MAFS AU: Alyssa Barmonde flees Australia for Hawaii following villain edit
Married At First Sight’s Alyssa Barmonde flees Australia to Hawaii after backlash over editing villains
Married At First Sight star Alyssa Barmonde has fled Australia after she ‘coincidentally’ lost her job amid the fallout from her ‘rogue operation’.
The 35-year-old single mom took to her Instagram on Monday to share a photo from her vacation in Hawaii with two friends.
“Aloha,” she wrote alongside the hashtags #fledtohawaii #everyotherweekend.
A photo shared by her friend shows Alyssa dressed to the nines in a black and white floral print dress posing with two friends.
Another shows her sipping what appears to be an alcoholic beverage over breakfast, while dressed in a colorful dress.
Married At First Sight star Alyssa Barmonde (centre) has fled Australia after she ‘coincidentally’ lost her job amid the fallout from her ‘rogue operation’. In the picture with friends, left and right
Another shows her sipping what appears to be an alcoholic drink over breakfast, while dressed in a colorful dress
It comes after a source close to Barmonde told Daily Mail Australia that the baker was planning to travel abroad because she has been ‘unhappy since the show aired’ and just had to relax.
She really just wants to move on and forget she was ever on the show. It’s been completely unfair. What we saw on television was not her,” the source said.
It comes after Alyssa was fired from her job as an executive assistant for a Sydney company – a position she held for seven years.
It comes after a source close to Barmonde told Daily Mail Australia that the baker was planning a trip abroad because she had been ‘unhappy since the show aired’
Speak against The Daily Telegraph last month, Alyssa pointed to the “coincidence” that she was fired two weeks after the broadcast of the MAFS final.
During the second half of the season, she was portrayed negatively, with edited scenes focusing on her emotional outbursts, abuse from husband Duncan James, and constantly using “I have a child” as an excuse for her bad behavior.
However, the ex-Mormon insists this depiction was one-sided and unfair, arguing that many of her clashes with Duncan, from whom she split at final vows, lacked proper on-screen context.
Alyssa, an ex-Mormon, insists her portrayal was one-sided and unfair, adding that many of her clashes with husband Duncan James (left) lacked proper on-screen context
She confessed that she had been going through a “really dark… couple of months” while the show was airing and that she had to stop watching after the couples’ retreat because “I could see what the montage was.”
Alyssa revealed she was harassed by viewers who tracked down her mobile number and business accounts and received “the meanest messages.”
She asked Channel Nine’s publicity department to give her access to her Instagram account so she could contest the story of the show’s editing, but they denied the request until the season has aired in the UK.
Highly edited scenes focused on her emotional outbursts, abuse of husband Duncan, and constant use of “I have a child” as an excuse for her bad behavior
“They’re protecting the show and the story they’ve created, rather than letting me have my own voice,” she claimed.
Alyssa feels hurt and betrayed by producers after watching the series and seeing all the problems in her relationship with Duncan due to her single parent status.
She is assisted by her therapist, whom she has been seeing for 20 years, for sessions three times a week, and has “upped” the dosage of her anxiety medication.
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Alyssa has been supported by her therapist, whom she has been seeing for 20 years, for sessions three times a week, and has ‘upped’ the dosage of her anxiety medication