Love Is Blind’s Zanab says she ‘stopped eating’ after her boyfriend’s rude comments

Warning: Spoilers for the second half of the current season of “Love Is Blind” below!

Zanab Jaffrey had a very unpleasant moment during the filming of the third season of “Love Is Blind”.

In the special meeting launched on Wednesday, the Netflix The reality competition contestant described a scene that wasn’t shown on the show between her and her ex-boyfriend, Cole Barnett.

During the meeting, there were rumors among the contestants of a “Cutie incident”—a situation involving the characteristic little mandarins—between Jaffrey and Barnett. After being brought up several times, Jaffrey shared the story, which may be one of the reasons he decided to refuse Barnett at the altar.

“One day it was like 2 p.m. and we were still shooting,” Jaffrey began. “I didn’t get a chance to eat, so I got two nice ones – like two little oranges that fit in the palm of your hand. And he looked at me and said, ‘Do you want to eat them both?'”

“And I said, ‘Well, yeah, that’s a portion.’ And he says, “Well, let’s go out to eat later, so maybe you can save your appetite.”

Barnett looked puzzled when Jaffrey told the story and asked the production to “please air it” if they had the footage.

Apparently the production had received, because the special ended with the clip that Jaffrey is referring to. In the cutscene, Barnett even asks if he’s going to eat two cuties, and the scene plays out just as Jaffrey described it during the reunion.

The new footage also features another exchange between the two that is just as disturbing. As Jaffrey peels one of his tangerines, he tells Barnett that he’s hungry because he only had a banana and a spoonful of peanut butter that day. In response, Barnett asks her why she ate so little and Jaffrey says:

“Oh, I could certainly tell you, but I probably shouldn’t.”

Jaffrey’s reluctance to tell his then-boyfriend why he barely ate speaks to other claims she made about him on the date.

He accused Barnett of ‘pushing food away from me’, ‘asking if’ I was going to eat it’, ‘trying to get me to order a salad’ and making ‘daily comments about my face and body’.

Jaffrey said those comments happened on and off camera.

“I stopped eating,” he said at one point during the meeting. “I’d eat a banana and a teaspoon of peanut butter to keep from passing out on long days of shooting.”

To make matters worse, Jaffrey also said Barnett admitted on their wedding day that he “tried to kiss a girl and get her number at the bachelor party.”

Barnett denied all of Jaffrey’s allegations and eventually broke down in tears during the meeting.

In “Love Is Blind,” potential couples meet in adjacent “bridges,” or rooms where the two can talk but cannot see each other. If a couple decides to get engaged while dating, they get a chance to meet face to face, then live together for a few weeks and finally decide whether or not to get married at their wedding.

In the third season of “Love is Blind”, Jaffrey dumped Barnett at the altar.

“You disrespected me, you insulted me, you criticized me and, for what it’s worth, you single-handedly broke my trust,” she told Barnett in front of their wedding guests. “And the messed up thing is I know I love you…but love shouldn’t be like this. I can’t marry you.

Jaffrey later told Variety that she “loved” Barnett during the courtship, but that his comments had a negative effect on her.

“The things he was saying hurt me,” he told the media. “I was somehow trying to make myself desirable to him, whether it was thinner or”—she took a deep breath—“I’ve never had anyone talk to me like that about my body or my food. It was very real to me. I changed what I ate. I was just eating a banana. I lost weight until the wedding day. It had nothing to do with fitting my wedding dress.”

Jaffrey told People after the meeting that she and Barnett “don’t talk anymore.” Barnett told People he regrets his behavior on the show.