David Bettenburg has been an unapologetic red flag on season eight of Love Is Blind, but love him or hate him, explaining his poor behaviour away with rumours of him being gay makes you just as messy.

When Dave said he had mutual friends with two of Lauren's exes, she said they were never official boyfriends. However, Dave struggled with the fact that his fiancé was talking with another man shortly before appearing on "Love Is Blind," especially since he hadn't had a girlfriend in four years.

Love Is Blind star David “Dave” Bettenburg opened up about his split from ex-fiancée, Lauren O’Brien, and he said there was no way he could have married her. "I think the whole situation of her having a 'boyfriend' going into it and me having to experience and try to play — not play two

I t’s probably for the best that Dave Bettenburg and Lauren O’Brien realized they weren’t a good match before they got to their wedding fittings in Love Is Blind season eigh

"You see him question my dad and it's his friends and it's his sister, and it's all of these things," Lauren O'Brien tells PEOPLE of ex Dave Bettenburg's reasons for ending their engagement Warning: this story contains spoilers from episodes 1-12 of Love Is Blind season 8.