Love Is Blind’s Stephen Slams Fan Who Suggests He Relies on His Dog to ‘Satisfy’ His Sexual ‘Needs’ After Sleep Test Drama

Stephen Richardson is snapping back at his haters.

The Love Is Blind season 7 star took to his social media on Friday, Oct. 11 to expose a comment someone left on his page that implied he used his dog for sexual purposes.

Posting a screenshot of the comment, which read, “Someone call animal control because god knows what this pervert does to satisfy his own selfish needs,” Stephen also included the person’s username and his reply.

“DON’T YOU DARE COME AFTER MY F—ING DOG I WILL DESTROY YOU!!” his response said. 

He then wrote a lengthy caption alongside the screengrab telling his followers he is “absolutely disgusted by this level of degeneracy and hatred” and encouraged viewers — including the one user who left the comment — to stop harassing him.

“Ok this one is a genuinely personal attack that I will address. BECAUSE YOU DONT COME FOR MY DOG,” he wrote. “If you want to see genuine hostility about a subject or individual then I will show you hostility when it comes to my dog. All of you should be really take a second to see just how over the line each and every one of you on MY comment sections are acting as grown adults.”

“You wanting to vilify me for your own entertainment is one thing since you clearly can’t wait before getting the whole story but please for the love of got [sic] don’t be an actually low life form cretin … and EVER dare to attack my child and think you will get away with it.”

“Do you see that face?” he continued, referencing a photo of his dog. “I will go to war for that face! Don’t you ever in your right f—ing mind go so far as to insinuate I am f—ing my own dog again. I hope you never experience anything of the same and I hope you sincerely thrive in everything you do. Remember … you might be loved but it will not be by me or Clementine. Now have a good day.”

In episode 9 of Love Is Blind, Monica Davis, who left the pods engaged to Stephen, learned he had been sending sexual texts to another woman while at a sleep test away from home. After breaking down in tears and asking him to leave, Stephen — who had admitted to cheating on a partner in the past in the pods — said one last thing to Monica.

“I can’t do anything to change this, I will live with this,” he said. “I truly am sorry for hurting you, for wasting your time, for coming on the show and doing this to you. I shouldn’t have come on the show.”

He later joked to PEOPLE that his takeaway from his time on the show was that it’s “probably smart to put a password on your phone.”

“But in all seriousness, the main things are self-talk, self-reflection, and a lot of the things that I believe I said it in the pods, where it’s like you don’t know if you’re fully healed until your next relationship,” he went on to explain. “And you see a lot of people talking about, ‘Well, you should have completed therapy before you entered this.’ And I’m always like, ‘Is therapy a completion? Do you complete therapy?’ No, it should be an ongoing thing because you’re always growing and learning and there are traumas that might’ve affected you that were never a problem until your thirties or forties.”

“And you might think that you had that under wraps and then suddenly you’re faced with something where you’re like, oh, okay, I see this, now that I recognize it,” he added. “I need to do something to fix it. And that’s essentially what this whole year for me has been.”

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Episodes 1-9 of Love Is Blind season 7 are now streaming on Netflix, and episodes 10-11 will drop Wednesday, Oct. 16.