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Vanessa Lachey Was Called Out For Her Behavior In The "Love Is Blind" Reunion By Cast Member Paul Peden

"Honestly, she never wanted to understand what I was saying. She just wanted to punish me."

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It looks like Love Is Blind host Vanessa Lachey sent cast member Paul Peden apology flowers after she was accused of "personal bias" in the reunion episode.

A close-up of Paul during the Love is Blind reunion

If you were able to make it to the reunion special after multiple delays, you may have caught wind of some people not exactly being thrilled with Vanessa and husband Nick Lachey's hosting.

A close-up of of Nick, on the left, and Vanessa sitting on the couch as they interview the cast during the reunion

Part of this stemmed from a segment where Paul's comments in the wedding episode — where he said that he found it "difficult" to envision ex-fiancé Micah as a mother — were questioned for around seven minutes.

Paul explaining himself on his wedding day
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Subsequently, some folks took to Twitter to call out the moment:

We all know *exactly* what Paul meant when he said Micah wouldn't make a good mom. Vanessa Lachey is making drama out of nothing. #LoveIsBlindReunion

Netflix / Via Twitter: @raventbrunner

Vanessa Lachey really complied a BULLYING montage of Micah and irina and then looked Paul DEAD IN THE EYES and asked him why he didn’t think Micah was nurturing and why he didn’t see her as the mother of his children!!!!#LoveIsBlindLIVE #LOVEISBLINDreunion #LoveisBlind4

Amazon / Via Twitter: @kerrigandaniels

Like we just watched clips of Micah being a bully but they wanna keep asking why Paul didn’t see her as nurturing? BFFR! #loveisblind #loveisblindreunion

Twitter: @preeLALA

Well, one of the people who wasn't best pleased was Paul himself. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight after the reunion, Paul said, "I think I said my piece. I think Vanessa might have had a little bit of personal bias in that scenario, or at least I kind of detected that. I don't know. But that's just my assumption based on how she continued to drill into it after I gave my full rationale for why I felt the way that I did."

Paul sitting next to Zack and Bliss during the reunion

"I think it was extremely reductive in the way that they dismissed all nuance and complexity around why I said no," he continued. "It was framed as, the reason that I said no was that she wasn't able to fill a mothering role and a nurturing atmosphere and whatever. That was one piece of the puzzle. It was incredibly complex, but that was the answer."

A close-up of Micah during the reunion

Over on Instagram, Paul then posted a picture of a bouquet of flowers along with the caption, "Thanks for acknowledging the accidental misleading @VanessaLachey."

He then accused Vanessa of wanting to "punish" him:

Guess we'll have to keep an eye out on Marshall's story!

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