Married At First Sight bride Sierah Swepstone has claimed to be the latest victim of the dreaded ‘villain edit’ as she airs out what really went down on season 12 with groom Adrian Araouzou behind closed doors.
The former reality TV star, 32, hosted an Ask Me Anything on social media in which she spilled the beans on the long-running Channel Nine dating experiment on Friday.
She had some choice words after being asked why the show depicted her as a ‘villain’: ‘Good edits don’t always mean good. Bad edits don’t always mean bad.’
‘MAFS is actually a game of manipulation. People team up and collude to take others down. MAFS editing is deranged,’ Sierah said.
The Melbourne-born star added she was unsure why the show ‘villainised’ her as she believes she didn’t behave negatively towards her co-stars.
‘Villainising me was a stretch because I never bullied, isolated, intimated or did anything malicious to anyone,’ she wrote. ‘I don’t have anything to apologise for. It was sensationalised bull***t.’
Sierah developed a controversial reputation during her stint on this year’s MAFS for her outspoken demeanour and unabashed name-calling.
She previously branded her former co-stars as ‘nasty c***s’, and accused her ex-husband Billy Belcher and bride Awhina Rutene of conspiring to ruin her reputation.
Sierah also broke her silence on her infamous ‘cheating’ scandal, in which she and groom Adrian Araouzou appeared to be discreetly playing ‘footsies’ under the table as their respective partners, Billy and Awhina, sat beside them.
During the shock incident, Sierah was also seen puckering up her lips and making kissing gestures towards Adrian, who smiled and appeared to enjoy the attention from the bride.
‘What actually happened is Billy accused me of saying something, then moments later, denied it. When I got annoyed, he told me to calm down,’ Sierah wrote.
‘Adrian told Billy he was shutting me down and the [footsies] moment is me repositioning my body away from Billy because he upset me.
‘The pout was me trying not to cry. So yes, MAFS actually used something that happened to me, against me.’
Shortly after the footsies scandal, Billy and Sierah officially ended their turbulent relationship during a Commitment Ceremony.
The couple proved there was no way their relationship would last the distance following the scandalous cheating allegation.
The emotional sit-down saw Sierah tearfully admitting she had ‘wronged people’.
Meanwhile, Billy Belcher wrote ‘leave’ and chose to exit the experiment.
The tension was palpable as the experts delved into the fallout from the previous night’s explosive dinner party.
‘I mean, obviously, I made a mistake and wronged people,’ Sierah confessed, struggling to find the right words.
Prior to her stint on MAFS, Sierah appeared on the 2021 series of The Bachelor, and failed to find love with her co-star Jimmy Nicholson.
Her elimination from The Bachelor went down in reality TV history as one of the best exits when she hilariously confessed Jimmy wasn’t into ‘tall, horny bogans’ after he sent her home.