New Vanderpump Rules stars Marcus Johnson and Kim Suarez didn’t mind their on-again, off-again relationship taking center stage in season 12’s premiere, but they believe their costars got it wrong when they hated on the “toxic” romance.

“Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion,” Johnson, 35, told Us Weekly exclusively ahead of the reboot’s debut, which aired on Tuesday, December 2. “Some people are used to relationships and understand the ups and downs of it and some people aren’t.”

He went on to explain, “If you don’t know what it’s like to be in love and be in a situation where everything’s not perfect, you might have a virgin’s response to seeing someone go through something like that.”

Suarez, 31, meanwhile, told Us, their romance is “misunderstood.”

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