Star said Schwandt was the “only man who was confident to love me publicly, to love me for me fully with all my flaws,” but he was not always comfortable in the public eye. He also said that friends and family had tried to sell the story of their breakup. "I don't even know how to process that,” he said. “We're over here heartbroken, dealing with our emotions, dealing with things behind the scenes and off-camera, and there's family trying to tell the media fake stories, get money out of it."