Plus, Madison Maidenberg reacts to her fiancé Joe Ferrucci bodyshaming her. Love Is Blind season 9's Madison reveals what wasn't shown from Joe's drunk pool par

Plus, Madison Maidenberg reacts to her fiancé Joe Ferrucci body-shaming her.

*Love Is Blind *season 9's Madison reveals what wasn't shown from Joe's drunk pool party behavior

Plus, Madison Maidenberg reacts to her fiancé Joe Ferrucci body-shaming her.

By Sydney Bucksbaum

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**This article contains spoilers about the first six episodes of *Love Is Blind* season 9.**

There's already trouble in paradise for one of the *Love Is Blind* season 9 couples.

The first six episodes of Netflix's reality dating experiment once again took the drama to Mexico for a post-pod engagement vacation. But the dream trip turned into a nightmare quickly for Madison Maidenberg, who is now opening up to * *about what actually happened and what wasn't shown from her first fight with fiancé Joe Ferrucci.

Joe and Madison on 'Love Is Blind'.

After falling in love and getting engaged to Joe in the pods, Madison met a very different version of her fiancé during the pool party with the other four engaged couples on the trip. Joe proceeded to get drunk, annoy her (and multiple other cast members), and ultimately exit the party early to pass out in his room. He told Madison he didn't want her to come with him, and when she checked on him later that night, his shocking behavior left her in tears.

"He was still very drunk," Madison tells EW. "It was confusing. He seemed like he was still pretty drunk, and then I'm trying to engage with him, I'm trying to talk with him, you see that he's not responding, he's not engaging, we're not really having a whole lot of dialogue."

Madison on 'Love Is Blind'.

Joe kept repeating the same questions to her, and didn't seem to remember what happened at the pool party. He claimed he was just "waking up," and not as drunk as she thought he was. He also laughed off her concerns over his well-being. But Madison says the worst of it wasn't caught on camera.

"As soon as we were told that the cameras were off and dinner was coming, he popped up out of bed," Madison says. "It seemed like he was completely fine. And that's when I just had had it and I was like, 'Get out, get your own room. If you can pop up now and talk and you're all bright and chipper when the cameras are going away, that's not going to fly with me.'"

Joe and Madison on 'Love Is Blind'.

While Joe didn't admit it at the time, Madison says that he did "overindulge" at the pool party and "had to leave," which is what led to their fight.

"We were all partying, we were all getting to meet each other, there was drinks flowing," Madison says. "What you see in me is just frustration and confusion, because I was hoping for him to really step up more and show up for me. I was the same person there that I was in the pods, and I was starting to see a side that I hadn't seen before, which is a little bit concerning."

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While she can understand accidentally getting too drunk, it's the way he treated her afterwards that she wasn't okay with.

"He wakes up and he's asking me these weird questions. I mean, it seemed like he had a stroke or something," she says. "I was so confused and I was just really frustrated. It was like, 'I don't know why you're not able to show up for me the way that I'm showing up for you. This is my first time doing this as well.' So it was just a really big culmination of exhaustion, frustration, and just overall hurt. I wanted the same person in the pods to be there with me in Mexico and that wasn't what I was getting, so that's really what kind of led to my emotional state."

Joe and Madison on 'Love Is Blind'.

What made matters worse was Joe's earlier comments to her about how he's usually into thinner women and not someone who has a "larger physique." He told her that physical attraction can grow, and while he wasn't "at peace" with their relationship initially during their in-person reveal, he was now. Madison later confronted him over his body-shaming, telling him that it made her feel "sick" and like she wasn't enough for him because she wasn't his "usual type."

"That was definitely something that was very hard to hear and very hurtful, obviously," Madison tells EW. "Usually we date people that are attracted to us, so it was a really uncomfortable comment that he made and really hurtful. I would hope that he'd be more mindful when he's speaking about women's bodies in the future. I'm very confident in myself. And what's not to love?"

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Where will Madison and Joe's relationship go from here? Find out when *Love Is Blind *season 9 releases episodes 7-9 on Wednesday, Oct. 8, with episodes 10-11 on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and the finale on Wednesday, Oct. 22.

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