MAFS bride Melissa pulled out of wedding with groom who has STD
Married at First Sight Australia star Melissa Sheppard revealed she dropped out of a previous season of the show after learning that her match had an STD.
In an interview with Yahoo Lifestyle, Melissa explained that she had been cast on an earlier season but left after finding out news about the groom's health 10 days before their wedding was to take place.
"When you start doing the auditions for being a part of the series, you go through tests and personality type tests and STD checks and health checks, which is great," she said.
"Unfortunately, my partner's test results had come back with a few things that weren't right for him, which I felt so terrible for, and they had to make me aware of it."
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Going on to share that her match had been diagnosed with an "incurable STD", Melissa said she decided against going ahead with the wedding, despite being asked to by the producers.
"I think it's the hardest thing when someone comes to you saying, 'Hey, I've got this STD that's not curable'," she said.
"It's not something that you can take a tablet and go away, it's something that he has to manage for the rest of his life. It's not like you meet someone out and you have a chance to get to know them and go, 'Hey, I really like you, I've got a disclaimer, I've got XYZ'."
"That's not the version of the story," she added. "The version of the story is you're meeting a stranger to sleep next to and build a relationship with that you know nothing about... It just was something that I wasn't comfortable with."
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Melissa ultimately appeared on season 10 of MAFS Australia, and was matched with Josh White during the experiment.
However, the pair did not make it to the final vows, opting to go their separate ways at one of the commitment ceremonies.
Married at First Sight UK airs on E4 in the UK. Married at First Sight Australia airs on Nine Network in Australia and E4 in the UK.
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