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Marciano Brunette dropped an alleged message exchange with Demi Engemann amid allegations surrounding their past interactions on Vanderpump Villa. Meanwhile, Jen Affleck and her husband, Zac Affleck, hinted at “receipts” against Demi.
On the latest season of Vanderpump Villa, stars from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives visited the castle in Italy, where they met Marciano. Some of Demi’s castmates suggested she had an inappropriate relationship with Marciano at the time. Marciano later hinted that Demi wanted to prevent him from telling the truth to her husband, Brett Engemann, about what happened between them. Demi, however, alleged that Marciano touched her inappropriately.
On TikTok, Marciano revealed a screenshot of an alleged message exchange with Demi.
“Alright, here’s the deal. You guys want receipts, so I’m gonna give you what I can,” said Marciano. “Unfortunately, though, it’s not everything, but I’m at least trying to show you how this all started and went down.”
“That being said, I had just been fired off Vanderpump Villa, and I was sitting at an airport bar having some vino … And I decided to post about it immediately,” he said. “I then get a follow and a DM from Demi. I was like, ‘Oh, okay, interesting’ … I was just as shocked. [And I] made a lighthearted joke about it. And from there she tells me to call her.”
Then, Demi allegedly gave Marciano her phone number.
“[This] led to [a] multiple-hour conversation,” he continued. “So what I’m trying to say is that Demi has made some crazy allegations about me. Crazy. But if that were the case, why are you following me? Why are you DMing me? Why are you giving me your phone number, and proceed to have multiple hours of conversation, and have a continued relationship after that? Yeah, doesn’t make sense to me whatsoever. So all I’m gonna say is that there is so much more of this that is going to come out.”
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@marcianobrunette What has been said about me ISN’T ADDING UP! There is so much more I want to speak on but trust me a lot more will come to light! 🙏
Meanwhile, in a recent interview for The Viall Files podcast, Jen and Zac also addressed the controversy.
“Demi pushed boundaries in Vanderpump Villa,” said Jen, via The Blast. “I called her out for it, and she was very upset in Italy. She was like, ‘How dare you tell me what my own boundaries are in my marriage. I can do what I want.'”
Zac chimed in, “I was back in Arizona in medical school and Jen called me and was like, yeah, Demi’s just been crying in her room for the last hour. She feels so bad, she feels like she’s cheated on her husband. Well, why? Because she was sitting on his lap, she was kissing him, all these things that were never shown in the edit.”
According to Jen, this has happened before. She claimed she’s heard other things concerning her past marriages. Jen also stated that she doesn’t want to get involved in what transpired. The star then alleged that Demi cried in a phone call with Brett, and she later told Jen she “may have pushed this too far,” but she asked her to “please not tell anyone.”
“At that point, I’ll be straight up, she was never truly a true friend to me. She [has] never been loyal to me. She exposed all of my text messages in Vegas for her own benefit and for her own storyline. It never felt like she was a true, loyal friend to me,” Jen expressed. “So, at that point, I told Mikayla, I’m not a loyal friend to her. So if she comes at me and my marriage again, season two, I’m going to bring this up because it’s not fair, it’s not fair for you to keep pointing fingers at my marriage, make your whole storyline about how I’m in this toxic marriage, but then we don’t talk about your marriage, cause we all know there are things happening.”
She said Demi called her in an attempt to “coach” her about “what to say if they ask me about Vanderpump Villa,” and Jen has a “voice recording” to prove it.
Zac added that Demi’s “story doesn’t add up” when you look at the “receipts.” He accused her of trying to control the situation so the finger would be pointed at Jen’s marriage instead of her own.
“And then the whole time she’s bullying my wife, she’s making TikToks with her husband — she’s trying to get the whole group to make Jen look like she’s a liar,” he said, via @realityops on Instagram. “She’s honestly very manipulative.”
Jen continued, “Right after Vanderpump Villa, she was inviting [Marciano] to a dinner. Like, I have voice recordings of her saying, ‘I want him to come to dinner.’ And I said … Absolutely not. I will not be at that dinner. I do not want to be associated with that man’ … And then she said, ‘I want to invite him to the premiere. I think it would be a great time.’ And then I heard from the other girls, there was like weird DMs that she was sending him, and she was FaceTiming him.”
Jen hinted that fans will see the receipts against Demi.