Love Is Blind's Stephen Slams Fan Who Suggests He Relies on His Dog to 'Satisfy' His Sexual 'Needs' After Sleep Test Drama

Mar. 15, 2025

Stephen Richardson.Photo:Adam Rose/Netflix

Adam Rose/Netflix

Stephen Richardsonis snapping back at his haters.

TheLove Is Blindseason 7 star took to his social media on Friday, Oct. 11 to expose a comment someone left on his page that implied he used his dog for sexual purposes.

Posting a screenshotof the comment, which read, “Someone call animal control because god knows what this pervert does to satisfy his own selfish needs,” Stephen also included the person’s username and his reply.

“DON’T YOU DARE COME AFTER MY F—ING DOG I WILL DESTROY YOU!!” his response said.

Stephen Richardson’s post.Stephen Richardson/Instagram

Stephen Richardson/Instagram

“Ok this one is a genuinely personal attack that I will address. BECAUSE YOU DONT COME FOR MY DOG,” he wrote. “If you want to see genuine hostility about a subject or individual then I will show you hostility when it comes to my dog. All of you should be really take a second to see just how over the line each and every one of you on MY comment sections are acting as grown adults."

“You wanting to vilify me for your own entertainment is one thing since you clearly can’t wait before getting the whole story but please for the love of got [sic] don’t be an actually low life form cretin … and EVER dare to attack my child and think you will get away with it.”

In episode 9 ofLove Is Blind,Monica Davis, who left the pods engaged to Stephen, learned he had been sending sexual texts to another woman while at a sleep test away from home. After breaking down in tears and asking him to leave, Stephen — who had admitted tocheating on a partner in the pastin the pods — said one last thing to Monica.

“I can’t do anything to change this, I will live with this,” he said. “I truly am sorry for hurting you, for wasting your time, for coming on the show and doing this to you. I shouldn’t have come on the show.”

Stephen Richardson and Monica Davis.Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

Helater joked to PEOPLEthat his takeaway from his time on the show was that it’s “probably smart to put a password on your phone."

“But in all seriousness, the main things are self-talk, self-reflection, and a lot of the things that I believe I said it in the pods, where it’s like you don’t know if you’re fully healed until your next relationship,” he went on to explain. “And you see a lot of people talking about, ‘Well, you should have completed therapy before you entered this.’ And I’m always like, ‘Is therapy a completion? Do you complete therapy?’ No, it should be an ongoing thing because you’re always growing and learning and there are traumas that might’ve affected you that were never a problem until your thirties or forties.”

“And you might think that you had that under wraps and then suddenly you’re faced with something where you’re like, oh, okay, I see this, now that I recognize it,” he added. “I need to do something to fix it. And that’s essentially what this whole year for me has been.”

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Episodes 1-9 ofLove Is Blindseason 7 are now streaming on Netflix, and episodes 10-11 will drop Wednesday, Oct. 16.

source: people.com