“Love Is Blind” creator Chris Coelen is publicly addressing allegations by a former contestant of sexual assault, false imprisonment and negligence on set — calling the accusations “100% false and defamatory.”

Tran Dang was a cast member on Season 5 of the wildly popular series — filmed in the first half of 2022, but only recently streaming on Netflix — though she has not been featured on the show. Publicized as a social experiment, “Love Is Blind” chronicles marriage-seeking singles who go on dates while in pods — separated from their date by a wall — with the goal to get engaged before ever seeing each other in person.

In a lawsuit filed against the series’ production companies after the season wrapped, Dang claims she was “intentionally sequestered for two weeks” on set and had to get permission from producers to do “virtually anything,” including go to the bathroom.

According to the legal documents, she was not allowed to use her cellphone or have her wallet or passport while “in individual isolation rooms or pods.” She also claims that while back home in Houston, “her movements were continuously monitored by a ‘wrangler.'”

Fellow contestant Thomas Smith — to whom Dang got engaged but is no longer with — is also named as a defendant in the suit. Dang alleges that on May 3, 2022, while in Mexico as part of filming for the series, Smith “sexually assaulted the plaintiff throughout the night.” Her complaint states that he “forcefully groped her, exposed himself in the...

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