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Love is Blind star Lydia Arleen divorcing Milton Johnson amid cheating allegations
Love is Blind star Lydia Arleen Vélez González announced Wednesday that she was divorcing her husband James Milton Johnson IV - three years after tying the knot during the fifth season finale of the hit Netflix reality show.
The 33-year-old geologist was last pictured with the 27-year-old Vopak sales manager in a March 20th TikTok, and their relationship has been 'non-existent' since March 31.
And while Lydia politely wrote that she wished for Milton to 'find your happiness' and 'wouldn't change our marriage for anything' on Instagram, she aired out all their 'tumultuous' marital issues during Amber Desiree 'AD' Smith's podcast What's the Reality?
'It wasn't one thing. It was a layer of situations and things that kept piling up,' González - who moved in with a friend - explained Wednesday.
'When I told him, "Hey, I'll let you know when the divorce papers are ready," his response was, "I'm not going to sign the papers unless there's an NDA."'
In March, the Houston-based Puerto Rican claimed Johnson told her 'You're too f***ing stupid and an untrustworthy person' when she asked for a divorce and he's 'given her the silent treatment' ever since.
The ex-couple's 'fairytale' TV wedding first hit a snag in October 2022 when Milton refused to 'cut off' communication with an ex-girlfriend after Lydia snooped on his phone and read texts confessing he wanted to 'f*** her' and she'd 'been all around this d*** lately.'
Johnson 'flipped it on me' by accusing González of 'invading' his privacy, and their subsequent attempt at couples therapy proved unfruitful.
Meanwhile, the petroleum engineer accused his wife of 'nagging him all the time,' 'cussing too much in front of' his family, and he 'threatening to call the police' on her for having a 'meltdown' on her birthday because he was 'playing the Halo video game all day.'
Milton also felt 'disrespected' over Lydia posing in swimsuits online because 'I never want to imagine my woman as a promiscuous woman' so they agreed to 'meet in the middle' and he agreed to stop liking pictures of other women in bikinis.
'I stopped and he didn't,' González scoffed. 'What stopped was him engaging with my posts.'
The University of Maryland Global Campus grad alleged she received DMs from women claiming Johnson was flirting with them and paying for their drinks before receiving an email from another woman with 4am FaceTime screenshots of him inviting her to his hotel.
'That was it for me. I was like, I cannot continue,' Lydia said.
'Maybe the internet was right, that he wasn't ready for marriage. I don't think he was ready to be a husband.'
When González was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, the Rice Business grad refused to let her take a leave of absence from work because she was the breadwinner and allegedly told her: 'You're not dying, you just have to eat healthy and work out.'
And while Lydia politely wrote that she wished for Milton to 'find your happiness' and 'wouldn't change our marriage for anything' on Instagram, she aired out all their 'tumultuous' marital issues during Amber Desiree 'AD' Smith's (L) podcast What's the Reality?
González - who moved in with a friend - explained Wednesday: 'It wasn't one thing. It was a layer of situations and things that kept piling up. When I told him, "Hey, I'll let you know when the divorce papers are ready," his response was, "I'm not going to sign the papers unless there's an NDA"'
'I still love him, unfortunately I do,' she admitted.
'I'm never gonna settle for less than I deserve... I'm not gonna keep choosing feeling belittled, feeling dismissed. I cannot keep being in a place where I'm not wanted. I'm trying to put back the pieces that he broke.'
Lydia - who commands $35 on Cameo - is every bit the influencer with paid partnerships for companies like K Beauty Lab, Doris Metropolitan, Commense, Akira, Miranda's Boutique, and Smith and Pietro JetSki Rentals.
