‘Love Is Blind’ Producer Told Raven Ross That SK Secretly Tried to Get Engagement Scenes Cut From Show

Love Is Blind: After The Altar may be over, but Raven Ross isn’t done sharing her truth.

The reality star sat down to chat with former Bachelor lead Nick Viall in a nearly 3-hour episode of his podcast, The Viall Files — which dropped Thursday, February 16 — to dish on all things SK. In the revealing episode, titled “Raven Ross Tells All,” Ross walks listeners through her time on and after Love Is Blind, her relationship with ex-fiancé Sikiru “SK” Alagbada, what it was like learning that he cheated on her, and where her love life is at now.

As a quick refresher, Ross and Alagbada hit it off in the pods and got engaged in Love Is Blind Season 3, but when Ross said “I do” on their wedding day, Alagbada said “I don’t.” The two ended the season on a sour note, but when the Love Is Blind reunion special dropped in November 2022, fans learned that the two were giving their relationship another shot. In Love Is Blind: After The Altar, which hit Netflix on February 10, 2023, fans watched Alagbada propose to Ross AGAIN and she accepted. But ahead of After The Altar‘s release, explosive rumors that Alagbada cheated on Ross made the rounds online, and Ross emotionally addressed the rumors, further confirming her breakup with Alagbada in the final minutes of the special.

When chatting with Viall, Ross reiterated that she learned about Alagbada’s infidelity along with the rest of the world, through a series of revealing TikTok videos. She unpacked the heartbreaking saga in detail, and shared what took place between her and Alagbada in the privacy of their home while the news was breaking. In between honest admissions about her acceptance process and damning revelations about Alagbada, Ross revealed an explosive tidbit related to Love Is Blind: A producer called her after the allegations against Alagbada came out and shared that he secretly tried to get their engagement scene pulled from the show before it aired.

Ross explained that after the third TikTok video dropped — in which a woman claimed she and Alagbada took a trip with another couple to Cabo in May (only a week after Ross and Alagbada took a romantic trip to New Orleans to celebrate Ross’ birthday) — she was struggling because Alagbada wouldn’t leave their shared apartment. “The next day one of the producers called me and said, ‘I want to tell you that when all this came out I was so happy about it. I’m so glad that you guys are not together now,'” Ross told Viall. “I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? She’s like, ‘There were so many things we thought you knew about him and were just choosing to stay with him, but now we see that you had no idea what was actually happening.'”

Ross explained that her first thought was “Why didn’t anybody say anything?” Then she told Viall that producer dropped a bomb. “So apparently after we got engaged he backtracked, went back to producers, and started pleading with them to take it out…the engagement,” Ross said. The reality star went on to share that the producer said, “We thought you knew and we thought you guys were breaking up, cause he was so insistent.”

When Viall pressed Ross for clarification, she said, “He didn’t want the engagement to be aired, and I had no idea. At this point it wasn’t like over a month after the engagement. I had no idea he did that. And it was like that was the last straw for me.”

Alagbada reportedly went to producers in October 2022, when they were filming the Love Is Blind reunion, and begged them to remove the engagement scenes, but Ross was completely unaware of his actions until his infidelity was exposed around Thanksgiving and that producer called her.

“We were filming the reunion and he went off the grid, remember? No one could find him, no one could get a hold of him, everyone was freaking out — come to find out he locked himself in a van with one of the producers and was like, ‘You gotta take the engagement out. You gotta take the engagement out,'” Ross told Viall. “Literally hours later [he] comes back home to our hotel, is being so weird, we get in the biggest fight, he tells me he was sad about his mom or something, and really what it was…I had no idea until the producer called me after all of this — after everything came out. And she was like, ‘I thought you knew he asked to take the engagement out.’ How would I know that?”

When Viall asked if producers knew why Alagbada wanted the scene removed, Ross said they couldn’t figure it out, but she has her own ideas. “My inkling is that the girl was already in his ear saying she was gonna say something,” she said. “I brought it up to him once, but I didn’t push it, cause I could tell he was lying. He wasn’t going to tell me the truth. And by this point that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. That was the level of manipulation — like you literally did all of that on camera, got reengaged, it was for real, and then a month later — without even telling me or talking to me about it — you go back and you’re like, ‘please don’t air it. Don’t air it.'”

SK. Dude. What the hell?!

Be sure to listen to read our full recap of the episode and check out The Viall Files for more revelations from Love Is Blind star Raven Ross.