'Love Is Blind' star Amber Pike says she and Matt Barnett wanted nothing to do with the drama in the new 'After the Altar' episodes
Matt Barnett and Amber Pike celebrated their two-year anniversary on the "After the Altar" episodes.
Pike told Insider they wanted to stay far removed from any drama with fellow cast members.
"We were actively avoiding it," she said.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for "Love Is Blind: After the Altar."
Two years after Amber Pike and Matt Barnett tied the knot on "Love Is Blind," the couple reunited with their fellow cast members on the three new "After the Altar" episodes, which premiered Wednesday.
Ahead of the cast's anniversary party, they went in with a plan to steer clear of any conflict.
"We made it really clear that we wanted nothing to do with the drama. That's not our life," Pike told Insider.
"It's not an arc in a TV show, it's our life," she said, adding, "We don't want the drama. We were actively avoiding it."
Barnett and Pike dodged interactions with Jessica Batten
Pike has previously taken issue with Jessica Batten, a cast member that was also interested in an engagement with Barnett on season one. She previously confronted Batten during the cast's 2020 reunion, saying her lingering feelings for Barnett, a then-engaged man, were inappropriate.
On the "After the Altar" episodes, it's evident that Pike still hasn't forgiven Batten, at one point referring to her as "Voldemort" rather than by her name.
"It just seems awfully bold to go to a party celebrating a couple that you tried to break up," Pike said.
Barnett, on the other hand, ignored any mention of Batten.
When asked how he feels about the possibility of seeing his former costar at the anniversary party, he replied: "Next question."
Batten did end up attending the event, with champagne flutes for the couple in tow. When she approached Barnett to deliver the peace offering, he avoided eye contact and refused the gift, telling her he's "not allowed" to accept it before walking away.
"We had an inkling that certain people might show up, but we understand where we stand with the situation. I didn't want to be in a position or put in a position where I was forced to talk to somebody or do something that would upset me or my wife," Barnett told Insider. "I tried to avoid the situation as much as possible."
He continued, "The thing that pissed me off the most was that there was understanding that I was trying to avoid it and certain people wouldn't leave it alone."
Pike says she and Diamond Jack resolved their conflict
Also at the anniversary party, Pike gets into a heated discussion with Diamond Jack about Lauren "LC" Chamblin's accusations that Mark Cuevas cheated on her and infected her with the novel coronavirus after the show wrapped.
Cuevas, however, has denied cheating accusations and said the couple was never exclusively dating.
Pike defended Cuevas, who didn't attend the party but remains a close friend to her and Barnett, while Jack tried to explain Chamblin's perspective.
Viewers don't see how the conversation ends, but Pike told Insider that things between her and Jack were "fine and dandy" later on in the evening.
"We all kind of agree to disagree. Between me and Diamond, we both agreed that we're not actually in the center of it, so it's not any of our business. It doesn't make any sense that we would get into a fight over it so we didn't. But we were pretty grounded in the corner of each of our individual friends," Pike said.
She continued, "We were standing up for our friends, but between us personally, there was no issue."
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