'Love Is Blind' contestant Danielle Ruhl says her psychological well being historical past ought to have disqualified her from the fact present

• In a brand new report from Insider, a number of “Love Is Blind” stars element their “traumatic” experiences. 
• One forged member who spoke on the report was Danielle Ruhl, who was prominently featured in season two.
• Ruhl and others informed reporter Katie Warren the crew wants to offer higher psychological well being help.

In a brand new report from Insider in regards to the “traumatizing” situations described by “Love Is Blind” contestants, season two forged member Danielle Ruhl stated the manufacturing workforce’s present screening strategies are inadequate. 

Reporter Katie Warren wrote that Ruhl was “shocked to see she handed the psychological display screen as she’d disclosed her historical past of psychological sickness and that she had tried suicide.” 

Based on Warren, the forged for every season of “Love Is Blind” is scouted on social media websites like Instagram and LinkedIn, then interviewed and given a background examine for legal historical past. There may be additionally a “psychological screening” that features their relationship historical past. 

Then the 15 males and 15 ladies chosen as finalists are put in dialog pods the place they’d the prospect to “blindly” fall in love and get engaged with out ever setting eyes on their future partner.

Ruhl informed Insider she fainted whereas ingesting Champagne in a relationship pod after which needed to “go proper again into it,” referring to the on-camera interviews. She finally acquired engaged to Nick Thompson, and the 2 have been flown to a post-engagement trip in Mexico together with the opposite betrothed forged members.

Within the edited episode that aired in 2022, Ruhl and Thompson appeared to get right into a screaming argument over his resolution to attend a bunch occasion with out her after she stated she felt sick. 

Now, new particulars about what actually occurred behind the scenes are popping out. Insider reported that “Love Is Blind” producers informed Ruhl she could not attend the occasion with the group as a result of she might need had COVID-19. The ensuing panic assault got here as Ruhl anxiously thought of how her absence could be defined and why Thompson was going regardless that they’d been collectively all day (and due to this fact in idea on the identical threat of getting COVID-19). 

Ruhl ended up having a panic assault that night, and informed producers that she did not really feel that she might maintain filming. That panic assault was later edited right into a storyline about Ruhl being upset over Thompson speaking to a different lady on the occasion. 

“I saved telling them, ‘I do not belief myself,” she informed Insider. “‘I’ve tried committing suicide earlier than. I am having suicidal ideas. I do not suppose I can proceed on this.”

In 2022, when her season first aired, Ruhl stated on Instagram that the Netflix model of occasions didn’t add as much as an “correct illustration” of her true self. Now she says she was making an attempt to inform them her psychological stability was too off-kilter to maintain filming. 

Producers persuaded Ruhl and Thompson to remain, however Ruhl informed Insider being on the present has brought about lasting harm.

“I do not suppose that I’ve felt myself since earlier than filming,” Ruhl stated. “I am making an attempt to refind who I’m as a result of it fucked with me a lot.” 

Kinetic Content material, the manufacturing firm behind the present, stated in a assertion despatched to Insider: “The wellbeing of our individuals is of paramount significance to Kinetic. We have now rigorous protocols in place to take care of every particular person earlier than, throughout, and after filming.” Netflix didn’t reply to requests for remark from Insider.  

For extra on Ruhl’s story and others’ accounts of filming the fact present, learn the total report on “Love Is Blind” right here.