(Warning: This article features spoilers from the Love Is Blind season three finale.)
It wasn't happily ever after for Love Is Blind's Cole Barnett and Zanab Jaffrey.
The couple, who got together on season three of the Netflix reality series, didn't get married during the finale episode, with Zanab ultimately saying "I don't" (alongside a particularly epic speech). Now, Cole is opening up about whether he would have said yes to a forever with Zanab, if given the chance.
"I want to say that I would have said yes, but now that I've seen it, it's so hard for me to say that," he exclusively told E! News. "If I wouldn't have said yes, I was hoping our relationship would continue, because one of the things that Zay and I talked about a lot was just the speed of the whole process. Because we were going through all these bumps, but we were working through things and finding smoother waters."
One of those bumps included a particularly brutal fight in which Cole asked Zanab if she was "bipolar." When asked by E! News if he had any comment watching the scene back, Cole reiterated, "I don't have anything to say about it. I really don't."
Meanwhile, Zanab herself opened up about the reasons she said no at the altar, noting that things immediately got rocky on their post-pods honeymoon when Cole called fellow castmate Colleen Reed a "10"—while he only rated Zanab a "nine."
"I would have loved to have been in the honeymoon stage," Zanab shared. "Malibu was my personal hell. Everyone else seemed to be loved up and I was like, 'What? Like this is so early on, like, what the actual hell is going on?'"
Now, Cole and Zanab are no longer together, to no one's surprise. During the reunion, Zanab accused Cole of off-camera bodyshaming, and Raven brought up that Cole got "a girl's number at the bachelor party." Zanab revealed that Cole confessed this the night before their wedding, while Cole vehemently denied that the conversation, as well as the alleged cheating, ever happened. Ultimately, Cole said he regrets doing the show at all.
The Love Is Blind season three finale and reunion are now available to stream on Netflix.