Red Flags & Toxic Men with Natalie Cruz
When Reality Hits with Brittany Cartwright
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4.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week on When Reality Hits, reality TV star Natalie Cruz joins the podcast for a brutally honest conversation about everything that went down on Temptation Island and her return to Netflix’s Perfect Match. Natalie opens up about the infamous Grant drama, the viral shower scene, cheating allegations, toxic relationship cycles, online hate, death threats, and the wild reality of seeing your love life edited for television. She also reveals what viewers didn’t get to see behind the scenes, why she says she “did her job well,” and how reality TV completely changed her life. Plus, Natalie talks red flags, love bombing, bad kissers, reality dating show chaos, and why Perfect Match finally let fans see the real her
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to another episode of When Reality Hits, y'all, today's guest has had the internet talking. |
| 0:22.6 | You know her from Temptation Island, where she found herself right in the middle of all the |
| 0:27.4 | drama with Grant, and now she's back looking for love on season four of perfect match on |
| 0:32.7 | Netflix. |
| 0:33.6 | And we are getting into what really happened behind the scenes, the backlash she got online, reality dating chaos, red flags, toxic exes, and everything in between. |
| 0:44.3 | Please welcome the gorgeous Natalie Cruz. |
| 0:47.3 | Oh my gosh, this is going to be really interesting. |
| 0:50.8 | Hi, girl. |
| 0:51.7 | How are you? |
| 0:53.1 | I'm so good. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:56.2 | Thank you so much for coming on. |
| 0:59.4 | To get started, I always like to go back. |
| 1:01.9 | So you started off on your reality TV journey on Temptation Island. |
| 1:06.5 | How did that come about for you? |
| 1:07.9 | Like what was the casting process or how did that even get started that you found out you were going to be on that show? |
| 1:14.9 | Casting for Temptation Island was honestly like the most random thing because I did like absolutely no social media. |
| 1:21.1 | I had never even posted a real. |
| 1:22.7 | I think it was like six months before I had even posted like or had been that long of a time. And someone |
| 1:28.7 | DM'd me and I thought it was a joke. And I was with my best friend and we were drunk in a bar about to go to hockey game. And I was like, oh my gosh, I love Temptation Island. Like, someone DMs me and it's a joke. So I sent them like a drunk voice memo back. I was like, you want me to get a boyfriend like just give me a week like I can get a boyfriend and they were like |
| 1:44.9 | oh no I think you'll actually be really good as a single. |
| 2:04.1 | And then I had my interview. And then I went on. And it was, yeah, just totally random, but super fun. So it happened like that. Like, you just got a DM on your instant. They're probably like, this girl's hot we have to have her on the show that's so funny how much it's changed like social media that's how you know i've talked to a lot of people from the bachelor |
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