Love Is Blind’s Sara Shares Reaction to Ben’s TikTok Drama: ‘I Was Really Trying to Understand’

Love Is Blind star Sara Carton found herself at the center of drama when she was sent a concerning TikTok video about her fiancé, Ben Mezzenga, while filming season 8.

While speaking to Us Weekly on Tuesday, February 25, Sara, 29, revealed she was sent a video about an unnamed cast member – who was later identified as Ben, 28. In the clip, the TikTok user tearfully claimed that he had treated women terribly in the past.

“That day when we were at the brewery, that’s when I saw the TikTok for the first time. I left him and his friends to have their own chat together, I go outside and I’m with my assistant producer, I am on my phone, I’m scrolling, I see a TikTok come through on a Love Is Blind girls group chat,” she recalled of first seeing the TikTok when they were filming the show. “At this point, it’s been posted for a couple hours and there were hundreds of comments tagging Ben specifically. I was really confused because she never specifically said his name, but I’m like, ‘How are all these people pinpointing that it’s him? And how do all these people know who he is?’ I was really trying to understand.”

Sara later confronted Ben about the clip, asking him if it was about him and if he knew the woman. “And he said, ‘Yeah, I know this girl,'” she recalled, adding that she made him watch the video. “My assistant producer, obviously, had to do her job and told my producer, [so] they split us apart. We had to go back to the apartment and film.”

The drama escalated when Sara was sent a second TikTok from the same woman. “We watched [the second TikTok] for the first time [in front of the cameras] and that is when she said that he blocked her … That told me it is about him,” Sara said.

Despite noting that the allegations made against Ben were “pretty broad,” Sara said she was still concerned.

“She didn’t say anything specific other than him treating girls s--tty — and that can be taken in so many ways,” she said. “I was like, ‘OK, what extent are we talking here? Should I be concerned for my safety?’ I didn’t feel unsafe by any means, but [I] don’t want to take this lightly if it’s something serious. But I also, like, I don’t want to take this super seriously if he was just a d--kbag or something.”

Sara – who got engaged to Ben after they sparked a connection in the pods – went on to state that she “didn’t have enough” information or context to know what to think because she only knew Ben for about “a month.”

After Ben was confronted about the claims on the show, he shared a few conflicting answers about the woman who made the TikTok. While he said they matched on Tinder and went on a dinner date, he also insisted he didn’t remember much about their relationship.

“I knew I had to take it seriously and it was always in the back of my head. But also, I’m an enneagram 2 — naturally a caregiver. I was protecting Ben. I was protecting our relationship, and at the time, I was like, ‘I honestly don’t wanna talk about this more than what we need to, but we obviously need to talk about the facts and I do have questions,”’ she recalled of her reaction. “And so when he was saying he doesn’t remember, it’s like, ‘OK, then you need to tell me at least off camera what you do remember.'”

Sara said she wanted to trust Ben, adding that he was “protecting himself” in light of the situation. “I thought, ‘I’m not going to dismiss her with what she says, but I fell in love with you today — not four years ago.’ And I believe people can change and evolve,” she said. “That’s who we are. We’re growing people. I didn’t want to discredit him and our relationship.”

Fans can continue to watch Ben and Sara’s romance play out when new episodes of Love Is Blind are added on Netflix on Fridays.