Andrea Carmona was due a redemption arc. The Miami native had a rough time in the Love Island USA villa when she first appeared on Season 6 of the show. After entering as a bombshell, breaking up a fan-favorite couple, and being dumped from the island, Carmona came home to a lot of criticism.

“The amount of hate that I got was really hard and intense. I own up to everything I did, but at the same time, I don’t think I deserved all of that,” she says. Most of that criticism came from Carmona splitting up Rob Rausch and Leah Kateb .

“I got a lot of hate for being a homewrecker — if you know the show, you know that’s not a thing. That’s what bombshells are for,” Carmona says. “I also got a lot of stuff about not being a girl’s girl. That really struck a chord. I’m like, ‘You guys don’

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