Love Is Blind’s Tyler Says He Doesn’t ‘Owe Anyone an Explanation
By Beth Shilliday
Love Is Blind viewers may not get a full breakdown of Tyler Francis‘ paternity scandal during the show’s season 7 reunion, as he said he only needs to answer to Ashley Adionser, whom he married in the show’s finale.
The reunion trailer, which dropped on Monday, October 28, saw Ashley, 32, ask, “Who has better insight on what’s going on? Social media or me?” Tyler, 35, later admitted, “I don’t owe anyone an explanation but Ashley.”
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Tyler and Ashley tied the knot in the October 23 finale, despite the fact that he waited to tell her that he fathered three children until episode 9 of Love Is Blind. The marketing director explained he was a sperm donor for a couple he “knows” and was the biological father of two girls and a boy.
The following day when the pair had a deeper discussion, Ashley told Tyler, “I’m not upset by you trying to help a couple have kids. I think that’s admirable in certain ways, but the issue comes in with me feeling like I was not getting the full picture of you.”
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“Once you’re not given the full picture of something, it’s hard not to question everything. Me being a single woman before this, to come into this scenario and fall in love with a guy who has three sperm babies, sperm-donor babies, is a lot to absorb,” she continued.
Several days after the first few episodes of Love Is Blind dropped on Netflix on October 2, TikTok blogger Storytimewithrikkii shared a video alleging Tyler was the father of three kids “and he scrubbed them from his Instagram entirely when he found out he was gonna be on the show.”
His 7-year-old son and twin 5-year-old daughters were conceived with Tyler as the sperm donor, but “he is very active in their lives,” the user claimed, adding, “The two twins actually have his last name.”
The children’s mother, Bri Thomas, slammed Tyler’s claim that he was simply a “sperm donor” in an October 10 Instagram post with Jelly Roll’s song “Liar” playing in the background.
“Yes, I am the mother of Tyler’s three children. I’m trying really hard to do this the right way, but I have no understanding why he would characterize his relationship with his children as he has,” she wrote. “I guess I have to speak on this, despite trying so hard not to. ‘Sperm babies’ they are not.”
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A few hours later, Bri shared a holiday video where a little boy could be heard calling Tyler “dad.”
“‘Family … Holidays … what does that look like.’ Here a few videos three days after Christmas ‘22 (Filming occurred October 2023. Which makes this the Christmas before filming),” she captioned the post. “My children love their ‘Dad.’ To think that he has reduced them to ‘sperm babies,’ when I was told he was going on the show to be able to better provide for them, is the most absurd and hurtful thing ever. My kids don’t deserve this.”
According to Bri, her son was conceived via sperm donation while she was married to her ex-wife, Daeshon. However, following her divorce, Bri and Tyler conceived the twins as a result of “natural unplanned intercourse with absolutely no complexity surrounding parentage.”
“I fully admit I have not always been the most comfortable with that truth due to the fact that I’ve lived the majority of my life as a lesbian,” she said in an emotional video shared on October 19. “Nonetheless, it is exactly that, the truth.
She added, “There was a time in which Tyler was one of my best friends. Even now, he’s still the father of my three beautiful children.”
Tyler and Ashley touched on having a family of their own during a confessional immediately after their LIB wedding ceremony.
“I’m looking forward to daily simple things with you,” Ashley said. “Just little things that makes her happy, weekly, monthly…” Tyler added.
“Then that builds up and then before we know it,” he continued, before Ashley finished his sentence, “Kids.”
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