Melissa Has Slammed Her ‘MAFS’ Edit And Claims She’s Been “Misrepresented”
Last night’s Married at First Sight commitment ceremony saw Josh White leave bride Melissa Sheppard, after breaking down on the couch, labelling her behaviour as degrading.
Melissa and Josh had a rollercoaster relationship, with Melissa’s constant talk about sex and intimacy rubbing Josh the wrong way (no pun intended) before things finally came to a head (no pun intended) during Intimacy Week with Melissa’s constant insinuations of Josh not being man enough for her finally wearing thin.
At last night’s commitment ceremony, Josh ended up in tears after calling out Melissa for limiting his phone, TV, and reading time, as well as limiting intimacy and questioning his “manhood”. Melissa either didn’t have much to say in response or had her responses edited out, and even though she opted to stay, John Aiken told Josh he could still leave the experiment and he did.
Melissa has now given an interview to Kyle and Jackie O this morning to clear up some of the “rumours” surrounding her time on MAFS. We decided to summarise it for you below so you don’t have to listen.
You’re welcome, btw.
Melissa on her dating history and whether or not she’s a sex pest:
“Sex pest 2023!” Melissa said. “I went on this experiment wanting to meet someone, my equal or a match. My first marriage ended 10 years ago, and we had an amazing relationship, it was great while it was working. The last 10 years I’ve had two serious relationships [with younger men] and I decided to go on the experiment because I wanted to meet my equal. I knew I had a high sex drive, I like to have sex, but to have sex with my husband 2-3 times a week, I didn’t think I was asking for too much.”
On her “transactional” comment in regards to sex with Josh:
“Those two times, the last times we were intimate, I wouldn’t say it was hot and heavy intimacy. It was just sloppy and messy. I took sex off the table, I wanted to get to know this guy, he’s only seeing me as this sex siren, I could see they were pushing the sex on him a lot. And I was trying to come back from that,” she said, before saying she and Josh had never gone down on each other (after prompting questions from Kyle).
“What happened was the last time we were intimate, there was no kissing, it was very transactional. And I knew Josh had stepped out of the relationship before then,” she said.
On Melissa telling John to let Josh leave:
“I said to John, please let him leave. We ended up having an argument before that and I was writing leave, but after speaking to production I thought maybe I need to keep continuing with this. I really feel like we couldn’t have been more opposite. Unfortunately, I’m being misrepresented.
“Josh and I haven’t spoken since. I reached out to him after watching him break down on the couch. I was shocked, I couldn’t say anything, he was happier three hours earlier. I don’t feel like it’s 100% honest.”
Melissa on the limiting of Josh’s TV, phone, and reading time:
“That’s absolutely not true,” she said of Josh’s accusations. “I didn’t want to add anymore fuel to the fire. Josh was a very different person in front of me, then he’d go to these voxxies and break down. So all the times you’d see him say these things, I felt like I was sleeping with a secret assassin. He would be so kind to my face, but behind closed doors he’d break down and cry and I had no idea.”
On the Josh and Lyndall rumours:
Melissa then alluded to the Josh and Lyndall dating rumours, with Kyle asking if Josh has had sex after the experiment. “Oh yeah, haven’t you read it?” Melissa said. “Well, the truth will come out. I know there’ll be some evidence that comes forward.”
You can listen to the full interview with Melissa from MAFS here.
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Married at First Sight returns tonight at 7:30pm on Channel Nine.