Love Is Blind Season 11’s Sarah Williams says her husband, John Shannon, was on Tinder while they were married. She also says she discovered sexually explicit messages he sent to another woman, including requests for sexual acts.
Discussing their split on The Viall Files, she said he was messaging the woman while he was also calling her.
Sarah said she found the exchange through their “open phone policy,” although checking his phone hadn’t been a habit. She later learned that the woman John had met at a strip club also worked as an escort.
As Sarah described the messages, host Nick Viall suggested John was approaching the woman “like a civilian,” with the possibility of a romantic connection in mind. Sarah agreed with his reading. She said there was no evidence of physical contact or of the exchange continuing after the messages stopped.
John had already acknowledged the messages at the Season 11 reunion, where he described his actions as a serious breach of trust. Asked whether he’d cheated, he said, “I guess so.” He denied that anything physical had happened.
For Sarah, his intention and whether he’d been drinking didn’t excuse the exchange. As she put it, “even if you were wasted, you had wasted intention.”
The messages were part of a wider account of trouble in their marriage. Sarah said the way John spoke to her left her feeling diminished, and that she eventually stopped challenging things she disagreed with. An irretrievable breakdown of the marriage was the reason she gave when she filed for divorce in June 2026.