Abhishek Shake Chatherjee bared his feelings – and his chest.
Warning: Spoilers for season 2 of “Love is Blind” below.
The “Love is Blind” star responds to reaction to Netflix season 2 behavior hit Instagram on Tuesday. In the video, Chatterjee without a shirt says he does not regret any of his actions.
“I’m not sorry,” he said. “I’m not sorry! I think I handled the situation as well as anyone in my situation could.
Chatterjee received a lot of criticism for the way he treats Deepti Vempati in the popular reality show from fans and Vempati’s own family.
The two met in a pod in the series, where no one could see the other, but they could talk through a wall. Chatterjee made derogatory comments about women’s bodies at the beginning of his courtship with Vempati. But she hurried to shout his shallow remarks, and Chatterjee apologized. After that, the two seem to have built a strong emotional bond and eventually got engaged unnoticed.
When the couple finally met face to face, Chatterjee showered Vempati with compliments on her appearance and even squeezed her ass.
Soon after their initial meeting, however, Chatterjee began to tell everyone he met – including his mother … The day she met his future bride – that he didn’t find Vempati physically attractive. Yet he did not seem to express his lack of “animalistic” lust for Vempati herself until just before they were married. Eventually, Vempati broke up with Chatterjee at the altar because he felt he didn’t love her completely. Vempati left their ceremony in tears as an optimistic Chatterjee called on her guests and her to celebrate their seeming separation.
“I mentioned earlier that there are certainly things I want to work on for myself and improve,” Chatterjee said in his Instagram video on Tuesday. “But one thing I don’t feel inclined to do is pretend to be sad or sorry for some things – some things that were out of my control, some things I don’t even have to talk about.
Chatterjee added that he would focus on “living his best life” in the future.
“You don’t have to like me,” he said. “Only I have to like me, thankfully.”