Wilson Monteiro thought he had survived the drama of Netflix’s Love Is Blind. Well, then we showed him an Instagram video from his friend Cam’s former fiancée, Aneha… and suddenly he had a few more questions.
Fresh off the Love Is Blind Boston reunion, which aired Nov. 8, Monteiro sat down with Los Angeles Magazine to discuss everything from his televised breakup with Wilnie Louis to the explosive accusations, awkward wedding moments and relationship revelations that have kept fans wanting more.
But it was Aneha’s candid Instagram account of what allegedly happened between her and Cam after their failed wedding that appeared to catch Monteiro completely off guard.
“I haven’t seen it yet. I haven’t seen it yet. I got to go look that up and see what’s going on,” Monteiro said when asked about the video.
Monteiro, who developed a close friendship with Cam during the Netflix dating experiment, initially looked concerned that Aneha may not be speaking quite so favorably about his friend.
“Cam is a pretty sincere and genuine guy,” he said. “And I mean, also not to discredit her experience at all, she’s allowed to talk about everything that she’s gone through, everything that she’s felt, but hopefully not by bashing our boy.”
That was before we played the video for him.
In the Instagram clip, Aneha alleged that shortly after their wedding ceremony, she had arranged and booked a hotel for them. She said Cam arrived late and immediately wanted to become physically intimate. She claimed that almost in the same breath, Cam told her he did not love her and didn’t like the idea of labeling their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend. The following day, Cam ended things altogether, just two days after reportedly telling her he loved her and wanted to remain together.
After listening to the video, Monteiro appeared surprised but acknowledged that Aneha was describing her experience rather than attacking Cam.
“Okay. Yeah. I mean, it doesn’t seem like she’s bashing. She’s just, again, recalling what had happened, I guess, step by step. Wow,” he said.
He paused before adding, “I hope that he was a little bit more… I don’t know. I’m calling him right after this.” Monteiro laughed and added, “I got to phone a friend on this one.”
Despite his loyalty to Cam, Monteiro also added that he had also grown close to Aneha during filming and in the roughly year and a half since the experiment. He said he understood why both might want to explain their sides of a relationship that played out in front of millions of viewers.
“A lot of us got our backs against the wall right now. So I feel her. I feel for her,” he said.
Monteiro wasn’t optimistic when we asked about Cam and Aneha remaining friends.
“Likely not,” he said, although he expressed hope that the cast members could remain cordial and support one another through the pressures of sudden reality television fame.
Of course, Monteiro had his own relationship drama to address. His romance with Wilnie ended before the altar, and viewers watched as he brought up some concerns about her behavior and what he described as an attitude of “entitlement.”
At the reunion, Wilnie didn’t love his wording, sparking a bit of an uncomfortable exchange. Looking back, Monteiro said he wished he had handled their breakup differently.
“I don’t think I said she is entitled. I said she has an entitlement attitude towards things,” he clarified. “Sometimes the way that she says something can suggest entitlement and that can be a turnoff.” But he also suggested that certain editing left viewers with an incomplete picture of what went wrong.
Monteiro disclosed that the couple had already broken up the day before their televised conversation, and so much of their earlier discussion never made it into the episode.
“I don’t think that they actually included all the other stuff that I think were the core issues of our relationship,” he said.
He describes changes in their chemistry after leaving the pods, plus a lack of romance and concerns about physical intimacy. “The romance wasn’t necessarily developing at the pace that I would want it to in order to take that next step,” he explained. He added that the edited scene made it appear as though he had arrived at Wilnie’s home and suddenly just unloaded a list of grievances out of nowhere.
“It looked like that day I showed up to Wilnie’s place and I’m just dropping all of this stuff on her when it’s not the way that it went down,” he said. Monteiro conceded that he became defensive during the conversation and now believes he should have simply explained that they were not compatible.
“I could see how somebody can take offense to that and could see that as an attack on their character when it wasn’t the case,” he said. “It’s my very first time breaking up with somebody on camera in front of a national viewership,” he added, laughing.
Monteiro also reflected on his connection with Malaine, another woman he had developed strong feelings for in the pods before ultimately choosing Wilnie. He admitted he was hurt when Malaine decided to leave the experiment.
“Milane’s a phenomenal person, phenomenal human being, has all the characteristics of a wife that anybody would look for,” he said, describing his disappointment at losing that connection.
Nevertheless, he insisted Wilnie was the person who made him feel confident enough to pursue an engagement at the time. The reunion itself provided no shortage of other uncomfortable moments.
Monteiro recalled speaking up when Scott Schuman, another participant in the experiment, criticized Sarah for going out several nights a week during a discussion about her relationship with John.
“It was absolutely a ridiculous moment to call out somebody for going out,” Monteiro said. “And to speak to a woman as well, I just felt the urge to stand up and say something.” “And one thing that I don’t stand by is a lot of people will utilize religion when it benefits them,” he said.
As for the lengthy questioning surrounding Sarah and John’s breakup, Monteiro said the discussion was exhausting, especially Nick Lachey’s repeated focus on the “three text messages.”
“I think we all can probably insinuate that, yes, it wasn’t the three text messages,” he said, suggesting there were likely deeper relationship problems that the former couple chose not to disclose out in the open.
Of course there was Michaela’s unexpected fall during the reunion, which quickly became one of the night’s more memorable moments. Monteiro revealed he didn’t actually see it happen.
“I heard something and heard a commotion,” he recalled, explaining that he didn’t have the best view. He leaned over to Cam to ask what had happened.
“I think that fall also was crucial,” he joked. “I think it happened at the perfect moment because things are super tense in there and it was a little bit of a comedic relief.”
Behind the reunion laughs, Monteiro acknowledged that the reaction to the season has been difficult. “The internet is so mean. It is the craziest place,” he said.
He expressed some frustration with viewers who say he was an unsupportive partner, a man who wouldn’t carry his lady’s luggage or a mama’s boy. “Never would I have imagined that my image would be somebody who does not support my partner, is unwilling to lug around luggage and is a mama’s boy, which is quite literally the opposite of who I am in my identity,” he said.
Monteiro insisted he is meticulous about cleanliness and he is a caring person. “And then now this guy who only games and doesn’t clean and I’m like, ‘What? That was one time. One time, Wilnie,’” he said.
For now, Monteiro says he’s been concentrating on himself rather than jumping back into the dating world. “I kind of just was focused on myself,” he said. “I just need to get through this because I have no idea what’s about to happen.”
But for viewers wondering whether the Boston bachelor is still available…Monteiro offered a definitive answer. “If you’re asking if I’m single right now, I am.”
And yes, his Instagram direct messages are technically open.
“My DMs are there. Will I have time to go through it? I don’t know,” he said.
Just don’t expect an immediate response.
“Nobody take any offense to me not responding,” Monteiro joked. “We’re focused.”
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