Love Is Blind star Micah has apologised for “hurting” fans with her behaviour on the show.
The 27-year-old took to her Instagram Stories to address backlash following the release of the first five episodes of season four of the Netflix dating show.
She wrote: “A small note… I have apologized privately to the people that were hurt on the show by my hands. I would like to apologize publicly. An emotional immaturity was shown and I will grow from it.”
Micah continued: “To the viewers that I’ve hurt, I’m sorry I’ve triggered so many of you with my behaviour. Seeing that person on the screen would make me feel the same anger.”
“As for my comments being off: I will turn them on in time. I am doing my best to protect my mental health (deserved or not). It has always been something I’ve struggled with, and I know I can not better myself if I’m more unwell mentally.”
“I hope you understand that I am taking accountability privately. I promise to do better in the future.”
It comes after Micah and her co-star Irina were branded “mean girls” by viewers.
After growing close to both Micah and Amber, Paul decided to call things off with Amber and pursue his connection with Micah.
Amber returned to the female living quarters heartbroken, and started crying to Chelsea.
Micah and Irina were seen eavesdropping on their conversation, and sniggering while Amber cried.
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Micah and Irina later defended their behaviour in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, explaining that laughing was their “coping mechanism”.
Micah said: “For us, it was really helpful to have a little sense of normalcy. Being able to laugh and make light and make jokes and, well, maybe sometimes the jokes didn’t land or maybe it didn’t look the best, but we needed that in that moment to feel like a normal person.”
“Because you’re a part of this experience that is so beyond words. To be able to make a little bit of light out of such a hard thing was really helpful.”
She added that she and Irina were going to “grow up from our mistakes.”
Irina said: “Me and Micah’s coping mechanism was laughing about it. And I honestly will say on the record, 100 per cent, I did not intentionally ever want to hurt anyone. [Hearing] that I hurt people’s feelings genuinely breaks my heart.”
“I know there probably have to be some bridges that I’ll have to mend and conversations I’ll have to have, that I want to have. But I think, for me, in the experience I was kind of zoned out and in my own thing of how I’m feeling, and I didn’t really realise how that could affect other people.”
“With Micah, we were laughing because, yes, it was very serious and it was very intense and it was very hard, so I don’t want to brush it off and say that we weren’t taking it seriously.”
“It’s just more our perspective, that’s how we coped about it; we laughed and made the best out of it. We didn’t intend to be mean or intentionally hurt anybody at all,” she added.
