Milton Johnson had a front-row seat to his Love Is Blind fiancée Lydia Velez Gonzalez’s blowout battle with Uche Okoroha.

In the course of the newest episodes of Love Is Blind season 5, which began streaming on Friday, September 29, Uche, 34, point-blank accused his ex-girlfriend Lydia, 32, of happening the present deliberately to rekindle their previous romance.

“I really feel like that’s such a nuanced factor,” Milton, 25, completely instructed Us Weekly forward of the season 5 premiere. “In truth, I’ve my opinions, however I really feel in the event you actually wish to know that reply, that may most likely be a greater reply for Netflix.”

Milton sparked an instantaneous pod reference to Lydia through the experiment, set in Houston this season. As their sight-unseen Love story was unfolding, it was revealed that Lydia dated Uche months previous to the present. The bombshell information in the end proved to be too dramatic for Uche’s pod love curiosity Aaliyah Cosby, who opted to stroll away earlier than proposal day. Milton, for his half, stayed the course and remained targeted on his romance with Lydia.

“I believe [what] it actually simply comes all the way down to is our values had been the identical,” Milton defined to Us of their relationship. “We had the identical morals, we wished the identical issues out of life. From day one, it simply sort of felt like a success, simply felt like a match. So, we simply wished to actually pursue that and see the place it might take us.”

Milton and Lydia — who’ve a virtually 7-year age hole — took their relationship to the following stage in Friday’s new episodes. After they lastly met in particular person, they had been fast to discover bodily intimacy on their post-engagement getaway to Mexico.

As their relationship deepened once they met each other’s households and mates, issues bought actual when Uche and Lydia almost got here to blows throughout a pod squad get together. Uche had slammed Lydia about her actuality TV intentions, which he initially heard from Aaliyah. Lydia, for her half, denied that she went on the present for Uche.

“I actually didn’t have the dialog with them,” Milton instructed Us of witnessing Lydia and Uche’s battle. “However I went on the present for one purpose: to doubtlessly discover my future spouse. In order that’s my first goal.”

He continued: “Lydia had all of the traits that I would like my spouse to have, so I pursued her. It’s simply an extra profit that I bought to eat nice meals and made an ideal group of mates like Chris [Fox] and the remainder of the forged members. However, on the finish of the day, [finding love was] the first goal I got here for and I wished to execute on that. In order that takes precedence over every part else.”

Love Is Blind season 5 is at the moment streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop on Fridays.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi