Looking back with regret. Married at First Sight‘s Chris Collette and Alyssa Ellman chose to get a divorce only 12 days after meeting at the altar on the Lifetime reality series, and Us Weekly‘s exclusive sneak peek from the reunion special reveals that the bride has some regrets.“I came into this with the purest intentions,” Alyssa, 30, insists in the clip from the Wednesday, May 17, reunion as she and Chris, 35, sit down with host Kevin Frazier to look back at their relationship throughout MAFS season 14.
The other Boston couples have eight weeks to look back on, but Chris and Alyssa split shortly after their honeymoon.“I wanted to find my person more than anything,” Alyssa explains. “When it didn’t work out for me, I panicked, and I didn’t handle myself the way I would have liked.
And I’m sorry for that.”She adds that while she regrets her behavior, she doesn’t regret joining Married at First Sight. “But looking back now, I’m grateful for the things that I’ve learned,” she says. “I just want everyone to know that I came into that for the right reasons.”Throughout season 14, Chris felt that Alyssa wasn’t putting in the effort.
He suspected that the lack of physical attraction was the problem. Frazier questions whether Alyssa even gave her husband a real chance, but she doesn’t give a yes or no answer.“I wish there was things that I didn’t say because of the mental state that I was in,” she explains. “I didn’t feel like it was right, right away.
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