Married At First Sight’s Madeleine Maxwell has broken her silence about how she was portrayed on the hit reality TV show.
Madeleine has claimed that some of her producer-led interviews were used out of context, and without background info, which led her final edit to come across as quite bizarre.
Madeleine used a specific scene between her and her on-screen husband Ash Galati as an example. The date took place during the couple’s MAFS honeymoon when they visited a farm for lunch.
Madeleine cried over the fact that the cows would likely be used for food, despite having been shown eating meat for dinner the night before.
Madeleine explained on Yahoo Lifestyle’s Behind The Edit podcast that she had been vegan and vegetarian on and off for the last six to seven years, but was eating meat at the time of the show because of a medication she was on for her skin.
“So the cow scene. There is just a lot of context removed,” she told the publication. “I was on medication for my skin and I needed healing happening really quickly. So I was eating meat, not red meat, but meat.”
“When I see the cows after what I did the night before, it’s kind of feeding into that guilt and shame I was feeling in the voxxie [producer interview] prior…. watching that back, oh my god, it seems so full on, but you’re unearthing so much about love and what you desire and what you’ve done in the past that may or may not be a good choice or whatever,” she said.
Madeleine says her interviews were used out of context
Madeleine revealed that some of the interviews she’d done with producers were mashed up and used during unrelated scenes.
“And I will say this. There’s a voxxie in between where I go, completely unrelated to the cow, where I explode and I go, ‘I’m so f***ing annoying!’ and it was about the relationship once again, so it had nothing to do with me being upset I was eating meat, it was an explosion of like, they’re pushing on a relationship topic that I don’t want to go into.
The Psychic Medium explained that the real reason that she was so frustrated at the time was over her relationship with Ash, not about seeing the cows.
“So I’m aware I’m really emotional that day, and I’m aware of what it will look like on camera, so that’s why I’m saying I’m so f***ing annoying, because I can’t stop crying about this other topic!” she said.
However, Madeleine acknowledged that reality TV shows do tend to edit content in order to entertain viewers.
“I think so much plays into stupid things like that, and Married At First Sight is just going to market it as I guess, funny or weird, or because I’m a medium, but yeah it was actually a lot deeper to me.”
“People just think I’m this bats**t crazy b***h, but you know, that too, but also not,” she laughed.
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