Married At First Sight bride Beth Kelly has taken aim at groom Teejay Halkias after their disastrous Homestays in Brisbane on Tuesday night.
While inviting each other over to their family homes, the reality TV star discovered her husband ‘couldn’t see a future’ with her and considered her just a ‘friend’.
Blindsided by the revelation, Beth has now accused Teejay of ‘leading her on’ her to stay on the Nine show.
‘It felt so embarrassing because my parents could see he wasn’t into me,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
‘And then in front of his friends the next day, he sits there and says he doesn’t see this progressing and doesn’t see a future with me. It hurts so much.
‘I just felt really disrespected and so blindsided. It really hurt my feelings.’
When asked directly if she felt Teejay had been gaslighting her into believing they had a connection up until that point, she agreed.
‘Yeah, now I look back, there were quite a few moments where I kind of felt like he maybe wasn’t into me, but I just ignored it,’ she said.
‘He was really good at saying the right things, but sometimes his actions would prove otherwise.
‘I kind of just swept it all under the rug. I should have really woken up and realised what the f*** was going on.
‘Just coming to Homestays, to me was a big deal. If he wasn’t feeling me before it, I don’t know why he came. It didn’t make any sense to me.’
Beth went on to say Teejay ‘played’ her and just ‘wanted to stay as long as he could’.
‘He went from this really nice guy I had so much fun with to being just so cold and it hurt. It was really upsetting,’ she said.
‘I just feel like, yeah, he kind of dragged me through the mud to try and maybe stay in the experiment as long as he could.’
‘I honestly feel like he came to Homestays because he kind of played along the whole time and he needed to come up with a reason [to blame Beth],’ she added.
However, Teejay appeared to have a different view of the way things went down between he and Beth on the show.
The business development manager told Daily Mail Australia no one was at fault for the argument he and Beth got into during Homestays.
The couple got into a spat after Teejay told his friends he ‘didn’t see a future’ with Beth, despite having sex with her just days before.
Teejay explained he felt pressured after being questioned by Beth’s family about his feelings and decided to be honest about what he felt for her.
‘I don’t necessarily think anything went wrong per se. There’s nothing that either one of us distinctively did,’ he said.
‘I just don’t think in the moment that my romantic feelings were growing and I was met with a lot of definite questions, like if it ends tomorrow, what would happen?
‘And yeah, it kind of just brought that up and that’s how I felt at the moment, and that’s how I explained it.’
As for the accusations Beth made about him only leading her on so he could make it to Final Vows, Teejay said that couldn’t be further from the truth.
‘Definitely was not trying to get to the finish line. I think you have to play it day by day in this experiment, and that’s what we’re there to do,’ he said.
‘We’re there to try and give it a go and that’s what I was doing the entire time, was giving it a go.
‘When I felt like my feelings couldn’t pass a certain point, I told Beth. Was it a s*** situation? Absolutely.’
Teejay went on to say it was ‘tough’ to break the news about his lack of feelings to Beth.
‘You know they’re not gonna like it, that they’re gonna be hurt by that. I never went into this experiment wanting to hurt anyone, let alone my wife,’ he said.
‘That was tough for me to do that as well. That wasn’t an easy situation. It wasn’t an easy conversation.’
Married At First Sight will continue on Wednesday at 7.30pm on Nine and 9Now.