Here’s why Madeleine wasn’t at the MAFS Australia meeting

April 29, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

If you watched the Married At First Sight Australia reunion, you may have noticed that Madeleine Maxwell was not in attendance. Here’s what we know.

THE Married at first sight Australia rThe Union blew up tonight and between Sara Mesa and Tim Calwell’s messy fight and Ellie Dix and Jono McCullough’s terrible attitude, you’d be forgiven for not noticing a cast member was missing.

Madeleine Maxwell, who experts Alessandra Rampolla, Mel Schilling and John Aiken initially linked to Ash Galati, was noticeably absent from the drama, despite her husband’s on-screen presence.

The couple had one of the shortest marriages the series has ever seen, with both leaving a week into the experiment, despite entering partway through as intruders. Their marriage was so short that some fans didn’t expect either of them to attend.

But why was Ash there and Madeleine not? Why didn’t Madeleine go to MAFS meeting? Here’s what we know.

Why wasn’t Madeleine there? MAFS meeting?

Madeleine claimed she chose not to go to the meeting, speaking to the Daily Mail Australia she said, “I chose not to go to the meeting because I didn’t feel in tune with the production itself.”

Since leaving the show, Madeleine has spoken out about how she felt misrepresented by the way she was edited into the show.

But did Madeleine really choose not to go? Or was she strongly encouraged not to attend? After all, her departure from the show was just as complicated, with sources left, right and center claiming she was fired because her mental health seemed unstable to producers.

According to So dramatic! podcast, Madeleine allegedly “asked” for permission to attend the reunion. A podcast source claimed she “called production and asked if she could attend.”

“She wanted to go… They had a conversation about her attending the Reunion under certain conditions, but Madeleine didn’t agree to their conditions, so they told her she wasn’t allowed to go.”

This source claimed the show was out to get Madeleine and went out of its way to portray her as a “crazy bat.”

The insider told the podcast: “They put an absolute number on her and made Australia think she was crazy, so that if she talks about what they actually did to her, we won’t won’t believe.”

According to Yahoo! Way of lifethey had a source who claimed the show’s producers wanted to avoid Madeleine because she had an “unpredictability” that could “derail” the two-episode reunion.

We saw examples of this “unpredictability” when Madeleine started crying after seeing cows in a field on her honeymoon, or when she began communicating with spirits during a dinner with her on-screen husband.

According to a source close to the publication, “Most people in production thought Madeleine was having a hard time handling the pressure of the experience while filming, so it was easier not to bring her back — especially for a dinner date. which was inevitably going to be intense on the part of the company.” to start.”

Whether this is true or not is difficult to confirm, but close friends of Madeleine have spoken out in her favor, saying that she was indeed invited to the Reunion.

“Madeleine was absolutely invited,” says a “friend” to So dramatic! podcast, “She had a discussion around the show and why she couldn’t attend.

Her on-screen husband, Ash, previously spoke to the Daily Mail Australia calling his lack of attendance at the meeting a “blessing in disguise.”

“I expected her to come back,” he told the newspaper. “I followed things through to the end. I had an obligation to come back to myself, to the show, to the other couples. So I did the right thing and showed up. But She did not do it.”

Ash also revealed that he has had no contact with Madeleine since filming, even blocking her number. He claimed no one else in the cast heard her or spoke to her either.

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