MAFS bride Domenica: Why her first marriage failed

Publish date: 2024-06-06

Married At First Sight bride Domenica Calarco opened up about the failure of her first marriage in a newly-unearthed audition tape for the reality show.

Domenica, 28, reveals in the tape published by Nine that she was in a relationship with her ex for over three years – but they split after just two months of marriage.

But she said despite the abrupt post-marriage split, the decision to leave was not a sudden one.

“It wasn’t like I woke up one morning and was like, ‘OK, this is it, I’m out,’ it was … lingering,” she said.

“And then I was just like, ‘I can’t spend my life with this person.’”

Domenica explained that the decision to walk away from the marriage had “hit her hard.”

“I take that s**t seriously. For me to be like, ‘I can’t do this with this person,’ It was a very big deal.”

And the reality TV star also gave some insight into her decision to apply for Married At First Sight, insisting she was eager to settle down and find love.

“I saw myself by age 28 being pregnant, buying a house … that’s what I’ve always wanted. My parents have been married for 32 years, and I’m the first one in my family to get a divorce.”

Elsewhere in the audition tape, Domenica made one statement that’s turned out to be prophetic this week: “Drama always follows me in my life.”

She wasn’t wrong – as this season of MAFS enters its final weeks, she’s been at the centre of a nude photo “scandal” after fellow bride Olivia Frazer unearthed a photo from her OnlyFans account and distributed it among other contestants on the show.

But the move backfired on Olivia, who’s faced a wave of backlash over her attempt to shame Domenica for the pic.

Reality TV veteran Abbie Chatfield this week dubbed Olivia’s behaviour “manipulative”.

“You see shame in OnlyFans, and you see shame in naked bodies, and you are choosing this very manipulative and very disgusting way to try and subtly shame her because you think – and unfortunately, you were right – the whole group would turn against her after seeing this,” Chatfield said.

Domenica also spoke out about the scandal, saying the circulation of her naked photo was “disgraceful” and that she will “not forgive” the group for turning against her.

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An unsuspecting Domenica and her on-screen husband Jack Millar were blindsided when it was brought up on the show, as members of the cast tried to shift the blame onto Domenica for taking the photo in the first place.

“Sourcing an image and then circulating it to a group of people, that to me shows intent and malice. And if she [Olivia] can’t see that, I don’t know what the hell is wrong with her,” she said.

“The way I saw it, and the way I still see it to this day, is that it was done 100 per cent to cause me pain and to cause tension between Jack and I’s relationship.”

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