Love Is Blind star Lauren O’Brien dated fellow Netflix star Scott Sanderson six months after her split from Dave Bettenburg.
“He had reached out,” Lauren, 31, revealed during Us Weekly’s exclusive clip from this week’s episode of Amanda Hirsch’s “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “He was someone that I had connected with in the pods.” (Scott was not heavily featured on the show as he wasn’t part of the five couples who got engaged.)
At the time, Lauren said she wanted to “explore this connection” with Scott, 34, and he agreed. They “talked for a little bit,” before focusing on next steps.
“We explored it a little bit on our own first and then decided to bring it to [Dave],” she added. “It wasn’t the most fun thing to deal with in terms of, because he and Dave are friends.”
Scott reached out to Dave, 33, about his connection with Lauren, she explained. Dave initially said “all good” to Scott.
“I think there were some other comments to other people about how it might have been too soon for me,” she added. “We broke up six months ago and it’s not like you and I have been chatting or anything. I didn’t feel like there was anything wrong with that.”
Lauren also made it clear that things between her and Scott didn’t come out of the blue.
“When they bring people onto this, we take all of these compatibility tests with the goal being there are multiple people that you’re compatible with in the pods,” she explained. “It’s not like you just show up and there’s one person that is there for you, and hopefully you find them.”
Ultimately, things didn’t work out romantically for her and Scott. Lauren said that they ended up being “very good friends.”
Lauren spoke with Us Weekly exclusively about splitting from Dave, saying there was “definitely an element of sadness” when they broke things off.
“I do feel like you see the moment that I shift — when he starts to get mad at me and mad at my family,” she explained. “The anger that came from him, I was done. I immediately knew we’re never getting past this. My husband would not speak to me like this. I hope that that comes across clear.”
The full episode of “Not Skinny But Not Fat” with Lauren O’Brien drops Tuesday on all podcast platforms and Wednesday on YouTube.
