Big Brother 28’s Lyric Medeiros had to pivot once showmance partner Rome Seymour was out the game — but she didn’t expect Drew Campbell to seemingly call her out on it.
“You know what’s interesting, because I knew that Rome wanted me to be strong and to win the game, and he told me the night before he left. He said, ‘Lyric, I want you to fight, and you can go far in this game. Rely on the guys to protect you. They will,’” the lawyer, 25, exclusively told Us on Friday, August 7, following her eviction from the hit reality series. “And so that’s exactly what I did.”
Lyric explained she always had a “good relationship” with both Chuk Anyanwu and Kamu Kirk. However, she never got the chance to start talking about the game with them until Rome, 28, was evicted. Rome and Lyric began their showmance almost instantly, and the couple’s feelings developed quickly as they exchanged “I love yous.” Rome was evicted in the second week of the competition.
When Lyric started buddying up with Chuk, 27, and Kamu, 32, after Rome’s departure, Drew, 22, apparently made a remark about it.
“Drew made comments to me that night when Rome left. He said, ‘Wow, Rome left, and you’re already running around with Chuk,’ and then he called me a homie hopper,” she claimed. “He said these things, and I was thinking to myself, I’m like, ‘Hmm, that’s not very nice.’”
Lyric confessed she was “a little taken back” by Drew’s comment, but she tried to play it off like a joke.
“In that house, you have to bite your tongue because it will always come back to you,” she told Us. “So when he said that to me, I was laughing it off, like, ‘Oh, that’s so funny.’ But in my head, I’m thinking, ‘The moment I’m HoH, I’m putting you up.’”
Lyric also shared that she told fellow houseguest Yash Patel about Drew’s alleged remark, which led to an eventual apology.
“I told Yash, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s not so nice that he’s saying those things, because I want to play this game.’ And from a game standpoint, it was good that Rome left … because then people can’t use me as a pawn to put me up to get at Rome, and I can kind of start my own game,” she recalled. “And Yash told Drew like, ‘Hey, that wasn’t cool,’ I guess. And Drew the next day came and apologized to me for saying the homie hopper [remark] and things like that.”
Though Lyric did get close to Chuk, Kamu and Yash, 24, after Rome left, her feelings for the pickleball coach were still going strong.
“I truly am so in love with him, and I know that sounds crazy for only knowing him for two weeks, but when you know, you know,” she gushed of Rome. “We had so many conversations in the house from the minute we got in there. We talked about family. We talked about our parents being together for over 28 years for me and over 30 years for him, and so, we immediately knew that we had the same values. When you’re in the Big Brother house, when you find someone who you can trust and who you feel safe with, someone who makes you feel like you’re at home because you have no contact with your family, you hold on to that person and you hold them tight. And I felt that way immediately with Rome.”
Now that she and Rome are both out of the Big Brother house, Lyric is looking forward to reconnecting with him as soon as she can.
“I was thinking this past week, I’m like, ‘The one thing that’s getting me through is talking to my mom and talking to Rome.’ I can’t wait to tell him how much I love him when I get my phone,” she told Us. “I can’t wait to FaceTime him, and hopefully he hasn’t found a beautiful, gorgeous girl outside … I hope that he’s waiting for me. That was our understanding on the way out, and so, I’m not too far behind.”
Lyric added that she hoped Rome was “still waiting for” her and he’ll be able to join her in her native Hawaii “ASAP.”
“I hope he’s waiting for me in Hawaii. That’d be so nice,” she said. “I can’t wait to see him and just be in his arms again, because I slept with his hoodie literally every single night and it still smelled like him. And that was the one thing that got me to go to sleep at night.”
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