If you thought the Married At First Sight (MAFS) Dinner Parties would simmer down without Brook Crompton in the experiment, this week’s episode proved otherwise.
Bec Zacharia was on a Real Housewives-style warpath, determined to confront her fellow participants about their wrongdoings and prove that her frenemy Gia Fleur was a liar. From conversations with Filip Gregov about his misbehaviour at the Cocktail Party to accusations against Julia Vogl at the dinner table, her wild antics took over the entire episode and left viewers horrified.
While Bec has since owned up to her “disgusting” actions and admitted that she only attacked others to deflect from the issues in her own relationship with Danny Hewitt, she told PEDESTRIAN.TV the spotlight wasn’t entirely on her during filming.
What MAFS didn’t show from the Dinner Party
She revealed there were actually three major Dinner Party moments that were completely axed from the episode, which, surprisingly, had little to do with her.
“Mel and Luke had a massive argument at that dinner table that night that wasn’t aired, Julia and Grayson had a huge argument that night at the dinner table that wasn’t aired, and Sam and Chris really popped off at Tyson that wasn’t aired,” she detailed.
“It wasn’t just me attacking everyone at a dinner table. There were other things going on, but I understand why the narrative has to be, ‘Bec loses her marbles with everyone, and she’s a villain, and she’s awful, and she’s disgusting’, and that’s fine. I agree with it.”
The episode made it clear there were cracks in Bec and Danny’s relationship as he seemingly refused to sit next to her and told her not to tell him what to do. However, Bec said he actually came to her defence when one of the grooms began yelling at her in another unseen moment.
“Danny stood up for me against Grayson when Grayson sort of yelled at me at one point. He said, ‘Don’t speak to my wife like that’, which was kind,” she recalled.
“There were other things that happened, but they didn’t air because it was me who acted so badly that night, so the focus was on me.”
Bec takes full accountability
Unlike other MAFS participants who have blamed their outbursts on alcohol, lack of sleep or the show’s producers, Bec said she takes full responsibility for her actions that night.
“I should never have gone into that dinner party in that state thinking, ‘deflect, deflect, deflect, deflect, make everyone else’s relationship look shit so no one talks to you’,” she said.
“I should have walked into that dinner party and gathered the women who were my friends, and said to them, ‘I am in such a bad way, my mental health is at an all-time low, I don’t know what to do, I don’t know how to handle this, help me’. And they would have.”
She also asserted that viewers will never again see that side of her, which she described as “unhinged and problematic”.
“That was the ugliest part of me. Obviously, I say it how it is, and sometimes I speak before I think, but I don’t think you’ll ever see me in that bad of a state again,” she declared.
Well, let’s hope she stays true to her word and next week’s Dinner Party doesn’t involve any aggressive finger pointing, yelling across the table and wild text receipts. But if it does, someone get Bec on The Real Housewives of Adelaide stat.
