Love Is Blind season 11 star Blake Carver admittedly has lingering emotions about calling off his wedding to Erika Ellis.
“There’s definitely still feelings,” Blake, 38, said on the Thursday, November 12, episode of the “He Said G Said” podcast. “I would say, our relationship — even though it didn’t end in the traditional way that the show was supposed to end — we fell in love with each other. I’ll never not love Erika. She’ll always have a piece of my heart.”
Erika, 37, and Blake fell in love and got engaged sight unseen in the Love Is Blind pods, which was filmed in 2025 and began airing on Netflix last month. The pair, however, opted to call off their engagement ahead of their would-be wedding date over logistical challenges. (Blake is a yacht captain, while Erika is based in Connecticut and wasn’t willing to uproot her life to sail the globe full-time.)
Since their emotional breakup, Erika and Blake have tried to remain friendly from afar.
“We’re on different time zones. He’s far away. We haven’t seen each other in a year and a half,” Erika told podcast cohosts Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann. “It does create just another layer of complexity of watching this and going through those emotions, but I also feel like Blake and I are in some of the best positions.”
She added, “We’ve really honored each other. We have a lot of mutual love and respect for each other still. Watching it back, like, you know, one episode really got me in my feels. I called him, he answered. He answers all the time right away [and will] talk you off a ledge. I’m just really grateful to have him. I’m really grateful to have our relationship as it is today.”
Certain Love Is Blind scenes also brought Blake to tears.
“I mean, watching it back? When she put on the wedding dress, I never got to see that, and I cried like a baby,” he said of Erika’s bridal fitting. “I rewinded it and I watched it again and it was emotional for me. Of course, I’m imagining [our wedding]. For me, just seeing you in a dress was so incredible and it was special.”
When pressed if Erika and Blake received any closure from their split, they teased, “It’s not closed.”
“We have a really lovely relationship,” he hinted of a potential reconciliation, with Erika chiming in that they both have mutual respect for one another. She continued, “It’s really hard to find that and you see couples go through these ups and downs, you see couples arguing, small things, big things. I think when you’re in your mid to late 30s, you realize life is a bit different. It’s about a lot of just different things. … Who do you want by your side? And maybe it’s not a husband, but it’s the person who you met on Love Is Blind and whatever 2025, you’ve been friends for 20 years and they show up on your front doorstep and who knows?”
Erika concluded, “We’re still really committed to investing the time to creating a solid foundation for something really special.”
