The Most HEATED MAFS Reunion OF ALL TIME! | Married at First Sight (S17, E24) | Lifetime

But we have heard that since the cameras have gone away, this has become the most contentious cast in the history of "Married at First Sight." We have never had a season where the spouses don't sit together with their exes even. [suspenseful music] What's been going on? - I think that there was a lot that happened on camera and more so off-camera for our season. And I think for at least the ladies in pink, like, a lot of our husbands were more concerned about optics than about their marriages. And that was extremely difficult to be a part of. And so I think now since optics are still a part of the picture, there's still not trust there to move forward yet. - There seems to be a lot of tension between this side and that side. Why? - I think there's some unresolved things. - What's unresolved? - I think it's really hard having to be sitting here with people who treated you poorly and haven't taken any accountability. Some people hid. Brennan, Cam, you did, too. And they ran away from the problem. So it's just an uncomfortable situation being here, and-- - How did I run away? I think that's a direct accusation. - Yes. - I can address, right? - You can-- - Please, please, please. - How did I run away? - Right after-- - Where were you? - How did I run away? - Let me please answer the question. You ran away because after your marriage, you pulled her aside and said you're not attracted to her. So you ran away emotionally. That put her in a really vulnerable spot. - Oh, interesting. - Secondly, you physically left-- - Wait, hold on, stop. Did you pull her aside and say, I'm not attracted to you? - Absolutely not. - Yes, you did. - Yes, you did. That's why there's tension. - There's tension because there are liars, and there are truth-tellers. - Yes. - That's why there's tension. - Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. - There is so much tension because we have perpetually been lied to. Us four girls have been lied to so many times. And it's difficult in this situation because we know that nothing is actually going to be resolved from this. We just all have to know that all of us sitting here know the truth. - Also, I think there's a sense of silencing, like Brennan deleted my diary cams. It's like-- - Deleting or asking you to delete them? - What? - [whispering] It's the same. - Deleting or asking you to delete them? - It's the same thing. Like you were sitting on the bed while I'm in the bathroom, you're like, I won't go to sleep until these are deleted. Like, that is putting me in an uncomfortable position, and it's controlling. So there's a sense of silencing in addition to just straight up lying. [tense music] - Brennan, did you work to deceive this process, to change the outcome of this process by deleting things or not showing things? - No, we live private lives. We have-- - Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't live a private life on a public television show. - I mean, there's-- there's things we talk about that we want on camera, and there's things we don't and that's something we all do. None of us have been on a reality show. We were like, no idea what to expect. So we thought, let's all band together. Let's not give the producers the control to spin the narrative however they want. We're like, let's take control for ourselves and tell our story the way we wanted to. Our goals, collectively, was to get through this together in the best possible way. So when we said, let's come up with a plan, it wasn't, oh, my God, she's going to look bad, I'm going to look great, it was how do we both look great? Was it wrong? Yeah, maybe. Was it right? I don't know. But we all agreed and that was the plan, and-- - But why wasn't it about making a marriage successful rather than who looks great? - Or just being yourself. - Why are you making it seem like it's such a bad thing that we united together to come up with a plan that benefited us all? - That was a control mechanism. - OK. You guys could have said no at any point. - OK. - You guys all were like, yeah, that's great, let's go with it. And now all of a sudden, it's all of our fault. It's like you can't have your cake and eat it, too. - But why were you more concerned about strategizing with the optics? - We weren't. We were just like, how do we get through this all together? And then we-- - Get through what? - The filming. There was a production element that we're all trying to navigate. - But for us, the difference is which should have taken priority, the optics or us? Like, the strategy or the marriage? - What is the strat-- what was the strat-- - We felt it was--it was the men trying to strategize with us about how to look good, how to get an Instagram following after this, how to get a business, like, how to do whatever after this. They acted like it was a game of "Survivor." And we honestly just went in hoping for marriage. - Well, that's what I want to know. Who came to get married, and who came to actually just-- - Everyone's going to raise their hand but Orion. [laughter] - Orion, did you come into this to get married? - I did. - You believe that? - No, because on day two of our marriage, he let me know that while he was excited to find a wife, he applied for the show for selfish reasons. And the selfish reason was to highlight his community and showcase Indigenous people to the world. He told me that almost verbatim. So I was a consolation prize. ♪ - Hmm. - Oh, man, I love the lies that are going around. So I said, I've never had a platform like this before. You didn't like that. And so I said I'm sorry. Let me backtrack. You know, when I say platform, you know, it's exciting for me because, you know, you're my wife, you know, right there-- right then in that moment. And it's exciting to document all of it because it would be our story at the end. And that's what I said. ♪ - Austin, you said you came to get married. - Yeah, of course, I came to get married. I don't care about being on TV or having social media. Like that's never been a priority in my life. - Is that why you plugged in cameras to have a conversation about optics with me? - No, I plugged those in so that some of the stuff that hadn't been caught on camera when we had a disagreement could be caught on camera. - I will say this that every time this happens, when everybody plots and plans, you screw up the whole experiment. This show is thought through. The experts spent an inordinate amount of time trying to match you up with somebody who can be your partner for life. And when you try to deceive the process, you end up getting screwed. I swear to you each and every time, it is without fail. It happens all the time because everybody tries to outsmart this show that's been around for a long time. And all it's about is seeing you go through an authentic experience. That's it. And it's hard watching yourself on TV-- - On the note of outsmarting, I think it's important that we know that, like, Cameron was like the initiator of "planning" for all of this. - And I also think it's important to state that I know that their stories add up because of what Cameron said to me privately. Cameron pulled me aside at the honeymoon and said, Lauren, I know a way we can get out of this. - Did the same thing to me. And I want to speak to my experience because my experience was so off-camera. Off-camera, we were strategizing. On camera, we were executing the strategy in which you created. Yes, I went along with it. What other options did you give me? I wanted to be your wife and do right by you. And doing right by you meant following what you were-- your lead. You were the puppet-- like you were the master, I was the puppet. - Nice Freudian slip, I was the puppet. - Can I just say-- - No, no, no, no. - Hold on, let Cameron-- - You're so condescending. - Let Cameron respond, please. Let him talk. - Yeah, yeah. - Go ahead, go ahead. - Yeah, I mean, it's-- this is my first experience with being gaslit like this, like, just in general in my entire life. - Oh, my God. - OK. - They we're all going along with you and your plan. - Please take the lead, Cameron. Oh, I don't know how to do this on my own. - Yeah, because guess what? I was manipulated by you. - [sputtering laugh] - I just--hold on. I want to let him talk for a second. - So first of all, I think maybe some context is worthwhile, right? - Yeah. - Wedding night, Clare and I, we had a lengthy conversation. We talked about what we would like in a partner. I got what I wanted. She didn't. - Mm-hmm. - Right? So things are rocky day one, right? - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - But things took a turn pretty badly pretty quickly. The second night of the honeymoon, after hours of crying, Clare shared that she was in love with her boyfriend. [dramatic music] And I say boyfriend because it's my understanding that it was active. You were [bleep] someone else. [dramatic music] - You are lying. - Those are your words. - You are lying. - Those are your words. - You are making things up, Cameron. - [sputtering scoff] You told me on our honeymoon that right before our wedding, you had sex with him. And not only that, but that you were in love. Those were your words. - You are lying. - In love. - I'm not putting this past you. If he got that-- - Hold on. Hold on. OK, so hold on. Clare, was there a boyfriend-- - No. - During your marriage? - No, there was not. There was not. - Was it-- - Mm-hmm. - Right before? - It was a year. I told him. He said when was the last time you were in love? I said a year before filming. And I said things didn't work out. This is what happened. Literally the night after the wedding, he's talking on and on about how no one got what they wanted with their matches. Brennan didn't get this, Austin didn't get that, on and on. I didn't get what I wanted. And I said, hmm, what do you mean by that? And he said, well, you know, I asked Pastor Cal for someone tall and slender. And in that moment, two plus two is four. I'm not what you wanted. And maybe that was me reading between the lines, but that is offensive. Also, we shouldn't have been having a conversation about our attraction or our type day one. That should have never been a conversation brought up. Who brought that up? You did. And then on the way home from the honeymoon, he sends me a text saying, like, I know a way out of this. We can act like this never happened if you want that to be the case. - If you want? I wanted to be married to her the whole time. - If you want, why would you even ask that? - I've got this person-- I've got this person telling me that she's attracted to exactly the opposite of me. - No. - Were you attracted to him? - I was, up until-- - You were attracted to him because it seemed like-- - Literally the first time she's ever said it, literally. - I was very attracted to you. At the wedding, I was giddy, I was happy. - You've never once said that until now. - OK, OK. - Is that true? - You can believe what you want. It is true, and I told you that. - Clare tasked me with figuring out how to make-- it seemed that we are not attracted to each other in a way that makes sense. She was very scared of the-- the optics. She told me all the reasons why I can't tell the truth, and I went along with it, and-- - Sorry, that's exactly what you did to her, the exact thing that-- - Now, do you understand gaslighting? - No. - Oh, my God. - Um, so she said how are we going to get out of this? You need to come up with a plan. And I came up with our difference of religion. She straight up said I don't care about religion. I don't care about how my kids are raised. And I went along with it. We were in it together. - So what you're saying is this was never authentic. What we were-- - Ever. Never. - Seeing on that show, it was never authentic. That it was-- - It was not. And that's the saddest part of it. - The reason why I went along, we went along with it... - OK. - Was because I realized very early that my marriage wasn't going to work out, right? - Why? I wonder why. You drove me away and then you left. You self-sabotaged. - Day two? Yeah, OK. - So you're taking no responsibility for this? - I will say, when you're controlled and you want something to work, you go along with it. We came for a marriage. I thought it was a team mentality. It was me and you together. And then the second-- - But it was. - But it was all to fulfill the narrative that you wanted. - But what is my narrative? I literally have none, except to be married. - That you wanted to leave. - Yes, because I'm married to someone who hates me, who despises me. - We had to talk her out of her-- - We were friends. Why would I--why would you-- if I actually despise you, why would you say, move in? - Because I had-- - That doesn't make sense. - I had to put together all these things that ended up being lies, right? The--the-- - [whispering] Oh, jeez. - Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. - We're not going to see eye-to-eye on this. - What's it like watching all this?