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‘Married at First Sight’s Brittany Reveals Will’s Surprising Words to Her After Their Split
What To Know
- Married at First Sight‘s Brittany Moore was married to Will Bradley in Season 19.
- Brittany opened up to Swooon about Will wanting to end things before Decision Day and later changing his mind.
- Brittany talks about what led to their breakup a week later and what didn’t make it into the show.
Brittany Moore’s Decision Day went differently from the other Married at First Sight Season 19 couples. Her husband of eight weeks, Will Bradley, called her right before they were set to meet with the experts, telling her that he was going to walk away from their marriage.
The night before she got the call, Brittany was still under the impression that she and her husband were on the same page about making their marriage work. “I was not just being optimistic,” she said. “I was 100% sure because we talked about it. And so it’s not just like Brittany’s being delusional, like she’s hoping that he’ll say yes… It was a definitive yes.”
“He even said, ‘I don’t want any surprises. We know this is a yes,'” she continued. “We talked about moving in together and what the next steps are going to look like. And obviously that did not happen the way that we talked about it and the way that we had kind of planned it.”
By then, Brittany felt she had reached a point of understanding with her husband, which she struggled with in the beginning. “I just couldn’t understand what he was putting forth was just him in his own unique and Will way, and it took me a while to kind of move past that,” she said, citing their conversation with Pastor Cal and Dr. Pia as a turning point. That’s when Brittany realized she’d put walls up after their “big blow-ups.”
“We got to a point where it was like, we’re going to do this,” she said. “I said, ‘Hey, I’m going to fully be myself again, and we’re just going to see how this works. And I think we both got to a point where we were starting, like we really could understand one another, and that was easy for those feelings to continue to develop and grow into what it became.”
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She got Will’s call while she was in the process of getting ready for Decision Day, which Will ultimately still showed up to. “I said, ‘I’m just getting ready to go and get divorced,'” she recalled. “So actually, when we got to Decision Day, I went in with the mindset of, I’m not going to change his mind. Will is Will. He’s not someone whose mind you can easily change.”
Brittany figured she would take the opportunity to tell Will how she felt, even if it didn’t end with their marriage remaining intact. “I just needed to make sure that I felt good about how I felt, and I needed to make sure that I communicated that,” she said. “So that way, if he does walk away from me, while it’s going to be extremely devastating, I know that I’ve said and I’ve done everything that I possibly could.”
In the end, Brittany was shocked and relieved when Will changed his decision to a yes. The conversation they had before he got there actually lasted much longer than Episode 13 made it seem. When Will left to go on a walk, he was gone for as long as 20 minutes. At that point, a crying Brittany even told the experts, “‘This is stupid. I’m done,” thinking there was no way he’d change his mind.
She recalled Will saying that he wished they had more time. “I was like, ‘Will, you realize that you saying no, that’s it, we’re done, but you saying yes gives us more time,” she said. “Gives us more time to go to couples therapy like we talked about, it gives us more time to see how we can coexist together, or how we can exist together outside of this experience. I was really happy when he did decide to say yes because I thought that we were both going to fight for our relationship and wanted to see where it was going to go.”
Shortly after that “emotionally draining day,” Will had to leave town for a work trip, giving them no opportunity to talk about or process what had just happened fully. Still, Brittany thought that he was still totally committed to their relationship. “I was sure that he wanted to work on the relationship because even walking back, I asked him, ‘Were you secure in your no?’ And he said, ‘No, I wasn’t,'” she reflected. “And then I asked him, ‘Are you secure in your yes?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And that was all I needed.”
She felt on edge the following week while he was gone, not getting the reassurance she needed. When Will returned, Brittany recalled having an inkling that he was going to break up with her that day. “It was one of the texts that he sent me,” she pinpointed. “I was talking to him about something, and then he said, ‘Well, I’m going to make sure this never happens again.’”
Even though she’d prepared herself for the outcome, Brittany was blindsided by the manner in which he broke up with her, which was brought up during the reunion episode. “He was very cold. He said all the things he knew that would hurt me, and I just didn’t know how to process that, right?” she said. “And so, in true Brittany fashion, I tried to fight for it.”
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It wasn’t the last time they interacted. In addition to the cast getting together for a pool party that was shown at the reunion — which occurred a day after their breakup — Will and Brittany had a couple more filming obligations. During the last one, Brittany recalled emotionally telling Will that it was the last time they’d see each other. “He pulled me into an embrace. He kissed me. He said, ‘I love you.’ We are going to see each other again. Just give me two weeks,'” she said.
Brittany agreed, but when the two weeks were up, she said Will didn’t want to have a conversation with her, and he cut off all contact. During the reunion, which was filmed a year and a half later, Brittany said that she wrote him a letter in a “Hail Mary attempt” a few days later. Will said that he never read it, which was news to Brittany.
Even though Brittany’s Married at First Sight journey didn’t end the way she wanted it to, her stance on marriage and what she wants out of a relationship is the same. “I envision being married to my best friend. I envision being married to my lifelong partner. I envision being married to my partner in Christ because my religion and my faith are extremely important to me,” she said.
Brittany explained that the show didn’t include a major point of contention between herself and Will: religion. “As Will eloquently described it to my family in so many words, he’s not religious,” she said, calling back to a conversation during their wedding reception. “Whereas for me, that is my foundation, that is my core of who I am. And so when I found out that he wasn’t religious literally the second day, I guess something in my spirit just knew, like it wasn’t going to work, but whatever.”
She’s also been on dates between the show ending and the reunion. “I’ve been putting myself out there, but I keep saying I can’t afford to get it wrong again, and so I’m very particular and picky, and I am just waiting for God to say, ‘Yeah, that’s the one.’ But until then, I’m just chilling.”
“I cried during the entire experience, the most that I probably ever cried in my entire life,” Brittany added. “So I’m just tired, and I just want to have fun, and when my person comes, they’ll come, and then we’ll ride off into the sunset together.”
Married at First Sight, Season 19, Streaming Now, Peacock
