Love Is Blind season 7 star Tyler Francis has fired back after the mother of his children, Bri Thomas, shared screenshots of messages between them that disproved some of his wife Ashley Adionser’s claims.
“I do not get how any of yall are supporting that man walking away from his kids. Very disappointing,” a fan of the Netflix reality series wrote in Tyler’s comments section on Instagram on Friday, November 8.
Tyler, 34, replied, “Maybe because they actually know me and the truth. Nobody asked you to be here.”
Another person asked the account manager if he had “receipts” that were “different” from the ones Bri shared during an interview with Jessie Woo and TikTok personality Story Time With Rikki.
“F–king right I do!” Tyler wrote in reply.
Several other people called Tyler out for his behavior regarding his three children, and a third fan added, “I expected your comment section to be way worse.. but seems Ashley is taking the fall for sticking by you. What you did to abandon your kids after the show is not right AT ALL!”
However, the comment didn’t seem to bother the reality star as he just responded with a yawning emoji.
Tyler’s responses came just two days after Ashley, 32, appeared on the Wednesday, November 6, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. The marketing director spoke out about what happened between her and Tyler that the cameras for season 7 didn’t catch, including their alleged conversation about his relationship with his son and twin daughters.
Ashley claimed that Tyler “he [didn’t] want to talk about [his children] on camera or that he [didn’t] want to hurt that family or have people searching for them.”
“Biologically, these are still his kids, so he feels a certain way, but he’s like, ‘I can’t do this,’” Ashley continued. “[The children’s mother] was disappointed, and I can see why she was disappointed as well. But he’s like, ‘I just don’t wanna have any connection with you or them because if I talk to you, although you’ve been my long-term friend, there’s no way I wouldn’t be able to not talk to the kids. And I think it’s best if I remove myself.’”
Ashley also claimed to have received an apology from Bri.
“I will say she wrote me on Instagram and apologized to me and Tyler,” Ashley told host Nick Viall during the episode. “[She] said she’s praying for us and she never meant for it to go this way. She won’t say too much on this forum. She also wrote me and said it was OK if I never wanted to respond and she knows my world is crazy right now and she never intentionally meant to cause me any pain.”
However, Bri stated that her apology to Ashley was “misinterpreted,” and the mom of three shared screenshots of messages exchanged between herself and Ashley.
“I will say that the way I intended those messages to come to her, she didn’t receive it the way I intended,” Bri explained to Jessi and Rikki during the interview on Thursday, November 7. “I was not apologizing for me, I don’t know, causing stress in their lives. My life had already started flipping upside down and I imagined the same was happening for her.”
