Season 11 of ‘Love Is Blind’ concluded on Sunday with an ill-timed live music performance John Shannon admitting to texting a stripper/escort behind wife Sarah Williams’ back– a transgression that led Sarah to file for divorce.
As you know, John and Sarah were one of two couples to make it down the aisle this season, and the only pair to say “I do.” TMZ broke the news last week that Sarah filed for divorce in June, just over a year after she and John wed in March 2025. While Sarah cited an “irretrievable breakdown” of their marriage in court documents, it wasn’t until the Season 11 Reunion that viewers learned why.
Sunday’s episode began with hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey checking in with the (presumed) husband and wife, only for John to reveal that he and Sarah were no longer together as he had “acted unhusbandly” while out with his friends one night.
“About six months ago, I made a mistake and there was a major breach of trust on my part,” John said, as reported by NJ.com. “ … Nothing physical happened. I texted one of the people we met out that night. Nothing happened, but [Sarah] saw the texts, and they were inappropriate for me to be sending as her husband.”
Sarah went on to explain that, while there were moments during her and John’s marriage when John spoke cruelly to her, she cited the texting incident as the “slap in the face that [she] needed” to leave the relationship.
After allowing the now-former couple an opportunity to collect their thoughts, Nick and Vanessa shifted the Reunion focus back to John and Sarah, at which point John revealed that the woman he had texted behind Sarah’s back was a “stripper” and an “escort.”
“Yeah, it was a stripper,” John said. “That’s the truth. That’s who we met and, you know, she gave me her number and I texted her later. She was also an escort. Nothing happened with it, Sarah knows this.”
Although John seemed to acknowledge that while not physical, his actions did amount to cheating, not everyone in the audience agreed. John’s dad, David, spoke up to defend his son during the Reunion, while slamming the other men from Season 11 for not coming to John’s defense as well.
“I’m surprised you guys aren’t standing up for another guy,” David said. “Sometimes guys, they go out, they get drunk, they do stupid things … .”
As John asked his dad to stop making excuses for him, Season 11 cast member Scott Shuman joined David in defending John’s allegedly great character.
“John’s a good man,” Scott said. “ … I’m actually getting emotional because I care about that man right there. That man brought his bible to breakfast and prayed over every single person that was about to get engaged [in the pods]. Nobody brings up the fact that [Sarah] goes out three times a week with her friends … .”
Scott’s outburst prompted other Season 11 cast members to join the heated debate, including Morrey Eglin, who urged Scott to “shut the f**k up,” and Wilson Monteiro, who proclaimed from the stage, “That’s corny as hell for a man to talk to a woman like that.”
Towards the end of Sunday’s Reunion, Sarah admitted that she had reservations about marrying John, and even revealed that she’d predicted to two of her fellow castmates that he would be unfaithful to her.
“I did say that this [marriage] ends with [John] cheating on me,” Sarah recalled of a FaceTime call with Wilnie Louis and Aneha Singh the night before her wedding.
As The Ashley told you last week, despite her concerns and the disagreements she and John encountered this season on topics like politics and religion, Sarah previously defended her decision to move forward with their marriage.
“It was a very long conversation,” she told Us Weekly before she and John ultimately split. “[Our] opinions weren’t that differing. I understand why people are saying that when I watch it back, as well.
“I think we, like, actually really, like, came together, and I almost just had met in the middle,” she continued. “But I actually don’t even think it was meeting in the middle. … I think that I almost wish everyone could have seen the full conversation, because I think it was a wonderful conversation. I appreciated the conversation, and that’s why we kept moving forward.”
While John hasn’t spoken out on social media since the Reunion aired, Sarah took to Instagram on Sunday to give the other Season 11 ladies a shoutout for the support they gave her during the emotional Reunion.
“A lot of emotions after that, but for now I’m just feeling grateful,” she wrote.
Season 11 of ‘Love Is Blind’ is now streaming on Netflix.
Watch a clip from Sunday’s Reunion below.
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