- Hi. - What's up?
- All right. Today's the big day.
[dramatic music]
- It should be an interesting time.
♪ ♪
- Are things gonna get wild?
- All right, folks. Let's get ready to walk.
- [bleep].
♪ ♪
- The entire Nashville cast is back.
Let's have energy and fun. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And they're ready to reveal everything behind
their shocking season.
- Should I have brought my boxing gloves today?
- Tonight they'll answer the difficult questions.
- Like, we've become even closer.
- Is there a chance that this could ever come back around?
- That's the burning question.
- Do you regret that decision?
- I was ready to make him regret his words.
- Is this, like, a little violation of the bro code?
- I mean, it could have happened.
- What was going through your head?
- Listen...
- Nothing is off-limits, as they confront the past...
I mean, you just dumped the dude.
And each other.
- He should've had my back.
- I agree, and I think-- - Well, then don't defend him.
♪ ♪
- I always wanted to slap Airris upside the head.
- You won't believe what's happened
since the cameras went away.
In this time period, have you been dating at all?
- We're clearly both attracted to each other.
- We'll share exclusive never-before-seen footage
from the Nashville season.
- I would really be down for an open marriage.
- [scoffs] Wow, Airris.
- It's an emotional two-part reunion
that you don't want to miss.
- [sniffles] It's just hard.
- I feel like I didn't get what I deserved.
- I wanted to fall in love with Kirsten.
♪ ♪
- This is a lot for me right now.
- ♪ Right here, right now ♪
- Everybody ready? This is it.
And it all starts right now.
This is your time. This is your place.
This is your forum. All right, here we go.
- ♪ Right here, right now, right here, right now ♪
This is the "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
♪ ♪
Good evening, everyone.
I'm Kevin Frazier, and tonight
is the "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
Nashville was a wild ride from the beginning to end,
and we are diving into it all right now.
As you can see, I have the entire cast
out onstage with me right now.
Everybody looks great. You dressed for the occasion.
Ladies look fantastic, right, gentlemen?
- Yes. - Oh, yeah.
- And the gentlemen look good, too.
Okay, so everybody ready?
all: Yeah.
- Born ready. - Born ready.
Okay, so how was it going from being a private citizen to
all of a sudden being someone who is seen on television
and your love life being commented on?
- It's such a weird feeling, because, you know,
people will approach us and share their opinions
on our relationship.
And now I know what it feels like
to have other people in your business
when you don't like it and...
[laughter]
you know, I got a taste of my medicine.
- It's definitely an adjustment.
I think I was a little surprised
to be stopped, like, not only in Nashville,
but just in different cities that I've traveled to.
- Typically, whenever I'm hosting open houses,
it always catches me off guard,
because people come in-- [gasps] "I know you.
You're Kirsten, and you're married to Shaquille."
And I'm like, well, do you want to buy this house?
'Cause I need some money. [laughter]
- Okay, so how are your DMs doing?
Dom, how about you? - Uh...
more unhappy people with me than happy people,
but, you know...
- You didn't get any offers, huh?
- Oh, I've gotten some crazy offers.
- Like?
- Moreso people wanting cleavage pics
to send me money. - Oh, wow.
- Whoa. - Jeez.
- What? Y'all! [laughter]
Come on, y'all. - [clears throat]
- Jasmine, I heard that people are suggesting
you date someone from a previous season.
- Oh, gosh, yes.
Everyone seems to think that my perfect match is Gil.
- Really? - Yes.
So, like, they'll send me a message and be like
"Gil is your match. When y'all get married,
send me an invite to the wedding."
- Oh, really? - Yeah.
- Everybody's feeling Gil out there, right?
- I guess. - Okay.
Dom, you talked to Gil, though.
You had a chance to talk to Gil.
- Yeah. - Yeah, how--
- We're pretty good friends now, actually.
- Gil's the party, isn't he?
He's a fun guy, right? - Oh, solid guy, very funny.
- Yeah, yeah, a lot of fun. Now hold on.
Clint, you now live in the same building as Nicole?
- As Nicole and Chris, yep. - Yeah.
- So I've become the second-husband role.
- Yes. - Oh, really?
Really? - Yeah, yeah.
- Clint gets to hang out at the dog park
when I'm there without Chris, so...
I get the best of both worlds.
- Clint's a phenomenal cook,
so he's made us some good treats,
like some bread and things like that.
- What doesn't Clint do? That's what I want to know.
Clint, what don't you do? - I don't know.
And if somebody finds out, I want to do it.
[laughter]
- All right, Mac, you are the odd man out
'cause you moved, right?
- Yep, back in Michigan.
Took a new job up there, got a new place.
Life's good. - You got a house now, right?
- I do. - Yes, okay.
You're not living in anybody's basement, you know.
- Nope, I got my own basement now.
- Yeah, one of the big topics of this season for you was
the possibility that you could move.
- Yep. - And you moved.
- I did.
- So do you think-- you think that validates
one of the big concerns of this season?
- You know, going into it,
my intent was to stay in Nashville.
I figured with everything that had happened,
it was time to move on and go back to Michigan.
- Dom, were you surprised?
- No, I was not surprised. I had a feeling.
- Um, Dom, you've gotten a puppy.
- Yes. Cutest little dog.
- Mac, you were a little annoyed
when you found out that Dom had gotten a dog
because she was so reluctant during your relationship
to have dogs around. - Yeah.
It real--at the time, it hurt my feelings.
And I responded out of anger, I think,
which you'll see in this next clip.
- Let's watch. Thank you for setting that up.
Let's watch. - Oh!
- Should I have brought my boxing gloves today?
- [chuckles]
- How's that pup? - How's that puppy?
- Uh, he's doing great.
Um, the only love I need in my life, so that's wonderful.
- Oh, my God. Dom got a dog.
Like, you gotta be kidding me.
Mind you, Dom is 25, works 9:00 to 5:00,
wants to travel, loves to party on the weekends.
I feel absolutely sad for that poor dog.
I'm not surprised, though, either.
It sounds like an immature thing Dom would do.
♪ ♪
- Hmm.
- Yikes. - [laughs]
- Those things that I said,
I knew they would hurt your feelings
and that's--I feel like I was so angry about it
that I just took the lowest blows I could at you,
which wasn't right, it was wrong.
- I mean, but you had got a house and when you told me,
I said, "congratulations," you know?
- I know. That's what-- that's what I'm saying.
I was in the wrong here.
- Yeah. - Hmm.
♪ ♪
Okay, so let's switch gears for a second.
Let's go to a moment that was one of
the most talked-about moments of the season
and something that brought
a lot of controversy to the group.
Clint, I'm referring to that "slender" comment
that you made on the honeymoon.
Just to give everybody a little bit of a refresher,
watch this. - Here we go.
Typically, the girls that I have dated are
very athletic, slender.
So, I mean, that's just the type of mold
that I'm attracted to.
♪ ♪
- I was just pretty offended... [chuckles]
By the comment about the weight thing.
♪ ♪
- I was just defining past relationships
and who I typically gravitate to.
So... - Well, if you feel no...
you feel like you've said nothing wrong,
I honestly don't think there's anything left to say
in this conversation.
♪ ♪
- Boy, a lot to unpack. - Yikes.
- We were all just getting to know each other,
and this very awkward comment came out.
I called Clint a dick.
I was ready to make him regret his words.
- Mm-hmm. - I mean, I heard, like,
a direct comment about my weight.
I know we had had previous conversations
about, like, different physical characteristics.
But for me, I think weight just hit more accusatory.
Like, this guy doesn't know how often I work out.
Like, "who is he to say that at the time" is what I thought.
- I went through, like, a 40-minute apology.
I really did feel bad.
I'm like, I don't want anybody to feel like
I'm, like, body-shaming them in any manner.
That's not what I'm talking about.
All I wanted to really convey was
we both have a difference
of who we're normally attracted to.
- With this whole process, I think all of us were just
overly honest and overly open about things.
And so, I mean, even myself,
I was guilty of saying something that I regretted.
I mean, on wedding day, I definitely--
you know, I was very attracted to her.
I thought she was very beautiful.
But, typically, you know, she's a little thicker
than I normally go for, but not in a bad way.
I mean, you're just overly honest with this process.
And I think that kind of... - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Is a problem sometimes because
you don't know where that line is.
And sometimes you say things in a way you don't mean.
- All right. Let's move on.
Want to talk about Airris's cousin Fallina
who really stunned the audience
with her bold opinions about Jasmine.
- My picker is off when it comes to me
picking my men and my relationships.
- She comes from the pageant world.
You know, the pageant life.
I mean, she's ready for a question.
Like, every time you ask her something,
she has a well-planned-out answer on the spot.
- The breakup is just the time stamp.
But mentally, physically, emotionally,
you have broken up before you actually break up.
- Oh, you are a pageant sister.
- Okay. - She's ready.
♪ ♪
- So we got a housewarming coming up.
We gonna invite you.
- I'm not coming. - [laughs]
- [sighs] Jasmine seems fake to me.
- Now, let's take a look at
this never-before-seen conversation
between Airris and Jasmine. Let's watch.
- I feel like you're almost, like, intimidated by her.
When you came back from the brunch,
you looked like you worked, like, a 16-hour shift.
- I felt attacked.
Like, I felt like my character was in question.
I felt like she called me fake.
I have enough going on. I just married a stranger.
So if I feel like somebody ain't rocking with me,
I don't want to be around them.
- I like, like, strong people,
people who can, like, you know, hold their own.
♪ ♪
- What do you think of that moment?
- I definitely feel like Airris should have
been there on Jasmine's side. That is his wife.
- Yeah, just because Jasmine is eloquently spoken
doesn't necessarily mean that's fake, right?
Like, I think it takes a strong woman to set a boundary
more than it does to create any type of animosity
if she knows that it's gonna be a toxic environment.
- I felt like at some point, you should have, like,
been putting your foot down and said like,
"No, this has to stop. This is my wife.
"We are married. What's done is done.
Like, get with it, or be gone."
- Jasmine, did you feel unsupported?
- Yeah.
I just don't understand how me saying
I don't want to be around her, she don't rock with me,
I don't feel like that shows weakness.
That's me telling you, "don't bring her around me."
- To defend Airris, though...
- Uh-huh. - Airris is conflicted.
He has his new wife, and he has a family member,
and they're butting heads and we don't always have an answer.
And I think Airris was just conflicted--
- I think the point was, though,
he should have had my back. - I agree. And I think--
- Well, that's-- well, then don't defend him.
♪ ♪
Because we talking about him having my back in this moment.
- I'm just trying to say that
he seemed conflicted from what I see.
- Airris, what's your response to this?
- Um, I mean, a lot of things my cousin said was wrong.
Her saying that Jasmine's answers were scripted
or she comes from the pageant world, like, that wasn't fair.
Just because you don't agree with Jasmine's response,
that doesn't mean Jasmine's response is wrong.
- Why at the time, then, did you take your cousin's side?
- I mean, I guess it's just hearing, like,
a half version of the story.
I'm just naturally gonna rock with someone
I've been knowing since I was four months old.
- And I understand.
It's a family member, and it is your new wife.
But in that moment, if you say, your wife comes in,
"You look like you just worked a 16-hour shift,"
something's wrong, right? Something's wrong.
- Something's wrong. That's not an excuse.
At this point, this is the next day.
I hadn't even known her 24 hours.
- Mm-hmm, but you knew her well enough to say
she looked like she worked a 16-hour shift.
- Or that I wasn't strong.
- Do you want to apologize?
- Yes, I apologize to Jasmine.
I apologize on behalf of my cousin,
and I apologize, like, for myself
for not, like, making her feel secure,
for not, like, you know, stepping in.
You know, and this could have been, like, totally avoided.
♪ ♪
- All right, well, on that note,
we are gonna take a quick break.
But throughout the night, I'll be sitting down with
each of the couples to discuss their relationships
and find out what's changed in their lives
since we last saw them.
We'll also have some very revealing, exclusive,
never-before-seen moments from the Nashville season
to show you tonight.
I know you don't want to miss any of those.
When we return, I'll be joined by my first couple,
Jasmine and Airris.
♪ ♪
We got things to talk about.
They had a complicated marriage, to say the least.
I can't wait to hear from both of them.
Don't go away.
♪ ♪
Welcome back to the "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
This past season in Nashville was unpredictable
to say the least, and tonight,
I'm getting the scoop on what really happened
with the couples, as well as all the updates
on what's developed since the cameras went away.
All right, let's bring out our first couple of the night.
Please welcome back Jasmine and Airris.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Good to see you. Good to see you.
Have a seat right there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. - [giggles]
- All right.
Look, I just want to ask you right off the bat,
because I think a lot of people are asking and wondering.
It felt like you hit the jackpot.
You got the wife, you know,
that you wanted. - Right.
- What was the problem?
- Um... - Let's cut to the chase.
Let's get down to business tonight.
♪ ♪
What really happened?
- I think, just out of respect for myself and her,
like, we had some private conversations.
And I think, like, some things, like,
should remain private, so just--
- Now, see, I want to point something out to folks.
You're one of the best people at answering questions
that's ever been on this show,
but I still feel like I don't know.
- Right.
- You come down the aisle, you see this woman,
and you say, oh, wow.
And then things turned.
I'm confused.
- I guess--
- So I'm asking you to give me a little something.
- I guess you just have to stay confused
because I feel like, honestly,
if I was to say, like, what I wanted to say, like,
I would get nailed to the cross.
Nobody deserves that.
And I--like, I have respect for her,
I have respect for her family.
Like, I care about her, I care about her family,
so that's just kind of where I'm at.
- Jasmine, were you baffled by this?
- I mean, coming into this, that was my worst fear
of, like, my husband not being, you know, attracted to me.
♪ ♪
I was attracted to him, and, you know, I liked him.
And I was trying to, you know, put my best foot forward.
But it's just that was my worst fear, and it--
it happened.
- I want to read something for you,
because I think you should hear this, Jasmine.
I don't know if you've heard this before.
- Oh, God.
- We went back to the casting interviews to find out
what kind of woman Airris was really looking for.
You said you like Serena Williams,
but Zendaya is too skinny.
♪ ♪
- I didn't say that.
Like, we all have a type, but it's
kind of hard to just describe.
- Let me give you some examples here.
Physical type, Serena.
- Yes, she's very athletic.
Nice, strong build.
- What about on the slimmer side?
Zendaya. - She's very pretty.
She might be a little too small.
- Well, I'm not Zendaya or Serena.
I'm, like, in the middle. - You're in the middle, right?
He said that was his body type,
and they gave you something in your attraction parameters.
♪ ♪
Oh, I love when I see Airris's mind.
Airris is like, let me think about that one.
- I would just say--again, like what I said earlier,
without naming specifics because
I'm not here to do that, right? - Right.
- But the body, the slim type,
that don't have anything to do with
why we're sitting here today.
Even with, like, the attraction
and, like, the romance not being
where we wanted it to be, we still got along.
- Then what the hell happened?
If you all get along so well-- like, y'all get along.
- Yes. Like, we still currently get along.
- Right, that's what I'm saying.
Y'all still currently get along.
- But it's, like, not romantic.
- Yeah, it's not, like, romantic.
- This is, like, your friend friend.
- Yes.
Like, when he friend-zoned me in the honeymoon,
we literally became friends.
- How did that feel when you got put into the friend zone?
- Oh, I didn't like it,
because I was like, I'm here to be a wife.
I didn't come here to be a friend.
But one thing about Airris is,
he was always honest with me.
He never made me think something that it wasn't.
And I was happy that he told me that
because it kind of pumped the brakes for myself
to be like, okay, you got to look at this
through a different lens now. - Mm-hmm.
Can we talk about another thing that happened on the honeymoon,
which was revealed on the "Afterparty"?
Jasmine, you found out
that Airris had slept with your friend
ten days prior to getting married to you.
- You know, we follow each other on Instagram.
- Okay. - So we had a few
mutual friends on Instagram. - Okay.
- And I was like, okay, cool.
I was like, how do you know him?
He's like, da da da. Like, how do you know her?
He was like, "That's our mutual friend?"
I was like, yeah, how do you know her?
He was like, I might have slept with her.
- [gasps]
♪ ♪
- How did that make you feel?
- It kind of put things in perspective for me,
because we are complete opposite, you know.
He does have a type, and that's not me.
[laughs]
- Okay, Airris, tell us about this friend.
You're about to get married. - Right.
- Was it cold feet? Was it--what was happening?
- Let's just get full transparency.
- Let's go.
- We were hanging out and stuff,
and I find out about this process.
Of course, I tell her about it and cut things off.
♪ ♪
Like, I mean, that's literally what happened.
- How close were you out?
♪ ♪
- Basically, like, two weeks out from the wedding.
- Mm-hmm, okay.
So, at the end, Jasmine, when you saw that
and you got past and everything,
do you think he did anything wrong?
- Did we prepare for this differently? Yes.
I've been preparing to be a wife for years.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, once I started going through the process...
- Right.
- I wasn't dealing with anybody.
So we just prepared for this differently.
- All right. Let's move on.
Since we had touched on the topic of sex,
I have a conversation that I want to play between
you and Jasmine that didn't end up making the show.
You dropped quite a bomb on her
when you talked about how the future might look
for your marriage.
Let's watch.
- The thing I wanted to wait to tell you
until we've been together longer is...
I would really be down for an open marriage.
♪ ♪
- [laughs] Yeah, no.
- Not now. Maybe in, like, 20 years.
- [laughing] An open marriage.
Wow, Airris.
- You don't have to choose to participate.
I'll bring it up in, like, ten years.
- Oh, okay. Got it.
- There's a whole community of people out there
that thinks that they're doing something wrong,
and it should be more of a normal thing.
They don't have to hide in the shadows anymore...
- Nah, bruh. - 'Cause I'm gonna be at
the forefront of the movement.
- You can be in an open marriage with somebody else
'cause it won't be with me.
♪ ♪
- So now, I mean,
what was going through your head?
♪ ♪
- Listen...
- Let's talk. Let's talk.
- I have said before, Airris,
you know, if it's three sentences,
he should say two and forget the third one
because the third one is always out of pocket.
- That was so far out of pocket, no, that one--
- And then he was like, in 20 years.
I'm like, so you want to have an open marriage when you 60?
[laughter]
- Like, have you explored that world?
Do you know the world? Are you part of the community?
What? Explain to us.
- Sometimes when we were filming
and I get to a point where I'm over it--
she can attest to it--
I would just say, like, the most ridiculous--
like, literally immediately after the cameras left,
I told her I was joking.
I could not be in a situation where, like,
some man is just, like,
for lack of a better word, drilling my wife.
Like, I'm not built that way.
Like, there's a whole world out there...
- Okay, right. - But I'm not--
- Okay, so let's walk this back now.
Let's walk this whole thing back now.
We gon' save Airris 'cause-- - Save me.
- We gonna save you from them comments right now.
Airris did not want to be in an open marriage.
- Yes, thank you.
- You did not want to see other men with your wife.
- No, no.
- All right, let's pause right there for a second.
We have to take a break.
There is so much more to come so stick around.
We'll be right back.
♪ ♪
- We are back.
You are watching "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
AnAll right, I want to bringis here, sosomeone out
who is close to Jasmine, someone who was there for her
during this experience and
heard, um, firsthand from her
about all the ups and downs with Airris.
Let's welcome out her friend, Adrienne.
Hey, Adrienne. - Hi.
- Hey. - How you doing?
- Good, how are you? - Good to see you.
- You too, Kevin Frazier. - How you doing?
Oh, that means all business
when you come out and call me Kevin Frazier.
Adrienne, um, first of all, thanks for being here.
You were close to Jasmine,
and you had a chance to watch this from the very beginning.
- Mm-hmm. - Was what we saw on TV
indicative of what was going on with them?
- Yeah.
It was a little weird for me watching the season,
because when you are close to someone,
you watch with a little more concern, a little more care.
- What concerned you?
- Um, my biggest concern has actually been
Jasmine's mental space,
because during the process,
it was like she was searching for something
that she could not obtain.
It was concerning that he was the age that he is
and never had been in a serious relationship.
- Never been in love, he said. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
And that was disheartening for me,
countered with the disrespect that was, like, going on.
- What kind of disrespect do you mean?
- When I say disrespect, I mean
the cousin that was calling her a fake.
- She did not call her fake.
♪ ♪
- How do you know that, though, Airris?
Like, were you part of every single interview that she had?
- She was on, like, two episodes,
and it's, like, been way blown out of proportion.
Like-- - No. I just--
- Fallina's level of interest in, like, my marriage,
I swear to God, it's a zero.
- Airris, we have to agree to disagree.
Nobody made her say or do the things that she did.
♪ ♪
She stood firm in being negative towards you
and your journey with Jasmine and this whole process.
It was a space for her to be supportive for you genuinely.
- Yeah.
- And if that was her being genuine, then it sucks,
because as a loved one,
even though I may have had feelings
about Jasmine actually doing the show,
never, ever would I take this platform to express that.
♪ ♪
- Let me go back for a second so you understand.
When you do this show, everyone wants you to have
this great relationship and get married
and have kids and go on forever and ever.
So, when your cousin comes in and says, well, she's fake,
she's this, she's that,
it doesn't matter anything else that's said.
It's just those words resonate. - Yeah.
- They stick, and it could hurt your spouse or her family
when they hear that, so that's what's happening.
They're defending her. I get that.
What else did you see,
or what else do you feel about this relationship, and why--
I'm like other people, baffled how this didn't work out.
- I just feel like Airris, when he met Jasmine,
she was different from what he was used to.
Jasmine is a little more reserved
for the type of man that Airris is.
And what I mean by that is, from his sexual experiences,
you can tell that he's kind of,
you know, been there, done that, got the T-shirt,
but it's, like-- - Is that true, Airris?
Is that true? You've been there, done that.
You've gotten the T-shirt?
- Hey, I mean, you know, I've had some experiences.
- It's funny you bring that up,
because let's look at some of the times
when Airris said some things
that made Jasmine just a little uncomfortable.
♪ ♪
- So what else do you want to know about me?
- What's your favorite sexual position?
♪ ♪
Never have I had sex with other people watching.
- You've never had a threesome?
- [clears throat] No, more like a orgy.
- [gasps] [softly] Oh, my God.
- Oh, the gooch is a very sensitive area on the man
in between the thighs, underneath the scrotum
but not quite near the butt.
- Adrienne, what do you think about the way...
[laughing] Airris talked about sex?
- In regards to the situation,
I think that sometimes it was kind of like, dude.
You should have just-- - Had two sentences.
He went to three. - [laughs]
- Do you think it would have been different
if Jasmine had opened up to that kind of talk?
- Here's the thing about Jasmine.
I think that Jasmine was willing to be
Meg Thee Stallion off camera.
- [snickers]
- But because she's a cheer coach,
she mentors young girls... - Right, right, right.
she takes that into consideration with her answers
because it's just kind of like,
I got to look at this years from now
and be able to live with the things that I said
on national TV.
But she would have been going if you--
you know what I'm saying? [laughter]
- She was gon' be Meg off the cameras.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Is there anything you want to say or
at least your final thoughts on how this happened?
- No, I really--
I came here wanting to be so mad at Airris.
- I think everybody does.
- You came in with a little heat.
- I did, because to me, you didn't...
you didn't try.
It was just kind of like, when he felt like
it's no physical attraction,
it was just kind of like he checked out.
And to me, it just kind of wasn't fair, you know?
I wish the journey were different for both of you.
But I feel like you both learned something out of it.
- I feel like the journey is the journey,
and everything happens for a reason.
So, like, in a year or two, two years, when Jasmine's married,
she has kids, you met her new husband, she's got a daughter,
and when I find my person,
all of this is gonna make sense.
Like, everything happens for a reason.
- Adrienne, thank you for being here.
- Thank you. - You okay now?
- Yeah. - Okay.
You want to go hug it out with Airris?
- Yeah. - Okay, y'all hug it out.
Y'all hug it out before you go. Please.
Come on over here. Hug it out.
[laughs] There we go. All right.
Thank you for being here.
Here, I'ma hug you, too. - Okay.
- See, I want you to go--
you chose violence this morning, but you came out--
- Okay, thank you, Kevin Frazier.
- She was ready to come for your head, Airris.
- Chopping block. - Huh?
- That wasn't that bad. - Chopping block.
No, I'm saying ready to put me on a chopping block.
- She was ready. She was ready to get you.
- [chuckles]
- What's next for you?
- One of the best parts about spending so much time
with Jasmine, like, she loves kids.
She loves working with kids.
She loves making people feel better.
So she's incorporating her passion into her business.
So I've kind of taken that same approach.
Like, instead of just feeling like a robot, right,
going to work, coming home, going to work, coming home,
I started volunteering at the rescue mission
feeding the homeless.
So just tapping into things that I'm passionate about.
And I learned that from her.
- I'm just gonna continue working.
I'm still at the cheerleading gym.
It's my passion. It's my love. It's my life.
I went to school to be an aesthetician.
I'm gonna start my own spa and, you know,
just continue to live life as it's handed to me.
And my ultimate goal is to be happy and a wife and married.
- Um, you know, Jasmine, we all got a glimpse into
your post-Airris life after Decision Day
when you went on a date with a gentleman
only known as "Friend Boy."
- Are you attracted to me?
- I'm very attracted. - Okay, good. Cool.
- I feel like that was a horrible question.
You asking me that question kind of hurt my feelings.
You know you're a gorgeous girl?
♪ ♪
- Explain to us, who is Friend Boy?
- [giggles]
♪ ♪
- Friend Boy is now my man.
He's known me for a while. - Mm-hmm.
- After I went through all of this,
he messaged me, and he asked me out.
Um, you know, we're happy.
- You're happy? - Yeah.
- I'm just asking, 'cause to me,
it's a hell of a red flag when somebody is like,
don't show my face-- I don't want to be on TV.
- That was me. - Oh, that was you.
You were saying don't show him.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay, all right.
'Cause it just felt like a red flag.
I'm like, what you doing that you can't be seen on TV?
Anyone you're seeing, Airris? - No.
- By the way, did you go on another date
with the girl, Kendra? I know you went on a date with Kendra.
Did y'all have a second date?
- No, we didn't have a second date.
- No second date? But you are dating, though, right?
- Yes. - Anyone in particular?
Anybody special? - No, not right now.
This was a lot. I kind of, like, took time,
you know, to focus on myself. - Really?
- I'm watching myself. I think--
like, I'm very open and honest, but I'm like,
damn, bro, you might be too open and honest.
Like, some stuff, everybody don't need to know about.
- Two sentences, went to three. - Yeah.
- Look, at the end of the day, Jasmine,
I'm glad you found your man.
All right? - Thank you.
- And, Airris, good luck to you.
I know there's somebody out there for you.
- Mm-hmm. - One or two people.
Anyway, look, I'm not-- [laughter]
Let me stop. That's an open-marriage joke.
Anyway, I'll see you both back out here
a little bit later, okay?
All right, when we come back,
I'll be joined by our next couple,
the lovebirds of the season, Nicole and Chris.
Can't wait to find out if the love has lasted
and where they're at today.
Don't go away. We'll be right back.
♪ ♪
Welcome back. I'm Kevin Frazier.
And this is the "Married at First Sight Reunion."
We are finding out all the gossip,
as we catch up with our Nashville cast.
Now, next up, we have Nicole and Chris.
People doubted this match at the beginning.
I'm not gonna lie. I was one of them.
But these two forged a special bond early on,
and they just took the lead
as the strongest couple all season long.
Let's bring them out and see how they're doing today.
Hi. - Hello.
- Hey, hey, hey. Nice to see you.
Have a seat. - Good to see you again.
♪ ♪
- All right, first of all, you two look so happy.
It's funny.
It's pretty apparent that you're still together, right?
Let's just-- - Um...
Yes. We are. - Yeah.
- We were gonna try to play a little joke.
- Yeah, we were trying to play a little joke. We're like, no.
- No, you can't do that.
- We're together. We're very happy.
- Yeah?
I could not be happier for these two.
Here's what I have to admit-- that I was wrong about you two.
I understand why the experts matched them.
I get it. I see all the signs.
But they didn't see the red flag.
And the red flag is that she's going to make him crazy
because it's going to be too much for him.
How hard was that, watching people
saying that your relationship wasn't gonna work?
- Kevin, I'll tell you, literally when she saw that,
she was like, "I gotta talk to Kevin.
I need to tell him everything I need to say."
- And what did you want to tell me, though?
Come on. - Well,
I wanted to say that you were prejudging
based on not having enough information.
And, you know, you thought we wouldn't work
because I would "drive him crazy."
But you didn't know that this man can actually handle
a lot more than it seems.
So naysayers can have their opinion,
but that's not gonna change how I feel.
- Oh, no, I'm a true believer now. Let me just--
so we get it out there now to the world,
I'm a true believer. - Thank you.
- And you saw. By midseason, I was like, oh, I was wrong.
This one, I missed it.
- You are fully forgiven. - Yeah.
- All is well here.
- But I will say that for me, the turning point--
when I was like, okay, this is gonna work,
is with your dogs. - Yeah.
- When you were on your honeymoon,
you were distraught because you thought
you were gonna have to somehow give up your dogs
or lose your dogs. - Mm-hmm.
- Look, Nicole, I have to say that
you really stepped up and took charge.
Let's take a look at this behind-the-scenes moment
when Nicole confronted the producers
about the dog situation.
- [blows nose] [Nicole sighs]
[somber music]
- Can I talk to you guys or...
♪ ♪
This is not an option.
- I'm sorry I said [bleep] you guys,
but this-- this is not an option.
So if we have to live apart for two months
and make it work, we'll do that.
- Of course we do, too. It's not--
- This isn't, like, an easy out.
- That's this experiment. - These are our children,
and we would not just abandon children.
And we are just gonna do whatever it takes
to make it work.
So I'm heartbroken for him.
- Okay. Thank you.
Look at me.
We will make this work.
- So, in that moment, like, I fully admit I was--
I thought my dogs were the last thing I had to worry about.
I thought they were gonna be able to come with me.
It may seem overly dramatic to some, but to me, it wasn't.
It was like, there's a lot more going on.
Like, you have the stress of marrying a stranger
and getting to know them and, you know, being filmed.
And it was kind of just like,
everything at once just kind of hit me.
I have a ride-or-die. - Yeah.
- Like, she's there for me when I need her most.
And for her to step up the way she did was just--
I mean, I'm forever in debt to her.
- Is that the New Yorker in you, huh?
- It was the New Yorker in me.
But also, I'm very solutions-oriented.
I don't like to sit and say like, oh, someone told me no,
and I don't like it.
Like, if I haven't talked to everyone possible,
every decision maker,
everyone who can have a say in it,
I haven't done enough to get what I want.
- Well, I'll admit, like, in that moment,
it was scary to be that vulnerable.
But at the same time, like, that's how comfortable
I already was with her.
- It wasn't like, oh, he's not masculine,
or, he's crying, what a baby.
I didn't even think of that. - Yeah.
- All I felt was, this is your opportunity to be the rock
and be someone that he can rely on, and that's what I did.
- It made me realize
I had something really special with her
because that could have scared some people away.
I'm not gonna lie. - Yeah, yeah.
No, I think that was the moment for a lot of people,
where they're like, okay, this relationship is good.
The way you stepped in, it was like, oh, she got him.
He got her. This is perfect.
Chris, you've always battled the whole nice-guy thing.
- Yeah. - And sometimes, you know,
you had to bend a little bit to keep your wife happy.
Let's take a look at some of those moments
where you just bent just a little bit
to make sure everything worked out.
- Just a little. - Here we go.
- I had an idea. - Okay.
- I thought it would be fun if we could just, like,
be silly and go to breakfast in costume, then we can change.
- What's the point of it, though?
- To be silly.
♪ ♪
- Okay, sure. - Okay.
- It's 100% appeasement.
- [roaring]
Whoo!
Coming in for breakfast, making a landing.
- What is happening? - Whoo!
- We've seen enough animals.
- This is her idea so I went along with it.
- [roaring]
- For the love of God. - What is happening?
- It's a dino breakfast. It's dino-mite!
- This is her idea.
- Yeah, I do regret putting on the dinosaur costume.
I wouldn't do it again.
♪ ♪
- Do you regret pushing him to put on that dinosaur costume?
- It is literally the bane of our existence in this marriage,
because we didn't realize that everyone was waiting on us
to help with breakfast. - Oh, yeah.
- So I thought it would be silly.
We go upstairs, and everyone is just like,
"we've been waiting for you to help with breakfast.
What are you doing?"
And in that moment, I was like,
"Not funny. Now this is awkward."
And I knew he didn't want to do it.
So I regret the dinosaur costumes.
But I still think they were silly
and they made me laugh. - It was funny 'cause
the looks that Clint and Airris gave me,
they were like, "what are you doing?"
So, like, I also kind of just felt like a dick
in that moment 'cause I was supposed to be helping them.
- Yeah, I do regret it. I will fully admit.
- Oh, it's okay.
- Nicole, you've had a few moments
that Chris didn't exactly love,
like you were upset about your wedding photos.
- Yes.
- Have there been any of those other kinds of times
since the cameras have gone away?
- When I've been upset? - Yeah.
- I mean, pick a day.
- [laughs] - I think--
I mean, you can say if I'm wrong here,
but I get very easily upset over little things.
And I'm upset, I have a little five-second rant,
and then I get over it.
I just need to voice it out loud.
- Good, right.
- So I think it did take a little time
for him to be like, okay, she just needs to say it,
and then we won't hear about it, but--
do you agree? - Yeah, I mean,
there are some moments where you just need to give space.
But, yeah, you know,
she definitely is very opinionated.
I'm more open-minded and so that's been an adjustment.
- Mm.
- Yeah. - Okay, all right.
Let's pause right there for a second.
We have to take a quick break, but we will be right back.
And we have so much more to come
with Nicole and Chris when we return.
So stick around. We'll be right back.
♪ ♪
- Welcome back. I'm Kevin Frazier, and you are watching
the "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
We are continuing with Nicole and Chris,
the it couple this year.
Let me ask you this.
How are you doing, Chris, with keeping your wife happy
but also keeping yourself happy?
- I mean, I'm doing really good.
I think the big thing is
we have such good communication,
it's just keeping that up.
- Nicole, is Chris doing a better job
of speaking up for himself? - Oh, absolutely.
I just want to clear the record
that Chris never had a problem speaking up.
But I had heard so many things from his friends, his family,
even his past relationships, when he told me about them,
where he was walked all over,
where he didn't voice his opinion.
So I went into our marriage thinking,
you have to make sure this man speaks up.
You have to make sure that he tells you how he feels.
So I was almost pressing it when I didn't need to
because I was so concerned that we would start off
with him developing this pattern.
So I would say there are times, even now,
where I want him to speak up more,
but he just doesn't have anything else to say.
And it's like, I don't have more to add to it.
- Right, right, right.
It's important to take a break from all the seriousness and
just to let loose and have fun. - Mm-hmm.
- Your marriage could not have been sweeter
from the very get-go.
So we have some never- before-seen bonus footage...
- Oh! - Here we go.
- That I want you to check out.
- Hi! - Mama's home, boys.
- Hi. Mama's home.
♪ ♪
So I brought some magical toys. - [chuckles]
- We could have battles, practice.
- Is this over who cooks dinner? [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- Oh! - Got ya.
- Man, you're better than me at something.
That's not cool.
♪ ♪
- Kobe watching in the background.
- He's like, I want to play.
- [laughs] - You have no head.
- [groaning]
- They're always like, what are they doing?
Oh, no. [dog whining]
- That was my great acting.
- Should I kiss you to revive you?
♪ ♪
- That was cute. - That was cute.
- How has married life been since the cameras went away?
- So fun. - Yeah.
- We have a lot of fun. - It's been, honestly, great.
We haven't had really any-- like, you know,
little normal bickering over dinner and stuff like that.
But other than that, like, there really
hasn't been any arguments.
- How are the dogs? - Oh, amazing.
- Dogs are great. - Really?
- Yeah. The dogs get along so well.
- They're brothers, and they're a pack.
- Yeah, I couldn't be happier with how they're getting along.
- Okay, how about kids?
Have y'all had that discussion, that talk?
- We had that discussion on the honeymoon.
- Right.
- Honestly, I grew up never wanting kids.
And now I'm kind of open to them,
but I'm not dying to have them.
- Just to be fully transparent...
- Yeah. - I always envisioned two,
one boy, one girl.
♪ ♪
It's one of the things we have to think about.
♪ ♪
- Where are you when it comes to that?
- We are not ready for children right now.
- Not yet. - We have our hands full.
Three dogs is a lot. - More than enough.
- We are gonna start looking for a house,
because we want to settle, start planting roots.
We want a backyard for the dogs.
And then we're planning to revisit the kid conversation
probably in a year or so
and decide if we want children.
- I think that we do.
But at the same time, we're, like--
we're not rushing it. We want to enjoy each other.
We want to be able to have experiences.
Once you have a kid, like, that all changes.
But we're open to it.
- We just know we're not ready right now.
- Yeah. - Okay.
Biggest question: Nicole, how is your dad with Chris now?
- Oh, it's great. - [groans] It's annoying.
He is--he loves Chris.
- She says that her dad asks about me
more than he asks about her, so...
- He'll be like, hi, how's my son-in-law?
I'm like, you have his phone number. I'm good.
- He's actually watching our dogs right now.
- Can you call him? - Yeah.
- All right, let's call him.
[phone trilling]
[phone beeps] - Hi, Dad.
- Hey, Mark. - Hi, Nicole. Hi, Chris.
- We are here filming.
We just wanted to introduce you to one of your biggest fans.
Kevin, this is my dad, Mark.
- Mark, how are you doing? - I'm doing great.
How are you doing, Kevin? - Fantastic.
Glad we finally got a chance to connect.
- I'm just so excited about seeing you.
You're better-looking now than you are on TV!
- Thank you, Mark.
I'm gonna carry you around everywhere, man.
You should be my spokesman.
- It's my honor to meet you. It really is.
- How do you like the show so far?
What do you think of it? - I like the show.
The concept has grown on me.
The results are fantastic. - Yeah.
- And I just want to say this about Chris.
- Sure.
- I've never had a problem with Chris,
despite anything you've seen. [laughter]
Now let me just throw a little cold water on that.
- Yeah.
- If you try to make everybody happy,
you won't make anybody happy.
Chris is a nice guy. You know what he needs?
I'm gonna say it on camera.
He needs a little big dick energy here is what he needs.
♪ ♪
- Does Chris have that BDE?
♪ ♪
- Uh...
yes, he does.
And in this world, to find somebody who's stable
to marry my daughter
is more than I could have possibly asked for.
And I expect this to last forever.
- I think this is a match made in heaven.
I think it's gonna last for a long time.
- For me, it's great,
because not only do I now have a son-in-law,
I have his family,
he has our family, new grand-puppies.
And they have an Uncle Clint, an Uncle Airris,
an Uncle Shaq, an Uncle Mac,
and Aunt Kirsten, Jasmine, Domynique, and Gina.
And the thing is, is that we now have one big family.
So this is not "Married at First Sight Nashville."
This is "Married at First Sight Nashville Family,"
in my opinion.
both: That's sweet. - I love that.
Mark, thanks for joining us, man.
Appreciate it. - Have a great day.
- Bye. All right.
- Now I see where Nicole gets her interviewing skills from,
her sense of humor. - [laughs]
- Listen, you two really are the proof.
This is what this whole experiment is about.
- People think it's like, oh, there's just drama.
No, this show is about couples coming together,
forming a bond,
and spending the rest of their lives together.
So you two really are proof of
why "Married at First Sight" works,
because the experts did a perfect job of putting
two people together who are super compatible.
Wouldn't you say? - Oh, yes.
- Totally agree.
- We completely balance each other out.
- Like, we just work.
And this process, I mean,
I'm forever grateful to it because it brought us together.
And we even said, like, if we met each other out at a bar,
we might not have even went up to talk to each other.
- Yeah.
- Nicole, you'd do this again, wouldn't you?
- Honestly, I would do this again,
because not only did I find my perfect match,
but I learned so much about myself.
- What did you learn? - I just learned, honestly,
how to be a little more mature in certain situations,
that I don't always have to get angry
or beat myself up about things.
And, you know, you saw a lot in the season that
I battled with confidence issues.
- Right, but there were times I got confused,
because I see this woman, who, when there was a crisis
or a problem, you're like front and center, "I got this."
But then you hear-- you get up in the morning.
You're like, "I don't know if this is gonna work.
I don't know if you're gonna love me."
And it's like... - Yep.
- Girl, he's right there. - And watching that back,
it was like an out-of-body experience.
Why are you so hard on yourself?
Because he's so wonderful.
And a part of me felt like I didn't deserve that.
And I had to make a conscious effort
to remind myself that I do deserve love
and I do deserve to be happy.
And we're only as amazing as we are because we're a team.
And it's not just that Chris is so wonderful to me
and I'm pulling everything out of him.
It's that I'm also pouring into him as well.
So it took me a few weeks. - Yeah, it did.
- I would say probably the duration
of filming this experiment. - [laughs] Yeah.
- But now I don't question it at all.
- And I think, also, I think you learned that it's okay
to rely on someone else,
because you're so independent and tough.
Like I think you learned I'm not here to hurt you.
I'm here to help you. - Yeah.
- So it's been an awesome experience,
and I'm just gonna continue to show my love for her, like,
throughout our lives and until we grow old
and everything else.
- Everything's fantastic. - It's magical.
It's just such a beautiful love story.
- Yeah.
- Couldn't ask for a better situation, to be honest.
So... - Yeah.
- Listen, you two, congratulations.
I love having you here today.
I was so happy to chat with you,
and I can't wait till I get the pictures of the babies.
They'll be coming one day. - Ooh.
- All right, up next, I'll be joined by all the ladies
of the season in Nashville.
When these women get together, trust me,
the gossip gets really juicy,
and I'm here for every bit of it, so don't go away.
♪ ♪
Welcome back to the Nashville reunion.
As you can see, I've been joined by the ladies,
just the ladies; no husbands, no ex-husbands,
so we can really get into the mix and talk about some things.
First of all, welcome.
Good to see y'all together. - Hi.
- Hello. - Good to see you all together.
Do you feel like-- each one of you feel like
you gained four new best friends?
- Absolutely. - Absolutely, yep.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Just always having, like, our group chats going.
We're always supporting and uplifting each other
and venting and being there for one another.
So I am so grateful for these women and I love them.
Wouldn't change it for the world.
- Who is the person that you go to for counseling
the most in this group?
- Nicole. - Nicole?
- Yes. - I'm like the mama bear.
- Nicole, I really feel like we could switch seats,
and you could do it, because if there's one person
who interviews everyone during every segment,
it's Nicole. - Someone's gotta do it.
Do you want to put on a gown and sit in this chair
because... - I'll give you the jacket.
- I'm happy to sit-- [laughter]
- What is that about you, Nicole,
that makes you want to lead the way?
'Cause you always are the one who will ask the question.
- Oh, well, first, I'm nosy. I like to know what's going on.
And, of course, I'm invested.
So I want to know who's, you know, getting physical,
who's having an emotional breakdown.
- She wants all of us to get back together,
so she's constantly encouraging that.
- I just want everyone to be happy.
- It was really touching to see how you had each other's backs
and supported one another.
We all remember when Jasmine had a burst of emotions,
but we wanted to share some more never-before-seen moments
that didn't make the show when the ladies really
kind of rallied around each other.
- [crying]
- We understand. We understand.
- You're a beautiful person inside and out.
- Thank you. Thank you, baby.
[sniffles] - We love you.
- I've been really just trying to keep it together
through all of this,
but I think I'm just at my breaking point.
- Yeah, yeah. - I'm sorry.
- It's just--I don't know.
Emotionally, I just don't know what I have left
to give at this point. - Yeah.
- [sniffles] So...
♪ ♪
- [softly] Oh, my God.
- Watching that and seeing how emotional you were then
and how emotional it makes you now,
how important was it to have this outlet?
- No, I was definitely...
glad I had my girls, because I needed them then.
I needed them right then, and they were there for me,
so they made me feel good.
- Why, seeing that now, does it make you so emotional again?
♪ ♪
- I don't know.
I guess it's sad to see myself that way,
how I look like the life was sucked out of me.
[voice breaking] I started this, like,
bubbly and happy, excited.
And I feel like I didn't get what I deserved, so...
it just--
- You know, now that we're here and your ex-husband is not...
- Mm-hmm.
- How hard was it for you?
Because time and time again,
you were being pushed away and rejected.
- Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
I just wanted something different out of this,
and I feel like he wanted something different, too.
- Mm-hmm. - And it just sucked
because I felt like I was so ready for this,
and I was so excited for this,
and it just didn't happen the way I wanted it to.
Like, I can say that I have zero regrets
and that, you know, I put my best foot forward.
[sniffles]
- Is there anything that you feel like you haven't said
to Airris that you still want to say?
- He was closed-minded.
He was never all-in.
He never...
I don't feel like he ever really tried with me.
So, for me to be like, I need to say something to him,
I don't feel like it.
♪ ♪
- You know, I always-- still do--
wanted to slap Airris upside the head
for the way he treated her.
- Mm-hmm. - And seeing this was just...
I want to wring his neck a little bit.
- I'm just like, all I can say is I'm sorry.
But what I do have to say to you is,
what's for you is for you.
And if that wasn't for you,
something else is going to be better for you.
- Yeah.
- Watching it back, I mean, I know it's so terrible,
but also it's kind of cool to see, like, even more
how resilient you were after that.
- Mm-hmm. - I'm really proud of you.
- Thank you.
- Let's change topics. - Yes.
- What's interesting is,
the boys wasted no time in getting back in the saddle
after Decision Day.
I want you to watch this clip,
where they all share just how busy they've been
since Decision Day.
- Mm-hmm.
- Have you had any sex since D-Day?
- I have, as a matter of fact.
I've had sex.
- There we go.
- Yeah. - Good for you, man.
- Yeah. - Good for you.
- My God, did I need to get that out of my system.
- I definitely feel you. I didn't wait too long either.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Yeah, also, I've had sex since I was divorced.
- I hope.
- It was amazing.
After two months, I had to call up NASA
to clear, like, a rocket launch,
'cause my God.
- Did you do your moves while you were in--
like, the go Clint, the go-- - Oh, yeah, yeah.
There was all kinds of, like, doing the worm.
- Ew. - Ew.
- That don't even sound appealing.
- My pelvis became detached. - Ew.
- It was like, that was crazy. [laughter]
- Yeah, I'm impressed.
- That's interesting.
- So, Gina... [laughter]
How was it hearing Clint?
- Clearly, you can see
why I wouldn't want to jump his bones.
[laughter]
- But any other comments, ladies,
about hearing how quickly the men--
like Jasmine, hearing Airris confirming
how quickly he got back to-- - Oh, I'm not surprised.
- Oh, me either. - No?
- He was counting down the days.
Like, I'm not surprised.
- Okay, so which type of guy do you see,
for instance, for Gina?
What type of guy would work for Gina?
- She needs somebody rough around the edges.
- Mm-hmm. - She need a man man.
- Mm-hmm, somebody to handle her.
- Someone who could pick her. - Got the swag.
- Got swag.
- She needs swag. - Yeah.
- She need him to have some swag.
- Mm-hmm. - How about for Dom?
- Oh, goodness. - A lumberjack?
- Yeah.
- Somebody who's adventurous.
- Get outdoors. - Likes to have a good time.
Yeah.
- Someone to go fishing with her, hunting.
- You know, all the things.
- And by the way, if things don't work out with your man,
what kind of man does Jasmine need?
- Things are going to work out.
We're not even putting that out in the universe.
- Yeah, things are going to work out.
- I can't go through two breakups, okay?
Things are working out.
- That's right. - [chuckles]
Last but not least, what kind of man
would you see for Kirsten?
- Shaquille.
- [gasps]
[laughter] - Nicole, Don't you start.
- I mean, yeah. - Yeah.
- I second.
- What do you think about that, Nicole?
- Third. [laughter]
- I just think that you get a feeling about two people.
And whether it means
that they are meant to be together or not,
things should be explored until that feeling disappears.
And if it's not Shaquille, I think someone like Shaquille
would be perfect for Kirsten because he helped her
to come out of her shell a little bit
and really get in touch with her emotional side.
And even though it's probably not what you said you wanted,
it's what you needed.
And I'm not ready to give up on them,
even if she's giving me the eye like,
stop being Nicole right now.
But I feel it. I'm retreating into my turtle shell right now.
I've done too much. [laughter]
- Well, thank you, ladies, for coming out
and sharing a little bit, a little bit,
but there's so much more fun.
We're going to take a quick break,
and I'll see you all later.
And when we come back, I'll be joined by Gina and Clint.
And I have a lot to get to the bottom of.
What in the world happened with this couple?
I mean, we just got to find out.
So don't go away. We'll be right back.
♪ ♪
- Hello, and welcome back
to "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
Now, joining me next are Gina and Clint.
Now, these two struggled from the get-go
to really ignite a spark.
And as the weeks went on, they just went
deeper and deeper and deeper into the friend zone,
and they failed to find any chemistry.
All right, let's welcome them out right now.
Here's Gina and Clint.
Ah, welcome back. - Hey, hey.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
- ♪ To better days ♪
- I want to ask you about--
you know, Clint got the haircut.
And, you know, it's still working there.
- That's a good haircut. - Right.
- I think everyone wants a glow-up.
- Yeah.
- I'm not sure what the hell a glow-up is.
- I love this guy. This is why I love this guy.
A glow-up is when, you know, you get the hair.
- Just looking a little better, yeah.
- You look a little better, and you feel a little better.
- Okay, all right, all right, sure.
- You feel a little hotter and sexier.
- Yeah, I'm feeling sexy and hot, man.
- All right, but you were a little less than thrilled
when Gina said you had no swag.
Have you found swag yet?
- I think I've always had swag,
but, you know, swag is in the eye of the beholder.
- Swag is in the eye of the beholder.
I was going to say that. - Right, right, right.
- I definitely think he has swag now.
- Gina, how do you walk away from this kind of genius?
- I know. I guess I kind of just missed the boat...
o pun intended.
- Literally. Literally. - Oh, old references.
I thought that was my department.
- Here's what I want to know.
Your relationship never managed to get romantic-y.
Right off the bat, it was in the friend zone.
Why, do you think?
- Kevin, help us figure it out.
No, we just never-- - Well, I'm here.
I'm here to help you if you need it.
- We never felt the initial spark.
And I think we really tried to get there
and continue to look for it, and we just never got there.
- It truly was a challenge for us
to get through those physical pieces of the relationship.
And as far as--you know, just our communication was strong.
We had a lot of fun together. - Yeah.
- We could joke. We had Hank.
You know, we had a lot of the components
that you really need in a strong relationship.
And there was just that one hurdle,
and that was our barrier.
And we tried everything that we could.
And, you know, we were listening to the experts.
We were doing the exercises. - Yeah.
- And we just couldn't get there at the end of the day.
- All right.
When you met with the experts for the workshops, Clint,
and you were singing a slightly different tune
about physical appearance, among other things--
- I find physical attributes important--
somebody that just really is well-manicured, groomed.
Like, they care about how they appear to the world,
but also, they take pride in, like,
taking care of themselves.
I've dated different spectrums, so...
- Okay. - Short and thin
and taller and, you know, more of a mid-set.
- Doesn't that sound like Gina? - Yeah, nailed it.
- They nailed it. - Yeah.
- Okay, so what's wrong?
- We just didn't jive in that way.
- Y'all in Nashville are-- I don't understand.
Is there something in the water in Nashville?
What the hell is going on? Seriously?
Because the experts nailed it. They gave you what you wanted.
- Yeah, and we continued, and we tried.
We tried, Kevin. It's not like we just--
We could have thrown in the towel early.
And we're like, no, we're gonna press through
because, like, we're here for a reason.
And what we've done in the past hasn't worked.
- All right, I want to take it back to the honeymoon
because these two had a rocky start from the beginning
of their trip.
Take a watch.
- So how do you feel about our travel day?
- Talk about stressful.
- Let me just list off the stressors
because it's pretty much everything you can go through
when traveling. - At one time.
- We had a delay. - Yeah.
- Traveling internationally. - Yeah.
- And they lost our bags. - Yeah.
- I'm not positive when our bags are going to be here.
Hopefully tomorrow.
If not, we're just gonna really have to
start getting creative.
Clint might have found something.
Ooh. Yeah, mon.
- Yesterday was a long day.
So tonight we were gonna go out to dinner, but no bags.
No bueno. No bags.
[light laughter] - First and foremost--
and, I mean, I think the most important thing--
did you save your Jamaica merch?
- Oh, hell, yeah. - Oh, yeah.
- Strong memories came from that trip, so...
- I mean, most people would have lost it at some point
and gotten rattled.
I mean, you lose your luggage, you get lost on the hike.
I mean, things were going bad.
- He actually had a stomach bug, too.
- And you had a stomach bug, too?
- Just to top it off. That's the cherry right there.
- [laughs]
- If there's anything about Clint and I,
we can definitely make lemonade out of lemons.
- Mm-hmm. - Like...
we can take anything and make it fun.
- Yeah.
- Do you see that that is another point of compatibility
between the two of you? - For sure.
- Yep, we do. - Yeah.
- Do you really feel like you gave it your all?
- I feel like we did.
- Yeah, we ran into adversity very early,
as you know. - Mm-hmm.
And so I think that kind of set a little bit
of a bad precedent and a tone.
And so we were just working through that
and just having a good time.
So I think we did put forth as much effort as we could.
- I mean, there were definitely times that
I think we both were like, this would be a lot easier
to just, like, throw in the towel.
But we even saw from Dom and Mac,
like, we were super thankful that we really tried.
And I think up until Decision Day--
we even had discussions the week before, like,
okay, we're still trying to push through
and see if there's any type of real connection there.
- I think we were...
really holding on just to make sure,
like, we weren't missing something.
- Mm-hmm. - Let's be honest.
Some of your friends suggested, just do it,
and let's see how it goes,
and then from there, make a decision.
You're grown people. You're grown.
You're married.
Just do it, and let's see how it goes.
- Yeah. I mean, I was a married man at the time.
So I'm like, you know, a couple drinks in, who knows?
- Clint's like, maybe we should.
- And a lot of people had suggested that scenario.
They're like just sleep together.
Just sleep together and see what happens.
You know, maybe that is what you need.
Maybe that's the catalyst. - Mm-hmm.
- And we had discussed it
just kind of jokingly. - Mm-hmm.
- But, I mean, it could have happened.
- Do you think you could have wooed Gina more?
- I think I put in as much effort as I could
at that time.
And it's crazy now, like, after the show is over,
like, we've become even closer.
- I feel like Clint knows me like such a good friend.
I mean, we've lived together.
We've been through this crazy process together.
- And we hang out.
And it's like, it's just different.
It's just different.
- I just--
I'm confused.
I'm going to tell you something.
In person, y'all look way-- like, as a perfect couple.
Like, together, it looks like a picture.
It fits together.
It's wild that you two should have worked.
Is there a chance that this could ever come back around?
- [laughs]
- That's the burning question.
- Um, yeah, I don't know.
She can answer that for you.
- Um, I mean, I guess...
♪ ♪
I don't know.
- Who knows? Life is strange.
[chuckles]
- Let me ask this again a different way.
- [laughs]
- Is there a chance that this could ever be fixed
now that you've learned so much more about each other?
Because a lot of times when you're very close with someone
as a friend, you begin to see things their way.
You understand each other,
and then that will spark something else.
- I still don't feel, like, that physical chemistry,
but I definitely feel like we are more comfortable.
We communicate even better.
And there's a ton that I appreciate about Clint.
But like Clint said, I mean, you never know.
- You never know.
- You're really rooting for Clint and I.
- Why not? Just love each other!
Can y'all just love each other? Just stop with all the madness.
- Kevin wants us to be together so bad.
- I really do wish it had worked out.
You know, now that I see you two together,
it's like, it works so well.
I'm just confused.
I mean, honestly, no cast has ever confused me
like Nashville has confused me.
- Yeah, we are very confusing. - You guys are so confusing.
Like, "we love each other, we're friends, it's so great.
"We love to hang out.
"We have such a good time together.
No, I never want to be with him."
Huh? Huh? - [laughs]
- It's something else.
- Clint, you were a little frustrated at times
about the amount of effort you felt that Gina
put into this relationship.
Do you think she was really trying?
- Yeah, I think as much as she could,
given, like, the mental aspect of where she was.
- Was she trying as much as you thought she should?
- No.
Like, I would try to get a little deeper with Gina.
And I try to, like, to tell stories, right?
I like to open up, when I was a kid,
this is something that impacted my life.
And it would be like, oh, that's nice.
And I was, like, trying to open the door to get her
to, like, share another story.
Like, I would have liked to have seen
that more organically than forcefully.
- Gina, do you see Clint's point of view there?
- Oh, yeah, I agree.
I think at the time, I just wasn't really picking up,
I guess, what he was putting down.
So, when he was sharing, like, something small,
I didn't realize that was, like, an indicator of wanting
to be super vulnerable.
So, yeah, in hindsight, I think I would have been
a little less guarded, yeah.
- Do you also think it was a problem starting or having--
building your business while you were going through this?
Did that make it harder?
- I think it definitely made it harder
that I had a lot of curveballs thrown at me
in the middle of filming.
So I lost about $100,000 in a buildout
from a contractor that kind of steered me the wrong way.
And that happened during filming.
I had an employee that quit last minute over some stuff.
- Which we saw that. - Yeah.
And so I think it wasn't even necessarily the business,
as much as the curveballs
that happened at the same time.
- Clint, I heard that you had said
that Gina came on the show, you felt, to promote her salon,
in a way. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Why did you say that?
- Yeah, it was just kind of a sense that
I was getting early on in the relationship.
And we just had a big blowup.
And I'm just like, okay, is there any ulterior motives?
Like, why else would we be in this situation right now?
So I'm just going through hypotheticals
in my mind of like, this just doesn't make sense.
I don't get it.
I don't get how we're in this scenario right now.
- When emotions are high, intelligence is low, you know?
- Mm. Do you still think she came on for the salon?
- No, I don't think so.
She's so involved in her business,
it's almost become like... that's her.
And, you know, I want to know like,
what's your plan for, like, 10, 15 years down the road?
What do you want out of your life?
And she's like, I just focus on the business,
focusing on the business, and, like, I get that.
- Well, and especially during that time,
that was such a focal point because I couldn't really--
Like, I think filming and, like, being in that marriage
was, honestly, a pleasant distraction during that time
because it was super, super stressful,
and it wasn't the norm
of when I'm typically operating a business.
And so, again, it was a high emotional time
and a really stressful time for me.
- All right, also want to know--
what has been going on since the cameras have stopped?
What else has been going on? Gina, how are you doing?
- I'm doing really well. I'm happy.
I mean, we always say, like, we would have went
through this experience together again.
I feel like we were thankful for each other.
We learned a lot through the process.
And I'm still processing a lot and taking it in.
But overall, I'm really happy. - All right.
Clint, how are you doing these days?
- I'm good-- I'm traveling a lot,
doing skiing all over the country.
- Mm-hmm. - That's good.
- And I'm dating somebody.
- Oh, you have a special someone.
- I've got a special someone.
We've been dating for several months.
She's great.
She's very passionate about what she does.
She's got a big energy for life.
Teaching her how to sail. - Mm-hmm.
We watched you go on a date with a woman named Nicole.
- Nicole, yeah.
So what were some of your deal breakers?
- One of my deal breakers was redhead.
[chuckles] - What the hell?
- Her and Gina... - That happened on the date?
- Must have gotten together. Yeah.
♪ ♪
"You hate redheads? Yeah, I got a guy for you."
- Don't have anything against redheads!
[laughter]
- And your new girlfriend, does she think you have swag?
- She thinks I have swag. - Really?
- Believe that.
- Marriage still the end goal here?
- Yes, 100%. - Really?
- 1,000%.
- Gina, you still want to get married?
- Of course. - Yeah.
- This just solidified that I'm ready for marriage.
- Really? What did it tell you?
- That I'm at that place in life where I'm ready to share,
you know, in life's adventures with someone and just
that I have a lot to offer as wife,
so I'm excited to be one.
- Listen, it's been great catching up with you two.
It still doesn't make sense to me 'cause I think
this relationship should have worked.
But, anyway, thank you for being here...
- Thank you for having us.
- And shedding a little light on everything, all right.
After the break, we'll chat with our next couple,
Kirsten and Shaquille.
And, boy, do I have some questions for those two.
Don't go away. We'll be right back.
♪ ♪
We are back. . You are watching
the "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
I'm Kevin Frazier, your host for tonight.
And I am about to bring out the next couple.
Sadly, they did not stay together on Decision Day.
I think we were all shocked.
It wasn't mutual.
I'm dying to chat with these two
because there's a lot to talk about.
So let's bring out Kirsten and Shaq.
- Hello. - How are you doing?
- I'm good. How are you doing? - Great.
- That's awesome. - Have a seat right here.
- How you doing? - Man on fire, let's go.
Well, thank you. How are you guys doing?
How are you two doing? - Great.
- Doing well. - Just been working.
That's about it-- traveling.
I'm about to go to Hawaii.
So just working and traveling. That's about it.
- Mm-hmm. Shaquille, what's new with you?
- Decided to go back to therapy.
- Mm.
- Do a lot of, like, self-awareness
and, you know, working through things in my life.
Just been continuing the journey.
Trying to finish this doctorate degree.
You know, I started to go,
but I definitely want to accomplish it.
- Are you guys staying in touch?
- We talk. - Yeah.
- What does that mean?
- We do small check-ins.
Like, Shaquille, he received a new job.
And with that position, he had to relocate to another state.
- Where are you now? - In Austin, Texas.
- You know, I was just checking on him.
So just small things like that.
- You're still invested. You still care about this man.
♪ ♪
Right? - We're cordial.
- Things were a little contentious
right after Decision Day. - Very.
- How did they-- yeah, how did they come around?
- I mean, after Decision Day,
I really didn't want anything to do with Shaquille at all.
Like, I didn't have any words for him.
I was still, like, a little upset
and angry at his decision.
I was upset because we didn't talk about it.
- Yeah. - Like, I was just so angry,
and, like, I had to really release all those emotions
and really reset myself. - Mm-hmm.
- I just had to take a couple of steps back...
- Mm-hmm.
- And really put a lot of things into perspective.
And it's like, once I was able to do that
and regain myself and regroup,
I was like, okay, now I can communicate
with Shaquille, honey, because if it was--
- And it was small at first.
- It was very small because--
- It was like, "Merry Christmas," you know.
- Yeah, it was-- - Merry Christmas to you, too.
- Well, no, no, let me pause that,
because when Shaquille lost his grandmother,
I had contacted him.
I just wanted to check on him
to see how him and his family was doing.
I sent my condolences.
And it took a lot from me, as a person, to do that,
because I was just so hurt
behind all, you know... - Yeah.
- That we went through.
And sometimes when he was saying that
I wasn't doing or giving certain support,
I'm like, but I was.
I cook, I clean, I check on you,
make for sure you have what you need for work,
make for sure that you're turning in your schoolwork.
Like, it was a lot of times where I felt like I was doing
what I was supposed to be doing as a wife.
I felt like I was meeting his expectations.
I'm washing clothes, I'm folding clothes.
Like, I'm trying to make for sure
I'm pouring into the marriage and giving him what I can give.
- It seems like there was unresolved stuff
that just didn't work out that should have been worked out,
that could have been worked out that y'all didn't work out.
- I think that came with a lot of time as well.
- What do you mean?
- The time constraints and the filming
and, you know, life and the job.
You know, we didn't get enough time.
- You needed more time together?
Because you could have had more time together.
- Could have. - Yeah, we could have.
- We could have.
- You decided not to have more time together.
- He did. - Well, let's do this.
Let's talk about communication because I think
that's the perfect place to start with these two,
because as you said, you had mismatched communication.
- Yeah. - Let's take a look.
- Is there any chemistry there? - Not really.
♪ ♪
- What do you think?
- I think there's some chemistry there.
Kirsten, like, we're always on two different pages.
Like, it's confusing. Like, what the hell?
Like, why?
- How have things been going?
- You know, things have been going great.
- I would definitely say it's been rocky.
- That's, like, polar opposites.
- How does that make you feel watching that back?
- It was definitely a roller-coaster ride.
It was moments in our marriage where I felt like
Shaquille and I just didn't have any consistency.
- Hmm.
- And with our work schedules and him being as busy as he is,
sometimes when we would film, after filming,
we didn't really talk as much.
So that's another reason
why we weren't always on the same page.
- And I think we would have did a better job
if we both came out and been honest with ourselves
and say, we don't know how to properly communicate
to each other.
Like, how can we, as a married couple,
like, get on the same page?
And I think we were both working individually,
trying to get to that stage, but we wasn't working together.
- Okay, there was a shift
once you felt more comfortable with Shaquille.
There was a hell of a shift.
I mean, when he brought out the strawberries, I was like,
what is going on?
- I want to try something. - Okay.
- Trust me? - Yeah.
- You sure? - Uh-huh.
- You sure? - Mm-hmm.
- You sure?
♪ ♪
- Everything shifted in your marriage.
But as you leaned in, Shaquille pulled back.
- Shaquille, it was always hard to read him because sometimes
if I feel like he had a lack of interest in something,
he didn't really give it much attention.
- Do you think you were one of those things?
- I know for sure I was.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Shaq, is that true? - No.
I like Kirsten. I liked her from day one.
- You like her?
Or did you start to fall in love with your wife?
- I wanted to fall in love with Kirsten.
♪ ♪
- Why didn't you? - I didn't. It was hard.
- Why? - I think it was hard
because it was just, like, a lot of pressure.
And it was like, I don't know if I'm doing good
or doing bad in the moment.
And I'm like, Kirsten, I definitely
want to be with you, but I don't know how.
- Shaquille and I had this conversation
because I saw that he was putting a lot of pressure
on himself. - Mm-hmm, I was.
- And I was like, Shaquille, just calm down.
Like, I don't want you to feel overwhelmed.
I don't want you to feel pressure.
I don't want you to feel forced.
- And when you say pressure, how?
- Because this is a really tough experience.
- Mm-hmm.
- He had told me one time he wasn't his best self.
It was several times where he'd shut down.
And I'm just like, if you keep shutting down,
we can't move forward.
We cannot.
I really feel like the process
had just got the best of him, honestly.
- But now, looking back through the process,
I can acknowledge, like, my flaws
and say, like, wow, like... - Me too, yeah.
- I didn't even know I did it at that point in time.
And I didn't know how that made her feel, like, at that moment.
- I definitely feel the same way, too.
Like, after just reflecting over the entire process,
like, it would have been great if I just accepted him
and been like, okay, we got this.
We're together. This is what we're doing.
- We're in it. - We're in it. Yeah.
- So, through all of this, it seemed like there was
this relationship that was brewing,
that everything was gonna be all good
and everything was bubbling up.
And even though y'all
had these little dustups going into Decision Day,
there was no way in the world anybody thought
that y'all weren't going to be together.
What happened?
And what was going through your mind
that you said no on Decision Day?
♪ ♪
- For me, I didn't know
it was ever going to be a no.
I was a yes, you know.
- Well, then hold on. What made you say no?
- I'm gon'--I'm gon'-- I'm gonna get to that point.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
Coming up... - A prophet called me...
and basically said, you got some important decisions
that you need to make in your life.
- Prophet who? - Mind you, they don't know--
- Whoa, prophet who, prophet what?
- This guy who's in my PhD program.
He's a pastor. - Okay. All right.
- So he was like, you know, you got some important decisions
in your life you need to make.
Like, it may be a time to be selfish,
but make a decision for you.
- Did you feel like all indications were yes, right?
- I always felt like it was an indifferent--
like, very indecisive decision.
- Yeah, same.
- I knew going into that day, on Decision Day,
like, it was no way that I knew for sure
Shaquille was going to say yes,
or it was no way that I knew for sure
that Shaquille was going to say no
because he didn't tell me that.
- You were that uncertain. - That uncertain.
- I just wasn't for sure that I could be the husband
that Kirsten wanted and needed me to be.
And...
- How? In what way?
- I think Kirsten just wanted me to be like,
forget the job, forget life, forget friends, forget family--
Shaquille/Kirsten.
- That's not what I wanted, Shaquille.
- What do you mean Shaquille/Kirsten?
What does he mean?
Wait, what do you mean by Shaquille/Kirsten?
- Like, it's us in this world. It's just us.
And Kirsten would say, we need to spend more time together.
We need to talk.
And we would spend more time together and talk.
And more so for me, I felt like it was a lack of support.
- But I'm confused on how that had anything
to do with the expectations
that you felt were so heavy
that you had to say no to her on Decision Day.
- Shaquille didn't want to be married.
That's it. That's what it boils down to.
- Is that it? - No.
- He said no on Decision Day,
so that means he didn't want to be.
- I definitely wanted to be married, but it was just--
Like, I don't know if Kirsten and I were soul mates.
- And that's understandable. - I have a shocker here.
Most people are not married to their soul mate.
You understand? You understand that, right?
- I mean, but-- - You are not--
there's a good chance you gon' find a great woman,
a beautiful woman that you love,
and she will grow into your heart and soul.
But you're not gon' walk up on somebody,
and there are gon' be like... [vocalizes angelically]
Like, there's going to be a little halo over their head.
- He's not going to get another Kirsten.
He just missed out.
Like, he's going to wish he would have said yes.
- And what do I say, Kirsten, all the time?
I want the best for you.
- He sat there and said-- - Do I not say that?
- When we had filmed afterwards,
he was like, I wish we would have stayed together,
stayed married, like, I wanted to be with you.
If you wanted that, you would have done that,
but he did not do that.
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If you want to be married with someone,
you would not ask for a divorce.
- Did you feel blindsided by that?
- I definitely felt blindsided.
And then he start crying.
And I'm like, honey, what are you crying for?
I should be crying.
You literally just said you don't--
- You looked at him like you wanted to strangle him.
- He almost got strangled. - Yeah?
- Thank God I was, you know, in my right mind.
And I was like, okay, we're gonna be all right.
I'm gonna be okay.
Like, this is his loss.
We could have really gotten to know each other
outside of filming.
And that's, you know,
the biggest and most important thing
I felt like would have changed our marriage.
- Listen, first of all, I don't mean to make light of it.
But when you said that a prophet from your PhD program
told you to do something for you
and that made you say no--
- No, I didn't say that made me--
I was just saying that happened.
- It helped you push. - It just made me think.
Even at Decision Day when Kirsten gave her answer,
I wasn't even confident at the end
that she was about to say yes.
- When did it become a no?
- It didn't become a no till literally I walked out
there on the couch and sat in front
of Dr. Pepper and Pastor Cal.
And that's when it hit me that it was going to be a no.
Honestly, I thought it was going to be a yes.
Everybody thought it was going to be a yes.
- Yeah, we all did.
What would it have taken for it to be a yes?
- Well, needed more support. - What do you mean?
- As, like, a wife that want to be a part of my life.
I think we were too busy battling each other,
what somebody said,
or, you know, we need to do this and we need to do that
other than just enjoying each other's time.
And I think it was so many times to where
we wasn't able to just enjoy each other.
- And that's why I said that we needed
more time to be together
so that we could freely enjoy each other.
- Because more time would have given you time to work on that.
- Exactly, exactly. It definitely would have.
And then every time Shaquille mentioned eight weeks.
Like, we got eight weeks. We got eight weeks.
No, this was supposed to be a lifetime.
And then let's extend those eight weeks to see
what could become after that.
But we didn't have the opportunity.
- But more so, I didn't really know what marriage looks like.
When the experts would give us tasks,
I would do a lot of self-awareness and say like,
dang, I didn't know I was doing this.
Or we would have conversations,
and I would try to work to get better
or be the husband or the man that Kirsten needed me to be.
But, ultimately, I did get in my head
and didn't think I was good enough for Kirsten.
- And that was your own personal decision.
I never said that to you. - And I got in my head.
- And I never said that to you. - So wait a minute.
So you didn't think you were good enough for Kirsten?
- I didn't think I was good enough for Kirsten.
- You didn't think you could make her happy.
- I did not.
- And that caused you to say no.
- That caused me to say no.
- Do you regret that decision?
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Next week on part two of
the "Married at First Sight Nashville Reunion."
What makes you better for Gina than Clint?
- We share life experiences.
- Hey, guys, we had sex last night and this morning.
Like, you're welcome.
- Clint, you and Dom had a pretty steamy kiss.
And then you were gonna blow her back out.
- Dude!
- Is this a little violation of the bro code?
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- Nicole was, like, giving me smoke.
It was just a lot.
- How did Kirsten lie to you?
I mean, you just dumped the dude.
- She said she wanted to drink my bath water.
- I'm speechless.
- I'm glad he regrets it.
- Will there be a second date? Has there been a second date?
- That's what it could have been.
- It still could be.
- Honestly, I'm just lost for words.
- What is wrong with me? What are these feelings?
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