At the time of her exit, Cierra was coupled up with Nic Vansteenberghe, and the pair was one of the strongest in the villa. After Cierra left, Nic said in a confessional that when Cierra was there, “I knew what the future would look like. And now I’m lost.”

During the Sunday, July 6, episode of “Love Island USA,” narrator Iain Stirling announced that Cierra Ortega had left the show due to a “personal situation.” Prior to her shocking exit, many fans called for Ortega’s removal after discovering that she used a slur for Chinese people in several social media posts.