‘I Must Speak The Truth’

The trio of new Love Is Blind episodes that dropped Friday proved Marshall Glaze couldn’t trust his fiancée, Jackie Bonds. Because while he was getting fitted for his wedding day finery, she went on a date with another man.

Or so it seemed.

But according to Bonds, what the episodes really proved is that you can’t trust what you see on reality TV.

Sure, viewers watched her skip out on dress shopping and meet up with her former blind-pod flame Josh Demas for coffee and a kiss. And then they watched her break it off with Glaze after the rendezvous and keep the engagement ring he asked her to return. However, in a statement the 27-year-old shared Saturday, Bonds claimed that order of events reflects creative editing rather than what really happened.

“I have seen the latest episodes that have premiered on Love Is Blind and I must speak the truth,” Bonds wrote in an Instagram post. “Marshall and I were broken up before I saw Josh at the coffee shop. I am wearing different clothes, my hair is styled different and at the end of the video I say ‘I DON’T KNOW IF I AM GOING TO BE WITH JOSH’. I am not sure what the reason is for playing the coffee shop date before the break up but to restate, Marshall and I were broken up before Josh and I had our coffee shop date. As for the ring, Marshall did not pay for the ring Love Is Blind paid for all the rings.”

While her clothes and hair were indeed different between the scenes, the vast majority of Love Is Blind fans who replied to her post weren’t buying the rest of her message, calling her a “liar,” a “cheater” and countering that the editing couldn’t have put certain words in her mouth.

For instance, at the café, before Demas arrived for their date, Bonds said, “I haven’t talked to Josh since Chelsea’s party.”

She and Glaze were still a couple, albeit a tense one, the night of Chelsea Griffin’s birthday bash, so if the coffee date was her first time seeing Demas since then, that makes her corrected timeline difficult to understand.

After all, during the later breakup scene with Glaze, she told her now-former fiancé, “Marshall, I can’t love you because I’m attracted to Josh. I just saw Josh, and there is some chemistry.”

When Glaze asked her what she and Demas discussed when she saw him, she said it “was him basically confessing his feelings,” something he did in no uncertain terms at the café.

Of course, it is possible she was referring to having seen him at the party rather than the coffee shop. But when commenters on Instagram asked her about the seeming discrepancy, Bonds had a different explanation.

“They used audio from me and Josh at the coffee shop where I said, ‘I just saw Josh. I just left him,’” she responded. “That was said in my one on one interview after the date with Josh.”

The only problem with that allegation is that it wasn’t just the audio. When she said, “I just saw Josh,” it was on camera in the midst of the breakup conversation with Glaze.

Viewers may not know what really happened until next week’s reunion show, when the cast gathers together to give updates on their respective relationships and discuss all the events of Season 4.

At least there, Bonds won’t have to worry about getting a bad edit. As Love Is Blind hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey recently announced, the reunion will stream live.