Love Island USA's Cierra Ortega has offered Us some mixed messages when it comes to her unfiltered reaction to ex Nic Vansteenberghe's romance with Olandria Carthen. Season 7 of Love Island USA, which premiered in June 2025, introduced Us to Nic on his search for love. He had a brief romance with Belle-A Walker before turning his sights to Cierra. Nic and Cierra explored their connection for the next four weeks in the villa until narrator Iain Stirling revealed shortly before the finale that she "left the villa due to a personal situation.