One other Love Island couple has known as it quits, and their cut up is “nawsty.” A day after they confirmed they have been nonetheless collectively on the Love Island USA Season 6 reunion, Kendall and Nicole have confirmed they’ve ended their relationship, and Nicole could have hinted the true motive for his or her cut up hours earlier than their breakup announcement.
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Kendall Washington, a 27-year-old from Dallas, Texas, and Nicole Jacky, a 26-year-old from Sacramento, California, met and fell in love on Love Island USA Season 6, the place they got here in fourth place. Kendall and Nicole, who coupled up on Day 8, have been one of the crucial secure {couples} on Love Island USA Season 6 after by no means recoupling with anybody else as soon as and even telling one another “I really like you” within the finale.
Issues have been a unique story as soon as they left the villa. A day after the Love Island USA Season 6 reunion aired on August 19, 2024, Kendall and Nicole introduced that that they had cut up lower than a month after the Season 6 finale and that Kendall was the one who initiated the breakup. “On August 18th, Kendall and I agree our relationship was price engaged on, and we have been planning for me to go to him in Dallas quickly. Nonetheless, right this moment, on August twentieth, he known as and ended issues,” she wrote in an Instagram Story on the time, suggesting that Kendall’s name to finish their relationship took her unexpectedly. “Whereas I perceive and respect his determination, it’s arduous to course of this one. I opened as much as him within the villa, and nonetheless love and look after him now. I’m struggling mentally and all I ask for is privateness throughout this time.”
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Kendall, for his half, additionally shared an Instagram Story confirming the breakup. “I’ve determined to finish issues with Nicole. It reached a degree the place it was not wholesome for us to proceed the connection,” he wrote. “I nonetheless love and look after Nicole. I’ve by no means developed such sturdy emotions for a girl in my life. I’ve no regrets for the connection I made together with her within the villa and it was actual. She doesn’t deserve any hate. Please cease with the detrimental feedback/DM’s. We’re taking this time to give attention to our psychological well being. Thanks guys.” However what went incorrect?
Why did Kendall and Nicole break up from Love Island USA Season 6?
The day earlier than Kendall and Nicole’s breakup announcement, Nicole revealed that she and Kendall have been on the rocks through the Love Island USA Season 6 reunion attributable to a lie he informed her a few nude video that leaked the day of the Season 6 finale.
Throughout the reunion, Nicole claimed that Kendall initially informed her that the video was despatched years in the past to an ex-girlfriend earlier than she found from forged mate JaNa Craig that Kendall really despatched the video to somebody on a relationship app from his lodge room in Fiji earlier than filming began on Love Island USA Season 6. “So I wish to say one thing. Clearly, the video isn’t OK. No person deserves that. All people on this room can agree. That’s fucked up. Nonetheless, I believe for those who say you like someone, within the second, whenever you’re telling me about one thing, it’s important to be sincere,” Nicole stated through the reunion. “As an alternative of claiming it’s from years in the past to somebody you trusted, an ex-girlfriend, after which I discovered later from JaNa that it was within the lodge room earlier than you go on the present to somebody on a relationship app is loopy.”
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In an interview on “The Viall Information” podcast on August 20, 2024—the identical day Kendall and Nicole introduced their breakup—Nicole revealed that Kendall was the one who first informed him about his nude video after they bought their telephones again and have been alone for the primary time of their lodge in Fiji following the Love Island USA Season 6 finale. She defined that Kendall sat her down and informed her about his nude video leaking earlier than exhibiting her a screenshot of the recording, however not the total clip. “He exhibits me the ends of the video. It’s like a screenshot of it. So I don’t have the context of the place he’s. He stated, ‘I despatched this to someone in my previous. An ex I actually trusted,’” Nicole stated.
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Nicole confirmed that she was understanding of Kendall’s state of affairs at first and believed his story till the remainder of the forged stored checking on her, which raised purple flags in her thoughts about what was really within the video. “Subsequent day, we’re all filming and JaNa pulls me within the lavatory and is like, ‘Are you OK?’ I’m like, ‘Why does everyone ask that? I’m good. I actually really feel for Kendall. Whoever did this, it’s actually fucked up,’” Nicole stated. “[JaNa] stated, ‘Have you ever seen the video?’ I’m like, ‘No. I noticed an image.’ She’s like, ‘OK, let me present you the video.’”
Nicole defined that she didn’t care in regards to the contents of the video however was devastated when she realized, after lastly watching the recording, that Kendall had lied to her and that clip was filmed within the lodge in Fiji all of the islanders stayed at proper earlier than coming into the villa—not years in the past as Kendall had claimed. She additionally steered that the lodge Kendall filmed his nude video in was the identical lodge in Fiji the ultimate {couples} stayed at after the finale earlier than they returned to america.
“I don’t care in regards to the video. I actually don’t. What I first observed, as a result of I had simply been within the room with him the previous evening, I see his lodge room in Fiji earlier than he went on the present. I simply fell to the ground and misplaced it as a result of that’s not what he informed me,” Nicole stated. “We have been out filming one thing in Fiji. I went to our government producer and was like, ‘I wish to depart. I don’t wish to be right here anymore. I informed her what occurred. In fact, I went again and bought my shit out of his room. I bought my very own lodge room for the evening. We have been all leaving the subsequent day. I used to be pissed at him.”
After the forged returned to america, Nicole defined that she and Kendall didn’t have time to speak as a result of they went to Common Studios in Los Angeles, California, quickly after they arrived house. She additionally confirmed that she didn’t inform Kendall that she noticed the video however he discovered from JaNa. “I believe JaNa informed him. I believe he knew I had seen it as a result of he needed to speak to me at Common. I needed to have a chat privately,” she stated.
Nicole additionally revealed that Love Island USA producers requested to movie her and Kendall’s speak about his nude video as soon as they lastly sat down a pair days after the forged’s Common Studios journey. “I believe a day or two later, we had a non-public discuss in LA. The present additionally needed to movie that, and I stated, ‘No,’” Nicole stated. “I needed to discuss to him with out cameras round as a result of I used to be questioning quite a bit. He was like, ‘Yeah, I lied to you. I’m sorry. I couldn’t inform you the reality in that second as a result of my world was crumbling down round me and I assumed if I informed you the reality, you would go away me. You’d choose me.’”
She continued, “I’m like, ‘Effectively, I wouldn’t have. Now I’m.’ Now his excuse is that he was bored in his lodge room and despatched it to some woman on Raya.’ Like I used to be bored within the lodge room taking part in fucking crossword puzzles. I simply don’t get why you couldn’t be sincere.”
Later within the podcast, Nicole admitted that she selected to consider Kendall’s story, although she had a sense that it additionally wasn’t the reality. She informed the podcast that, what she actually believed, was that Kendall despatched the nude video to somebody he was speaking to earlier than filming Love Island USA and that individual leaked his recording as a type of retaliation for happening the present whereas they have been nonetheless concerned.
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Nicole additionally claimed that the reality in regards to the nude video wasn’t the one factor Kendall lied to her about after leaving Love Island USA. After the Love Island USA Season 6 finale, Kendall and his forged mate, Kenny Rodriguez, hosted a celebration on the nightclub Vice Park in Dallas, Texas, the place Kendall was accused of kicking out two Black ladies from his part. “He stated, ‘Get them Black bitches out of the part now. They don’t move the paper brown take a look at, get them out of the part now.’ Kenny was cool. Kendall? Oh yeah, he sniffed that snow.” one of many ladies stated in a social media video after the alleged incident.
To make amends, Kendall invited the ladies to a seashore celebration after the membership incident and posted a video of them having drinks on his Instagram Story. Throughout “The Viall Information” podcast, Nicole, who was unaware of Kendall’s drama, accused Kendall of mendacity to her about whether or not there could be ladies he didn’t know on the membership with him and never telling her in regards to the drama with the ladies till after he posted them on his social media.
“I don’t know why he doesn’t suppose the reality will get again to me. There have been all these women in his sales space. He informed me that it was solely shut family and friends,” Nicole stated. “After which he was like, ‘Yeah, no household was really there and I simply wish to let you understand what was informed to me. These women had it out for me. It’s not my fault. I needed to invite them to the day celebration and put up them on my social media as a result of he needed to squash the meat and clear it up that it was a misunderstanding.’”
Nicole additionally claimed that Kendall informed her that posting the ladies on his social media to squash the drama was an concept that he, Kenny, and JaNa got here up with, which Kenny and JaNa later denied. “He additionally informed me it was me and Kenny. Kenny and me did this. JaNa additionally helped me plan this. I known as her, and she or he was like, ‘No, I didn’t. I informed him to apologize. I didn’t inform him how he ought to apologize,’” Nicole stated.
Nicole additionally criticized Kendall for not giving her the top’s up about his drama with the ladies and why he needed to put up them on his social media till she noticed the put up. “He additionally didn’t clue me into something. I despatched him a screenshot of those women on his story, and he was like, ‘Did you not hear in regards to the drama?’”
Love Island USA is offered to stream on Peacock.
