Sharing his facet. Love Is Blind alum Sikiru “SK” Alagbada denied dishonest on former fiancée Raven Ross, claiming that they weren’t collectively when he was allegedly relationship different girls.
“All of the allegations about me dishonest are false,” the MBA pupil, 34, informed Life & Type on Wednesday, November 30, including that he didn’t contemplate TikTok person @HannahBethStyle to be his ex-girlfriend. “At no level did we contemplate one another boyfriend and girlfriend. She shouldn’t be my ex … The scenario between Hannah and I used to be by no means formal.”
SK’s feedback come over one week after the TikTok persona claimed that she was relationship SK whereas he was additionally seeing Raven, 29, after Love Is Blind season 3. “It began in 2019 … We grew to become good buddies & began relationship,” Hanna Beth alleged in a video posted on November 18. “Broke up mutually & remained buddies. Quick ahead to late July 2021, he invitations me to go to Europe. … We left Ibiza & flew again to Madrid. I requested to see his telephone to ship pics to myself however ended up seeing messages from a contact identify ‘fiancée.’”
The social media persona claimed that SK informed her that he and the pilates teacher had been pretending to be collectively “for the $” and had been really buddies. “I didn’t 100% imagine him however he by no means gave me a motive to not belief him, so I simply trusted his phrase & it made sense on the time,” she mentioned.
The Nigeria native, who filmed season 3 in early 2021, disputed her model of occasions to Life & Type, claiming that he and Raven “weren’t relationship” when he was talking to Hannah Beth. “Lots of people have misconceptions concerning the timeline of our relationship,” he mentioned. “When Raven and I left the altar, I went about dwelling my life as a single man and she or he went about dwelling her life as a single girl.”
SK continued: “The trail resulting in Raven and I collectively was not easy. It took some time for Raven and I to even contemplate or try to start out relationship once more. Folks don’t understand that.”
Regardless of getting engaged to Raven within the pods with out assembly nose to nose, he ultimately determined to reject her on the altar through the Love Is Blind finale. “It was like merging two completely different folks from two completely different continents attempting to make this work,” he solely informed Us Weekly earlier this month about his determination to stroll away. “And I simply felt like we nonetheless had a whole lot of unresolved variations that including a wedding on prime of that also wouldn’t assist us resolve.”
The twosome reconnected after filming wrapped and so they introduced through the season 3 reunion particular that they had been giving their relationship one other shot. “We’ve labored by way of so many different issues that even when it’s not our time at this time, like, fairly quickly we are able to attempt to work on it and get higher and simply continue to grow — that’s most likely one of the best factor that we did all through this complete factor is simply develop collectively and be affected person,” Raven informed Us. “We’ve been engaged on it and he’s simply such an exquisite particular person, so we’ve been giving one another persistence. It’s been nice.”
Although the health guru initially defended SK amid the dishonest allegations, the pair introduced that they cut up for good on November 21. “We’re saddened to announce that we’ve got determined to go our separate methods,” Raven wrote through her Instagram Story on the time. “Because of on-going authorized proceedings surrounding these allegations, we cannot present further particulars and ask that you simply please respect our privateness throughout this tough time. Thanks for following our love story and believing in us.”
She continued: “This journey has eternally formed our lives and we’re so grateful for everybody who has been part of it. Your love and assist means all the pieces.”
On Thursday, November 24, SK claimed that the dishonest allegations had been “false[ly] misrepresented with malicious intent to extort” through his Instagram Story, including that he could be “actively pursuing authorized actions in opposition to the accuser.”