Since her emotional affair with Dean Wells hit our screens on the nation’s most popular TV show, Married At First Sight, Davina Rankin has become one of Australia’s most infamous TV villains but Davina insists she’s been “100 per cent misunderstood.”
“I’m not just the b***h people saw on TV.”
Last night the 26-year-old bikini model opened up to A Current Affair reporter Alison Piotrowski on what life after MAFS has been like, what really happened with Tracey Jewel and why she only watched three episodes of the series.
Davina maintains that she and her partner Ryan had a great time on the show.
“He was an absolute legend, an awesome person but, together, it was a disaster.”
Despite how great a person her partner in the social experiment may have been, Davina has learned that marriage is not for her by taking part in the show.
After reflecting on the experience, Davina had a moment of enlightenment and told ACA audiences, “Look, the TV was fun (but) actually, it turns out marriage isn’t for me.”
Davina struggled to hold back tears while talking about the bullying she’s received since the show aired.
The real reason Davina called Tracey crazy
The 26-year-old also revealed why she called Tracey Jewel “crazy” and refused to apologise after a confrontation about her affair with Dean.
Apparently, the two women had been in contact before the dinner party and talked the situation through, which is why Davina was dumbstruck when Tracey confronted her in front of the cameras.
She also revealed that the pair have now cleared the air.
“Tracey actually called me after she left Dean at the aisle of the last ceremony, and we’re actually fine,” Davina told the ACA reporter.
Bullying in the street
It’s not the first time the bikini-model and business woman has spoken about the real life and cyber bullying she’s received since the show aired, and it’s an important reminder to all that words can often be just as hurtful as any stick and stones. Her parents struggled to watch their daughter dealing with the harsh criticism.
“My mum and dad were ropeable. Absolutely ropeable,” Davina explained. “I just felt really bad for them because’s it’s all on the internet.”
“And bless them, but they know nothing about the internet. They just want to get on there and say ‘F**k you Susan, don’t call my daughter a bitch!’.”
“I just have to be like, ‘Mum, Dad, you need to not comment, that’s not how this works. If you comment, people are going to start attacking you.”
“And so it was really hard watching them feel so helpless.”
The MAFS star also confessed that “ignorance is bliss,” she’d rather couldn’t bring herself to watch more than three episodes of MAFS this series, it was all just too much.
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