Love Is Blind season 9 star Joe Ferrucci is cringing along with the audience while watching the Netflix show back.

“I’ve cooled down on drinking substantially to where I’m not making a fool out of myself every week,” Joe told Us Weekly in an exclusive interview on Friday, October 10.

In the first batch of episodes, which dropped earlier this month, Joe got into a drunken fight with fiancée Madison Maidenberg in Mexico. In the second installment, he went off about costar Nick Amato’s presumed lack of bedroom skills with fiancée Annie Lancaster in an on-the-fly confessional interview.

“It’s been in the works,” Joe added of scaling back on his drinking. “I think I needed to calm down. That was a very interesting time in my life as well, and with the added stress of the show. … I think I us

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