The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Ngatikaura revealed husband Jordan Ngatikaura blackmailed her over her affair — which got here as a shock to Marciano Brunette.
“It’s not one thing I used to be conscious of,” Marciano, 32, solely instructed Us Weekly concerning the revelation Jessi made. “It was information to me.”
Marciano additionally clarified his current declare that Jordan, 30, accused them of getting a second affair earlier this yr, telling Us, “That was in Might — proper earlier than season 2 was popping out. … I feel my brother will probably be buddies with Jordan, however I don’t find out about me. Time heals all, so possibly?”
The Vanderpump Villa star acknowledged that he could be “very triggering” for Jordan after Marciano’s emotional affair with Jessi, 33.
“It’s at all times going to be salt within the wound for him. If he’s prepared to beat it then I feel he is aware of I’m open to it. As a result of I’ve instructed him that he’s a extremely good dude,” Marciano famous. “No less than to me, he’s a very nice man. I like him loads.”
He concluded: “So I by no means say by no means. I’ve come to phrases with it however I hope [we can mend things]. I would love to as a result of all of the DadTok guys are superior.”
Hulu viewers noticed Marciano and Jessi confess to their emotional affair throughout season 3 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. After the episodes aired in November, Jessi revealed she wasn’t separated from Jordan when he came upon about Marciano.
“The rationale I left was as a result of we had been coping with the affair for about six months behind closed doorways. Nobody knew. Throughout these six months, it bought worse than it ever had. He was blackmailing me. He was threatening to ship my texts out to Marciano to the world,” she claimed on “The Viall Information” podcast, noting that it was addressed on the present however didn’t make the ultimate edit. “Anytime I did something he didn’t agree with, he had it on his TikTok drafts and he was like, ‘I’m going to submit it.’”
Jessi continued: “It was so poisonous. I bear in mind the day I left him, it bought to a degree the place he was recording me and he’s taunting me and I used to be chasing him round the home. We had been simply screaming at one another. It was so unhealthy.”
Jessi confirmed she was nonetheless residing with Jordan when her affair with Marciano started.
Jessi Ngatikaura’s marriage to Jordan Ngatikaura made headlines after she admitted on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives that she had an affair with Marciano Brunette. The couple began courting and bought married earlier than the hit Hulu sequence premiered in September 2024. In the course of the first season, Jessi’s private life wasn’t within the highlight, however that each one […]
“When me and Jordan had been coping with this alone, he stated to me, ‘If anybody ever finds out, we have to say we had been separated as a result of then it’s much less of an enormous deal.’ I remembered Jordan telling me that’s how he needed me to deal with this if anybody came upon,” she recalled. “He ended up saying, ‘If that is going to come back out, we’ve to inform the reality.’”
In his personal tell-all, Jordan addressed his perspective. “I truly by no means meant it. It was simply to cry for assist,” he claimed. “Damage folks, harm folks. I used to be actually simply attempting to love, ‘Be sorry for what you probably did. Be sorry [and] love me. I’m anxious over right here. Give me one thing.’”
Marciano, in the meantime, weighed in on each Jessi and Jordan’s claims about their points.
“While you’re instructed one thing, clearly I used to be very sympathetic to Jessi. However seeing it’s means completely different,” he instructed Us. “I feel simply seeing all of it typically, I used to be like, ‘Oh, now I can actually perceive what you guys had been going by.’ It’s a extremely troublesome scenario and it was robust to observe. I felt like I clearly performed an enormous hand and never making it look good for both of them. Therefore why I’ve since stated I stay with remorse by doing that.”
