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Scarlet
You're cr.
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You are listening to this reunion on audio. Be sure to check out the extended video version exclusively on the vile files on YouTube where you can look at all the crazy reactions and intimate moments from the cast of Temptation Island. You'll be glad that you did.
Interviewer
So be sure to check it out.
Co-Host
Last time on part one of the Temptation island season two reunion.
Cheyenne
I still had that, like, little bit of hope and that failed.
Co-Host
Have you been back in contact with Xavier?
Interviewer
So well, we do have a video and so we wanted to play that for you. Mikey, you. I don't. I just want to be respectful that you like you. Cool.
Host
Part two starts now.
Interviewer
I wasn't sure if you wanted to step out or anything.
Jack
No, we're good. Okay.
Scarlet
This is crazy.
Interviewer
Hey, Sid. Just wanted to say I'm thinking about
Jack
you today and wish you the best at the reunion.
Interviewer
You know, be yourself like you always
Jack
are and you know you're going to be good.
Cheyenne
You know, you got a kind heart,
Interviewer
gentle soul and I'm rooting for you.
Cheyenne
That was so sweet.
Interviewer
Do you feel like there is a chance that you and Xavier might become a real couple?
Sydney
So, you know, being that like on the show, like, we definitely found a real connection and that I've had time to like, step back, focus on myself. I would say that there is a possibility in the future that you never know what could happen.
Interviewer
What does need to happen for that to be a reality.
Sydney
You know, I think we just need to take some time, you know, without the cameras Being in front of us and just really build a stronger connection outside of the villa. You know, a lot of it was encouraged by things that I had went through. And I feel like now, like, being able to have processed those and meet him where he is, I think that is exactly what I need to do to that.
Cheyenne
I.
Sydney
Now that I've focused on myself, I could see, you know, that connection happening
Co-Host
outside of the villa. He did mention to us that he lives here in la. Are you planning on stopping by this place?
Sydney
You know, we actually have a few plans this weekend with like the whole cast and everything, everybody getting together. So I might, just might see him.
Interviewer
Mikey, was that tough to watch? Are you. Would you be like, are you really rooting for Xavier and Sydney like you say you are?
Mikey
I root for what's best for Sydney. Okay, if that's Xavier, do you think
Interviewer
he is what's best for Sydney?
Mikey
I think Xavier is exactly who he portrays to be. He's a great guy. Thousand percent. I think he's a great individual. He's somebody who everyone can tell was raised correctly. Thousand percent. I'll never shit on him. I'll never talk down on that man. But at the end of the day, I mean, I can't be his best friend. He took my girl.
Scarlet
What you talking about?
Mikey
Like, I mean, that's just. That's just how it goes. I can't be best homies with the guy, but I can give him props on being a phenomenal individual. Cause I'm just. I don't play a hate. Like, that's the only thing I don't do. I don't play a hate. I can't do that.
Interviewer
I think what was kind of interesting about that video, I mean, it's short. It's not like this profession of love, but it's the little thing, you know, And I feel like that's something. When watching Xavier back, he seemed to be willing to do those little things. Do you feel like in your next relationship you will wanna do stuff like that with someone that you feel as strongly as you felt for Sydney?
Mikey
Yeah, 1000%. It doesn't like something like that. That's something that doesn't put much thought. It's just who he is, you know what I'm saying? So from watching their experience, from watching the arts and crafts and watching like the Jonas Brothers stuff, I was just like, wow. Like, that is like, that's literally just who he is as a person. And that's a beautiful thing to see. So I truthfully have to figure out, well, I have figured out what makes Mikey unique in those romantic ways. You know what I'm saying? Because I'll never take what he does. Because, no, I want to be who I am and display that to an individual and show them that I have all this love to give. I need another chance, Nick. At love.
Interviewer
Come on, man.
Mikey
I need another chance.
Interviewer
What's stopping you?
Co-Host
Yeah. Are your DMs open?
Cole
Trust.
Mikey
Ladies, wait. Tell me where I'm at.
Cole
Where?
Mikey
Right there. Sure, that's me. Ladies, listen.
Cheyenne
Oh, boy.
Mikey
Listen, ladies, I got all this love
Co-Host
to give, and that'll do it for the Tim tape.
Mikey
Hit me up. Come on, man. I need it. I would love to have a girlfriend.
Kaylee
For real.
Mikey
I would love that.
Summit
Do you want a girlfriend now already?
Mikey
No. I mean, no, no, no, not right now. I'm still working on. I'm only four months into therapy and we're finally getting somewhere good. So I wanted to create this individual of myself that I really want to be so that my next partner is like, oh, my gosh, how did any girl leave you? Like, that's what I want from, like, my next relationship.
Interviewer
Truthfully, what do you want to say to your future girlfriend?
Mikey
Listen, listen, my love.
Co-Host
Don't watch this season.
Mikey
You can watch this season because you'll see how much of an idiot I can be, but also how much I can love somebody with all my heart.
Co-Host
That was deep.
Cole
Beautiful.
Co-Host
I'm sure she saw it.
Cheyenne
Only you did that on the show.
Interviewer
Well, I do want to appreciate you guys for being so open and honest. I know that wasn't easy for the both of you.
Mikey
It's our first conversation we've had months.
Sydney
Y' all got it.
Scarlet
Y' all got it.
Interviewer
Also, Meg, I do want to, you know, commend you on being open about therapy. And as a young man, I just want to say good for you. It's not easy to always, like, acknowledge that, but I think it's done a lot for me. It's done a lot for our relationship. So good for you for putting in the work.
Mikey
I appreciate that.
Interviewer
Yeah, I'm really rooting for you. All right, well, I think it's time to get to Cheyenne and Jack, two
Host
young lovers that after a moment of infidelity, a relationship of distrust was built.
Co-Host
And after some dicey bonfire footage, closed blinds, and some giant one night flings.
Cheyenne
Oh, my God.
Co-Host
I knew that they both decided to choose themselves in the end.
Jack
I knew she said it.
Summit
I didn't saw it.
Mikey
No, you said that she said.
Cheyenne
I was saying his muscles were Giant.
Interviewer
No, no, we heard.
Mikey
We heard it.
Cheyenne
Yes, His. Exactly. Thank you.
Mikey
Yeah.
Co-Host
He is a giant.
Interviewer
You noticed that under the covers, like,
Cheyenne
when I was, like, cuddling? Yeah.
Interviewer
Okay.
Co-Host
What was the energy like when the two of you got home? I know y' all shared two dogs. Who took the dogs?
Jack
I picked her up from the airport, actually. Surprising.
Co-Host
You picked her up from the airport?
Jack
Yeah.
Co-Host
You waited for me at the airport?
Jack
I waited for her, actually, because we were on two separate flights, and we didn't have a conversation after we got out of the villa. So we waited till we got home, I picked her up, we had a conversation, and it went on and on. We basically just decided that it was best for the both of us just to grow and heal from everything that we went through and be as mutual as possible just based off the time we spent together.
Co-Host
Is the reason that y' all didn't have a conversation until after you got back home was because you were with Carter, Correct?
Jack
Yes. Okay.
Co-Host
Was that hard to know that he stayed back with Carter another day?
Cheyenne
No, because I was with Preston, so it was just like, tit for tat. Tit for tat.
Interviewer
That seems to kind of be the theme of your guys relationship.
Jack
Yeah, I think that's the whole story.
Interviewer
Okay.
Scarlet
Okay.
Cheyenne
This is t. Oh. So after we got done filming, I'm, like, in a separate hotel. They, like, obviously, me and Jack weren't allowed in the same hotel. And I. I escaped security, and I ubered to Jack's hotel, and I told the front desk, I'm like, I left my passport in my boyfriend's room. Like, I. Someone needs to connect to me. Because he wouldn't answer the phone. And so what. What you got to say was this.
Mikey
When I was on FaceTime with you. Yeah.
Jack
Oh, go ahead.
Cheyenne
Yeah. And they connected me to his room, and I'm like, hey, motherfucker, I'm downstairs. Like, are you gonna come down here so we can chat? And you just hear, like, in the background, like, no, no, please, no. Or whatever. I don't know what the fuck y' all had going on there, but Carter was there. Yeah. In the room. You could hear?
Jack
Yeah.
Cheyenne
And so he wouldn't come downstairs because he was too scared. And so I started knocking on, like, the door. Stand up first. I was crashing out. Okay. And basically that's all that happened, though, because then I got escorted out of the hotel.
Co-Host
So he never opened up the hotel room door.
Jack
Oh, no. They took me immediately to the airport.
Kaylee
Yeah.
Cheyenne
They put him on lockdown, as they
Summit
should for his safety.
Co-Host
Yeah.
Mikey
So what were your intentions? Yeah, because I heard you on the phone.
Cheyenne
I just wanted to chat.
Mikey
You didn't sound like a chat. Cheyenne, when I was on FaceTime.
Cheyenne
I just wanted to chat.
Co-Host
What was it that you wanted to say?
Cheyenne
I just, like, I feel like we should have been able to have a conversation after the final bonfire without cameras and, like, just one on one. Like, let's talk this out. Like, let's. I don't feel I needed to wait till we got back to Kansas City to have a conversation, and so that's ultimately what I was coming there for.
Co-Host
And did it piss you off that he wasn't coming downstairs, or did it piss you off that he was up there with Carter?
Cheyenne
It pissed me off that he wasn't coming downstairs. I could honestly care less that he was up there with her because I had already seen everything I needed to see. So that was like, not really the problem. To me, it was more of just like the betrayal. You can't. Yeah, you can't come downstairs and have a conversation, which, I mean, emotions were high. Maybe it's probably a good thing he didn't come downstairs because I don't think the conversation in that moment probably would have gone very good.
Interviewer
What did you want to say?
Cheyenne
What the fuck is wrong with you? That's what I wanted to say.
Co-Host
Do you regret not coming downstairs, or do you agree with her that it probably wouldn't have been a productive conversation?
Jack
Looking back at it, my mindset was like, she's gonna be off the rails. Like, she's gonna freak out, and we're in a whole different state, and basically everyone that worked the show was gone, and none of the guys were there. So really I only had the people I was with. And I regret not going down there. Yes. But in that moment, it wouldn't have been the smartest decision just based off the emotions coming from behind it. I just wanted to avoid it and wait till I got home.
Interviewer
Is that kind of a pattern that you guys had throughout your relationship of kind of these extreme highs and extreme lows, of kind of pushing each other's buttons?
Cheyenne
Yeah, that's been.
Jack
Yeah. I mean, let me say something. I push her buttons a lot. And, I mean, I can't even give you an example. Little shit. You know, I just, like, annoy her or something.
Interviewer
And you knew it would annoy her.
Jack
Not necessarily. Yeah. I mean, yeah.
Cole
Yeah.
Cheyenne
He loves a reaction. Like, he loves a good reaction out of me.
Interviewer
And where do you think that comes from?
Cheyenne
I have no idea. I don't know.
Interviewer
Okay. Did you guys. When you finally picked her up and had a conversation, did you guys fully open up into all the things that went down? You both seemed to really take advantage of the tempters and the temptresses that you guys were interacting with.
Jack
Crazy.
Cheyenne
Whenever I got off the flight and we had the conversation, it was just more of like a, you need to tell me everything that you did. I'll tell you everything that I did. And I will say, like, he told me more things that happened on the show that weren't shown. So from like, what I know about, like, how he acted in the house, like, there's a lot more, like, shit that he did that didn't get shown that I know about. And I obviously told him everything, but I think in that moment, I was just like, you need to get your shit. You need to go. I wanted nothing to do with him right off the island. It wasn't until, I would say a month.
Jack
Month or two, maybe almost two, where we just, like, yeah, go.
Cheyenne
We weren't talking, whatever. And then he was just, like, shy. Can we have a conversation? Like a legit sit down. Let's have a conversation. Let's talk this out. And that's whenever we had a talk about a month later and I would say that conversation was productive. That's where we kind of came to the conclusion, like, Jack was like, I still, like, want you in my life. I still want to be friends with you, and I still want that not relationship. We still wanted to be friends. And on that page, we've been together for so long that I think that that's the best. And that's where we kind of just came to the conclusion of everybody from
Interviewer
the show needs to go, what did you guys do? I'd love to hear. I think everyone would love to hear what actually happened in terms of the physical boundaries that you both crossed.
Cole
I'll go first.
Interviewer
Okay.
Jack
I just, like, kissed everyone in the fucking house, honestly. Well, I'm not there yet on the show. I didn't have sex in the tent. I didn't have sex in my room. The last date that wasn't shown on the show is where I had sex with Carter. Okay.
Interviewer
And what about Jesenia?
Jack
Nope. Just made out. I mean, we didn't do anything else other than that.
Interviewer
Do you think oral sex is sex?
Jack
Oh, no, I didn't have oral sex.
Mikey
Okay.
Co-Host
Did you suck her toes?
Jack
No.
Interviewer
She said you did.
Jack
I sucked her toes.
Co-Host
She said that's why in the Temptation Haven, she said, that turns me on so much. Is because you were sucking her toes.
Jack
Well, the night of the Temptation Haven. Actually I'll get into this night. Actually. This was a my best. Probably my best night. I needed a trophy for this one before going to the Temptation Haven.
Interviewer
Oh, Lynn, that's crazy.
Jack
No, it's okay. No, because I was so fucked up that night that I actually had a crash out that wasn't on the show.
Mikey
Oh, you did?
Jack
I remember that. I actually this was the one time in the show that I was gonna cry or that was gonna be shown me crying. And it was probably the worst one. And I just remember the guys around me like freaking out. I don't know. I mean I would wake up in the mornings and be like, I don't fucking remember what I did last night.
Mikey
Yeah.
Cheyenne
Is it true you face planted right before you went into the Temptation Haven?
Jack
Yeah, I did.
Interviewer
You did?
Jack
You did.
Cole
There were times when I actually did put him to bed though. And then I would go live my life and then he would disappear and
Mikey
go do something like that.
Cole
I can't like police someone like you
Mikey
get what I'm saying? Like Cheyenne, we did tried, we tried
Cheyenne
our hardest to take care of Jack's
Kaylee
choice to be drinking that much. You're making that decision because it wasn't
Cole
like people were forcing.
Cheyenne
Yeah, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying like we were never like that.
Mikey
That's true.
Cheyenne
Like all of us like we were cut off. I just don't understand. I feel like it was very. We never got like hammered because we're like.
Cole
We told the producers, we would tell them.
Mikey
Actually I.
Jack
It was so bad to the point that I actually got all of our house cut off for four days.
Cole
Yeah.
Summit
And they, they would try and get.
Cheyenne
But I almost just feel like it's just like that's your.
Jack
Like it's my own fault.
Cheyenne
We had this conversation when we went into the house.
Jack
Correct.
Cheyenne
Our conversation was. Cause you have done like this has been a problem in our relationship. The alcohol and doing fucked up shit. Right. We had that conversation of don't let yourself get to that point. And you got to that point. So at some point, yes, you can see both sides. But at the end of the day a lot of it does fall on you. But at the same point it all falls on me. It needs to be boundaries.
Jack
Yeah, no, it all falls on you.
Interviewer
So was him not drinking a boundary you guys tried to set prior to coming in?
Cheyenne
Yes. Like the very last thing that I said to him when we said bye to each other, I literally Looked at him. We're holding hands. I'm crying. I'm like, whatever you do, do not get fucked up. Like, please, like, control yourself and do not get fucked up. And that completely went out the window. What, the second day?
Jack
Yeah.
Interviewer
And you're saying it got so bad that they did cut you guys off?
Jack
Oh, they go. Even the girls couldn't drink.
Interviewer
Yeah, the girls, for, like, four days.
Jack
I was getting bitched at for days on end because it was living hell.
Interviewer
So I just went. They tried to keep you accountable. It wasn't like you were being let out of control.
Mikey
Well, yeah, yeah, no, they did try to keep us accountable, saying, like, no,
Jack
you guys, once it got bad.
Mikey
Yeah, once it got bad.
Jack
Yeah.
Interviewer
What were you gonna say?
Cheyenne
Oh, nothing.
Mikey
I'm just talking to the girl until we switch houses. And then we drank all their alcohol. We definitely drank all their alcohol when we switched houses.
Summit
Yeah, when we did the villa swap, we stole.
Cheyenne
Yeah, we did your guys's, too.
Cole
Oh.
Interviewer
Why do you think it didn't take long at all for you to just kind of forget every conversation you had with Cheyenne about your boundaries once you got into.
Jack
I think, you know, honestly, another thing. I mean, I just honestly think it was hearing the bonfires and hearing how the way she was talking about me. But at the same time, it wasn't necessarily what she was saying. It's everyone around me that's hearing that, and then everyone in my ear saying, you don't deserve this and that.
Cheyenne
But you knew that was gonna happen.
Jack
What's the point of fucking teaching island? I let the manipulation get to me. I let people's words get to me. I let my brain just be like, hey, you're gonna do it. And there's no regrets in that moment. From the time that I kissed Carter, I knew because before we went onto the show, she told me, like, if I broke any boundary, she's gonna give Netflix a show. So when I knew that I kissed. No, straight up, I knew when I kissed Carter.
Scarlet
Thank you.
Jack
I was gonna wait. I knew that I fucked up. And then I had the conversation with the guys the next day, and then I saw what she did. And then my brain right then and there was like, okay, what do I do? Everyone around me is like, dude, you're. It sounds so stupid, but I'm just like. I'm listening to everyone around me. That's the saddest part about it.
Co-Host
Were you hammered when you kissed Carter the first time?
Jack
Yeah, 100%. I would never. I never was sober doing anything with anyone.
Co-Host
But you were conscious enough to know to get out of the way of cameras and turn off the lights so that it wouldn't be shown to Cheyenne.
Jack
So the way it's shown in the show is not the. Is not what actually happened. It actually happened in the confessional. It didn't happen in the bedroom.
Co-Host
No, I. They showed it in the confessional, but they showed you getting up from in front of the cameras, turning off the lights and standing what it seemed like out of frame. Frame. So you couldn't be clipped.
Jack
I mean, honestly, if you be frank with you, like, I've only watched three episodes of the show. I haven't even watched it. Okay. I have no idea.
Interviewer
Yeah, so that's how it happened.
Co-Host
That's how it plays out. So you were sober enough to. To realize, hey, I don't want Cheyenne to see this. Let me move out of camera and turn off the lights. You were conscious enough of that?
Jack
Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna say yeah, because it's better to not look like a bad person.
Mikey
I'm in the photo booth. But you were in the photo booth after. Because that's when Lulu told me that you did something. And I walked up to you and I said, if that's the step you gonna take, you gotta stand on that. And you looked at me, and you was just like, we here. And I looked him in his eyes. He was fucked up. Like, I'm not gonna, like, I gotta defend him on that. Like, when he looked up at me and I told him, like, to go do some foul, you got to stand on that, Jack. And what did you say? He was like, over here. And I was just like, he's up. Like, I looked in his eyes. I was like, he's. He's not here. No.
Jack
It's, like, sad because, like, even in some of my confessionals, like, my eyes were rolling in the back of my head, I'm just like, dude, I don't even.
Co-Host
Why did you get so drunk?
Jack
I hated it there. It's terrible. I. I honestly was awful.
Interviewer
The opposite.
Mikey
Exactly.
Jack
No, like, I'm going be straight up. It was awful. Once I fucked up, it was the worst experience of my fucking life. I felt like I was targeted every fucking day.
Interviewer
What do you mean by targeted?
Jack
I was the only dude in the house that did some shit. I mean, like, come on, dude. We're on a TV show. Once someone fucks up, they're gonna push you to do other shit. So what did I do? I fell for the bullshit and I did it. And now I'm sitting here right now.
Co-Host
So you're blaming the producers for your cheating and not.
Jack
I'm blaming myself. No, I'm blaming myself for the cheating, but I'm also. It's also the people pushing me and the people in my ears in that moment and, like, the emotional distress that we're all going through and, like, I can't even explain it, dude. It's not real life to anyone that's watching this. It's really not. Like everyone in this room has experienced it. Everyone from last cast experienced it. No one would ever understand.
Co-Host
But Cheyenne, seeing the kiss or hearing the kiss that happened with Carter in the confessional, that was it for you. That's all you needed to see, for you to be completely done?
Cheyenne
Yeah, I told. Like, he said, I told him going into the experience, just because we've had our issues, obviously, before we went. So it was just like, you know, the way that the first time made me feel. So if you go out of your way to go do it again, to me, it's. It's over. Like, I'm. I'm gonna. As childish as it is. And yes, maybe I shouldn't have reacted the way that I reacted and I shouldn't have immediately went to go get my lick back or whatever people or whatever, you know, I said, yeah, I did, so it's fine. It's whatever. But yes, in that moment, like, right. Whenever I saw it, I was just like, it's game on. Like, he's about to get what he deserves. And that's what I did.
Interviewer
Oh. And it's because it's interesting, when we started this whole reunion, like you said, you were just. You knew he was gonna do what he did.
Cheyenne
Yeah.
Interviewer
Did you think that?
Cheyenne
But I still had a little bit of hope.
Interviewer
No, I understand that, but did you? It doesn't seem like you said that because of his drinking. You said that because of how, you know, he moves in the relationship.
Cheyenne
Like, when me and Jack were together in, like, our relationship and we spent every single day together and we were with each other, that is not like, how Jack is the only time that Jack has gone out of his way to cheat or whatever. Went out to the club with his friends, got fucked up, cheated on me.
Scarlet
Right?
Cheyenne
So it's like, he's not the same person when he's sober and it's me and him. Like, it's just completely different. So I don't know. It happened. There's no excuses. Like, it happened. So it is what it is.
Interviewer
I mean, to be honest, I kind of empathize with you guys. Because, like, I think we all know what it's like to have our first love. It's hard to quit that person, you know? And there's always, like, there's this love, but there's this toxicity. And it did seem like almost a good thing. While you guys did things that hurt each other. You guys leaving the island alone, I feel like, made a lot of sense to the viewers, to us, even to you guys. But I'm hearing you guys both, especially you trying to, like, defend it and almost take it back in a way that you feel like you almost regret how it all went down.
Cheyenne
Yeah, I just. I do. Like, Jack has. Obviously, I said it on the show. He's been the only guy I've been with for five years. So after I went and I did what I did, it's like, it didn't make me feel good. Like, I didn't hook up with Preston after and be like, oh, my gosh, I'm on top of the world. Like, that was the best thing ever. Like, in fact, it was the complete opposite. Like, right after I hooked up with him, like, immediately when I got into the confessional, I was just crying. I'm like, I just feel bad. Like, that's not how I should have gone about it. But I wasn't gonna sit here and let him play in my face on Netflix. Just not gonna happen.
Mikey
So that's real.
Co-Host
Jack, you said to the guys that she kept bringing up the time that you cheated, but what we didn't know was that she had actually been the one to cheat first. Can y' all talk a little bit about that?
Jack
Yeah. So two years into me and Cheyenne dating, she just went out with a friend, got drunk and kissed a guy, and came home that same night and told me and was honest about it and didn't lie about it. Was so truthful. I was just like, you know what? It's gonna be okay.
Cheyenne
I think that started all from a huge. Yeah, a huge fight of us, like, literally screaming at each other, like, fuck you. And that's whenever I went out with my friends. I had never gone out with just my friends without you, before that. So. So it's like, you know, it's no excuse for what. But then, yes, I did. I went out, I kissed someone, and then I immediately left. And I came home and I told Jack, and I was like, it happened. Either we're gonna move past it or we need to end the relationship now. I want you to decide. And he was just like, I wanna stay with you. Like, it's not something that is gonna end the relationship. So we got past that and then it's just like after that happened, it was. He just kept going. Like, he just kept being a piece of shit. And that's where it's like we never have came to. It's always. It was shown in the show. Like, it's always, we're going for each other. Like, if I do something, he's gonna do something back. If he does something back, I'm doing something. Like, it's just a very toxic. It was a very toxic relationship. And I mean, I feel like a lot of people understand, as crazy as it seems, but I think a lot of people have been in a super toxic relationship. Like how ours was. And I mean, I think people can see and understand how we kind of moved the way we moved and why we did the things we did, essentially.
Co-Host
So how soon after you kissing the guy did he go home with the girl?
Cheyenne
I would say, what, a few months?
Jack
Oh, yeah.
Scarlet
Has that changed your opinion or something?
Mikey
I'm not gonna lie. The way it made it seem on the show, like it was like back to back. Like it was like, oh yeah, she kissed somebody. Then boom, Jack went and went to go fuck somebody. You know what I'm saying? Like, they made it like. I really feel like the show really portrayed Jack as this fucking evil person. And Jack is not an evil fucking person.
Co-Host
Well, the show does only show what they are given.
Mikey
Exactly. No.
Co-Host
So they can't make him say things or make him do things.
Mikey
And he's such a loving guy. And the stuff that he would say about Cheyenne in the house. And I know he fucking cheated. And I told him he was wrong about it. All of the guys told him he was wrong about it. But we also asked him his perspective because he spoke so highly of Cheyenne. And that's why when we got out of the house and everything, like, I felt like I knew Cheyenne based upon the conversations that he was having with me. So it's like I don't want the world to feel like Jack did not love Cheyenne. He did love her.
Summit
I don't think anyone doesn't feel the
Mikey
love between because it's there.
Interviewer
I would agree with you. And I know this is all like new for you guys. Maybe not you. You've been on reality TV before. But like, I empathize with you guys. I've been in your shoes. It's hard, you guys. I'm sure the DMs are open. People are saying nasty shit to you. Guys sucks. But I can assure you, like, no one thinks anyone here is an evil person. And that's what I love about this show. Cause again, as salacious as the premise sometimes feels like, this show really is about love and relationships and working through your problems and in a very unconventional way, testing your guys relationship. Like, I didn't see a piece of shit or an evil guy in Jack. I saw a young man working through some shit. But that doesn't mean you can't be accountable for your actions, and it doesn't mean you can't grow from that. So I think it's sometimes a little heavy to go down to, like, oh, he's not an evil guy. We know that. We're not trying to figure out whether Jack is evil. We're just trying to figure out what you guys have learned from this experience.
Cheyenne
But I also want to talk about, obviously, Jack is the one who brought me to Temptation Island. He's the one who wanted to do this experience. And so after months of convincing me, we came up with the decision of, listen, if you want to go onto the show and you want to air out the dirty laundry that you've done in the relationship, that's fine. But I don't want to go on the show. So at the end of the day, none of that's like, that's not coming out. So if you want to go on the show and you want to bring up problems that we've had, you can bring up your problems. I'm not doing it because I don't. It was his idea. He wanted to go on it. So I almost feel like, correct me if I'm wrong, but the reason that you had to go and bring that up after we had already talked about that multiple times is because you knew you fucked up, and so you thought it was gonna make you look like a better person to go and bring up shit we agreed wasn't gonna get brought up correct.
Jack
You're looking at me like I'm gonna lie.
Cheyenne
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, like, that's. You didn't. If that was the case, we would have brought this up when Mark's introducing us all. We would have brought that up. But you waited until you're thinking in your head, like, fuck, the world's gonna hate me. Like, everybody's gonna look at me as a cheater. So I'm gonna go ahead and bring up what Cheyenne did. Even though you knew, like, going into this, when we decided we were going on Temptation island, that that wasn't Something. I mean, it's whatever I can. Like, I don't. I don't care. Like, it happened. It is what it is. But it's just like you can't. You couldn't even stand on, like, the simple ass boundaries that we had set. Like, you just totally blew them out the water. And it's like you already broke the boundaries with being physical. So it's like, why break the boundaries with other shit that we say? I just, that's something that I just didn't understand.
Jack
Yeah, that's. Yeah, it's true.
Interviewer
Do you think there's a part of you consciously, subconsciously that you brought Cheyenne to Temptation island to ultimately end the relationship because deep down you felt like maybe you two weren't right for each other?
Jack
No. I mean, no, I don't. No, I would not say yes to that. No, I don't think that's why I brought her there. Because genuinely, I went in there with the intentions to be loyal and to show her that I loved her. It's just. That's not the way it went. I can't change anything, but all I can do is just be better every single day and show her that, you know, no matter if she's, you know, who knows what's going to happen down. I didn't spend six years with her for no, no reason. But at the same time, I want her to be happy. And at that, in that moment, we weren't happy.
Interviewer
No, I hear that. I mean that every time you said that on the show, I mean, I understood you. It's like no one watched you guys and thought, I want something like this. But we also, no offense,
Cole
You know,
Scarlet
not too much,
Interviewer
but I've been, listen, I've been like. We've all had that first love and like, love is a powerful thing. You know, you don't learn how to drive getting in a Ferrari. You know what I'm saying? And that's sometimes what love is like. It's like getting into a high powered car, not knowing how to drive, and then we get surprised when we crash and burn. So I think that. I think everyone has a lot of empathy for you guys, but at the same time, every step of the way, it just seemed like you wanted out of this relationship.
Jack
Yeah, Honestly, I think in. I think we both wanted out of the relationship.
Interviewer
I think she did not seem like she wanted out of the relationship.
Jack
Well, she didn't. Yeah.
Cheyenne
Jack, I literally. I'm not coming for you. Like, I'm just saying, listen, my mouth shut. Jack, listen, I. You Guys can back me up on this. I went into the house and I was literally standing 10 toes for you. Like, the guys would try and talk to me and I would literally tell them to get away from me. Like, they would try and have a conversation with me and I would be like, I don't care. It's not Jack. Like, it's not Jack, though. Like, I, like, I was standing for you so hard. So for you to sit here and say that I didn't want to be with you, it's just like that. It just. That's, you know, that's not true.
Summit
Something that was like the big, like, catalyst. And I'm not excusing what he did or blaming it on us when I say this, but something. The very first bonfire he saw was you on that boat with that guy and you were like talking a bunch of shit.
Cheyenne
Okay, But Jack didn't bring up to you guys that. He's the one who told. He literally said, whatever you do, go in here and talk as much shit as you want to talk. Just don't get physical.
Jack
I know.
Summit
I'm just explaining, like, what happened, like, how it went down on the show. We saw that in the bonfire. We gave Jack a really hard time of like, wow, how do you let her talk about you like that? And Jack's like, that's just how it is with us. And we gave him a ton of shit. Not that we peer pressured him or anything, but that was like a. I think one of the driving forces in it is we were like, she doesn't seem like she, like, likes you. She doesn't respect you, doesn't respect you.
Mikey
So why would you want to be with somebody who doesn't respect you?
Summit
Yeah, that's just our relationship. You know, he's a grown ass man and he made his decisions. But I'm just saying that was like a component why it happened.
Co-Host
Do y' all regret putting your opinions onto their relationship?
Mikey
Thousand percent.
Summit
Yeah, maybe.
Mikey
Thousand fucking percent. Because knowing now, I feel fucking bad for it because I talked. They didn't show it in the house. I talked to Jack. We talked every damn day. And I'm over here like, shit, she calling you broke. I don't know, like hearing. Hearing a talk down on a guy that she really loves.
Interviewer
Like, I will say though, like, well, I think alcohol is kind of a weak excuse for bad behavior.
Jack
Real? Real.
Interviewer
I do think, you know, in relationships and we, we've talked about this and I think this was kind of a theme with this cast. I do think men don't realize how hard it is to hear your partner talk bad about your character, whether it's saying he's acting like a sociopath or whatever. And I think, you know, when Sidney, for a moment was. She kissed Xavier, and your first response was, I'm gonna fight for this woman. You actually, for the first time, like the season opened up, you're flirting with trace amigas. You're doing all this thing. You saw her make out with a man, and I'm like, oh, he loves Sidney. And I thought that was very interesting that you watched your girl cross a physical boundary, and yet you fell more in love with her. And yet then the next bonfire, she was kind of talking down on you. And that's when you, like, lost some respect for Sidney or you seemed more angry with her. Hell, yeah. And so I guess what I'm saying is it's like, do you think a little bit. You clearly had every right to be frustrated with Jack, but do you think you have spoken to him in a way that damaged your relationship?
Cheyenne
Yeah, I don't think that me and Jack have been the most respectful to each other as we should have been in the relationship. And, yeah, I don't know, we should have talked to each other nicely and hyped each other up more and, you know, been that person for each other. But I think it just got to a point where we were spending so much time together and we were with each other every single day, all day, every day, that it kind of just got to a point where it was like, I don't know, we just both, like.
Jack
We were just fighting like brother and sister.
Interviewer
Do you feel like she respected you?
Jack
Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, we both respected each other. Obviously, when you have those bad moods and you're, you know, you're frustrated with your partner, you know, we both get a little antsy and say things you don't mean. But, I mean, overall, of course, I feel like we both respected each other. When it was really, really good, we
Summit
actually gave you shit. Also on the show, it sounds like we gave you a lot of shit, but we also gave you shit for not standing up for yourself. It felt like at times. And I know it's weird. Cause the whole show, like, we only live one side of it. We don't live their side. And so, like, inevitably, the entire time we're like, you know, us against them. Like, screw the girls, but anyways, we gave. Not screw the girls, but you know what I mean? Like, we're living our truths, and we
Interviewer
don't see you Guys.
Summit
But we would give you shit because we would literally be at a bonfire. It'd be a clip of her getting railed by Preston. And you would just be like, good for her. Like, I love her. And we'd be like.
Cheyenne
Cause she didn't want you to let. Like a hypocrite.
Mikey
No. That pissed us off, bro.
Scarlet
We didn't go on a show to
Kaylee
just talk highly of each other 24 7. We wouldn't be on Temptation island if we didn't just only.
Summit
I know. I think we. We felt like we had some like more moral high ground. Cuz we were like, we're not going to talk bad.
Mikey
We're not talking bad about our girls. That's not what we about.
Summit
That's just how we felt.
Mikey
And we also tell the girls too. Don't talk down on our girls. They knew that.
Summit
Yeah. And they did it.
Scarlet
But it was okay to flirt with.
Cheyenne
But I'm telling you right now, the only reason that Jack reacted the way he reacted whenever he saw that happen is because he knew. He knew he did not wanna look like a hypocrite. Deep down you know that shit fucking hurt. And you can. Okay, so you were just. You were putting on a show the entire fucking time. Like you weren't being your genuine self and like showing your genuine emotions. Like you. You were putting on this front so that way you could protect yourself in the long run when it came to social media and what people were gonna think of you. That's why he went about it the way he went about it. He didn't wanna seem like.
Jack
I didn't wanna seem like a Grant dude.
Summit
But.
Mikey
No, but doesn't it. I. We all feel like it looks bad when. When, when you see Cheyenne getting.
Cheyenne
Can we stop?
Mikey
I'm saying. I'm saying when. When we're seeing Cheyenne do what she was doing and your only emotion is like, we're happy for like I'm. I'm happy for like that. We was all like, what the. We had bigger reactions to that shit than you. So it kind of had us like.
Summit
We gave you shit.
Mikey
We gave mad for that. We was like, what the is this?
Jack
In that moment in the villa, I just. There was no. I had no room to judge what Cheyenne was doing. I mean, I feel like I was in the wrong. I had already done what I'd done. Like I had already hurt her. And it was like five days in. And like the fact that I had to like let Cheyenne go through the amount of time we were there at the very beginning and on top of that, she just met the girls and it's like, I don't know how she's doing. So I'm sitting there like, I don't know.
Interviewer
Why didn't you guys, instead of giving him shit, why didn't you just, like, man to man, just like, sit him down and try to, like, have a heart to heart rather than, like, give your boy a hard time?
Summit
When I say give shit, I feel like that's kind of what I meant. I thought we did, like, heart to heart.
Mikey
It's just. It felt like Jack was. But it was like Jack shitted on himself in the house where he. Where he always kept saying, I'm not good enough. I'm not good enough. And that shit would piss the three of us off. Cause we're like, bro, where the fuck are you getting this shit from? But then finding out now that Cheyenne is so fucking supportive of him and all this other shit, it's like, why are you shit on yourself like that? You get what I'm saying?
Interviewer
But isn't there a way to, like, hold your friend accountable while still supporting him?
Summit
We never were like, oh, good job cheating. Like we did. We held him accountable.
Mikey
We held him accountable.
Jack
They did.
Cheyenne
But at the end of the day, he, like, took it for the team. Like, at the end of the day, he was giving Netflix, like, what they wanted from Temptation Island. So it's like, you guys aren't gonna sit there and be like, what the fuck are you doing?
Cole
The first time Jack cheated, like, if I saw him, I was asleep when this all went down. But if I was there and I saw him starting to do bad, I would have grabbed him by the shoulder and not let him do that. But once I woke up next morning, he already cheated. Well, it's like, already cheated. Like, I'm not going to get like, you already cheated. I'm not going to, like, try to condone him now when he's already done it.
Interviewer
You know, not condone him, but like, you can just ask him, like, why do you think you did that?
Mikey
I did.
Cheyenne
This is the thing. It's like, it hurt bad enough to see him cheat the first time, but then it's like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse and worse. And the clips that I saw at the bonfire, half of them were cut out, like, from the show. Yes, half of them were cut out from the show. So it's like what I saw, like, it's. It's almost. You guys could have. Whatever happened, happened at this fucking point. I really don't care. But you guys could have, like, just been like, Jack, like, why, like, why would. Why, Mikey? Why would you be like, go all in then. Like, if you're gonna cheat, go all in. Like, at some point you could have been like, you up. Like, take a step back and really think about what the fuck you're doing. You've spent six years with this girl. Like, really, really think about what you're doing instead of just being like, it's a fuck fest.
Mikey
Did I not say that?
Jack
You did. They did. They did. I just didn't listen. And I'm. I'm gonna say this for all three of them. They did.
Mikey
You said was the mentality too, that,
Cole
like, you guys were kind of both single once, you both, like, cheated and like, you're now exploring yourself with.
Mikey
Cause I reminded him of the shit you said on the first day we met. You said, if you fuck up, it's one of those ones. You get what I'm saying? You said, it's up. And I said, you remember it's up.
Interviewer
Why were you. It seemed like you guys were more invested in their relationship than your own.
Mikey
Yeah. Cause it was just the fact that, like, looking at Jack was just like, we felt bad. Like, the way Jack would. Like, I've never seen a grown man talk down on himself before. Like, to really shit on yourself.
Cheyenne
Okay, but you know Jack in real life now, and that's not. Jack doesn't. He doesn't talk down on himself. Okay, so why all of a sudden is he talking down on himself on the show? Probably to make himself fucking look good. I don't really know. Because Jack, that's not who Jack is. Jack is confident as fuck. He's a very. Like, he's very. He knows who he is. He knows he's a good looking guy. Like, he knows. He knows all of this. So it's like, why all of a sudden, Jack, like, when we've been in this relationship for so long, you haven't, you haven't ever talked down on yourself like that. So why in the house are you all of a sudden talking down on yourself? I just don't get that. Because that's never been a thing in our relationship. Like, if anything, you've always been the guy that's like, you know who the fuck you are. Like, you've always said that. So it's just hearing them say that you were talking down on yourself, acting like you're not good enough. Like, that's crazy to me because I've never heard that before.
Jack
I Just think it was by the emotions in the house. I mean, I. Dude, I can't even recall the. Like, I said, I haven't watched the fucking show, so I can't even recall the bonfire. But I. I just know with some of the stuff you were saying in the bonfire that it. No, I don't know. Like, it's like, I told them it's all stuff I've heard, but it's all stuff I've heard when we were super mad at each other. It's like. It's. You're talking to another fucking man. And, like, I just. Like, I don't know. And then the way that. Which you probably checked him after he said I was broke, but, I mean, I didn't know if you checked him because it just cut off and then.
Cheyenne
But, like, seriously, like, me calling you broke, like, dude, that's a reason to cheat. Like, I just. I don't understand that.
Mikey
There's no.
Jack
No, there's no reason. There's. No, don't, don't. Don't say there's. That's a reason. That's not a reason.
Cheyenne
Okay, then what?
Jack
There's no. There's no. First of all, there's no.
Cheyenne
You just said that the reason that you went and moved the way you moved in the house is because you saw what I said offended you.
Jack
Yeah, you're right. I cheated and. Yeah, I don't know.
Cheyenne
Okay, that's it.
Interviewer
Do you think you. I mean, just. Do you think you have some insecurities about yourself you haven't fully tackled?
Jack
No, I think I figured all those insecurities out after me and Shine broke up.
Interviewer
What were those insecurities?
Jack
I mean, not. First of all, not being able to be alone. I couldn't do things on my own.
Interviewer
Okay.
Jack
My overall body, I got. I started running and fucking working out and, like, losing weight again and, like, actually, like, focusing on myself and putting time towards myself after the show. And did you?
Cheyenne
Because last I checked, whenever you got back from the show, all you were doing was constantly getting fucked up. And then when we finally sat down and had that conversation, I sat there and I told you, like, this isn't.
Jack
You're good.
Cheyenne
No, it's not that I'm good. I'm speaking the fucking truth. I'm speaking the truth, and we had that conversation. And I have done nothing, like I have multiple times in this relationship is push you to be a better fucking version of yourself. And you can't seem to accept that I have done that for you.
Jack
You have.
Cheyenne
Okay, so why couldn't you have said it? Why? Why is it? Why? Like, why can you say it now to my face? But you couldn't have said it? Whenever I'm behind closed doors, it's like, you know, when you got back from that show, you were doing nothing but getting fucked up and turning back into the old version of Jack that you weren't before you went onto that show. And then we finally decided we're gonna continue to be in each other's lives. We're gonna be friends. We're gonna be support systems for each other, whatever. And I'm the one who's, like, texting you every single day, like, hey, like, how are you doing? Like, did you go on your run? Like, what? Like, is everything good? Right? So it's like, I just. I don't understand. Like, you didn't. You didn't do that. You fell right back into your old habits. And the first thing you told me when you got off the island. You want to know what the first
Scarlet
thing you told me was?
Cheyenne
Do you remember?
Jack
Nope, I don't remember even the island.
Cheyenne
Okay, well, the first thing you told me when you got off the island was, you know the one thing I learned? I said, what'd you learn? You said that I'm gonna. I'm gonna smoke weed, and I'm gonna do whatever I want when I want, and you're not gonna tell me otherwise. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. But you. You fail to remember that the reason that I don't want you to do. You can do whatever you want, bro. You can smoke weed, you can do that. Doesn't bother me. But I'm not saying that in a way that's like, I want to tell you what to do. I'm trying to just help you grow and help you. I want you to realize that you could be so much more because you have that potential. But when you're constantly drowning yourself with things that don't help you, it's hard to be the best version of yourself. But you take everything that I say, and you take it in such a bad way. And that's not how I, like, am trying to make it seem like I don't want to. My goal is to never give you rules or to tell you what to do or what not to do. It's just like, I want you to be the best version of Jack. And I feel like I have done that for so long in the relationship, but whenever it comes to me and pushing me, I don't get that. It's just like, why don't you do it with me? Type of. Type of thing. And it's like, I just wanna. I just feel like when we were in the relationship, like, it should be nothing but pushing each other, you know? And I felt like I was constantly.
Jack
And I failed to do that. Yeah, I failed. I didn't do that. I took all that for granted. And I'm sorry that I did that. I'm sorry. I took the whole relationship. I took you as a person for granted. I took all the time we spent together for granted. And I would never take any of that back a day in my life. I appreciate everything. I want you to be happier than you ever were with me. No matter where what path you go down. I want nothing but success for you. I mean, I owe nothing but the truth to you about everything I experienced in this whole situation. So, I mean, that's all you deserve.
Interviewer
Do you realize how much she cares about you?
Jack
I mean, Mikey is, like, my biggest hype man when it comes to that. He texts me all the time. He's just like, she loves you. Like, you know, and she did love you. And she, like, you know, we'll always love each other. That love will never be gone.
Interviewer
Why do you have such a hard time taking the love that she has for you in a way that will actually help you? Because it seems like she really cares about you in ways that, like, she probably should have given up on you a long time ago.
Jack
Oh, she should have kicked me to the fucking rocks. Like, I don't even deserve her love you.
Cheyenne
But I see so much. Like, I have always seen so much more in you. And, like, that's not. It was never to. Like, I never wanted to get rid of you. Like, I've always. I feel like, if anything, I've fought for you so hard, just like you fought for me, too. But it's like, I truly don't think you realize like, how bad, like, I rode for the relationship, you know?
Interviewer
What are some things about Jack that you really love about?
Scarlet
That's a big question.
Cheyenne
Stop.
Mikey
You're good, bro. You're good. You good.
Kaylee
You good.
Interviewer
Let it out. Let it out.
Co-Host
It's hard for everybody.
Mikey
You're good.
Scarlet
Stand up.
Kaylee
Don't cry.
Co-Host
What are you feeling right now, Jack?
Jack
Regret my actions, the way I treated her, the way I took everything for granted.
Interviewer
You know, it's interesting. Like, it seems very real and there's a lot of love, but, like, maybe I'm crazy, but I don't feel like the show broke. You guys up in a way. And I feel like if you were willing.
Jack
I think we're just crazy, probably.
Cheyenne
I think this is.
Interviewer
We're all crazy.
Cheyenne
I think that no matter what, at the end of the day, like, I will always have love.
Scarlet
Thanks.
Cheyenne
Not letting me look at my. I think that I'll always have love for Jack. No matter how things went on the island and the people that are, like, wanting me to hate him and wanting me to bash him and wanting me to just tear him into shreds. It's like, you're just not gonna get that from me. Because I do love him. I, like, no matter what, like, I really do love you, and that's not gonna change. And I know you regret what you did, and I know how bad you felt for what you did. So there's no reason for me to make you feel worse.
Jack
You know I love you, but I wish you the best. I don't. I wish I could have you still, but I'm fucked.
Co-Host
Jack, have you thought about therapy? Has Mikey encouraged you to maybe talk to.
Jack
Yeah, we've had a lot of conversations about that. I mean, I think I sit on the phone with him maybe once every two days, maybe talking. He just rambles, but. Yeah.
Co-Host
So Mikey's your therapist?
Mikey
Yeah, I cry, bro.
Jack
He's a new type of therapist. He's changed a lot, actually, you know, from the show.
Interviewer
The part of you that we watched this on the show and I think we're seeing it now, and it. It doesn't seem, like, inauthentic, but there's this. There's something about you. You kind of like, yeah, no, I'm a piece of shit. And, yeah, like, she deserves better. But, like, at some point, like, I don't know if it's a cop out, but it does seem like you clearly are hurting, but, like, what's stopping you from receiving Cheyenne's love in a way that's like, you know what? Let's. I gotta get my shit together. Like, I should be like, how. Why don't you just use it as a way to hold yourself more accountable? Because, like, you're a young guy. There's definitely a lot of life in front of you. And, like, you can. You could look back and really think of. That's the old Jack. But you seem so reluctant to, like, take advantage of that.
Jack
I don't. I don't even know. Can you tell me the question?
Interviewer
Am I making sense? Because, like, there's.
Host
It's the whole, like.
Interviewer
Yeah, you concede, like, that you're like, you Concede your actions. And I kind of like, almost the way you were saying, it's just like, well, if it. If you're so quick to be like, yeah, no, I shouldn't have done that. Yeah, I shouldn't have cheated. Like, why don't you just not do the thing that you're so quick to admit? You know, it's like, it's awesome that you can take accountability, acknowledge it. But, like, what's stopping you from just being a better guy?
Jack
Nothing, honestly. I think right when I got off the out of the island, I think immediately my brain went to, what the fuck did I just do? To I need to be a better person. I'm like, my morals are not straight. Like, I'm not a good guy. I didn't treat her good. I don't know.
Interviewer
You know, it's interesting. I don't like watching the show. It's like, these two should not be together, you know? And yet I'm sitting here just like, the love that you guys have is, like, so palpable and obvious. Like, it's hard not to. I honestly, I feel like my perspectives change.
Mikey
I find my perspective.
Co-Host
It's hard to.
Interviewer
Not rooting, like, rooting for you guys,
Host
which is probably bad advice.
Scarlet
Guys, stop.
Interviewer
And sometimes hope is, like. Hope can be a good thing. And also in these situations, it can be, like, your worst enemy because, like, you have so much history, you see the good in each other. Like, I hate to ask, but is there a world. I don't get the sense that you guys have given up on a possibility of ending up together. Would that be fair to say?
Cheyenne
I mean, I guess never say never. But I think right now, especially after this experience, it's just like, we've really got to focus on us and maybe just creating a good foundation of, like, just a great friendship. And if we can't seem to be friends, I mean, I wouldn't say, like,
Interviewer
I don't think you guys can be friends.
Cheyenne
Yeah, I don't.
Interviewer
If I can just be honest, that's good.
Jack
I don't think so.
Cole
Yeah, I don't.
Interviewer
You guys have seen Wolf of Wall Street. We're not friends. You know what I'm saying?
Jack
Like, but friends from afar.
Cheyenne
I think that if everything could go my way, like, I would want to be with Jack at the end of the day, and I would want to try again, but right now just isn't the time. And that's not to say that it couldn't happen later on down the road.
Interviewer
You mentioned that Jack's close With your family. How did your family feel about watching this all go down?
Cheyenne
So we all went to dinner right before we went to the island. And Jack sat down with my entire family. And they were just like, tell me your intentions. Like, are you gonna cheat on my daughter? Like, what are your intentions? And he said full heartedly, like, I'm gonna prove you guys wrong. He said it straight to my dad, straight to my mom's face, he said, I'm gonna prove you guys wrong, and you guys can have these doubts about me, but it's not gonna happen. And then it happened. And so my parents, like, my family's immediate reaction was, what the fuck? Like, that is not the Jack that we have been around for so many years. But it's crazy. Cause it's like they know, like this side of Jack and they don't recognize the Jack that is shown. And it's crazy. But they still love him. They still text him every single day making sure he's okay. Like, they. They love Jack down.
Co-Host
I don't think you got a chance earlier, but what are some of the things that you and your family love about Jack?
Cheyenne
He's just like, as much as I have not talked so highly about Jack or I've said things that I don't mean, it's like Jack has been there for me through so much. Like, he has helped me accomplish, like, everything in my life. Like, if it wasn't for Jack, I wouldn't have half the things that I have. I wouldn't. He's just helped me so much. Like, my style, like, everything, like it's from as simple as, you know, the way. I don't even know. It's just everything. Like Jack. If it wasn't for Jack, like, I wouldn't be where I am today. And that's deep. Everyone that is in my life, like, knows that. And he's just great. He's great with my nephews. Like, he. My nephews adore him. And it's just.
Scarlet
Yeah,
Cheyenne
there's a lot of things to love about Jack.
Interviewer
Do you think you have a habit of self sabotaging 24 7?
Jack
I feel like I constantly like self sabotage and I judge myself a lot. I feel like I'm hard on myself a little bit.
Interviewer
What are some of your biggest insecurities outside of. I know you shared a little bit, but I don't. My gut tells me those aren't your biggest ones.
Jack
I don't know.
Cheyenne
Damn. You didn't even get these this deep in the confessionals. They're pulling a Side out of you.
Jack
I haven't seen probably my adoption.
Interviewer
It's my biggest issue.
Cheyenne
From what we've talked about, and when we have gotten deep about it, I
Kaylee
know
Cheyenne
he's gonna break down, but I think it's more of just feeling the love of everyone around him. And I think that it kind of stems from a. You know, it does stem from it. From that, you know, and I think that at points, he doesn't feel that he's loved from. He has an amazing. An amazing family, like his. His mom and dad and his brother. They are literally the best. And so that's. That's not what I mean. Like, he gets the love from them. Like, he knows that they. That's not what I'm talking about at all. I'm just saying, like, I think that he's always felt in some type of way that. I don't know how to put it.
Jack
I wasn't just unwanted.
Interviewer
Unwanted.
Mikey
Yeah.
Interviewer
I'm sure that's. Yeah. Tough to process. And, yeah, also, I imagine, like, you know, when we go through difficult times like, you guys, you guys have clearly leaned on each other. No one can relate to this experience except for what you guys went through. And obviously, I imagine it must be difficult to find people to relate to that type of feeling.
Jack
Like, never anybody, but it's okay.
Co-Host
You said you wanted to be your authentic self. Who is that?
Jack
Me. Hi, guys.
Interviewer
Well, listen, man, I really appreciate your vulnerability.
Cole
You.
Interviewer
I mean, you all seem like great people. I think a lot of. Obviously, people are watching the show, and it's easy to judge and critique, but you're a really young guy with a lot of life in front of you and a lot of potential, and I hope that you reach it, and you certainly can, but it won't happen until you face some of your demons, you know?
Cheyenne
Yeah, but the show also doesn't define who you are.
Scarlet
Like, there's not at all.
Cheyenne
You can always show a different side that wasn't shown. And I think that that's something that you just need to do. You just need to put it out there, and you just need to really show, like, the version of Jack that. I know. I know the side that you showed on the show is, like, the worst side of you, but that's not who you are, and we all know that that's not who you are, and you just need. You need to show that it's beautiful.
Co-Host
You can also reinvent yourself over and over and time and time again.
Cheyenne
Right.
Interviewer
You know, like, yeah, I've done this a million times.
Cheyenne
This is just the start. Like, you had a. You have a rough start. Like, it's coming at you hard, you know, like, the Internet's really coming for you. But just look at it as, this is the lowest you'll be and just grow from here.
Interviewer
That's deep.
Mikey
That's dead.
Jack
That's facts, real.
Interviewer
Well, before we move on to Scarlet and Cole, I. If you don't mind me saying, if I could just offer you guys some advice, if there's any hope that you guys end up together, just do me a favor and don't try to be friends until you, you know, you're not friends. And I know you guys care a lot about each other, and it's probably easy to always go to each other during hard times, but, like, respect the relationship that you guys had, you know, like. And it's not as friends. Like, yeah, you'll be best friends if you're together, but if there's any hope for you guys, it's not gonna happen. If you try to be friends in
Co-Host
between, Try to not care.
Interviewer
Try to not care and you're doing other things. Don't torture each other, you know, either let each other go, you know, and know that you have a support from afar, or give it a shot.
Cheyenne
One more thing I want to say before we move on. Another thing that just wasn't shown in the show is at our final bonfire, we, like, had a moment where it's like, we literally just started, like, busting out laughing. Like, we have, like, such a weird dynamic, and we're. We have just literally, like, we have been so close for so long that it's like I couldn't even take him serious. Like, what I was seeing in that house was just like, that is not Jack. Like, I literally have no idea who
Scarlet
this man is all the time.
Cheyenne
Yeah, I was like, every day.
Kaylee
You were like, that's not Jack.
Cheyenne
Yeah, this is not Jack. I have no. No idea who this is. And so it's just kind of like whenever we went to make our final decisions of, like, who we were going to leave with or what. What we were going to do, it's like, when I looked at him, I'm just like. We just started dying laughing because I'm like, what the fuck was that? Like, what was that? That is not what we have been like for six years. So.
Interviewer
Well, it's interesting because, like, you know, again, we all relate to these. These first toxic loves, but it's also, like, I think we get surprised how much we get comfortable with the pain that we Cause each other.
Cheyenne
Right?
Interviewer
You know, like, we. We miss. We sometimes miss the pain, and we get familiar with it. That's why. Honestly. No offense, Mikey, I commend Sydney because, like, it's not. It's not easy to walk away from something you're so comfortable and used to. And you even get comfortable to the pain that you guys called each other, because sometimes the. You know, the makeup is really good. Great.
Cole
You know, I know that's right.
Cheyenne
Is giant.
Co-Host
The makeup.
Jack
Wait, what?
Interviewer
Oh, speaking of, I don't know if you want to, like, give your man some props because, like, the Internet thinks he's not.
Jack
I'm a small boy.
Interviewer
He's not.
Cheyenne
Guys, I'm telling you, like, I saw
Jack
that if it could have been Jack,
Cheyenne
if I could have had Jack in the bed, I would have chose Jack any day.
Sydney
So.
Interviewer
So have you guys hooked up since Temptation Island? Yeah.
Scarlet
No, he didn't. We have not.
Cheyenne
He's lying.
Jack
One time.
Co-Host
You said three times.
Jack
I said one time.
Scarlet
He's such a liar.
Co-Host
Well, thank you, both of you, for being so vulnerable and open. Jack, it was honest. It was very beautiful to see that side of you. I think we all knew it was in there, but it was nice to see.
Jack
I'm glad it came out, I guess. Yeah.
Interviewer
We appreciate you, maybe. And we'll be right back after this quick break from our sponsors.
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the Temptation island season two reunion.
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Moving on to Scarlet and Cole. Scarlet and Cole came to the island to regain trust in their two year relationship and dig deeper into their issues. While Cole maintained his physical boundary of temptation, Scarlet formed another connection that reminded her she didn't need to settle. And while Cole was ready to commit, Scarlet decided her journal was not the only man she wanted to read.
Interviewer
Scarlet and Cole, I gotta know, how
Host
did you cross that bridge of living
Interviewer
together once you got back home from the island?
Scarlet
We took a little space when we got back and, you know, I really needed a reset. And I think a lot of things were brought up for me there. I think I was exhausted from trying and trying and another chance and another chance. And so once we got back, I was just kind of removing myself from the situation. And he stayed elsewhere for a little bit and then it wasn't too long, and we were like, you know what? Let's figure this out. And, you know, I think that we just said we're gonna dive back in and we're gonna do the work, and that's what we've been doing.
Interviewer
Well, I definitely wanna hear about how you guys dove back in, but I wanna back up a little bit. A big theme of your guys relationship on the show was talking about Cole's lying and the lack of honesty you had. But I don't feel like we really gotta hear the context of what you guys were talking about. So can you shed some light on that relationship going into Temptation Island? Yeah. And give us some examples of why trust was such a struggle with you guys.
Scarlet
So. Yeah. And that's the thing is, going into Temptation island, we were in such a fragile place already. And, you know, from the start of our relationship up until island time, I had been hurt over and over with lies. And, you know, it would be one. And then, you know, he would be right there saying how sorry he was and it won't ever happen again. And then it would happen again. And it was breaking me, you know, But I wanted this to work, and that's why I continue to put in the time and the effort and give another chance. And, you know, I see him and I love him, and I know that, like, he's not intending to hurt me. It was more so he was just, like, scared that he would lose me, you know? And so I think it was just like a bad cycle and pattern that needed to be broken, but it was breaking me.
Interviewer
What were some of the examples of the lies?
Scarlet
So we were together and then we broke up and.
Jack
No, wait, wait, wait.
Cole
Let's start with the lies. Up until when we met, we weren't dating for a long period of time.
Scarlet
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Cole
Well, then we dated and then broke up and then got married.
Scarlet
Yeah. So. Well, when we first started dating, from the very start, there were lies from day one.
Cole
Seeing each other.
Scarlet
When we were seeing each other, not exclusive, we just started seeing each other. He was. Was going to Hawaii, and he said, this girl that I was talking to before you is going to be there. I just want to let you know. And I was like, okay, are you sharing a room with her? He said, no. He gets back from the trip. I said, did you share a room with her? And he said, no. And I said, did you hook up with her? And he said, no. I asked him again, did you share a room with her? No. Did you hook up with her? No. And then finally it came out. They did share a room. They did hook up. That was very beginning. We weren't even together yet. I should have known. Then I continued, I, you know, get into the relationship, and it was things like that. Well, then we end up breaking up and we take a break. So it's during.
Cole
You broke up with me?
Scarlet
Yeah, I broke up with Cole. And, you know, we had rushed into it from our previous. We were both in really long relationships, got out of those relationships, and right away we got together. I realized I was not fully ready to be committed to someone else yet. I needed time to heal and, like, really process everything. And so we didn't talk for a couple. But then, yeah, we start hanging out and just kind of started exploring the idea of dating again, you know, I mean, we would hang out here and there, but I still wasn't ready to be with him. And so it was like this wishy washy gray area. Fine, do what you want, but don't lie about it to my face. So there were multiple occasions where. Well, there was one specific. I remember I had gone away for the weekend. I'm hanging out with him right before I leave, you know, right when I get back. But I woke up feeling sick to my stomach. And I was like, I just feel like something happened last night. And I asked him, I said, what'd you do last night? And he said, nothing. I said, okay, I fly home. Hold on, I fly home. And we were talking, and I said, what did you do last night? And you said, nothing. And I said, did you hook up with someone last night? And you said, no. And I said, I'm going to ask you one more time. Did you hook up with someone? And you said, yes.
Cole
Can I give context to that, though? The timeline's messed up. That was when we first started seeing each other, like, a year before that.
Scarlet
Nicole, this happened multiple times when we were broken up.
Cole
Yeah, but the time you're talking about was a time, and we were at a wedding in Charlotte.
Scarlet
There were multiple times where he had slept with people and lied about it. Same thing.
Interviewer
So she can't keep track of how many.
Scarlet
Yes.
Cole
So we're not dating, though, just to be clear.
Scarlet
It's fine, but just don't lie to my face.
Cole
I know, I agree, but I just. I don't want him to act like I'm, like, cheating on you.
Interviewer
I hear you.
Scarlet
No, no, he never has cheated on me. To set that record straight, I've seen some things about that. He's never cheated on me, that it wasn't about cheating. As you see, I'm not worried that he's going to cheat on the island. It's not that. That's not it. It's that I have no foundation here. It leaves me with anxiety and questions and stress, and it's like, when's the next lie gonna be? There are so many examples like that to where I was just, like, exhausted. And then he says, you know, if you'll just be official with me again, there will be nothing else for me to lie about. And I was like, all right, let's fucking do it, then. That's kind of when we get back together. And, you know, there's still been little things since then. And then that was basically the foundation of the trust issues. And that's, you know, I mean, that
Interviewer
makes a ton of sense. And I appreciate you sharing that context. Cole, I'm curious, like, do you appreciate what she's saying and why she feels the way she does? Yeah, for sure.
Cole
I mean, if you want to call it. I lied to her about things. If you want me to shed, like, not an excuse, but, like, why I lied about it, you could say, I feel like I didn't owe her the answer. We weren't dating. I asked to date you. You didn't want to date me, but you still wanted me. My foot in the door with you, and I felt like, I hear you, but you.
Interviewer
You're being a little hypocritical is a little strong. But if you're not dating, be honest. I mean, for sure. When we first met, we weren't together. We.
Jack
We were.
Co-Host
I wanted to date him, and he
Cheyenne
did not want to date me.
Co-Host
Same thing.
Interviewer
But we were very upfront. We were like, we're not dating, so we have no reason to lie.
Cole
Yeah.
Interviewer
And so here you are kind of leaning on the fact that, like, we're not dating, we're not dating. I don't. I can do whatever I want. You could. And yet the fact that you lied is an example. It had nothing to do with whether you were dating together. In fact, if I'm scarlet, I'm thinking he has more incentive to lie if we are in a relationship. Because you couldn't even be honest with her when you could. Like, you had every reason to tell the truth. Like, she wasn't your girlfriend. Yeah. So, you know.
Mikey
You know.
Interviewer
You know what I'm saying? Like, you're still kind of like, well, you weren't dating. We weren't dating is, like, a justification.
Cole
Yeah. If I did it over again. I would have just told her the truth. Like I said, like, you know, and been that black and white and however she dealt with that, you know, that would be on her. But like I said, I felt even on those moments, I was kind of like, I could even reworded it. And I think I talked to Mark on the show, but this. But he's like, you could have said something like, I don't owe you that answer. Like, you know, if you want to ask that question, we need to be dating. So like, either let's make this concrete or like, we should stop having this gray, wishy washy, like, because she was seeing other people too. So it wasn't just like, you know.
Interviewer
No, but I'm assuming she was honest about it.
Cole
Yes. I didn't like ask questions though. But she asked.
Interviewer
She.
Cole
I feel like she's like, she likes to ask a lot of questions, you know, but it's not an excuse either. But it's just.
Interviewer
Sounds like she just wants to know where she stands.
Cheyenne
I just.
Scarlet
Especially after I'd already been lied to. Of course. Now I'm gonna ask even more. You know, we're working so hard towards trust right now, but I still have questions and I do question a lot. And like, I know that, you know, we're both just doing our best right now, so.
Interviewer
So fast forward to you guys leave the island separately. I gotta ask, like, why actually go back into this relationship? As much as you guys care about each other, it seemed like you got a lot of answers from going on Temptation island. And yet here we are. Not that I'm not happy you guys are together, but I am just wondering, what did you think was going to be different?
Scarlet
I just think I. I see Cole and I, you know, the way that he is with me, the way that he supports me, the way that we live our life together, like, that's what I want. That's what I want next to me, you know, And I think that everyone can grow, you know, I have a lot of things I need to work on too. And I think that we're both doing a really good job right now of putting in that effort. And like, when I think of the father of my children, like, it's someone like Cole. And so I think, you know, yes, our problems have been put under this spotlight and they've been very hurtful. Like, I have been very hurt. But at the end of the day, like, I just think that this love is worth it. I think he's worth it. I think, you know, this relationship is what I want.
Co-Host
Has he lied to you since leaving the island or.
Kaylee
No,
Scarlet
not too. Severity of. Yeah, yeah, he can ask.
Co-Host
Cole, have you lied to Scarlet since leaving.
Cheyenne
Leaving the island?
Cole
Yeah, I mean, like, there's been some things that have come up, but we'll leave it at that.
Interviewer
Like what? I gotta ask.
Scarlet
It's fine. You don't have to.
Co-Host
I mean, you were saying? Not to the severity of what.
Scarlet
It's just been, like, little things.
Cole
I mean, ever since we've been, like, concrete in a relationship, there's never been something lied about that was like, obviously, I was with a girl or this or that.
Scarlet
No, it's nothing.
Cole
Yeah, it'd be, like, white. I guess I won't call them white lies, but stuff about, like, I guess you could say the level to something like, of that degree.
Interviewer
Do you know what the lies are?
T-Mobile Representative
You do?
Co-Host
So this is something that y' all are working through. Are y' all in couples therapy?
Scarlet
Not in couples. We're an individual individual.
Interviewer
Yeah.
Host
Yeah.
Cole
I mean, we've talked about it. I mean, at the end of the day, it's like, I'm trying to. It's not about, like, trying to prove each other right or wrong. I'm just, like, trying to see her and she's trying to see me. And it's not that either of us are right or wrong. We just want to, like, work through it together. And every relationship has their problems. And I think what's cool about ours is, like, we've gone through a lot of shit, but we've never, like, given up on each other because we really do love each other. And I think in this day and age, a lot of people are quick to give up on that and not work through their problems. And, I mean, I. After the show, like, to be honest, like, we got home in, like, we lived together, so we went back to the same house, and for a period of time, it wasn't good. And, like, I left for a period of time. There was a time when, like, it was just a very, like, stagnant relationship. But, you know, I started going to therapy. I think I journaled every day for, like, two or three months, like, twice a day, and just got, like, you know, worked on myself, and she's working on herself. And I think over time, like, putting in that work and also giving her the confidence, too, to, like, see me put that work in, I think helped her overcome some, like, insecurities with me. And it's kind of molded into, you know, like, a beautiful thing. And, like, I'D say lately, like, as far as I can remember, we've been in, like, a lot better place on the island.
Interviewer
So much of your frustrations with Cole were. Seemed to be his lack or inability to have a deeper relationship or a deeper conversation. How has that changed in your relationship?
Scarlet
I've actually seen Cole really open up and go a lot deeper. And I think it's all about how deeply you've met yourself. And so I think with this inner work and with the journaling and with the therapy and with the, you know, issues that we've had, I think, you know, you meet yourself at new levels, which opens up, like, different conversations. And I really have seen a lot of that. And I feel like we're getting somewhere.
Cole
Yeah, and it's a beautiful thing because, like, me and her, like, really do love each other. And, like, I don't think on her side on the show, that's shown to, like, the degree. I think she got kind of like a People would, like, express. To me that seemed like she was very cold on the show. Didn't show a lot of, like, emotion towards me or didn't show that true love. And I know that's a bunch of bullshit, and she did. And I just want people to know that, too. Like, you could get lost in seeing the show at face value for what it was, and thinking, like, Scarlett didn't give a shit about Cole, and that's just not. That's, like, the farthest thing from the truth.
Scarlet
Yeah, there was. Every day.
Cole
Every day, I mean, there's glimpses of her, but, I mean, yeah, we have, like, this crazy, strong love, and that's why it was worth fighting for. And that sucked for me a lot in the relationship, too, because, like, I had so many things to offer and so many qualities, and we loved each other so much that for the trust to dampen everything else, like, that would obviously be, like, a letdown. And I wanted to fix that because I'm like, if we can figure that out or at least make it stronger, it's like everything else over here flourishing. It's just. It turns us into, like, a power couple, honestly, because we have so many things going for us.
Interviewer
I gotta ask, though, if the lies aren't so bad or they're white lies, why are you guys so resistant to share what they are?
Scarlet
You know, I feel that we shared so much and we really opened up and put ourselves on the show that I think from here, it's like, why am I gonna open up anything else? Like, we've. We did that we're working through that,
Interviewer
and that is why we're here, though.
Scarlet
Yeah. But I don't feel the need.
Cole
I think there was a lot of audience.
Cheyenne
More ammo against.
Scarlet
Exactly. It's like, we're really doing what we can.
Cole
There's a lot talked about on the show that, like, we talked about that actually was never shown in the show. And so, like, you know, we did open up and, like, yeah, express our problems in certain situations of things that did happen and, like, really dive into it. And, you know, the overall theme is, you know, obviously, the trust and, you know, things that stemmed into that. But I know where we are now. And, you know, with the show coming out, I think, like, you know, we fought it out. It can. Cause, yeah, it kind of, like, it kind of came out, and we were. We were at Coachella, and then we get back, and I think it was like, we went at it for two, three days, and I think it's out of our system now. We got opinions from friends and family.
Interviewer
I hear you.
Co-Host
You know, I will say, like, being vague about it only makes the audience wonder. Question.
Interviewer
They're gonna assume you're covering for it.
Co-Host
They're gonna assume it's worse than what it probably is, and they're gonna assume you're probably just lying to yourself about the relationship, which is what you don't want. So it's easier to just lay everything on the table if it's not as bad as what we've already heard that he's done. And you're working through it. Y' all are actively in therapy. You're actively working on your relationship. So, you know,
Scarlet
but I hear you.
Interviewer
But while watching it back, it honestly seemed like you brought Cole to the island for a way out.
Scarlet
I've seen so many of those.
Interviewer
And it almost felt like you kept moving the goalpost on Cole. But you would say that is inaccurate or unfair.
Scarlet
Cole and I were set on leaving that island together. You know, like, I thought it would be a breeze because when you're going on Temptation island, the goal is, like, not cheating, you know, and so that's where we were. Like, of course we can go on here and make it to the end. Like, we're not gonna go on here and cheat, but that's not what it is. You get there, and you really have to analyze your relationship. You are forced to dive in and talk about it non stop and, like, really look at all the pieces that are not working. And, you know, and so I think I was already like, you know, there had been so much. And so I think once being there and everything is just surfacing, I was like, I need space, like, getting back, you know, I really do need to figure it out. And it's like, you know, I also see people. It's like, you didn't even give him a chance to grow and, like, take him with you at the final bonfire. I haven't seen him this whole time. I've seen clips, and the clips that you see at the bonfire, that's not what they were showing me. I was seeing him not put in any work. I was seeing him just sitting in a corner being like, I'm not doing anything, you know, so I didn't know that he was really on the other end, like, trying. And so for me, the things that he said at the final bonfire, I was just like, I've heard this before. I need to leave and see for myself.
Interviewer
In what ways did he try? Because it honestly looked like. Cole, you were like, going on dates with people you clearly weren't interested in.
Cole
I mean, I wasn't interested in anyone in the house, and that's just the reality. I obviously love this girl so much. I don't think there could have been 12 high quality candidates that would have influenced it any better. I mean, like, I was fully committed to going on the island, carrying myself in the way that aligned with my values and my morals and how my family raised me. And I was going to do that no matter if she went off the rails or whatever. Like, I was going to stick to that. And that's just who I am as a person. I carried myself on the island in the way that I'll look back on this 50 years from now and still have no regrets and respect in my kids and family and future wife. One day will watch, you know, and it's like, we're all good. So I don't think I did everything that I did on the island and, you know, leaving it, it was, I mean, not gonna lie, like, I did get mad at the end. They didn't really show it to the degree, but I was, you know, mad. Yeah, well, I mean, they didn't show everything, you know, but frustrated and. But I feel like I was frustrated because I cared, though, because I love this woman, you know, and, yeah, like I said, it was hard when we got back for a period of time and I felt all the feelings of feeling rejected or abandoned or this and that. And, you know, it wasn't easy.
Interviewer
During your anger, one thing you said is that you think that Scarlet has some things she Needs to work on herself. Or maybe you mentioned past trauma or childhood or whatever. Is that how you felt, or do you feel that way, or was that just out of anger?
Cole
A lot of just anger. I think we all have stuff to work on, and, you know, I have stuff to work on. She has stuff to work on, and that's on, you know, her time and her accord and just to, you know, not make it, I guess, feel like it was all on me or it was all my fault. While, like, you know, we left the island obviously not together.
Interviewer
The boundary you guys set in terms of not going on multiple dates with the same person, you seemed to break that boundary. What was your reason for feeling like that was okay?
Scarlet
So, you know, first date, I took Bradley on a whim. We had met the guys the night before, and I just was like, all right, picked him. We ended up having a great time. But then we. You're right. We had said, you know, like, let's take someone different each time. The next time, I take Clint, and on Bradley and I's first date, we had great conversations back at the villa. Great conversations. I feel like he challenged me, you know, like, we really were diving in, like, trying to figure out my problems, trying to grow. I take Clint and the conversations like, he's great. I love him. I had so much fun with Clint, but it just. If I was looking for growth, if I was looking for answers, I was playing at surface level by taking someone new on every single date I'm having to start the conversations back from square one. So third date, I said, I'm taking someone else new again. And don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but production was like, scarlet, like, what are you gonna get out of that? You know, like, you clearly aren't having. You tried this last time. And, like, nothing came of it. And they were like, take Bradley. Like, you clearly have the best conversations. You're actually growing from this. And I was like, you know what? You're right. Like, if I. If that's how it's gonna be, then.
Co-Host
Did you ever feel like you were tempted to get physical with Bradley, or was it never? Never.
Scarlet
Bradley was seriously such a great friend for me. And what's not shown a lot is the conversations we had where you can see how much we talk about Cole and I, you know, where he really was just, like, pushing me and helping me. And there was such a clear boundary with Bradley. He even jokes. He was like, one time I sat too close to you, and you were like, scoot over. You Know, like, it was just very clear that there was never going to be a line crossed, and he was just a great support system, a great rock, and I'm so grateful for him for that.
Interviewer
There was a moment where you said that you didn't think, maybe I'm paraphrasing, but you questioned Cole's masculinity.
Scarlet
I think we've talked about masculine energy, which is totally different than being, like, masculine. And so I think that that's where it got, like, misconstrued maybe, but.
Interviewer
No, no, I hear you, but, like, I. I think you guys let me know what you think. But I don't know if I would hear the difference between questioning masculine energy versus, like, just his.
Co-Host
What is masculine energy?
Scarlet
Yeah, I feel like it's a sense of, like, being grounded and, like, strong and knowing who you are and just being able to, like, died and. Yeah. Stand firm.
Co-Host
Did you feel in that moment that cold didn't have that. Is that kind of where that came from?
Scarlet
In what moment?
Co-Host
When you talked about the masculine energy?
Scarlet
I never talked about.
Cole
She never talked about. On the show.
Interviewer
Not on the show, but.
Scarlet
Oh, in our relationship.
Interviewer
In your relationship.
Scarlet
Yeah. There's been times, of course, you know, where I think that our energy's just, like, didn't align.
Interviewer
I think it's less about the word energy and more like, if I just think a lot of guys. That would be hard to hear. It might even be true. But I just think.
Scarlet
No, I get that, too.
Interviewer
I think a lot of guys would almost rather see their girl make out with a guy than have their girlfriend question their masculinity or their masculine.
Scarlet
I don't question his at all.
Interviewer
Okay.
Scarlet
Yeah, not at all.
Co-Host
Reading the journal, you said she would not want you to do this before you did it, and you did it anyways. Do you regret doing that?
Cole
Yeah. I shouldn't have read the journal. You know, that's why I owned it on the show, and I would have owned it in real life. You know, obviously, I read it for reasons that I did, but it's not an excuse. And I read the journal, and I shouldn't have read it.
Interviewer
Did you think at that point maybe she was like, where was your mind when you chose to, like, cross that?
Cole
I mean, I hadn't slept in two or three days. We went over to their house. I mean, he's digging through the suitcase. I mean, we're all fucked up. Like, I don't know. Like, I'm not song.
Co-Host
You did have summit.
Cheyenne
Be like, you guys can't.
Scarlet
I don't know if you should read that.
Cole
I don't even know if I heard of that.
Interviewer
Yeah, that's. You're like, do you think she'll be mad? Cut to Scarlet being like, we have one rule.
Cole
She goes, we have one rule. Props to the show. Like, they got me. Like, they spiced up her bonfire clips where I was like, fuck. I think she's fallen for Bradley. So I'm, like, freaking out. I'm losing control. I go over there. I can't talk. It's not like in the real world where I can just text my girl and be like, hey, is everything good? Like, what's going on? I'm like, the only info I'm gonna get, apart from a shitty, tainted bonfire clip, is I can hopefully read, like, a love letter in her journal and feel secure. You'll be like, oh, I'm fine. The last time.
Scarlet
I love that Cole is sitting there and he's like, what if they show this in the bonfire as he's doing it? I'm like, duh. They're like, but they did it. They didn't show it to me. That's probably why we had that, like,
Cheyenne
last bonfire just thrown on us.
Scarlet
They didn't show me. And I said, they didn't show it.
Kaylee
Cold, not talking.
Scarlet
They didn't. And that's. That's why I was like. I was convinced. I was like, he would not do that. He knows that's my rule. And so I was like, if you guys just show me a clip of him going through my journal, like, I will be done. And they didn't show it. So I was like, he didn't do it. The producers put it on top there to make me think that. And then he tells me at the final bonfire, and that's when I was like, you just broke my trust even more. And that's when I was like, and
Interviewer
where is your journal these days? Out in the open or locked in a box?
Cole
Netflix.com.
Scarlet
yeah, they lied. No, I still leave it on my nightstand.
Cole
It's actually my notebook.
Scarlet
That one was. Yeah, no, I have my real journal at home. It sits on my nightstand. And I just trust that, like, that will not happen again.
Cole
I've never looked at her journal in the real world. Let's just leave it at that. I shouldn't have looked in the journal and understood.
Interviewer
Do you? Whatever part of your brain that thought, hey, I don't know what she's doing with Bradley, but this theme of white lies, big lies, lies, you know, is obviously this lack of trust and do you think your propensity to lie for whatever reason when you do plays a role in like thinking, oh, if I can lie and if I'm capable of it, maybe Scarlett is too?
Cole
No, not no. I mean, I don't think one liar makes another liar. I don't. I mean, to be honest, she's. I've never caught her lying to me about anything. And I think since I've known her, so I don't really have anything on her.
Interviewer
But why not trust her in that moment?
Cole
Oh, just because the show's so fucked up. I mean like they're just like. I mean every bonfire I would just be sitting there like, damn, this looks bad. And then I'm seeing all this shit happening to them and I'm getting paranoid and freaked out.
Interviewer
Yeah, but like you were so. You were the almost annoyingly self aware of the cameras in a sense of like, well, which one is it? Do you know? It's like kind of bullshit or you know, and that they're fucking with you.
Cole
There was one bonf where if it never happened, I would have been fine. But they made it look to me so bad where they spun it up or like, you know, he's like picking her up in the clip and then going down into the foam. And then they showed some other shit. Like they were in the photo booth together. And I don't know, I'm. I mean I lost like £15 on the show. Like I was stressed the fuck out.
Interviewer
I hear it but like in all the production talk and blaming production, I just to Blade, not even playing devil's advocate, but like, that's what this show is about. Like they're not just doing it to mess with you. They want to see how strong your relationships are. Like everyone comes into the show being like, we're strong, we're never break up. And they're like, bet you know what I'm saying? They're like, they want to see. That's why they're not showing you everything. That's why they're cutting things off. They want to know. And that's kind of the point of the show is are you going to let your mind wander? Are you going to think the worst thoughts?
Cole
Well, it's like, yeah, it was a mental.
Interviewer
Or are you going to trust your partner and not read her journal?
Cole
It was mental warfare all the time of like knowing what was real, what wasn't, what they're thinking. I can't talk to her. Like in the normal world. I just. Hey, Scar, I saw that today. Is everything okay. And she's like, yeah. And explains it. You can't do that on this show. You talk to her at the end.
Summit
But that is what he's saying, where it's ultimately just a test of, like, unwavering trust no matter what, to follow your heart.
Jack
Yeah.
Interviewer
You all four handled that lack of trust different, you know? And I think that kind of speaks to where you guys were or weren't in your relationship. What do you mean? Yeah, what do you mean?
Cole
I mean, like, well, they.
Interviewer
They all.
Kaylee
You know, he's drunk.
Interviewer
The journalist, like, acknowledges he got messed with, you know?
Summit
Yeah, well, the journalist moved a little
Interviewer
bit differently than Cole. Yeah. You know, so you didn't let those insecurities or whatever they showed you or didn't show you. Have you snowball you. You trusted Kaylee. You're like, you.
Mikey
I know who. My girlfriend.
Summit
I mean. I mean, we literally went into. Into the show, and I. We, like. I felt like we were, like, going off to war. Like your loved one was going off to war. We, like, wrote each other notes, and it was like, no matter what you see, it's gonna be. It's gonna be the worst thing. And, like, those notes is, like, really kind of what helped us get through the process of just, like, reading those and just like. Yeah. Having trust no matter what. Whenever someone asks about the show, I say it's a test of, like. Yeah, just like, your. Your backbone to just keep.
Kaylee
I think it's more than that. It's like trusting your heart and following your heart.
Jack
Yeah.
Kaylee
That's what really gets you through.
Summit
No, well, that's. I mean, I guess for us, where there's, like, definitely this unwavering love. Like, the love's never in question. I'm just saying the trust also that, like, you're not doing anything.
Mikey
I gotta be honest, though, Kaylee, you had great clips, bro.
Kaylee
What do you mean?
Summit
You had phenomenal clips of me because I was so.
Mikey
No, I know. I used to.
Kaylee
Oh, you mean I behaved like an angel. I know.
Scarlet
Not that great
Mikey
to spaz on Summit. We like, bro, we wish. We wish.
Cheyenne
That's what our girlfriends was still tripping.
Summit
It was one talked about earlier, so
Kaylee
in your head, I get it.
Summit
And what we talked about earlier, where it really does hit a man's ego when you're getting talked about.
Co-Host
Yeah.
Scarlet
But we went on to the show.
Summit
We had this mentality of, like, we're not going to talk. So we felt this moral high ground. I'm just explaining,
Interviewer
please, she can say whatever she wants to me to My face. We will get through it. We'll talk about it. If. If she were to say that to a friend or certainly another guy, that would hit very differently.
Co-Host
But that is how they are supposed to learn about their relationship and grow, is to, like, lean on these men who are there for a reason to talk about their relationships and what they're missing and what they're needing and have these men give them advice. From a male's perspective, that's a dangerous
Cheyenne
partner.
Summit
And if I didn't have the big, like, you know, animated reaction, then I wouldn't have learned either. If I just saw it and was like, I don't care, then, like, I wouldn't have learned either. You know, I needed that reaction.
Cole
I'll say, too, like, from the moment
Summit
they pick, but it's all relative. Like, for me, it was. It was. I don't know.
Cole
Yeah, I'd say, like, the feelings are, like, from the moment she, like, yeah, we go on the show, we're like, we're into this. We're that. I mean, when I was sitting in the chair and she picks a dude in front of me, I'm not going to lie, I had some rage in my chest. I'm angry.
Mikey
I cried.
Cheyenne
I don't like that.
Cole
Yeah, I don't want to see my girlfriend on a date with some. Like, I. I was mad at every bonfire because going into. I'm like, I'm going to see her fucking with this dude. I don't want to see that.
Interviewer
Like.
Co-Host
But, I mean, you guys are together. Like, y' all have made it through the hard part. Y' all are working on your relationship. What are, like, the guidelines and the boundaries you guys have in your relationship now that you did not have before?
Scarlet
I think we weren't putting in this much work before, you know, I think it was just kind of like. I will say, too, you know, our prior relationship, I don't. I think he put in, like. Or he was way more sure. Whereas I feel like, you know, I did have that time where there was that gray area and I was kind of in and out. So I just think since being back and since being back together, we're like, if this is what we're doing, this is what we're doing. We're both all the way in. We're both putting in the work. You know, I think the way that we communicate now is way more open and transparent. You know, used to. I felt like he was super big with me. I would ask a question, I would get one word response, and I'M like, please, like, I need more. And now he's like this and this and that. And I'm like, perfect.
Cole
He tells me, shut up.
Scarlet
I'm like, yes.
Interviewer
Would you say you're 1% hundred, 100% certain that Cole is your person and you'll spend the rest of your life with him?
Scarlet
I think so. I think yes. Yes, I know Cole.
Interviewer
Certainly that told you everything.
Scarlet
Yes, I do. As long as we can just commit to the growth and, like, be better, you know, I think that, you know, I was getting so much for choosing myself at the end. And it's like, you can't just let yourself be miserable and, like, be so exhausted all the time, you know, and it's like, you have to choose you and you have to choose what's best for me. And I think Cole is absolutely what is best for me. And I, you know, just want us to stay on this track. And then I think we'll be together forever.
Jack
Just beautiful.
Interviewer
Do you think he'll ever lie to you again?
Scarlet
Probably. But not, you know, I think that maybe something. I think he's way more transparent now. I will say too, a lot of, like, the lies, it's not that he's done anything to hurt me, you know, but it's still a lie.
Interviewer
And so I would argue that being lied to is one of the most hurtful things in a relationship.
Scarlet
It is. I agree. You know, it did destroy me. It destroyed our foundation, and it did hurt, you know, and it. Yeah, but I really have seen part
Cole
of going to like, therapy and stuff too is like, maybe I would lie about something because it would like, it'd be like a white lie that just, like, came out of me. Like, I just versus now I might think before you see, think and pause and then give a educated, thoughtful answer instead of just like telling her something. That sounds good.
Scarlet
Yeah.
Cole
If that makes sense.
Host
Sure.
Interviewer
Except that, like, what about the times when she's like, no, but are you lying? And then she does the follow up questions and then in the past you would still lie until she just caught you.
Mikey
I don't know.
Cole
That's happened in a long time, but
Scarlet
hasn't happened since before the island.
Cole
I mean, like, yeah, because she used to, like, question me so much because, like, she did not trust me at all. So we'd be walking on eggshells all the time. So I'm just being questioned all day long. And that's not.
Scarlet
Well, but he kind of taught me to do that because I knew once I asked the fifth time I would get the truth.
Interviewer
All right, well, not to go back there, but I do want to give you guys one more chance because I do think people are just going to assume the worst. But what are these little lies that have been told since you guys got back together?
Scarlet
I'm thinking of one right now. Which one are you thinking of?
Cole
I'm thinking of the girl. There was a girl that texted me that I ran into at a bar that I had a prior thing with when we weren't dating. And the conversation at the bar with the girl was short, and it was because I just ran into her. I'm not gonna not say hi. And it was of the sorts of, like, how's it going? And she was like, you've been off your social media for a month or this or that. Like, and I was confident. Like, I have a girlfriend. I live with my girlfriend Scarlet. That was that. I went home that night, drove home, went to bed at 10:30 with her. And then I wake up in the morning with a text from 3am from the girl who's like, it was like a drunk text or something. And it said, like, so good seeing you. Like, I'm not like, it was a drunk text. And I just saw it. I was like, what the. Like, I never responded to the text, but I felt like an invasion of my privacy in my phone. Like, why did this person text me that? Like, it just. It was weird. It was, like, caught me off guard. So I deleted the text. And then she found it on. She snooped through my phone one day, found the deleted text message. She asked me point blank, and I told her, like, what I just told you guys, and then I guess that was.
Interviewer
You snooped in his phone?
Scarlet
I did look at the deleted messages.
Cole
I mean, my password. Giving.
Interviewer
Looking at your journal.
Scarlet
Yeah, it is.
Cole
My password is all Z zeros. Like, I mean, I don't. I don't, like, hide my
Kaylee
world.
Scarlet
Yeah, he's very.
Kaylee
I think we've all been through each other's partners.
Co-Host
He's changed.
Cole
I've never been through her phone, even when I've asked. But, you know, I just. The point is, is, like, I'm very open. I don't hide from her my phone. I don't. She wants to see some of my phone. My text messages pop up.
Scarlet
It's not like he's, like, hiding his phone from me, you know?
Cole
And when she told I. I get why she was mad that I deleted the text. My reason. I understand.
Scarlet
Well, I will say I asked who you. If anyone had texted you that Night because I was in la. And he said no. And I said, well, I didn't know. I asked again, of course no. And then I said. I said, really? What about the date of. And said, the date that.
Cole
Well, the reason why.
Scarlet
And he was like.
Cole
The reason I said no is because I didn't know what she was talking about. I generally got out of the shower and was like. She had. There was, like, a concern on her face. And I was like, what's wrong? And she's like, has a girl texted you recently? And I sat there.
Interviewer
I'm like, you didn't remember deleting?
Cole
This is like a month. This is like a month prior. So I've sat there. I just was like, I don't.
Interviewer
I don't know.
Cole
What are you talking about? And then when she brought it up, she said, did this girl text you? And I said, yeah. And then I showed her the text and, like, showed her. I never responded. And, like, that was that. But, you know.
Scarlet
And I. But for me, it was just more. So we're working on transparency. Why delete it? Why not just be, like, scar? I saw her last night.
Cheyenne
This is.
Scarlet
She texted me. But the. The deleted message made it feel shady to me.
Co-Host
Did you just have, like, a gut feeling that something had happened?
Scarlet
Yeah. Yeah.
Summit
Have you ever tried just female intuition?
Scarlet
Yeah.
Summit
Overly transparent, where you just.
Cole
Yeah. The same girl. The same girl commented on my Instagram story, like, two weeks later. And I told Scarlett, like, yeah, just letting you know, like, this girl called my thing. I unfollowed her right there, point blank. And that was.
Kaylee
That he.
Cole
And she was like, thank you. I mean, I'm like, oh. Even with the text messages. Oh, I didn't, like, lie. I was like, yeah, they're still texting me.
Interviewer
No, I mean, listen, you seem like,
Cole
I mean, a good guy, like you
Interviewer
said, but the line is weird. It's just scary.
Summit
That's why it's frustrating, because it's like, you're not intentionally trying to do it.
Interviewer
Well, I think you're letting him off the hook there. It's just some.
Kaylee
It does that sometimes.
Cole
I think it's like, disclosure information, especially the dynamic of our relationship. Then, obviously, there was a lot of maybe if we were fucking. Yeah. Like, if we're perfect. Trust, whatever. Maybe you don't have to disclose a girl messaging you that you don't respond to, but because the dynamic of where we were at that time, there was a lot. She didn't trust me. That would have been a good opportunity for me to, like, be like, yo, like, this girl texted me, just wanna let you know, like, I didn't respond. Here you go. And like, lifted at that, and, you know, move on. Which is how I would have done it over.
Interviewer
What stopped you from saying, you know what? I gave you another chance.
Scarlet
I did. I was not happy.
Interviewer
Well, there's a difference between not being happy and you were still willing to work on the relationship.
Scarlet
That's where actually, I can see where he's, you know, I don't know. It's been hard. Not gonna lie. It's been so fucking hard. And there have been so many moments where we've, you know, broken down and, you know, we still are. But I. Like I said earlier, you know, I just feel like I'm willing to fight for it, you know, if he had cheated on me. No, I'm out. I'm out the door, you know, but it's. These are things that, like, I don't think he would ever hurt me, you know, in that. In like, a bigger way. Yes, the lies do hurt a lot. Like, it really has damaged me so much. But I just think, like, Cole is an amazing guy, and I see him and I. And, you know, I get to experience his love every day. And, you know, so some things are just worth working through.
Co-Host
On the island, you said you felt like Cole held you back in ways. What did you mean by that?
Scarlet
Not holds me back in ways, like, in life, like. Cause he pushes me. You know, we do all the things. But I think what I meant was holds me back from maybe being able to be fully scarlet. Because sometimes, like, maybe the conversations weren't fully there or I wasn't getting my needs met there. And so I feel like I got a little disconnected from myself. I got a little disconnected from my spirituality. I just didn't feel fully me. And I felt held back in those ways. And that was something that I really realized on the island. I was like, wow, there are pieces of me that have been missing and that I'm not willing to separate from. These things are really important to me. And so I think that's what I meant just by being held back from, like, my own self.
Interviewer
Well, I glad you guys were able to work it out. It's good to see you guys back together. I really hope you can get through these lies. I will say, like, if you can't figure it out, it will be the end of you guys. Because, like, one of the thing about a lie, it's like a disease that grows and then doesn't even matter what the lie is little big small white lie. It's like when you plant that seed of doubt. It's just really hard to grow the type of relationship you guys seem to work so hard on growing. And so I hope you guys are able to work through that because yeah, a lot of couples have not made it work because of little things like that because someday you will reach your limit and hopefully that doesn't happen.
Scarlet
He's got this. Don't you got it?
Interviewer
I believe. Well, we appreciate you guys for being vulnerable, being honest. I know it's the not easy to do and since you guys are together, no one likes having the relationship picked apart. So I appreciate you guys being honest.
Cole
Everyone come to the way. We'll be there taking shots.
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And we're back to part two of the Temptation island season two reunion going around the room. What is the most important thing everyone has learned about love and relationships from this process? Let's start with you Cole.
Cole
I think like picking off like Scarlet and just what I've learned is like how much work is involved in creating a strong foundation and relationship with someone that you really love. I used to Think like you can love someone and then it's like you just go on and cruise control and it's like every freaking day. Like, I mean like these problems we have, like, they're obviously a lot better. But it's like every day I have to show up for her in a way that makes her feel safe, shows transparency, shows her, you know, the things that she needs. And then she reversed the things that I need. And it's a constant. Not battle, but like, I mean, it's a full time thing to really create something beautiful with someone, you know, and you got to put work into it every day. And it gives your partner the confidence too, to trust you more when they see you put in that work because they see that the time invested. And so it's not like you just wake up and go through life together. It's like, you know, it's the most important thing and the hardest thing that you can do. But it's so beautiful on the other side when you can make that happen. So to find someone like her, it's worth it to do it with her. I think that's very rare these days to find someone that you're willing to go the mile, an extra mile with and do the work. And maybe before the island, that was something that I didn't have like that
Cheyenne
strong of a dance while Scarlet. Get it.
Co-Host
Cole, that was beautiful. Summit, what about you?
Summit
I learned so much. I feel like it's hard to like know where to begin, but I feel like almost oppositely from Cole, I. I feel like if there's anything I learned, it's that there's so much like grace that needs to happen in a relationship. And I agree. It should be work. It should be work every day to be the best versions of yourself. Not only for each other, but as a unit. But ultimately, I almost feel like Temptation taught me a lot about just this. This idea of like having grace. Cuz I feel like we used to get on each other for all this little. And then after Temptation island, all those little just seemed like irrelevant to. To like what actually really mattered. And that was the fact that like we didn't want to live without each other.
Kaylee
Yeah.
Summit
And all those little things just didn't seem like they mattered nearly as much anymore. And that almost made the relationship feel like way less work than we were making. It seemed to be.
Co-Host
Mikey, what do you find so funny about Summit Talks?
Mikey
I just love how Summit talks. He's just so like here with it. Just love how he talks.
Interviewer
I'm really curious, Mikey, what Did you learn about love and relationships from this experience?
Mikey
I learned that you have to be intentional within your relationship or it'll be gone. I also learned that you gotta be serious with yourself, and you have to be serious as an individual because sometimes it's really time to grow up within your relationships. And if you don't do that, I am a prime example of what will happen.
Interviewer
Okay.
Mikey
So, yeah.
Interviewer
How about you, Jack?
Jack
Don't ever take your. I mean, advice or anything. I feel like I took my relationship for granted. And I think when you're in that moment of that relationship and during those really, really good times, you don't think about, what if that wasn't there anymore? And just don't take anything for granted, especially your partner, because once it's gone, it's gone and your feelings are hurt or maybe not.
Mikey
Do one more thing. It's not bad to be vulnerable. It's not a bad thing for a man to be vulnerable at all. And it's not bad for somebody to love somebody to the point where they want to cry every single day. That is not a bad thing. And I had to get that out because it's not a bad thing. And showing your emotions for somebody that you truly love, that's not. And I would do it all over again. You get what I'm saying? So that's just something I had to get out. So.
Kaylee
Yeah.
Mikey
Okay.
Interviewer
Well, before we get to the ladies, something, I thought that maybe I just was reminded of watching you guys because there seemed to be this theme with you guys being like, you know, we're good guys. We're not bad guys. And I would agree you all seem like good guys. But it felt like watching the show back, I was a reminder that there's a huge difference between being a good guy and a great partner.
Jack
Yeah.
Interviewer
And I think when the ladies are talking about bare minimum, I think that's. Correct me if I'm wrong, kind of what you're speaking to. And I think sometimes we forget that there's so many examples of bad guys out there that just because you're a good guy doesn't mean you're giving your partner enough and you're showing up in the ways that they. They might need.
Summit
Well, especially to, like, get girls like this, you know?
Cheyenne
Very true.
Scarlet
Yeah, very true.
Co-Host
Cheyenne, what through this process did you learn about love and relationships?
Cheyenne
A big thing that I learned while being on the island and just going through the experience was I really needed to take more accountability for the way that I would speak about Jack and stuff Because, I mean, the way you talk about your partner can push them over a limit, and that's what happened to me. And I think that some point.
Jack
No, no, no. I'm a bad guy. You're good. It's not your fault, dude.
Cheyenne
No, well, I'm just saying, like, I did learn. Like, at some point, you have to watch how you're talking about the person that you love and just not take them for granted. And, yeah, that's what I learned. At the end of the day, it didn't end in my favor, and it ended with a big heartbreak. But that's not. It's okay. It was good. It was. I wouldn't take back the experience. It happened. It is what it is, and life moves on.
Interviewer
You're definitely not a bad guy. You just got some shit to work through, bud. Yeah.
Cole
Yeah.
Sydney
But, Sid, I would say what I learned through my experience is that the foundation of your relationship really matters. So, like, if it starts off rocky, then that's kind of what it will be. So when I went to the first bonfire and I saw what I saw, it triggered me back to where we started, and it showed that our foundation wasn't stable, because I couldn't watch that and be like, oh, that's not Mikey. Mikey's not flirting with them. My first instinct was, that's exactly who Mikey is. That's who I've known Mikey to be. So I just. I feel like foundation is very critical in a relationship.
Interviewer
Kiddoe.
Kaylee
I feel like I learned sense that life is literally all about love. And literally, what do we have in life if we don't have love? Like, you would be lonely. And I learned through this process, I literally would sit there every day and be like, I think I actually love Summit more and more every single day than I did the day before. And I don't know if it was the distance or just, like, really digging deeper within myself and realizing he really is who I want to be. Like, living with 12 other guys and still just being like, literally all I want is my boyfriend right now. I don't know. I think I just learned love is everything, and I just want to be with you for the rest of my life.
Interviewer
Any chance at engagements?
Co-Host
I think they got to get that dog first.
Scarlet
Yeah.
Kaylee
Yeah, Let us get that dog.
Summit
It is weird because I feel like I'm ready for it all, but I'm almost like, you know, let's see. Take it one day at a time.
Mikey
Yeah.
Kaylee
We don't want to rush anything.
Summit
No.
Co-Host
Right now, you.
Cheyenne
This is the place Someone needs to spice this up.
Cole
Spice.
Summit
That's your.
Interviewer
Spice it up.
Cole
That's what he says.
Summit
Spice this up.
Cheyenne
Oh, yeah.
Cole
Oh, yeah.
Interviewer
It's not bringing back the trauma.
Cole
Bad. Yeah.
Interviewer
And Scarlet one, what about you?
Scarlet
I feel like I learned and I really. Grace, I think that's a big one, you know, but I think too is like, always remaining a team. And, you know, it's not us against each other. It's us against, like, all of these different problems that are within the relationship. And so I think, you know, I can get so frustrated and he can get so frustrated with me, but it's like remembering to just come back together, like we're a unit and we need to move that way.
Co-Host
Well, I will say it was a great scene to see the three of you boys. I don't know where you were, Jack, but sleeping all in Summit's room was a really sweet moment. They showed.
Summit
I mean, it's not like we were sleeping with girls. That was a little embarrassing.
Kaylee
I was jealous that you guys had
Mikey
each other like that.
Co-Host
Where were my girls at the room
Cole
context is that his room had AC and I had, like these big ass centipedes walking around my bed.
Interviewer
That's all right.
Jack
But.
Host
Nah.
Cole
But it was free the frogs that would at night and keep me up all night.
Mikey
But it was the moments. It was just like the moments like that where we were just together. We were able to have. Even though I was having nightmares and I woke up from my sleep.
Summit
I know. No, he would have, like, sleep talk and stuff.
Cole
He'd be talking like crazy.
Summit
When people watch the show, they're probably like, oh, my God, they're such drama kings. But.
Interviewer
But really, like, when you take that.
Summit
Drama kings, that's a thing.
Co-Host
Well, we appreciate all of you, obviously, for coming here today and being so open and honest and also for going on this. I can imagine it is not easy to watch it back and have opinions of the world now in your relationship, in your home, in your lives, but it was entertaining for us to watch. So we appreciate you all being vulnerable and giving yourselves.
Interviewer
Yeah, truly, I really appreciate it. You guys were an enjoyment to watch. But even today, like, it's not easy to do this. And thanks for showing up, especially you two. I know it wasn't easy and. And you two as well, you know. So thank you. Although we're tempted to keep going, I
Host
think that does it for the Temptation island season two reunion.
Co-Host
As always, we want to thank the entire cast, our team, Netflix, and of course, Mark L. Wahlberg for this incredible opportunity.
Host
Well, this has been great and I
Interviewer
feel like I'm at the bonfire right now. If we could leave you all with one final message.
Host
Love will persevere between two people who
Interviewer
are right for one another.
Host
Bye Bye.
Cheyenne
Bye.
Co-Host
That was great everyone.
Scarlet
Good job.
Cheyenne
We're lost. It feels like we're going round in circles. I'm gonna ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're trying to get to the state fairgrounds.
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Nah, I'm just kidding.
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The Viall Files – E1116: Part Two – “Temptation Island” S2 Reunion April 24, 2026
In the highly anticipated second part of The Viall Files’ Temptation Island Season 2 Reunion, Nick Viall, co-hosts, and the cast dive deep into the fallout, growth, and unresolved tensions after the dramatic finale. The group discusses the real impact of reality TV on their relationships, accountability, therapy, self-discovery, and whether any couples have hope for reconciliation. The conversations turn raw and vulnerable, featuring admissions, regrets, accountability, and — above all — honest reflections on love, trust, and personal boundaries.
Sydney and Xavier: A Possible Future?
Mikey’s Growth and Humor
Therapy & Vulnerability
Airport Showdown and Lack of Communication
Mutual Confessions & Toxic Dynamics
Cycle of Cheating & Accountability
Vulnerability
Family Role
Trust Issues and History of Dishonesty
Why Try Again?
The Infamous Journal
Masculinity, Boundaries, and Production Manipulation
Reflections on Progress
Unshakeable Bond
Marriage on the Horizon?
In a uniquely raw, vulnerable, and even healing reunion, the Temptation Island S2 cast shows that love, and the pain it brings, is deeply humanizing. Growth comes from grace, therapy, and honest communication—with the realization that choosing each other, or sometimes choosing themselves, takes strength and humility. The discussion closes with the reminder: “Love will persevere between two people who are right for one another.” [121:20]
For fans and newcomers alike, this episode is a poignant, engaging deep-dive into real relationship dynamics rarely seen on reality TV or any screen.