'Love Is Blind' Star Giannina Gibelli Details How Ex Damian Powers Tried to 'Humiliate' Her on the Show

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Giannina Gibelli is happy with where she is in life now. The season 1 alum has been in a committed relationship with Bachelor Nation alum Blake Horstmann for more than a year and a half, but back when her season of the Netflix reality series came out, she was struggling in her toxic relationship with Damian Powers.Giannina popped the question to Damian in the pods and the pair went back and forth throughout their romance all the way up to the altar.

Damian rejected Giannina at the altar, and though she ran from the altar in tears, the exes ended up reconnecting in the time after their season filmed.The reality star joined fellow alums Deepti Vempati and Natalie Lee on their podcast, where she opened up about her chaotic relationship with Damian and how she felt he «humiliated» her on the special.«That was a very, very real reflection of how we were,» Giannina said of their dramatic romance.

Noting that before filmed, «We had been on and off the whole time.»Describing the exes as «each other's pillars» in the post-show time period, Giannina explained of their on-again, off-again romance, «We just never met eye to eye on a lot of things, but I trusted him.

Even though my trust was betrayed over and over again. I would get DMs all the time.»During, Damian shocked Giannina and viewers alike when he engaged in a flirty friendship with fellow Netflix star Francesca Farago, inviting her to an on-camera cast event where Giannina was present." happened and the entire time Damian was reassuring me, 'There's nothing going on between us.' Then a year later, I see the whole thing and I just felt like a f**king idiot," she explained.