What Happened Between Hayley and Blake After ‘The Ultimatum’ Season 4 Finale? She’s Breaking Down the Timeline

Of all the couples featured on The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On season 4, Hayley Hendrich and Blake Robertson may have had the most complicated journey (and that’s really saying something, considering who they were up against!). After finding themselves entangled in Ashley Wilson and Killian Grondin’s drama during their trial marriages, Hayley and Blake found their way back together and even got engaged in May 2025...but (spoiler alert!) things took a turn after the cameras stopped rolling.On July 18, TMZ broke the news that Blake had been arrested back in October 2025 for allegedly assaulting Hayley, though she declined to formally press charges and the case was dismissed. Now she’s breaking down the timeline of what happened so...let’s get into it, shall we?May 2025Season 4 of The Ultimatum was filmed between March and May of last year, which means the finale episode (during which Blake popped the question) took place in May.NetflixAs Blake later said of the proposal during the reunion: “That proposal, I was 60-40. I didn’t know totally if I was going to propose.”September 2025It seems things didn’t improve for Blake and Hayley after the engagement. “A lot of the residue from the show and the other trial marriage transferred to our relationship,” Hayley revealed during an appearance on the What’s the Reality? podcast. “We were together for four months after we left. And it was horrible.”She continued, “We were fighting all the time, we started going to couples therapy. Alcohol was a trigger for me. Whenever Blake would drink, he would say things that were not degrading but very rude and ugly.”Add Cosmopolitan as a preferred source in your Google search results.Use your Google account to add this to your settings.The tension came to a head in mid-September while the two were on a trip celebrating their three-year anniversary, which is when Hayley claims she broke up with Blake. But apparently, they continued living together. Which led to...October 2025As Hayley revealed on the What’s the Reality? podcast, the trouble allegedly began after Blake returned from a golf trip with coworkers. “He comes back wasted,” she claimed. “I start arguing with him, I’m like, dude, this is so disrespectful, I’m so angry at you.”The two began fighting, and it escalated to the point where Blake’s father (who apparently lived nearby) allegedly overheard the pair arguing and called the police. According to Hayley, Blake accused her of hitting him during the argument. As she later told Tudum: “He also lied [at the reunion] about me punching him in the face. You’re a psychopath if you have to lie to make yourself look good.”In Hayley’s retelling, Blake fled their home before the police arrived, and after insisting she wasn’t at fault, she showed the police the recordings she’d taken during the altercation. Per TMZ’s report, Blake was later arrested “at a business in Nacogdoches, Texas, for allegedly putting his hands on Hayley.”According to Blake’s lawyer: “Blake’s case was rightfully dismissed by the prosecutor almost immediately, and all records were expunged.”June 2026Following the incident, Hayley and Blake were not in contact until the reunion, which was filmed about a month before it aired.As Hayley told Swooon, “After the reunion, he came up to me. We were in the same hotel. He was being apologetic, and so we had a conversation. We talked for a few days after that, and then I ended up blocking him.”That said, it seems like the two are on...okay terms? “We still disagree on certain parts of how our relationship ended, but I’ll always have a lot of love for Hayley,” Blake said to Tudum. “I’m really happy we were able to reconnect after a long time apart.”Still, for Hayley, it’s a point of contention that Blake only apologized to her in private. “You smear me publicly, you apologize to me privately,” she told Tudum. “That doesn’t sit well with me.”