“Stephen was not drunk,” Monica tells Entertainment Weekly.

“I know what he drank and what state of mind he was in when he went.”

Warning: This article contains spoilers fromLove Is Blindseason 7, episodes 1-9.

Love is Blind Season 7, Episode 8 Stephen

Stephen Richardson, ‘Love Is Blind’.Netflix

What sleep test allows the patient to drink alcohol?

What the heck is a sleep test?!

Monica tellsEntertainment Weeklythat while Stephen was actually at a sleep study (a.k.a.

Love is Blind Season 7, Episode 8 Monica

Monica Davis, ‘Love Is Blind’.Netflix

Mainly because youcan’tdrink alcohol or be drunk during a sleep study, since it would mess with the results.

And then everyone else being like, ‘Wait, he wasdrunkat a sleep study?'"

He went really late 10 p.m. you show up, or whatever it was.

So we’d had a date that day, had some drinks.

Stephen was not drunk."

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She debunks his excuse as just that: An excuse.

“It’s not like he was drinking there without me,” she adds.

I think that he was just using that as an excuse for his behavior."

Monica discovered the inappropriate messages off-camera, but confronted Stephen about them on-camera in episode 8.

Monica immediately called him out for lying because “the really gross [texts] were today.”

“He certainly didn’t cheat on me,” Monica tells EW.

“Well, let me be clear he was at a sleep study.

I definitely couldn’t say for sure if he [cheated], I don’t know.

I would like to think not, and I don’t think so.

But you know, he’s lied to me before, in that moment.”

Maybe that’s an old picture that you sent me to throw me off.’

“I think that it would have come out [eventually],” she says.

“The universe so handed it to me in that moment.

The universe knew that I needed to see this information before [continuing this process].”

“That’s one example.

That’s one good one,” Monica says.

I’d had enough of that conversation at that point.

How did we get here?"

As for whether this breakup scene is the end of their onscreen journey this season, Monica remains tight-lipped.

“The reunion itself is going to be wild.

There’s just so much that’s happened.

There’s a lot more to come.

It’ll also be nice to maybe get resolution in some cases.”

New episodes ofLove Is Blindseason 7 drop Wednesdays on Netflix.