Much has been said about Sierah Swepstone and Adrian Araouzou’s ‘cheating scandal’ on Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025, but it turns out there was a pivotal moment audiences didn’t get to see.
Awhina Rutene, who is matched with Adrian on the show, tells Chattr she was actually going to leave MAFS after Confessions Week, but it was Sierah and Ashleigh Ackerman who convinced her to stay. Is it possible Sierah had ulterior motives?!
“I opened up to Ash and Sierah and I said after week one, ‘I feel like leaving, I don’t think Adrian and I are compatible,’” she spills. “Sierah actually chewed me up… she essentially said, ‘This is unfair to Adrian, you’re not giving him a chance’.
“They really made me feel like I was a bad person for having doubts in my relationship… so I tried harder and I showed up more.”
In an interesting twist of events, Ash has since reached out to Awhina to apologise for being part of this whole intervention.
“[Ash] said, ‘I’m sorry’. She said it was actually led by Sierah, and she said when she was in that room with Adrian and Sierah, she could see Sierah very much was interested in Adrian. So that was week one,” Awhina adds.
Awhina declares her friendship with Sierah ‘was a lie’
While most of the cast seem to still be friendly, there are definitely cracks starting to show. Jacqui Burfoot and Rhi Disljenkovic aren’t on good terms at all, and it looks to be the same for Awhina and Sierah.
ICYMI, Adrian and Sierah had a sneaky dinner together and kept it secret from Awhina. The next day, Sierah spent a full day hanging out with Awhina but failed to mention she’d been cosying up to her husband.
“That friendship was a lie… I felt betrayed [and] I was mad,” Awhina tells Chattr. “Sierah and I, unfortunately, we just won’t be friends, the trust is gone. I will just never mesh with her.”
“I was really hurt,” Awhina says. “We’d spent an entire 12 hours together and she’d really opened up to me and I really validated her feelings.
“Every second [she] spent with me and [she] wasn’t forthcoming on [her] whereabouts the night before, knowing how hurt I was, knowing I was crying in my room by myself, [she was] lying to me.”
The bride says she knew Sierah was attracted to Adrian from the beginning, but didn’t think she would act on it because “it wouldn’t look good for her”.
“I wasn’t worried, because I thought, Sierah has been on TV before. This would look really bad. She’s someone who really cared [about her image],” Awhina spills.
So far, Sierah’s image hasn’t exactly survived the chaos! Wonder if she’ll get a redemption arc?
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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