Love Is Blind- Assault Allegations, Renee Addresses Rumors & Aaliyah Speaks Out!
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00:00 back to my channel. My name is Queenie. For those who don't know me, a lot of mess. This season is
00:06 this might be more chaotic than the whole SK Raven situation because that was causing a stir
00:15 on my channel. But season five is very hectic. We're going to talk about some of the things
00:19 that I've been seeing online. But before I get into it, please make sure to like this video,
00:24 subscribe and hit the bell and leave a comment down below. I know I promised this video would
00:29 come out on Sunday, but it is Thanksgiving in Canada. So I might not have time to edit it today,
00:36 but definitely by Monday it will be out. So a lot of things have been happening. There is a
00:42 fifth couple that went to Mexico that we're going to talk about. There is Renee who has spoken out
00:49 about what's been going on in her love is blind experience. And then also Aaliyah has spoken out,
00:56 honey. Everybody is speaking out. Um, let me start with, let's start with Renee. I feel like
01:04 let's actually, should we start heavy and then leave on a lighter note? Okay. Let's start with
01:11 the heavy. There was a fifth couple that went to Mexico. However, unfortunately for the woman
01:16 involved in the relationship, it is being alleged that her fiance S aid her. And so she is filing a
01:26 lawsuit against kinetic and him. Yeah. It's a whole mess. We don't even know who these people
01:34 are. We didn't get any first impressions. We didn't get of them in the pods. Nothing. There
01:39 is a whole case filing that we can read. I don't know all the legal jargon and stuff. So I'm just
01:46 going to insert this TikToker to talk about it. I'm not a lawyer, but if it seemed like there were
01:51 not as many couples on this season of love is blind, it may be because one of the contestants
01:56 from this season recently filed a lawsuit. And I'm going to break it down for you. If you are
02:01 a viewer of love is blind, you're probably confused as to why you don't know the names
02:05 trending and Thomas Smith. But it's because even though they were both participants on the season
02:10 of love is blind, they themselves were completely wiped from all the episodes. Tran Dang, the one
02:15 who filed the 16 page lawsuit is alleging sexual assault, false imprisonment and negligence. And
02:22 she's suing the producers of the show, delirium TV and kinetic content. And the person that
02:27 eventually became her fiance on the show, whose name is Thomas Smith. In addition to the assault,
02:32 false imprisonment and negligence claims, Tran alleges in her lawsuit that the cast of the show
02:37 was provided several alcoholic beverages with limited food, which she says was designed to
02:43 encourage the participants to engage in striking conversations and actions that would increase
02:48 viewer ratings. Tran also alleges in the suit that when contestants were not in the pods,
02:54 they were sequestered in hotel rooms where they couldn't have contact with family, friends or
02:58 other participants. So let's talk about the specific causes of action in regards to the
03:03 assault allegation. The suit says that on or around May 3rd, 2022, Thomas Smith, who for context was
03:10 her fiance by this point, and they are out of the pods and in Mexico. So she's alleging Thomas Smith
03:16 grabbed her and himself without her consent and made contact with her without her consent. And
03:23 even over her objections, the lawsuit claims that since the production companies film everything,
03:30 they surely have footage and were aware of these incidents occurring. The suit also says that Tran
03:35 reported the assault and her discomfort about Thomas Smith to the producers. And in return,
03:41 they tried to mask it as quote, a lack of attraction, and then further asked if maybe
03:46 it was a communication issue. The lawsuit claims that both Kinetic and Delirium are responsible for
03:53 Thomas Smith's actions because he was acting under their supervision and was technically their
03:58 employee since they hired him for the show. Now in regards to the false imprisonment allegations,
04:04 that claim doesn't include Thomas Smith. It's more specific to the producers, Delirium and Kinetic.
04:09 And for this allegation, the suit claims that the producers used violence, threats, intoxicating
04:16 substances, or other means that were intended to prevent the plaintiff Tran from exercising her
04:22 right to come and go as she pleased. So basically, even though she had the right to come and go as
04:27 she pleased, they did things that would make her think or feel like she couldn't, allegedly.
04:32 And the last allegation is negligence. The lawsuit says that producers owe Tran as a
04:38 participant on this show, a level of safety and security while she was filming. She claims they
04:43 owed her the right to not encounter any risk of harm, any mental or physical injury. And as
04:49 producers of the show, they should have taken any reports of sexual misconduct seriously. But
04:55 according to Tran, they didn't protect her from any of this. So she says the actions of all three
05:00 defendants, the producers and Thomas Smith, was malicious, fraudulent, and grossly negligent.
05:06 And she's requesting a jury trial to hear her case.
05:10 So what I do know is that the creator of 'Love is Blind' has also spoken out and they alleged
05:16 that they were not made aware of the either of the situation or of the severity of the situation.
05:25 So it's not necessarily that 'Love is Blind' is denying that she was assaulted.
05:30 But they are saying that if we would have known, measures would have been taken.
05:35 Yeah, that was a-- that was a tough one. I can't even lie to you. That one is really,
05:41 really tough. I-- most of you guys know my personal story. So I'm always here for the victim.
05:48 Like, I just-- yeah, I hope things go in her favor. I don't really know if the lawsuit against
05:55 Kinetic themselves will actually stick, because even though it was under the supervision of the
05:59 show, it's not like 'The Ultimatum', where they have the CCTV cameras and everything,
06:04 where they're filming around the clock, right? That's number one.
06:07 Number two, the cast of the show are not actually employees of the show.
06:12 So the liability, I don't think, falls on the production. It has the potential to be messy,
06:19 but I hope that she seeks retribution in some kind of way against her perpetrators,
06:24 because yeah, assault of any kind is just unacceptable.
06:28 The next thing we can talk about is Renee. Renee, as we know, had-- oh, where's the article?
06:35 Here it is. Renee, as we know, had her own story cut out of 'Love is Blind'. We know that she went
06:42 to Mexico with Carter, but it is being alleged that he was belligerent. And yeah, people also
06:51 thought that she had a boyfriend. She's denying it. I'm just gonna skim quickly through what she
06:58 had said to PopSugar. I'll also tag the article down below if you want to read the whole thing.
07:03 Renee says, "We did get engaged in the pods and we were chosen to be followed for the rest of the
07:08 journey. We did go all the way to the altar, but we did not get married. We fell in love with each
07:13 other in the pods. We were excited about everything and things went really well in Mexico as well.
07:18 We were always very pleasant, funny, happy, and enjoyed each other's company. But once we got back
07:24 to Houston, back to the real world, I started noticing things that I kind of ignored or blew
07:29 off that were red flags and I should have picked up on. And eventually I said no at the altar.
07:34 I was just as shocked as everyone else. I got a couple-- I got a call a couple months before
07:39 the show aired in August to let me know that our story wasn't going to be a big focus.
07:44 What I was told was, 'We'll just point blank say that Carter was awful and we don't want you to
07:49 have to relive that. That's just not going to be a big focus.' They also said timing was an issue,
07:55 so they decided to cut our story, but they never told us-- I feel like it would have been even
08:01 better if they kind of-- okay, well, whatever. I did ask for clarification because I was so
08:08 confused at first. My first question was, 'Wait, the wedding wasn't going to be shown?' She was
08:12 like, 'No, no wedding.' So I kept asking more and she was like, 'I think it's going to be more like
08:18 you guys are friends from the pods.' It was very vague and I still thought the possibility--
08:23 I still thought that possibly we were going to be engaged on the show and then kind of cut down
08:30 from there. Okay, um yeah, she goes on to say that she
08:40 did not have a boyfriend. I'm going to look for that part there. So here it is, uh pop sugar asked,
08:46 'Is there anything else you wanted to clear up?' She said, 'I get asked the same things over and
08:51 over so I'll eventually explain everything that happened during filming but I was mostly
08:54 frustrated about people saying that I was dating someone else. I'm wild but I didn't do anything
08:59 like that. When we got engaged at the beginning, I was head over heels. We were going to get married,
09:05 I was sure of it and then everything unfolded but no, I was super committed.' So there you have it,
09:14 she says that she was not dating somebody else however, she don't address the marriage to somebody
09:20 else. So I'm just like maybe she had one of those whirlwind romances where you meet one month,
09:26 you're engaged in three and you're married four months after that. So who knows? Then lastly,
09:32 we're going to talk about the Aaliyah interview, excuse me, that she did with um Cameron Hamilton
09:38 on their YouTube channel, Hanging with the Hamiltons. You can go watch that in full as well
09:42 but these were the key points that stood out to me. So she said that she felt very safe with
09:49 Uche and the pods and they spoke about literally anything under the sun, upbringing, past
09:53 relationships, temperament, living habits, life goal, like everything. Obviously, we know that
10:01 at some point you would have to talk about this stuff in the pods because all you have to do is
10:05 talk so that doesn't surprise me at all. She says per her last relationship he had cheated on her
10:11 but she didn't want to talk about her ex cheating on the show just because she doesn't feel like
10:17 this needs to be a bashing session. She went on to say that she did therapy after the relationship
10:22 because she acknowledged that she was emotionally immature and was coming out of a toxic relationship.
10:28 Regarding Lydia, she said that um she was told by Uche that they only dated for three weeks
10:34 in 2020. Now, I know in my comments some people have been saying like "Queen, you can't say that
10:40 people going back to sex means that they're relating in more ways than just wanting sex from
10:45 each other". I agree, however, the fine details of hanging out with his family and with the Kobe
10:53 stuff and and even her knowing he's coming on the show like there's just too many intimate details
11:01 that she knows about this man's life that makes me think that it was more than just sex.
11:06 Maybe not a full-blown relationship but definitely not a random hookup, okay?
11:10 She also goes on to say that it was a week between the phone call that we saw on the show
11:15 and the catch-up little luncheon that they had. She said that she had blocked him because she
11:20 was tired of hearing all the angry rants from him. He was very upset with her not just at the phone
11:25 call so I guess this was like a week of her being berated by him and she was like "listen,
11:30 it's enough, okay?" She confirmed that they dated post the show for a month. Now, this is where
11:38 things get a little bit-- but has um reasons that she may disclose later why they didn't work out.
11:47 One of them being that he told the other guys that she wasn't his ideal type and she goes on
11:56 to say that she also did not feel the attraction from him. Now, I've been deliberately not talking
12:04 about Uche's preference because I just didn't want to have that conversation because I know how it
12:09 gets sometimes in the comments especially on shows that have a bigger audience than my other shows,
12:14 okay? But the way...
12:18 The way Uche regards certain women over other women, to me, definitely made me think of things
12:33 similar to what Aaliyah just confirmed here. So she definitely felt the lack of attraction on his end
12:39 and then it was confirmed to her by other people who had heard from Uche's mouth directly that he
12:44 did not find her-- okay, let me not say he didn't find her attractive but she wouldn't be his type.
12:51 He wouldn't go for her. The last thing that I noted was that basically Uche was in his lawyer
12:55 bag, okay? He went to Aaliyah showing her all the receipts that he had against Lydia, like he just
13:02 was collecting, collecting, collecting. I feel like at some point, whether it was on or off the show,
13:06 he had the intention of like trying to hand her ass to her. It-- yeah, he was prepared.
13:13 Anyways, she says that she spoke to Lydia and doesn't want to share until Lydia decides to
13:19 share her side of things because it's not her story to tell but she does say Lydia's perspective
13:28 is validated to a degree. She also says that Uche's perspective is validated to a degree.
13:35 So it's kind of similar to what I was saying. I do think that Lydia did those things but I'm not
13:41 going to act as if there were not prior actions that led her to that point, okay? We know Lydia
13:48 can be a little bit cuckoo for cuckoo puffs but to just say that she was acting erratically for
13:54 no reason whatsoever was hard for me to believe. Uche, he's a lawyer. He knows how to make an
14:01 argument fit the narrative that he's trying to paint. So of course he can tell the truth and
14:06 skew it in a way that is favorable for him. I do think that there are points to his story that are
14:12 true. I do think that there is a perspective of Lydia's that is also true. The problem with Lydia
14:17 and how she communicates is that she gets really flustered easily so I think it's hard for her to
14:22 properly articulate what happened between the two of them. You could also tell that they were both
14:28 trying to protect each other in the pods. He was talking about how great of a woman she is and she's
14:32 so trustworthy and ray tete whatever and then with her she was like do you really want me to talk
14:37 about what happened between us? Do you really want this? And so that's when we heard a little bit
14:42 about the cheating thing but you can tell she's keeping a lot to her chest. I don't know if we
14:48 will ever get the truth even if they both were to tell exactly how they believe that it happened.
14:54 There's his hers and the truth so yeah interesting. I'll keep up. I'll keep reading y'all's DMs that
15:01 you send me. The best place to send the tea if I'm being honest is discord but if you're not on
15:09 discord that's totally fine. I understand that too. As long as y'all send me the tea I will update
15:14 y'all but yeah that is what I have so far. Like, comment, share, and subscribe and I'll see you in the next one.