• Warning: Main spoilers forward for “The Ultimatum: Queer Love.”
• In episode 9, Mal Wright decides to suggest to her long-term companion Yoly Rojas.
• Each events spoke to Insider about what they had been pondering on proposal day.

In episode 9 of “The Ultimatum: Queer Love,” Yoly Rojas tearfully accepted her companion Mal Wright’s proposal. However regardless of her saying “sure,” it was unclear if she was crying tears of happiness or unhappiness.

Yoly initially gave Mal the ultimatum to both get engaged to her or break up. Nonetheless, Yoly ended up forming a romantic reference to one other contestant on the present, Xander Boger, and their relationship shortly progressed to the 2 saying “I really like you.” On proposal day, Yoly appeared distraught over her impending alternative.

Requested about what was going by way of her thoughts that day, Yoly tells Insider that marrying Xander was by no means an choice.

“It wasn’t a lot about saying sure to Xander,” the truth star says. “I believe that could be misconstrued or individuals may assume that I used to be pondering of getting married to Xander. I used to be by no means gonna get married to Xander. We nonetheless have a lot to find. It was really a matter of, ‘Is saying sure to Mal what’s proper for me?’”

Yoly provides that she was conflicted till the final second, as a result of she did not know if she ought to take heed to her coronary heart or head.

“The entire time I used to be actually like, ‘Do I? Don’t?’” Yoly says. “Listening to Mal’s lovely phrases. All of that was tremendous touching and I am a sucker for love. I am a hopeless romantic, so I am like, ‘Perhaps we might nonetheless work it out.’ Nevertheless it simply was additionally like, ‘Why are you saying this now? Why not earlier than?’”

Yoly provides that she wasn’t certain if the additional effort Mal put into their relationship would proceed after the present. “I used to be additionally questioning the sustainability of it. Is it really going to proceed, or is it simply since you noticed me in love with anyone? I am not saying that what she mentioned was not true, however simply, you’ll be able to love somebody and nonetheless not be proper for them and that was blowing me up. It was consuming me alive.”

In a separate interview, Mal tells Insider that she “by no means wavered” on the truth that she needed to get married to Yoly and thinks that the present was extra about Yoly determining what she needed.

“Months earlier than the present, our households met one another with the intention of merging our lives collectively. I might by no means executed that earlier than,” Mal says. “She introduced me to ‘The Ultimatum’ and was like the primary one to crumble, however confirmed up allegedly feeling like she knew that she needed to spend her life with me.”

The pair had been damaged up by the point the reunion episode filmed. They mentioned that the issues that existed earlier than the present resurfaced and that they dealt with battle “unhealthily.”

Each actuality stars inform Insider that they’re mates at this time.

All episodes of “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” season one can be found now.