Awhina Rutene and Adrian Araouzou’s family visit on Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 wasn’t exactly easy viewing after Adrian’s two sisters and (former) best friend Jasmin Weston ganged up on Awhina in an explosive lunch that left MAFS fans outraged.
Awhina was left in tears after Adrian, his sisters, and Jasmin walked out of the lunch after clashing with Awhina and her twin sister Cleo, who came in to defend her. “Revolting family,” Abbie Chatfield commented on MAFS’ official Instagram page, with someone else commenting, “Not a single brain cell in the whole family. So embarrassing.”
Before the episode aired, Jasmin took to Instagram to preemptively apologise for her actions, saying she had contacted Awhina and Cleo after falling out with Adrian.
In an interview with Chattr, Awhina has revealed when Jasmin apologised to her, whether she’s heard from Adrian’s sisters, and where she and Adrian now stand.
MAFS’ Awhina reveals exactly when Jasmin apologised to her: “It’s still so raw”
With Jasmin (a social media influencer and cookbook author) losing Instagram and TikTok followers faster than you can say ‘Easy Eats’, Awhina revealed she only heard from Jasmin a couple of days before the controversial episode aired.
“It was a message through Instagram, she reached out to my twin sister and extended an apology to me and her because Cleo has social media,” Awhina told Chattr, referencing the fact MAFS stars aren’t allowed to monitor their social media accounts as the show airs.
Awhina found a way to get into contact with Jasmin to accept the apology.
“My twin sister passed that onto me, and then that’s when I messaged her, and I said, ‘I appreciate you reaching out to my twin and I and apologising’. I really want to accept people’s apologies,” Awhina said. “When people reach out to me, I want to believe it’s genuine. [But] my experience through MAFS is I do feel like a lot of apologies were insincere from multiple different people, and so it makes it difficult for me to want to accept apologies.
“I do appreciate that she did reach out. With everything that I’ve seen circulate last night, my feelings are still really raw in that matter. So I want to believe it’s with genuine sincerity, and I like that she’s putting her hand up and showing some accountability, but yeah, it’s still so raw to me right now.”
Influencer Jasmin loses thousands of followers after MAFS episode
Since the episode aired, Jasmin has turned off her comments on both TikTok and Instagram, with the latest date from Social Blade showing she’s lost nearly 2,000 TikTok followers and that her Instagram following has dropped from 411,000 to 410,000.
She has yet to release any more statements about her MAFS behaviour, but angry fans have taken to social media to depict their feelings on the matter, including one TikTok user making a video throwing away Jasmin’s cookbooks.
@isabellareitano_ sorry not sorry #mafs #jasminseats #adrian #awhina #cleo #adrianaraouzou #jasminweston #marriedatfirstsight ♬ NOKIA – Drake
Awhina on the dramatic lunch: “It was very loaded”
On the tumultuous lunch, Awhina said it never should’ve gone the way it did. She also said Adrian’s sisters didn’t apologise, but alluded to having hung out with his family since that dramatic lunch.
“I haven’t had an apology from Adrian’s sisters. I have spent time with Adrian’s family, I’ve been around them. I was in Melbourne recently, but no, I haven’t received any form of an apology,” Awhina said.
“It was just difficult, because I felt like off camera and on camera, he was still trying to push his perspective onto me, I kept feeling like his poor behaviour would get pushed onto me. The family and friends lunch shouldn’t have gone down like that. We should have had a really beautiful lunch,” she continued.
“And even though we were in quite a bad situation at this point, he made some really strong promises where he’s like, ‘I’m going to step up’. So stepping up to me is going, ‘OK let’s go into friends and family, and my family and friends are going to tell you all of the reasons why you should give me another chance’. But it went completely different. It was very loaded.”
MAFS’ Awhina on her future with Adrian
With Awhina opting to leave at the last commitment ceremony while Adrian wrote stay, then the tumultuous family lunch, things look pretty done and dusted with the MAFS couple. But is that the case?
On Valentine’s Day this year, Adrian was spotted picking Awhina up from the girls’ lunch she shared with the other MAFS brides, and he later uploaded a TikTok giving Awhina a rose. So are the two back on?
@___jamesyy6 Cupid (experts) did well 💘#marriedatfirstsight #mafsaustralia #mafs #fyp #valentinesday @Adrian ♬ original sound – fantasyfilm
While Awhina didn’t want to give any spoilers, she did say this.
“Adrian, Adrian, Adrian, where do I begin? Look, I don’t want to give away too much to the viewers. Adrian obviously has made some promises to step up and I’m hoping you guys will get to see a side of him that he doesn’t normally show,” she said. “I think since everything started airing, it would be quite difficult for Adrian right now. You know, no one likes to be held accountable and on such a national or international or international scale too.”
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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