Bronte Has Given Her First Tell-All Post-MAFS And We’ll Let You Be The Judge
Bronte Schofield was embroiled in drama from the very first episode of the 2023 season of Married at First Sight and was one-half of the experiment’s most controversial couple. Now, she’s finally spoken out in her first media interview to spill everything about her MAFS journey and relationship with Harrison Boon.
If you need the world’s quickest recap, we’ve got you covered: Bronte goes on show. Bronte marries Harrison. Bronte’s friend Jess drops a bombshell at the wedding about Harrison dating someone in the outside world. Bronte and Harrison have a tense honeymoon. Bronte and Harrison hate each other, but stay in the experiment. All of a sudden, Bronte and Harrison are doing really well and are into each other and no one buys their act. Bronte and Harrison go through many, many more ups and downs and Bronte ends up dumping Harrison at the final dinner party. We all wearily, thankfully, jump off the Bronte and Harrison rollercoaster for good.
Since the show has aired (and during the show) Harrison has given a number of interviews expressing his side of the tangled MAFS web but Bronte has stayed silent… until NOW.
Bronte sat down with reality TV podcast So Dramatic! (who you may remember also interviewed Harrion’s ex and baby mama recently which you can read here), and spilled her side of the story in an epic interview. And this is just part ONE of it all.
Here’s everything we learned from Bronte’s first media interview post-MAFS.
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On why she hasn’t done media yet:
“Everyone’s going to have a different experience, especially when you’re paired with someone like Harrison who is obviously quite headstrong. Watching it back, we’re watching it for the first time with everybody else. We don’t realise how we’re going to be portrayed, and things get chopped and changed more than anyone can imagine.
Watching it back, I could not talk about our relationship that didn’t happen. I’m watching it back on the screen and I’m going, they’ve cut out every single good part of my and Harrison’s relationship and I could not go into the media and run a narrative that wasn’t authentic to me, or authentic to my story.
And if I’m honest, people were probably sick of hearing and seeing me anyway, so I was like, let’s cut the cord, I needed to process my emotions myself and it was too tough to watch, let alone talk to the media.”
On what she actually liked about Harrison:
“Harrison and I actually had really good times. Everyone thinks Harrison and I had a chat as a game-plan, but when Harrison and I first met we really did have a spark. Our wedding was amazing: there was instant chemistry, our families got along so well, it was everything I could’ve hoped for.
Apart from old mate [Jess], it was amazing. So when everything was going down, I kept coming back to it like ‘but things were so good!’ And if that makes me naive or whatever, so what, but with the actual conversations Harrison and I had off-camera we had fun, there was laughter.”
“He does smile, he does laugh, there is another side to Harrison that does not get shown whatsoever.”
“I wouldn’t have stayed if I didn’t like him. But when you are in a toxic relationship, when things go bad, that’s what you vent to your friends and family about and that’s what they hold onto. I take full accountability for painting a picture to the girls in the experiment that Harrison was an awful, awful human, but when things were bad, they were so bad that I was so mind-blown that somebody could treat somebody this way.
But the opposite side of that was when he apologised, it was so real and genuine, and then we would go out for dinner and things were back to the way they were. The dates we went on, and I met his son, to me in the moment, I’m thinking ‘this man really cares about me.’ We did have conversations about me moving to Sydney for him, they happened! When he said I wasn’t clear enough, I was like ‘do you want it in blood?! What more do you want from me?!’
But at the end of the day it wasn’t real and that’s what I’ve been trying to process.”
On how she and Harrison ended up being loved-up:
“Most weekends when he wasn’t with his son, he was with me. We spent a lot of time together.
It was about week two and it was after the first dinner party when I went and apologised to Harrison, and I wanted to leave. Production said no, so I was like, I’ve gotta stay and make this work, so I moved back in with Harrison and two weeks later was the next dinner party. But we actually, genuinely, got along. I truly wanted to believe there was something good in him.
This is going to sound weird, but with Alessandra we did a task and we had to sit there and stare at each other and hug each other for five minutes. I think slowly, but surely spending time with him away from everyone was what helped. In the real world, I could’ve just walked away but I was in an experiment where I knew my character was detriment [sic] to this TV show. I was proven right at the end.”
On the leaked voice notes proving that she knew of Harrison before their MAFS wedding:
“I have thought about how to answer this question for weeks. How do I justify a thing I said in 20 seconds, when the person, Jess, who leaked them, sold them out when I was in such a vulnerable place that I can’t defend myself. I had zero access to my Instagram messages and no recollection of that conversation. But what did SHE say in order for me to react in that way? It didn’t make sense to me that I’d be so upset and so mad, but there’s no context.
So even I am sitting back and listening like, ‘why did I respond like that?’ It had to be something that she has said to me, in order for me to be so angry. But then I’ve thought to myself, it’s pointless, to justify what I said. The viewers already have a narrative about me that they’re sticking to. And I just feel no matter what I say, no one will be satisfied with my answer. I messed up saying what I said, but I thought she was my friend.”