What to Know About 'Love Is Blind' Season 8 Standout Madison Errichiello

Spoilers for Love Is Blind season 8 episodes 1-12 ahead. After five years of pop-cultural dominance, Love Is Blind still finds ways to go against fan expectations. The first six episodes of season 8 premiered on Netflix on Valentine's Day 2025, introducing viewers to the Minneapolis-based cast. While the show's largest cast ever provides several different strands of pod drama, a significant chuck of time was spent on the love life of Madison Errichiello, a 28-year-old artist and instant standout who ended the pods...not engaged?!

After the significant buzz around season 7's Leo and Brittany saga, Love Is Blind seems to have gotten more comfortable dedicating airtime to cast members who don't even make it to the post-pod honeymoon, let alone the altar. After Madison's return in episode 11, fans have questions about the artist, including her place in the season's love square and what she has to say about how things went with Alex Brown. Read on for everything to know about Madison from Love Is Blind season 8, including her take on the breakup.

Madison is a free-spirited artist who survived a rough childhood.

Madison Errichiello, 28, is a visual artist who also works as a social media manager, per her LinkedIn. The Leo is also a devoted dog mom to her French bulldog Henri, who has his own Instagram page.

On Love Is Blind, Madison opens up about her childhood growing up with parents living with addiction. Her parents had her when they were teenagers, and her stepfather died of an overdose when she was in eighth grade. Madison says that she has "a lot of generational curses [she's] trying to break," and that she wants to be a source of support for her brother and sister.

In a February 25 TikTok post, Madison responded to criticism she has received online, claiming that she's a "fake artist." After saying that "the rhetoric surrounding me as an artist is kind of getting to be a little problematic," she explained that she has been "struggling to find her creative spark" as she's been struggling with her mental health over the past year and a half.

She explained that her art that had been going viral for being "bad" was created when she was rediscovering herself as an artist. "I’m also just a commission-based artist," she said, explaining that her art has been hard to find because "I don’t necessarily always have artwork up on my website for people to buy.” She concluded by saying, "Art is subjective. You don’t have to like my art. You can like my art."

Madison is part of season 8's love square, comprised of her, Alex, Mason, and Meg.

Early in the pods, Madison becomes interested in Alex, a 29-year-old real-estate broker, as they bond over their traumatic childhoods. Both have experience with bullying, and Alex's family kicked him out after he failed high school. At the same time, she's also dating Mason Horacek, a 33-year-old cinematographer and former skater bro, and their energy is more flirty. Meanwhile, Mason is also dating Meg Fink, a 31-year-old oncology nurse who believes in conspiracy theories and loves the movie Her as much as he does.

Though Alex and Madison have a deep connection, their relationship takes a turn when they reveal their attachment styles. Alex has a history of dating avoidant partners, and when Madison says she's avoidant, he seems to pull away a bit. This makes Madison realize how much she likes him, and she lends him her teddy bear as a form of assurance. However, it's easier to say they won't let their past traumas affect new relationships than to follow through.

Meanwhile, after Mason tells Madison he's committed to her, Madison realizes she has stronger feelings for Alex. When Madison breaks up with Mason, Mason takes back his confession and claims that he knew he had committed to the wrong girl immediately after he said he would commit to Madison (so way before Madison broke up with him). Madison thinks that the way Mason handles things isn't fair to her or Meg, so she's hurt when Alex comes into their next date defending Mason's waffling feelings, and saying that he "appreciates Mason's perspective" when that perspective is that Madison screwed Mason over with Meg. (Madison had been upfront with Meg about the whole Mason-committing-then-taking-it-back thing, and Meg decided to dump Mason because she would never be sure whether she was his first choice.)

They eventually move past that disagreement (though Madison sheds a few tears). When the conversation moves to a possible proposal, Alex confesses that his only hesitation is how they communicate. He can't handle another relationship with miscommunication and fighting, and Madison points out that she can't promise they'll always understand each other. Ultimately, Alex decides that they're not ready for an engagement. In a confessional, Madison admits, "Although it's sad, I feel like it is the right choice."

Madison says that Alex's "toxic positivity" wasn't what she wanted in a relationship.

In an interview with PEOPLE, published on the season 8 premiere date, Madison discussed her breakup with Alex. She told the outlet that, though disappointed, she had no regrets about her time on the show.

She also addressed the final argument with Alex, saying she didn't want his "toxic positivity" in a partner.

"He's on Mason's side almost," she said of the disagreement. "And that just made me feel so invalidated. I think Mason was the real-time example, but I started thinking to the future of, 'Okay, if I come home from a really bad day, do I want to be told to look on the bright side? Or if I get in an argument with a friend, do I want to be told that they're a good person?' No. Because I can get there on my own. What I'm looking for in a partner is someone who's able to sit in those heavy emotions and not feel uncomfortable by it and not feel like they have to push it away with positivity."

"And I think I saw that Alex did that often," she added. "Like whenever he was uncomfortable, he would just push it away and he wasn't really good at sitting in those heavy emotions," Madison adds. "And so I think for me that was a non-negotiable. I need someone who's able to be there with me because I'm going to do the same for them."

Madison's ex Alex says he didn't propose because they were on "very different pages."

Speaking with TODAY about Love Is Blind's premiere, Alex revealed that he was still "50/50, not knowing if I was going to propose or end things" when he went into that final date with Madison. He also confirmed that their different attachment styles became too much of a hurdle since he usually tries to date people who "match my attachment style or is as secure as possible."

"I think she has different ways of dealing with conflict than I do, and again, that’s totally fine," he told the outlet. "There’s nothing right or wrong with either way, but I think we just realized that we are both on very different pages and that communication wasn’t going to be easy."

He added of his dating habits, "I think I just look for those signs that they’re not gonna fight me or run away or all the things that I used to do and that people that I’ve been with have done in the past. I just want to be in a healthy relationship as much as possible."

Madison claims that Alex's behavior changed once he saw what she looked like outside of the 'Love is Blind' pods.

Despite leaving the pods single, Madison's time on Love Is Blind season 8 doesn't end in episode 6. Season 8 has the requisite post-pod cast reunion in episode 11, and both Madison and Alex (and Meg and Mason) appear. The exes do not talk to each other during the party (maybe for the best), but Madison has a lot to say about Alex's behavior after the pods. As Alex says, "There has been so much drama since you left." (Alex hasn't given any new interviews since episode 11's release, so we only have Madison's take.)

At the party (where Madison is rocking new, bright fuchsia hair), she tells Lauren that she got a stunned message from Alex when they got their phones back. She implies that he realized he had messed up when he saw what she looked like. She also says they met at the airport, where Alex asked her to stay in L.A. with him. Then (and this is where we get confused), she says that he told her that Meg had messaged him and that he was allegedly pitting Madison and Meg against each other in a way. Even Lauren asks where this came from, since Meg was clearly all Mason, all the time in the pods. Madison wraps things up by calling Alex a "massive liar."

In a new interview with PEOPLE, Madison spoke more about meeting Alex at the airport. She recalled, "It was pretty clear to me that he was not the same person that I was speaking to in the pods. That was very obvious."

She also claimed that Alex changed his opinion about Mason after defending him during their breakup. "I ask Alex—because I get the sense that he was not really very honest in the pods—and I ask him, I'm like, 'What did you really think about Mason?' And he's like, 'Oh, he's a massive weirdo. He's super weird.' I was like, 'But you were just defending him. That's so bizarre to me."

Though Alex claims that he never said that about Mason—Alex declined to comment on the matter to PEOPLE—Madison claims, "He did [say that]. He loves to lie."

Despite the drama, Madison still believes she and Alex weren't meant to be. "We don't end up together, and so I think that was honestly probably for the best." And that wraps up the saga of Madison and Alex...unless it's brought up again at season 8's March 9 reunion. We shall see.