After hitting out at the show that gave her her 15 minutes of fame, Married At First Sight star Poppy Jennings has taken aim once again – this time at the show’s expert Dr Trisha Stratford in an odd video.
Mimicking the New Zealander, the 38-year-old said on Instagram: “Hello everyone, it’s Trish here once again.
“You might be aware that MAFS is coming to an end tonight. This may be very difficult news for some people to deal with considering they were using the program to help them get to sleep every night due to the fact it was extremely boring.
“Might I suggest, in replacement of the show, taking up a small drug habit.
“I find that Valium may help, but you might want to consult your doctor, or an expert, as it may decrease your levels of intimacy.”
The bizarre clip comes after Poppy revealed that she was exploring her legal options after claiming Channel 9 and production company Endemol Shine ignored her feelings about being uncomfortable while filming the show.
“This is going further,” the mum-of-twins told The Daily Telegraph this week, before opening up further about what went on during filming.
“I feel like I’m empowered by the fact that I have spoken up and I’m not going to back down because things happened and I admitted things on camera.
“It was two occasions, there was the night that I left which is why I was crying and there was the girls’ night that I got brought back to where I was taken out of and I said it there too. So the footage speaks volumes about what actually happened.”
Viewers were perplexed when Poppy dumped husband Luke Eglin, citing “missing her kids” as the reason when she was interviewed on camera.
However she told The Sunday Telegraph that her life has been “hell” since departing the hit reality-TV show, and there was more to the story than had been broadcast.
“I left the show because I was incredibly uncomfortable with some things that unfolded,” she said.
“The official explanation was that we are not here to make you look bad, we are just going to play on the fact you miss your kids, we have never had that storyline before.
“When you can’t tell the truth about something, you’re obviously going to have to say something. So I am there saying: ‘My kids, my kids, my kids’. The truth was never going to be played.”
Poppy also says she told the FIFO worker that she felt uncomfortable during filming, but failed to reveal more details.
“He said: ‘Oh, I’m really sorry’ and so I thought it must have been an accident,” she said.
“I am not a person who is easily intimidated. But I felt like once again I was being made to feel like I was making a big deal out of nothing,” she said.
“When people are telling you something is not a big deal, you start to believe that it is not.”
The publication also obtained text messages Poppy sent to family members which show exactly how she was feeling at the time.
“I’m pretty traumatised to be honest,” read one of the text messages.
The mother-of-two has since revealed that the entire experience has left her feeling horrible.
“When I got home from filming I didn’t get out of bed for three days,” she revealed.
“My mum had to come over here and look after my kids.”
“I have had a particularly hard time with it because I didn’t get a chance to speak the truth of why I was so uncomfortable and so cold on that show.
“People, have written to me. ‘f … you and your shitty white kids. I will stab them.”
Rumours have been swirling for days around the real reason for Poppy’s swift exit.
She tore into her MAFS husband in an unexpected Facebook rant, where she accused Luke of doing something that she was banned from discussing by the production company.
“Producers told me Australia was going to f**king hate me,” she claimed at the time, and added that father-of-two Luke was “fake on camera and a complete dick behind the scenes. It was infuriating.”
She then claimed that Luke made her feel “uncomfortable”, and said his tears on the episode after she left the experiment were not over the marriage ending.
“Why is Luke crying when I left? What really happened that he was crying over? You don’t know because I wasn’t allowed to say!
“It’s not what you see, it’s what you don’t see! Go and ask Luke.”
Luke has kept low key on everything surrounding the drama.
“I am not going to make any comments because, honestly, the best way to react is not to react,” he recently told the Daily Telegraph.
He added: “To be honest, Poppy is a good person and the best of luck to her. I am not going to comment on anything because it is not worth it, it really isn’t.
“Honestly, she just needs to move on like I have and that is it. We are finished on the show and that is as far as it goes.”
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