Love Is Blind’s Kwame Appiah Slams ‘Inhumane’ Messages About Show Appearance: ‘Not OK’
26.03.2023 - 15:35
/ usmagazine.com
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Love Is Blind season 4.
While Kwame Appiah was excited to find The One on Love Is Blind season 4, his messy love triangle with Chelsea Griffin and Micah Lussier sparked backlash from critical viewers.
“Waking up to some really nasty messages, so I’ll share 1 with you all,” Kwame, 33, captioned a Saturday, March 25, Instagram video, revealing he was called the N-word by a social media user. “You’re all entitled to your opinion, and reflection on the show. But, waking up to multiple messages like this, is NOT OK. Things like this are inhumane, and we’ve gotta do better.”
He added: “You are getting to watch a sliver of my life and judge me. Based off the purely disgusting and hateful words I’m seeing, it could be an issue with me, but it’s also definitely an issue with you.”
The Ghana native — who noted his intention to take a social media hiatus following the online hate — is one of the Love Is Blind participants on season 4, which dropped the first five episodes on Friday, March 24. Kwame quickly sparked pod connections with both Chelsea, 31, and Micah, 27.
While the sales development manager was ready to propose to the marketing manager, she eventually — albeit quickly — broke things off in order to pursue her romance with Paul Peden, who popped the question on proposal day. Kwame, for his part, went back to Chelsea after realizing she had been steadfast in her support, and they got engaged as well.
While the former soccer player and Chelsea began exploring their steamy physical connection after meeting in person, Micah seemingly felt sad about shutting down their bond.
“I, like, love [Paul] so much but I had such a hard time equating [his voice and face], but with you, I feel like