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m "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 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. Fellow contestant Thomas Smith to whom Dang got engaged but is no longer with is also named as a defendant in the suit. Dang claims that May 3, 2022, while in Mexico as part of filming for the series, Smith "sexually assaulted the plaintiff throughout the night." Dang ultimately decided to quit the show in the wake of her experience. She is now seeking in excess of $1 million. "She did not make any kind of claim of assault of any kind," Coelen said in a statement to People. "We would not continue filming with someone who was expressing that an incident of that sort had happened."