Hayley Hendrich is speaking out for the first time after her ex-fiancé Blake Robertson’s domestic violence arrest.
As we previously reported, news broke over the weekend that Blake was arrested in October 2025 in Texas for allegedly hitting Hayley after they finished filming The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, which ended with them getting engaged. She declined to press charges and talked privately to him about the matter. Now, Hayley is breaking her silence on the situation. She told Us Weekly on Tuesday:
“It’s been hard. It’s been very hard just having to relive everything. It’s been really hard just because there were certain decisions that I made regarding that whole situation.”
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And it has been especially hard to relive their relationship on the show after everything that’s happened. She continued:
“After all the healing that you’ve tried to do, you just have to relive it, especially in the public eye, I feel like it makes it 1000 times harder. It’s been a lot. After the engagement, we lived together and I was very unstable once I got back. There were a lot of triggers and so I don’t feel like we really were able to enjoy our engagement. Regarding the emotional side [of things] — at that point — I felt like I had been asking for it for so long that it didn’t feel genuine to me anymore. I was like, ‘OK, well, now you’re doing it and I’ve asked you for a year to meet my emotional needs.’”
Hayley said she felt “really bad” back then for how she handled things:
“He tried. It took a year, but he was trying. I feel bad that I wasn’t able to really soak that in. It was resentment at that point. It was just not good. It affected our relationship a lot. At that point, I felt like I was pouring into a cup that wasn’t pouring into mine. I felt like my cup was empty and I just didn’t know who I was anymore. I lost myself 1,000 percent in that relationship and I take account only for my faults in it. All you can do is grow from it and become a better person for yourself and for the next person you end up with.”
Ultimately, Hayley said they decided to break up in September 2025 — a month before Blake’s domestic violence arrest — and they continued to live together until the end of October:
“At the reunion, I did not get any closure. Him and I have spoken since the reunion. It’s been back and forth. Sometimes no closure is closure and I just have accepted that. … I feel like I’m absolutely ready to turn the next page. I do feel like I still have some healing to do and so I think it would be selfish of me to really put myself out there again after things that have happened recently. Just for the sake of my mental sanity, you should not bring your last relationship’s problems onto your next one. I am not ready yet, but I feel like sometime soon.”
We continue to send love to Hayley during her healing journey. Thoughts on her statement, Perezcious readers? Let us know.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, help is available. Consider calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or text START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org.
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