Love Is Blind’s Marissa Speaks Out Against Stephen’s Lawsuit Alleging Unpaid Wages and ‘Inhumane Working Conditions’ on the Show

Love is Blind season 7 star Marissa George is speaking out against her castmate Stephen Richardson’s class action lawsuit against the producers of the hit Netflix show.

In new Instagram video posts shared on Thursday, Sept. 18, Marissa, 33, dismissed Stephen’s lawsuit. “I do not agree with a lot of these allegations,” she said as she began to detail “why I will not be joining the class action lawsuit.”

Stephen, 35, filed the suit on Tuesday, Sept. 16, against Netflix, Delirium TV, and Kinetic Content, alleging the production company failed to pay wages and operated under “inhumane working conditions,” per Deadline.

Stephen famously was engaged to Monica Davis on season 7 of the hit Netflix dating show. Their relationship crumbled after it was revealed that Stephen had been sexting another woman while he was undergoing a sleep test.

Marissa continued, “While I’ve always gotten along with Stephen, I do not agree with this lawsuit whatsoever. He’s claiming that the cast were misclassified as independent contractors instead of employees, and therefore, Netflix, Kinetic, and Delirium failed to pay us over time wages, minimum wages, failed to provide us meal and rest breaks, and failed to provide an accurate wage statement,” she explained.

She then responded to some of Stephen’s allegations against production by sharing her own behind-the-scenes experience. “He’s claiming that we were restricted from having adequate food water and our phones. Yes, we were restricted from our phones. That is true. That is part of the experiment. Duh,” she said.

She then shut down the allegations that they were “restricted from food and water,” which she called “categorically false.” She claimed there was “copious amounts of food” in the pods, and that when she wasn’t satisfied with the food and requested microwaveable ramen and mac and cheese, production swiftly granted her orders.

“Once you were outside the pods, if you were in your hotel room, you always got your food. There were some frustration on it getting to us fast enough, but you definitely got your food,” Marissa added.

She continued, “In fact, when I was in my hotel room, when I was still hungry, so I asked production to bring me Taco Bell, and guess what? They did.”

“From my experience, I was taken care of at all times,” she added. “The next allegation really pisses me off, because he is saying that we were encouraged to drink alcohol. I can say this for the women’s lounge at the minimum, because I don’t know what was happening in the men’s lounge. Never once did I hear from anyone in the production period that we had to drink alcohol.”

“That never happened,” she emphasized.

She then addressed Stephen’s complaint about being escorted between sets. “It’s for safety, which is really ironic, because later on in the complaint, he claims that it was unsafe working environment, because of the cameras, the wires. So which one is it? Are you mad that we were escorted because of safety, or are you mad because it was unsafe?” Marissa added.

Marissa also claimed that no participant was entirely isolated at all times. “When I say isolated, it wasn’t like I was just left alone. They came and checked on us, also had the phone to call the production crew, which was in on the same hallway and floor as us.”

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She went on to share, “And they actually even took me to a Taylor Swift movie, because it just came out in movie theaters. They took me to get a wax, they took me to Target.”

“Maybe his experience was completely different, but I have a hard time believing that,” Marissa said.

She also revealed that participants on Love Is Blind take a break between dating, and are allowed to choose whether they want to participate in night dating after filming all day. “If you wanted to take a nap between dates, you could. We were not restricted to the point that we couldn’t close our eyes,” Marissa said of the filming schedule.

As for the contractors versus employees classification, she added that “the court would decide that.”

She concluded, “It’s just morally and ethically doesn’t make sense to me.”

Stephen’s lawsuit comes one year after the production company won a motion in a lawsuit filed by season five participant Renee Poche over “unlawful employment practices,” as well as “unfair competition” and “intentional infliction of emotional distress.” Renee claimed she was forced to participate on the show and move forward in her engagement to ex-fiancé Carter Wall.

Love Is Blind seasons 1-8 can be streamed on Netflix and season 9 is set to premiere on Oct. 1.