Shona says she and Brad were together for six weeks after MAFS but split as he didn’t change
‘I woke the hell up’
Following them being removed from MAFS UK 2023, many people have been questioning if Shona and Brad tried to make it work outside of the experiment, and what happened to make them split.
We saw Brad and Shona advised by the dating experts on Married at First Sight to leave the show, and Paul C Brunson came under fire when viewers said he appeared to encourage the couple to try again, despite Brad’s controlling behaviour. Paul clapped back saying they told the couple to get help, but Shona has now confirmed they did give things a second try.
Whilst Brad and Shona had previously not said anything about their split following MAFS, it was clear they had, as Brad has been posting with a new girlfriend since the show. Now, speaking on the It’s Not You, It’s Them…But It Might Be You podcast, Shona has clarified what happened when they left the show and eventually broke up.
She said he promised: “I love you, I love you. I love you. I’ll be different on the outside. So I gave him the benefit of the doubt.” But she explained they broke up after five to six weeks, when Brad didn’t change his behaviour.
“We stayed together on the outside for, I think, about five to six weeks and the same behaviour continued,” she said. “He was exactly the same person. It was the listing, it was the harsh criticism, it was belittling me, like making me feel so small and questioning myself.
“And it got to the point where I just doubted, like my every word, like constantly, like gaslighting me and asking me questions and then being like ‘mm-hmm, okay’, and then later on bringing it up and being like, ‘oh yeah, you know, earlier I just didn’t agree with anything that you said and this is why’.
“I just I felt like he was constantly going in on me and then one day I was thinking, ‘Shona, everything in your body is saying that this is wrong, like why, why are you still with this person?’ And then he called me one day and he just said, like ‘the way I feel about you is so mental, it’s so crazy, but like I don’t love you, I just lust you and I think you’re really sexy and I think it’s physical for me, but like I still want to be with you’ and I was like what? I just woke the hell up.”