Megan Fox has broken her silence on the drama surrounding Love Is Blind’s Chelsea Blackwell comparing herself to the actress on the most recent season of the Netflix reality series.
The Jennifer’s Body actress, 37 – who sizzled in a black dress and blue hair at the Revolve Festival during Coachella – shared her thoughts on the topic during an interview with E! News on Saturday at the music festival.
Amid the show’s sixth season, Chelsea said that she’s been told she resembles the Transformers star while talking to fellow contestant Jimmy Presnell in the pods – and notably became the target of trolls soon afterwards.
Although Fox hasn’t watched Love Is Blind, she explained that she was aware of the drama. ‘I’ve never had more people text me about something because I don’t really watch TV very much.’
‘But I’ve had a lot of people text me and stop me. Even other celebrities at like Oscar parties were like, “Do you watch Love Is Blind?” And I was like, “No, but I know what you’re talking about.”‘
She then came to the defense of Blackwell and expressed, ‘I didn’t watch it, but I think in general, no one deserves to get bullied.’
‘I don’t think she deserved that. I think people went way too hard.’
In regards to the comparison, Megan revealed to E! News that she has seen a pH๏τo of Chelsea. ‘A hundred thousand percent, people have told her, “You kind of look like Megan Fox.”‘
‘So I believe she’s telling the truth and I hope like she still has that sparkle in her eye. I hope the world didn’t steal it from her.’
Fox added, ‘Mine died long ago from being bullied for 20 years. So I hope that didn’t happen to her. Best wishes and blessings.’
During the sixth season of the hit Netflix reality dating show – which aired from February through March of this year – Chelsea was having a conversation with Jimmy in the pods.
While getting to know each other, she told him that she has been compared to the actress, but added that she didn’t exactly agree with the comparison.
When both Chelsea and Jimmy were revealed to each other during an episode, he notably said that she had ‘lied to’ him.
While talking to the cameras, Jimmy expressed, ‘She definitely lied to me about some, uh, how she looked. Chelsea told me she looked like Megan Fox.’
However, he added that he was still ‘attracted’ to Blackwell. ‘At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter. I’m very attracted to her – I can work with that.’
The flight attendant also notably faced backlash and trolls on social media, with one penning, ‘chelsea is megan fox from temu.’
Another wrote, ‘Jimmy really said, “I can work with that.” When being interviewed after he saw her.’
‘Megan Fox, who lied to her? And he only picked her cause she said that,’ another social media user added.
However, one supported Chelsea and typed, ‘The Megan Fox joke is boring now guys, I think Chelsea is beautiful despite what she did,’ while adding that it’s ‘not easy getting’ bullied and called for ‘compᴀssion.’
Blackwell herself also clapped back at haters earlier this year in February, and told trolls to ‘cool it.’
She also apologized to Megan over the drama while talking to Entertainment Tonight. ‘I did reach out to her, and I was like, “I’m so sorry I did this to you.” I’m just waiting for Megan to respond.’