Despite almost making it to the altar, Marissa George walked out of Love is Blind alone. And in many ways, that was not only the best for her, but what people watching on TV wanted to see, considering how her relationship with Ramses Prashad developed. After the Love is Blind Season 7 reunion, we found out that not only had the two not reconciled, but Marissa was now dating someone else, someone who seemed like a much better fit.
Remezcla sat down with Marissa to talk about her Love is Blind Season 7 journey, defending her friend Hannah during the reunion, her new love, and the idea of “being too much.”
One year gives a lot of perspective, but Marissa wanted to first clarify, “Even before going into the pods, I was very sure about myself and who I was, and I knew that I have like a bigger personality, but that it wasn’t really too much. I just needed to find somebody who thought the same.” That person wasn’t Ramses. Figuring out that was hard, for Marissa and for viewers, who watched her heartbreak onscreen.
“I was so shocked that they showed me like sitting there crying on the floor, like by the couch for so long,” Marissa shared. “But I mean, that’s what was happening.” Now, Marissa is over it, to the point that she didn’t even feel the need to revisit the heartbreak, either in this interview or during the reunion. Instead, like any good friend, her instincts drove her to stick up for Hannah.
“I was in the military. I’m all about integrity, about honesty, about accountability. Then you take me to law. I’m about fairness, accountability, justice,” Marissa explained. “Me and Hannah were very close in the pods and throughout Mexico and once we get back to DC, I lived with that life with her in a sense. So, I’m hearing what she’s experiencing and seeing her cry, being upset, and hearing what he’s doing off camera,” she explained.
“And then I see what I see on camera and I’m like, okay, I know what I experienced. I know what I’m seeing. I don’t love what I just saw from Hannah, but I also recognize that she went through something as well. So, when we get on stage, I just wanted everyone, all my castmates to be honest about everything and to hold themselves accountable.”
Marissa recognized maybe it wasn’t “her place,” but also shared that people “don’t see a lot of what happens off camera,” and added that people can find it easier to accept that you can fall in love in such a short period than to accept you found your best friend in that same timeframe.
And when it comes to being part of the show as a Latina woman, Marissa shared, “My whole life I’m not Puerto Rican enough. I’m not Italian enough. I’m not Black enough, Trinidadian enough. Like I’m not in this mold that I feel like I have been asked to be in, or that I try to place myself in. And I’ve come to terms as I’ve gone older in life that this is who I am. I grew up in a Hispanic culture, but I also grew up in an American culture and a Black culture. And I think all that comes together and it’s a beautiful thing.”
It’s been a year. Marissa has moved on and has found a new love and boyfriend. And she’s grateful for the journey that took her where she is right now, even if it was hard at times. “I don’t know if I would have met my partner without the show, because he wasn’t on dating apps. And I happened to be in DC with people from the show at the time that I met him. I definitely don’t regret it.”
As for if she would she have changed anything? “I think that I would have better prepared myself for the public. But at the same time, I was always kind of me. And I gave what I was, who I was to everyone. And what comes with that is what comes with it. So no, regrets.”
Love is Blind Season 7 is now streaming on Netflix.
