Read All The Texts Between 'Bachelor In Paradise's' Blake Horstmann And Caelynn Miller-Keyes
Bachelor In Paradise has officially premiered, and there is already tonsss of drama between two of the show's stars, Black Horstmann and Caelynn Miller-Keyes. A love hate triangle has formed on the show between Blake, Caelynn, and Kristina Schulman. And it all has to do with events that happened before the show even started filming.
Here's what went down: Blake had sex with both Caelynn and Kristina on back-to-back nights at the Stagecoach country music festival. On the show, Caelynn was upset with Blake for making her feel like a dirty secret.
"I feel like a slimy, disgusting secret that youre ashamed of. You literally told me to lie for you," Caelynn said to Blake on Tuesday nights episode.
Blake then said, "It looks like [Caelynn and I] slept together and I bolted. And that wasnt what happened. Sometimes you try to do the right thingI didnt want to disrespect Caelynn, I didnt want to disrespect Kristina. Man, this is bad. I look like the worst human in the world."
So, in an effort to exonerate himself, Blake decided to release his entire text message conversations with Caelynn at Stagecoach and a week before Bachelor in Paradise.
The text messages start with Caelynn wanting to come over to Blake's place during Stagecoach, to which he first says "no."
Its fine. Chill itll be good, Caelynn writes.
No thats what they all say, Blake responds.
Later in the texts, Blake tells her, we can cuddle but no sex lol.
And Caelynn responds, Yes sex Only sex.
Blake says he has will power, but she says yo we both know thats not true. As Bachelor Nation now knows, that was, indeed, "not true" and Caelynn and Blake spent the night together.
That's pretty much the gist, but here are all the texts between Blake and Caelynn for your reading pleasure. (Soon after posting the texts to his IG Stories, Blake deleted them.)
Though the hookup may have been fun in the moment, a week before Paradise was set to start filming, both Blake and Caelynn freaked out about the news of their hookup getting out. They went back and forth on whether or not they should lie about it and even contemplated pulling out of Paradise altogether.
By the end of the convo, it seems like Caelynn is cool with being honest and plans to "play it off as not being a big deal." However, that's pretty much the opposite of what she later said on Bachelor in Paradise. She almost constantly talked about her hookup with Blake and, considering it brought her to tears multiple times, made it seem like a big deal.
Meanwhile, Blake stayed far away from Caelynn the first few days of Paradise to try to avoid an inevitable confrontation.
Beyond publicizing the texts, Blake also went on Instagram Live, crying and explaining why he shared the texts.
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"Releasing the text messages was the last thing that I wanted to do. I know that it's not good, but I feel like I have no other choice but to release those. I hope Caelynn can forgive me one day, but with my character and my name being attacked like that, I feel like I have no other choice," he said. "And maybe some of that was edit from Caelynn, and maybe they splice together some of her conversations. I don't know. And maybe she can address that later. But I don't know what else to do."
He went on to say that he wasn't trying to "attack" Caelynn, but was "just trying to get [his] truth out there." He also asked his followers not to attack Caelynn and added that he "hope[s] that she has a chance to talk about what was spliced together and what they didn't show and maybe she was saying other things."
And, as with everything in Bachelor Nation, blogger Reality Steve also gave his take on this whole thing on his Twitter account.
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I dont care about Caelynn coming on to Blake and initiating it at Stagecoach. Good for her. Its about her acting on the show that she was ghosted & saying he tried to hide it when that clearly wasnt the case. She was perfectly fine a week before coming on the show. RealitySteve (@RealitySteve)
I wanna hear from Caelynn why she was saying on the show she was ghosted when its clear they were speaking a week before the show saying everything was cool and they were gonna be honest. So if Caelynn got a shitty edit, she needs to say so. RealitySteve (@RealitySteve)
Steve is definitely leaning towards Team Blake, though he also acknowledged that editing may have skewed what Caelynn actually said in Paradise. For her part, Caelynn has yet to respond to Blake's Instagram.