MAFS Australia's Sierah breaks silence on 'people who caused me harm' in damning post amid on-screen fallout

Yahoo

12-05-2025

Married at First Sight Australia's Sierah Swepstone claims she was "silenced" in the media during her time on the TV show and called out the people who "caused" her "harm" , in a series of new damning Instagram Story posts shared earlier today (12 May).
The cast of Married at First Sight Australia season 12 have had limited access to their social media accounts for the past six months while the show aired in Australia and the UK. However, earlier today, the cast were all given full control of their accounts back. And Sierah wasted no time in taking to her stories to share her MAFS Australia experience.
In her first Instagram Story she posted a picture of herself on her wedding day. She captioned it: "What I looked like at the start." She then followed this up with a picture of herself from one of the commitment ceremonies and captioned it: "vs what I looked like five weeks later."
Sierah then shared two text posts, written in black and posted on a white background, with the following statement:
"For me to look the way I did after just five weeks something had to have happened. Women don't break themselves down like that. I was silenced in the media because the truth was a liability. The people who caused me harm have controlled the narrative for long enough. I will speak soon."
She then followed this up with the final statement:
"Isolation is a recognised form of psychological abuse. It occurs when a person is deliberately distanced from their support networks - including friends, family, or sources of emotional or social support.
"This tactic is often used to increase control, create depending and reduce a persons ability to resist or seek help. In emotionally intense environments, this kind of behaviour can escalate quickly and be easily missed - especially when there's limited outside contact.
"Over time, isolation erodes confidence distorts perspective and makes it harder for the victim to recognise or escape the abuse."
Cosmopolitan UK has reached to out to E4 and Nine for comment.
Sierah was part of the original lineup of MAFS Australia season 12. She was paired with Billy Belcher. Their wedding went down very well and for the early part of the experiment it appeared as if the two were getting on and seemed happy in their marriage.
However, as the experiment continued the pair's distance grew. Sierah created a friendship with fellow groom Adrian, which made Billy feel like he couldn't trust Sierah and from there onwards the connection broke down. Sierah also struggled with the couple's lack of intimacy and questioned whether there was a romantic connection between them. The couple ended up leaving halfway through the experiment.
Sierah then returned along with the rest of the majority of the cast for the reunion episodes. During the reunion it was revealed Sierah had sent a number of unkind messages to Adrian about his wife/ex-wife Awhina and the rest of the group. Awhina brought the messages up at the dinner party, and Sierah then went onto claim Awhina had said several bad things about Adrian during her time on the show, including that he was "dumb".
Sierah went onto leave the dinner party half-way through.
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