JaNa Craig is ready to move on.
After calling it quits with her Season 6 “Love Island USA” co-star Kenny Rodriguez, Craig took to her Instagram stories on July 31 to give her fans an update about her life.
“I just want to let you guys know, hi, I’m OK. I pinky promise,” she said in a video on how she’s dealing with their split. “I’ve seen all the love you guys drown me in on social media. It has been an overflow of just support and prayers, and that means more to me than you guys will ever know.
“But I want to close this chapter of my life. Like, I don’t want it to take any more of my energy. I don’t want it to take any more of y’all’s energy. You guys did such an amazing job showing me that I’m OK and I’m going to be OK, and that it’s all love.”
Craig noted that she’s ready to “move on” and she hopes her fans can as well.
“What’s done is done. God knows what happened. And that’s all that matters,” she said.
In another video shared on her Instagram story, Craig asked her followers to stop reaching out to Rodriguez’s family members as they did nothing wrong to her and were always “kind.”
“I’m begging you, please leave Kenny’s family alone,” she said.
“I’m trying to close this chapter. It’s getting stressful,” she added.
Craig and Rodriguez started dating on Season 6 of “Love Island USA,” which premiered on Peacock in June 2024. After about a year of dating, Craig suddenly unfollowed Rodriguez on Instagram and removed most traces of him from her feed.
On July 29, she confirmed they broke up in a lengthy statement she shared on her Instagram Story.
“Discovering that someone you loved isn’t who you thought they were and that the relationship you thought you were building hasn’t been genuine since day one has been truly devastating,” she said.
After Craig shared her statement on the breakup, Rodriguez addressed the matter on Instagram and said he came to the “hard truth that the relationship was not something that could last long-term.”
In response, Craig called him out for being a “manipulative liar” in another Instagram story and received support from her “Love Island USA” castmates, as well as the series’ host Ariana Madix, who unfollowed Rodriguez as well.
“Love Island USA” alum and Craig’s close friend Leah Kateb also shed some light on what might’ve happened between the couple when she posted a message on Instagram.
She wrote, in part, “Put a sock in it ChatGPT head—. Tell the truth for once! Racist, clout/money hungry and a scammer since DAY 1!!!!”
In an interview with Elite Daily, which took place in early July, Craig talked about her time with Rodriguez on the show and said the biggest challenge for them post-“Love Island USA” was them navigating the real world together.
“I always wonder what his life was like before all of this,” she said.
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