Married At First Sight finale: Melissa Rawson walks out on Bryce Ruthven

Married At First Sight’s Melissa Rawson will lastly stand as much as her gaslighting husband Bryce Ruthven throughout finale week.

A trailer for subsequent week’s episodes hints that the office coach, 31, will realise how Bryce has been manipulating her and give up the present.

The promo reveals Melissa packing her baggage and storming by means of the underground automotive park of the Skye Suites Sydney condo complicated the place MAFS was filmed.

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She has a decided look on her face as she climbs right into a taxi and is pushed away.

In a uncommon act of defiance towards her controlling partner, she says: ‘I am truly over it!’

Later within the trailer, Melissa tells the connection consultants on the final dedication ceremony: ‘We’re a sinking ship at this level.’

In the meantime, radio announcer Bryce, 31, seems stressed-out as he throws his fingers up in despair throughout his counselling session.

Their falling-out might stem from the occasions of Wednesday’s episode, when co-star Alana Lister claimed Bryce had informed her husband Jason Engler he could be ‘single’ by the tip of the experiment as a result of he wasn’t feeling a reference to Melissa.

Whereas the trailer hints it is the tip of the highway for the couple, Melissa and Bryce have confirmed they’re in truth nonetheless collectively.

Evidently, they have been in a position to transfer previous no matter disaster they went by means of through the closing weeks of the experiment, which was filmed late final 12 months.

The couple did a number of interviews in Sydney on Wednesday, and completed off their day by attending an occasion hosted by Nova FM’s Fitzy and Wippa.

On Monday, a Change.org petition started circulating that demanded Channel 9 challenge an apology for airing ‘triggering’ scenes involving Bryce and Melissa.

The petition, which acquired 2,500 signatures in below 24 hours, can be calling for 9 to acknowledge its alleged ‘failure of obligation of care’ in direction of Melissa.

‘This season of Married at First Sight Australia contains a couple, Melissa and Bryce, who painting an extreme quantity of [troubling] indicators which aren’t being dealt with by the community appropriately,’ the petition states.

‘There’s a clear failure of obligation of care to Melissa throughout filming of the present, permitting her to stay in a poisonous and harmful atmosphere together with her companion for the “profit” of the community.’

‘She is being topic to gaslighting, emotional manipulation, isolation, and numerous different textbook indicators of a controlling relationship,’ the petition goes on to say, including that the scenes are ‘extremely triggering and anxious to look at’. 

It continues: ‘This petition is for the 9 Community to acknowledge and apologise for letting Melissa undergo this and likewise airing such a horrible relationship on TV with out doing something to showcase that the connection is clearly not wholesome.’

In the meantime, Married At First Sight might be investigated by media watchdog ACMA after attracting 14 complaints this season, with 4 of these have been about Bryce and Melissa particularly.

Related outrage has exploded on Twitter, the place many viewers are calling for the present to be cancelled or boycotted over its depiction of poisonous relationships.

Bryce and Melissa’s ‘marriage’ has additionally been a contentious challenge for the present’s different {couples}, who largely disapprove of the connection. 

On Sunday’s episode of Married At First Sight, Bryce humiliated his bride on the dedication ceremony by revealing he’d initially voted to depart the experiment, earlier than in the end deciding to remain.

Bryce later defended writing depart, saying he did not wish to break up with Melissa however as an alternative wished the couple to exit the ‘poisonous atmosphere’ of the experiment.

The opposite {couples} lashed out at him, citing a string of incidents during which he repeatedly confirmed disregard for Melissa’s emotions.  

Bryce tried to justify his behaviour in a prolonged submit on Instagram on Sunday.

‘Folks will not agree with what I’ve finished on the dedication ceremony saying I did not put my companion’s emotions first BUT I used to be elevating the difficulty that bullying just isn’t OK in any stroll of life,’ he wrote.

‘It was a tricky choice to proceed within the experiment given what we have been going by means of, however in the long run, the objective of discovering love with somebody will at all times win.’