Love Is Blind season 9 star Annie Lancaster has addressed her now-controversial dialog about accepting her future kids being part of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.
“I believe, within the pods, they’re asking us actually laborious questions as a result of they need us to discover a accomplice,” Annie, 31, stated on the Tuesday, October 14, episode of the “Viall Recordsdata” podcast. “By Nick [Amato] asking me what I’d do if my baby got here out to me as LGBTQ, I paused as a result of I’ve lots of people, like, my household … and pals [who] are additionally queer locally.”
Whereas Annie careworn that she’d “love [her] youngsters” regardless, followers had been outraged about why she hesitated in saying so.
“It was that pause that persons are actually upset about,” she stated on Tuesday. “The reply is, ‘I’d love my youngsters it doesn’t matter what. I’d help them in something that they do.’ This group of individuals is already combating adversity. They’re already, type of, struggling [and] they’re having to face these folks [who] don’t settle for them. I’d by no means need to be a type of folks.”
Annie continued, “Everybody deserves love, and particularly my kids. I believe my pause and my reply was simply interested by my pals and my household which have needed to face these actually tough seasons of their lives of popping out and perhaps not being accepted. I’d by no means try this, and I’d at all times love my kids, my pals, my household and help anybody within the queer neighborhood.”
Whereas talking with Nick, 28, within the pods, he subsequently requested Annie whether or not popping out as queer was “a fad.” Annie seemingly agreed together with her eventual fiancé.
“I don’t assume being homosexual is a fad, interval,” she careworn on Tuesday. “Nonetheless, that a part of that dialog was truly clipped from one other half that we had been speaking about. We had been speaking about one thing very totally different ‘trigger [Nick] doesn’t particularly say, ‘Do you assume being homosexual is a fad?’ That was simply clipped very conveniently after that dialog.”
In keeping with Annie, she and Nick had been truly talking concerning the development of “over-sexualization” in youngsters’ TV reveals.
Annie and Nick. Courtesy of Netflix
“We had been bonding over how we weren’t allowed to observe SpongeBob [SquarePants] once we had been little,” the hairstylist defined. “We had been speaking about [whether] we expect placing intercourse out into the world is a fad, like, overusing intercourse, promoting intercourse and over-sexualization in youngsters’ reveals.”
Regardless of the reality of Annie and Nick’s dialog, followers have believed different views.
“I had folks leaving one-star critiques for my salon, calling me a homophobe,” Annie alleged on Tuesday’s episode. “I simply need to be so clear, like, I’m not a homophobe in any respect. I utterly help the queer neighborhood [and] these are a few of my greatest pals.”
Nick has additionally addressed the dialog, revealing in a social media submit earlier this month that his feedback had been equally taken out of context.
“Being homosexual is completely regular,” Nick stated in his October 3 video. “There’s a lot hate on this world that if I can’t use this platform to assist introduce different those who used to assume like I did to a few of these new concepts. I’m so grateful for a few of my homosexual pals for reaching out and being like, ‘Nick, we all know that’s not you however that is what it’s a must to perceive.’ If I can’t use that platform for good, then it’s a platform wasted. I actually respect you guys for giving me all of the hell that you just did and letting me know that that’s not proper.”
Nick proposed to Annie sight unseen after they every ended their different pod connections. The pair, nevertheless, broke up days earlier than their scheduled wedding ceremony day.
Love Is Blind is presently streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop weekly.
