Love Is Blind’s Mason Needs He ‘Addressed Purple Flags’ with Madison Earlier (Unique)

Warning: this story comprises spoilers from episodes 1-12 of Love Is Blind season 8.

Mason Horacek is aware of issues with Madison Errichiello would not have labored out on Love Is Blind — even when he hadn’t made some missteps within the pods.

The season 8 stars shaped a connection early on within the pods, however Madison, 28, later ended issues on account of her stronger reference to Alex Brown. Nevertheless, following Mason and Madison’s cut up, she realized that he had been saying the very same issues to her and fellow participant Meg Fink.

After Madison began venting to Alex, 29, within the pods about Mason’s habits, Alex refused to talk poorly about his costar, which upset Madison — and in flip, ended their relationship for good. In the meantime, Mason pursued Meg after their time within the pods and it was revealed in episode 11 that the 2 began courting after the present.

Chatting with PEOPLE, Mason, 33, says he is assured Madison was by no means the one for him and he wished he would’ve come to that realization prior to he did.

“There’s loads that I look again on watching it now the place I actually want I’d’ve addressed the pink flags that I noticed after I was courting Madison,” he says. “I selected to disregard them and simply type of obtained wrapped up in my emotions and went with what I felt on the time.”

“If I hadn’t ignored these pink flags, I really feel like I’d’ve ended up in a greater scenario as a substitute of the disaster that all of us witnessed,” he admits.

Noting that in previous relationships, he tended to disregard pink flags which resulted in “extra drama” or “troublesome conditions,” Mason provides: “I got here to the present to keep away from one thing like that, however I simply went proper again into my previous methods, which may be very disappointing and heartbreaking for me to look at that again.”

“It is simply sucks when it is one of many largest world levels that it’s a must to fumble the ball and study in that facet. However now I am going to always remember the lesson,” he admits.

Although watching his personal actions was robust, Mason says he felt “fully backed up” seeing Alex help him and refuse to talk poorly about him contained in the pods.

“I felt like he had my again and he informed me after we obtained performed filming that that had occurred,” he reveals. “However watching it again, I did not know the extent or the severity or the strain that was truly within the room and having the ability to watch it again was like, wow. He actually did one thing courageous and uncomfortable simply to defend me. So I simply have mad respect for him and it made me actually, actually worth him.”

Following their cut up, Mason says he and Madison by no means spoke once more. “After Madison broke up with me, that was basically the final time I spoke to her for a very long time as a result of I knew who she was at that time,” he says. “It felt like a breakup the place she was attempting to harm me and I simply didn’t have to affiliate with somebody like that. So saved my distance after that.”

Nevertheless, as followers noticed, the 2 had an ungainly trade on the forged gathering in episode 11.

Not solely did Mason present up and reveal he was now courting Meg, however Madison and Alex additionally arrived individually. When Madison defined all the pieces that went down between them to Lauren O’Brien, she insisted that Alex was “an enormous liar” as a result of he would not admit he trashed Mason.

Regardless of the drama, Mason insists he and Alex are all good.

“We’re all actually, actually good pals within the pods … we’ve a bunch of pals that we robotically have an amazing pal group that we are able to at all times exit with and hang around and shoot a textual content within the group chat and at all times have somebody all the way down to do one thing,” he says. “So I feel we obtained a very nice little neighborhood after filming with this expertise.”

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Episodes 1-12 of Love Is Blind season 8 are actually streaming on Netflix. The finale drops Friday, March 7, adopted by the season 8 reunion on Sunday, March 9 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.