“Love Is Blind”'s Ashley defends her dad after fans suggest she's 'oppressed'
“Love Is Blind”'s Ashley defends her dad after fans suggest she's 'oppressed'
Sarah HearonThu, March 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM UTC
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Ashley on her wedding day on season 10 of "Love Is Blind"Credit: NetflixKey Points -
Love Is Blind's Ashley Carpenter reacts to fans suggesting she's "oppressed" by her father in an interview with EW.
Ashley explains that her father is a longtime divorce attorney.
The Netflix contestant also reveals what she expected from ex Alex at the recent reunion.
Love Is Blind season 10 star Ashley Carpenter is grateful for her dad’s intense line of questioning — even if some viewers think he took his role as her "protector" a little too far.
In episode 7 of the latest season, Ashley and her then-fiancé, Alex Henderson, sit down for a dinner with her family, where her father Paul gives Alex a grilling. But Ashley explains that there was more to the dinner than what was shown in the final cut.
“This is a reality TV show. There's a lot of editing and it was a two-and-a-half hour dinner that was shortened into a five-to-10 minute segment,” Ashley tells Entertainment Weekly. “People are like, 'You and your mom didn't talk. Your brother didn't talk. You're oppressed.' And I was like, 'No, I was too emotional to speak because I hadn't seen my family in like three weeks.' I was so emotional.”
While Alex called Paul “pretty aggressive" in an interview with Today, Ashley notes her dad is a divorce attorney who has “asked these hard questions for 40 years of his life.”
Ashley Carpenter, Alex HendersonCredit: Courtesy of Netflix
“At that moment, people don't realize, but you start to see Alex squirm a little bit — and my questions weren't doing that,” she continues. “We also need to keep in mind — this isn't my boyfriend that my dad is meeting [where] we have a couple years to get to know him. I'm marrying this man in three-ish weeks, so yeah, my dad's gonna have a lot of questions.”
She adds that, in general, Paul “loves” to learn about people and “challenge them in the right ways.”
“I understand that may make some people uncomfortable. Trust me, growing up, I definitely was uncomfortable with, like, getting drilled with questions and, like, 'Where were you?'” she says. “But that's who he is and that's why I love him for it because he is that protector of me. For a long time, [my family] saw me get hurt and lied to for so long. And like I said, I'm about to marry this man, you have to ask those hard questions. That's the whole purpose of this entire experiment that people really need to go back and think about. I hope people want someone like my dad to ask those questions for them if they are not strong enough to do so.”
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Alex Henderson and Ashley Carpenter with her familyCredit: Courtesy of Netflix
Ashley and Alex ended their Love is Blind engagement in explosive fashion when she told him off at the altar, accusing him of being a liar with no integrity. While Alex has acknowledged that his life story was hard for him to articulate on the show (he’s a nomad, okay!?), he denied her claims about his lack of integrity.
During Wednesday’s reunion, the twosome resumed their back-and-forth about whether Alex was honest about his past relationships, job history and “type” of women he prefers.
"A lot of people ask me, like, 'Oh, if you could go back and talk with Alex, what would you want him to say?' It's to the point where I didn't want anything. I didn't expect anything [at the reunion] because I didn't really believe a lot of things that he said," she tells EW. "I don't mean that in a mean way. I think he really does have a crazy story. I wish him well. But going into that, I had no questions for him. I didn't wanna know, 'Why did you say these things? Why did you lie?' Because I always say when I take the trash out, I'm not gonna go out and ask the trash, 'Why did I take you out?'"
Ashley then clarifies that she doesn't think Alex is "trash."
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"But that's kind of how I look at it," she says. "If a snake bites you, you don't ask the snake, why did you bite me? ... It didn't work out between us and I'm okay with that. I've grown enough to be like, 'I'm not everyone's type.' And if he's not the one, I'm fairly okay with that."
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