'Love Island USA' Winner Amaya Espinal Was Ready To Leave The Show Before Meeting Bryan Arenales

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3 months ago

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00:00I've loved watching you both this season, and I especially loved how the first thing you did

00:05after you were named winners was, like, get the zoomies and run around the whole villa.

00:09Amaya and Bray!

00:18What was that moment like for the both of you guys?

00:21It was fun.

00:22Yeah, it just felt great, like, just knowing that people have been supporting us and seeing

00:27how our connection just grew day by day.

00:31Amaya, what was your reaction when you got your phone back and realized how much America

00:35had fallen in love with you, and are you ready for all the amazing things that are going to

00:38come your way?

00:39Wow, like, honestly, I felt so overwhelmed, but in the best ways possible.

00:45Just all of the love and all of the support and seeing the people rooting for us has been

00:50just beautiful to see and powerful, and we're open.

00:54Like, I'm definitely open.

00:55He's open.

00:55And so we're ready to see what the next couple of steps are for us to be taken.

01:01Brian, you closed off the season by making things exclusive with Amaya.

01:05Are you already planning your first, you know, post-villa dates?

01:08And what do you guys plan on doing once you're fully back to real life?

01:12Yeah, for sure.

01:14Like I've been saying, I gotta get Shorty her truffle pasta.

01:19So I gotta find a spot out here in L.A.

01:22And yeah, I think the next steps are just catch up with family and go see family and

01:27eventually get our families to meet each other.

01:29We want to see each other's family.

01:31That's huge.

01:31We're both huge on family.

01:33So yeah.

01:34Amaya, there were so many viral moments from you from the way you pronounce certain words,

01:38the new song of the summer.

01:40Which moment surprised you the most when you realized how much it had blown up?

01:43The dive sky and thing when I was just talking to Elon, because he never corrected me.

01:51So I didn't even recognize that I was like mispronouncing.

01:59I'm making a bunch of this girl myself.

02:01For me, that's like one of the big non-negotiables.

02:04I might skydive after this.

02:05Like, yo, if I could survive love land, I could survive a fucking die sky then.

02:10So it was like, oh, okay.

02:15Brian, did you have a favorite viral moment from Amaya?

02:19Ooh, there's a few.

02:21The thumbs down was pretty funny.

02:24Yeah, you saw it.

02:25I was like, oh, that's hilarious.

02:27Her face and everything.

02:28Okay, Ace, show us what you got.

02:33Babe.

02:34That's awesome.

02:35That's what we have right now.

02:37Well, one of the very first viral moments was one of the first votes.

02:43And Amaya, you were crying.

02:45You guys had to dump an Islander.

02:46You were like, I don't want to do that.

02:48You each have to decide who you want to dump right here and right now.

02:57We don't want to do that.

02:59We don't want to do that.

03:01What do you remember from that moment?

03:03Who was the hardest goodbye this season?

03:05I mean, honestly, I would have to say, besides Alandria's elimination, it was Charlie's.

03:15Yeah.

03:16Because we actually did have a great friendship.

03:19And it was just, that was my first time ever having to vote someone off.

03:24So I see some of the comments and you're like, dude, they're, she's acting like someone's

03:30going to beheaded.

03:31Bro, that's how it felt.

03:35So high.

03:37And that's how it really felt.

03:39Like, Charlie, I'm sorry.

03:40Brian, you had everyone in tears again when you said we were two misunderstood people who

03:45understand each other.

03:46Did you ever expect that you would find a love like this, you know, when you first got

03:50the call that you'd be going on Love Island?

03:52To be completely honest, no.

03:53Honestly, I was going, I was really like, this is an experience I'll tell my kids about.

03:58I keep saying that.

03:59And if I walk out with somebody, great.

04:01If not, then the experience was worth it.

04:03And I met Amaya and that's been the best part of my experience on Love Island.

04:07Amaya, did you ever expect that this would be the outcome for you?

04:11I was just very optimistic.

04:13I definitely like joined Love Island because I was ready to be dating someone.

04:18So after every failed connection, I was like, damn, like, am I going to find my person?

04:24But then he fell right in my lap and the girl was just happy.

04:29I imagine it must get, you know, a little discouraging, especially, you know, you're

04:33not seeing, you don't have your phone.

04:34You're not seeing what people are saying.

04:36You don't know.

04:36Like, was there ever a moment where you're like, am I getting voted off?

04:40Like, am I leaving?

04:41Am I going to leave here with somebody?

04:43To be honest with you, never, I never was concerned about like, necessarily, like, I

04:48never focused on the voting or elimination.

04:51But there was one point where I was honestly about to pack my bags and leave on my own because

04:57I just really did feel misunderstood at a certain point.

05:00But then I was like, you know what, like, just stay strong, be the strong soldier that

05:06you are.

05:06And my skin just grew thicker from it.

05:10At what point, you know, did you have that thought?

05:12Was it something specific that happened?

05:14Was it like the Ace stuff?

05:15Was it the Austin stuff?

05:16It was right before I left the Casa Amor.

05:20So yeah, it was right after the whole Austin thing and him talking about, yeah, like that

05:26miscommunication.

05:27And so at that point, I didn't even know Casa Amor was around the corner.

05:33But I'm happy that I dug it out.

05:35I am too.

05:36I think everybody's very happy that you stuck it out.

05:40And you guys both got to split the $100,000 cash prize.

05:43So congrats with that.

05:44I love that you guys both said you want to donate to charity.

05:47You know, Amaya, was there ever any part of you where you were like, uh-oh, is he going

05:51to split it with me?

05:52Like, I don't know.

05:52Or Brian, was there ever any part of you that was like, maybe I don't want to split it?

05:56All I keep thinking about is my dad saying money's important, but it isn't everything.

06:06Of course, I'm splitting this money with Amaya.

06:09Yay!

06:10Brian, you were here for love!

06:14To be honest, you never know.

06:15You never know.

06:18But I felt like if he would have done that, I would have been like, nah, this is not the

06:23man for me.

06:24I'm like, okay.

06:25I don't think I would have made it back home if I took the money.

06:28But no, it honestly wasn't a thought right away.

06:30Like, the minute she had the zero she opened at first, I looked at her and smiled like,

06:35it doesn't matter.

06:36Yeah.

06:37But yeah, I probably wouldn't be here right now if I took that.

06:40One last quick question.

06:42What advice would the both of you give to all the sensitive gangsters out there who are

06:45looking for love?

06:46Don't cry, baby girl.

06:48You look so beautiful.

06:50Deep breaths.

06:51God forbid I'm a sensitive gangster.

06:53Sensitive gangster!

06:55Come on!

06:55I would say, or we would say, tears and emotions are not a weakness, it's a strength.

07:02And just because you shed some tears do not mean that you can't hold your own self.

07:07You are your own backbone.

07:09So continue on expressing yourself and anybody who thinks that's too much for them, find less.

07:15Yeah.

07:16Be unapologetically you at all times.

07:18Be unapologetically you at all times.

'Love Island USA' Winner Amaya Espinal Was Ready To Leave The Show Before Meeting Bryan Arenales

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