In MAFS Australia 2025 confessions week, Adrian was tasked with writing a letter to his bride Awhina. The couples were challenged to write a note to one another, to open up about their vulnerabilities.
However, Adrian straight up refused to write one. This didn’t impress Awhina, who had taken the time to write a letter for Adrian. She then hid hers away. It seemed Adrian hadn’t liked being previously put on the spot about cheating on a partner, and when a producer asked him further about it, he hinted he may have had crossovers before, but never in an official relationship.
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At the time, Adrian said he simply did’t want to share intimate parts of his life with Awhina. She felt she’d put a lot of effort into writing her letter, and was more invested in the experiment than him.
Speaking with Yahoo Lifestyle since the incident, Adrian has opened up more about his decision. He said despite how it may have looked, he is “100 per cent an honest person”. He said he will always give a truthful answer when asked a question.
However, he said his reasoning for not writing a letter was because he didn’t feel close enough to Awhina. He explained the challenge was set after knowing her for “around 10 days” and he wasn’t ready to open up about his past.
“To be honest, where my head was going at that time, it was a harder time in my life,” he said. “And when you go through those moments and you relive those moments and you write them down, you embody those feelings again.
“I was just like, I don’t know if I’m ready to share this message with someone I just met, because in the past, I’ve told people personal things and they’ve burned me with it. So I didn’t know Awhina enough to want to share that message with her just in case one day she would throw it back in my face.”
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He also said he held back because he knew the show is watched by so many people. Adrian added: “At the time, I didn’t want to share that message with the world. Even though we are on a TV show, I think there are things that everyone needs to keep private to themselves or to their loved ones and people they can trust.
“At that time, I didn’t know if I could trust Awhina in that sense of like, is she going to throw this back in my face later? But eventually, I told her. When I got to know her, I told her exactly what I was supposed to write that day.”
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