Eddy and Alex‘s segment at the Farmer Wants a Wife (FWAW) reunion took a dark turn when Alex confronted his ex over the breakup, making it clear that he thought she didn’t put in enough effort.
The awkward encounter went on for a while, with Alex at one point taking a jab at Eddy saying he can appreciate Eddy’s honesty “now”, seemingly insinuating that she wasn’t honest during their relationship.
The whole segment was rather uncomfortable for viewers, so we can only imagine how Eddy felt in the hot seat. In a post-reunion interview with WHO she said that she was surprised by the way Alex handled the couch session.
“I was really taken aback when he just started attacking me in front of everyone and on TV,” she said.
“I went in knowing that I was going to be respectful and kind, and I assumed that, at least while the cameras were rolling, Alex was going to show me the same kindness and respect.
“I had no way to prepare for that either, and I just think once I got into the situation, I was just in shock,” she said.
Eddy said that viewers didn’t get to see everything, revealing that there were points in Alex’s interrogation of her where both producers and the host Natalie Gruzlewski had to step in.
“The producers and the host Nat, they stood up for me and like intervened during points, and – it was just, yeah, thank goodness for them doing that, because I felt at times I couldn’t stand up for myself, and they were like, ‘Hey, you need to back off a bit, Alex’.”
Alex weighs in on how he approached Eddy at the FWAW Reunion
Farmer Alex has weighed in on Eddy’s reaction to the way he handled the FWAW Reunion, insisting his approach was justified.
“I don’t know if she was expecting me to talk the way I did, and that might have thrown her a little bit,” he told the publication. “I went in with some questions.
“She’s a smart girl. I had to believe that she would have expected me to have something to say because she’s already commented on how she thinks I’m an intense person. So, she would have assumed that I would have had things to say.”
However, Alex acknowledged that their different communication styles may have contributed to the uncomfortable exchange.
“She always said to me that I was more comfortable talking about my emotional states than she was, and so in some ways maybe it wasn’t fair for me to do what I did to her like that.
“I did what I did. I made the call I did at the time, and I hope it comes across as me being respectful. I didn’t mean to hurt her. I wasn’t out to hurt her. I just wanted to know why she did what she did.”
Stream the Farmer Wants a Wife Reunion on Channel 7 and 7Plus.
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