she advised Ben on the altar, including that she felt there was “no curiosity from his facet.”
“I requested him about Black Lives Matter,” Sara advised her household on the present after she’d rejected him, as lined by Fox Information. “And I am no skilled, however once I requested him about it, he is like, ‘I suppose I by no means actually thought an excessive amount of about it.’ That affected me.”
“Particularly in our personal metropolis, like how may it not? How may it not make you consider one thing?,” she added. Season 8 of Love Is Blind was filmed in Minneapolis, the place Gorge Floyd died beneath the knee of former police officer Derek Chauvin.

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She defined to her household that she requested him about his church and its views after studying extra about it herself, and significantly its ideas on conventional sexual id, i.e. not LGBTQIA+ pleasant.
“I advised that to Ben, and he did not actually have a lot to say about it,” she advised her household. “I need somebody to consider that stuff.” When she’d earlier advised him her sister is homosexual, he advised her he had “no discomfort round that neighborhood in any respect.”
She and Ben did discuss a few of these subjects, although, with Sara sharing that she did not actually grow to be politically concerned herself till President Trump’s first time period and George Floyd’s 2020 demise.
As for Ben, he advised her, “I am form of ignorant in direction of that stuff. Like, I did not vote within the final election. So long as I do not know, it is not gonna, you already know, do a lot. I’ve form of simply been staying out of it.”
That is precisely what she determined to do about marrying him … keep away.
Nonetheless, Sara has no regrets about her Love Is Blind expertise, saying she’s pleased with how she navigated coming to this understanding of who Ben is sufficient to know that he’s not her particular person.
“I would not have modified something,” she stated. “It is such a singular expertise and it is weak, and also you’re placing your self on the market, so in fact you are going to change and notice issues about your self and the individuals round you and who you need to be surrounded by.”