Married at First Sight star Pastor Calvin Roberson appears to have thrown some major shade at Alyssa Ellman, whose marriage to Chris Collette just ended in divorce on the latest Season 14 episode.
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Pastor Cal and fellow Married at First Sight experts Dr. Viviana Coles and Dr. Pepper Schwartz matched Chris and Alyssa to wed on the show's fourteenth season as complete strangers, but their marriage turned out to be a disaster.
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Before it aired, Pastor Cal posted a teaser clip of Married at First Sight's February 16 episode of his first sit-down conversation with Alyssa and Chris after the couple's tumultuous honeymoon in Puerto Rico on his Instagram account.
"Unfortunately, some people think they know what they want but really don't," Pastor Cal captioned the footage, in part.
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"And then there are others who are dishonest throughout the process. We may not always be able to tell the difference between the two but in the end, the truth always prevails."
When this counseling session filmed one week into the extreme marriage experiment, Alyssa and Chris were supposed to have moved into a "neutral" Boston, MA, apartment together, but Alyssa refused to live with her new husband.
The clip therefore showed Pastor Cal asking Alyssa and Chris to explain the "trouble in paradise" they had been experiencing.
"Alyssa from the wedding night has had no interest in being married to me," Chris said during the couples' counseling session.
"She said we're not compatible. She's used the phrase 'robbed' and 'gypped' -- and it started the night of the wedding."
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Pastor Cal then asked Alyssa when she first felt disappointed in being matched with Chris for matrimony.
"When I first saw him," Alyssa replied in the clip.
"And I think that was when I first started to be like, 'Oh my God, what did I get myself into?' Sharing the bed thing has never been something I've been comfortable with no matter who the person is."
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Pastor Cal countered, "But you do know you were getting married?"
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"No, I know," Alyssa responded.
Chris interjected, "I think there are a lot of reasons to still be here, but I don't think marriage is the one that you're here for."
Alyssa snapped back while wiping her tears, "I'm not a bad person, and I'm a good person."
Pastor Cal captioned his Instagram post, "We always have high hopes for all of the participants chosen on married at first sight. But, to make marriage work, two people must be willing."
"This is not just a show for me," he continued. "It's about helping real people with real feelings, who are really married and are dealing with real issues."
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Pastor Cal went on to write about how some people think they know what they want when they really don't and "there are others who are dishonest throughout the process."
He concluded, as mentioned above, "We may not always be able to tell the difference between the two but in the end, the truth always prevails," and he also wrote the following hashtags: #marriageaintforpunks #readthebook #studythebook."
The host of Married at First Sight: Afterparty on Lifetime, Keshia Knight Pulliam -- who has interviewed both Alyssa and Chris on her talk show -- commented on Pastor Cal's post with three clapping-hands emojis.
Dr. Viviana also recently slammed Alyssa for disrespecting the process and not being respectful to her husband.
"I believe Alyssa went into this with all the good intentions and I THINK, like so many others, she thought, 'Well if it doesn't work out with us, at least I can meet amazing women and we will join the ranks of all the other #mafsbrides who came before us and make the best of it,'" Viviana reasoned.
"I actually think that is not the worst way to look at this process."
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Viviana proceeded to put a big "BUT" in her next tweet.
"BUT because at the point [Alyssa] is refusing to communicate with her husband, she is refusing to be respectful to him, and she is disrespecting the process that has produced many loving families, I'm hopeful that this awful situation will be addressed accordingly," Viviana wrote.
"I have never had any reason to believe that anyone involved with this process is into this. But I guess you'll have to see for yourselves."
Only hours after their wedding ceremony, Alyssa determined that Chris wasn't her type and they weren't a good match for a number of alleged reasons.
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Alyssa therefore slept in a different hotel room from her husband on their wedding night and managed to keep her distance from Chris for the majority of their honeymoon in San Juan.
Instead of trying to talk to Chris and get to know him better, Alyssa appeared to shut down -- and she could barely tolerate her husband. At one point, Alyssa even criticized Chris' "aggressive" hand gestures when talking to producers.
Due to Alyssa's apparent lack of effort in the relationship, Chris questioned his wife's intentions for going on the series to begin with and for wanting to stay in their marriage at all.
"I do not want to talk to him! I hate him!" Alyssa yelled at a producer. "He's a f-cking assh-le! He's disrespectful and he's rude and he's doing me dirty."
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Alyssa continued to lament, "It's f-cking disgusting that a man is treating a woman like that, who's been nothing but nice to him! I am a good person and if I don't come off that way on the show, I'm going to be f-cking pissed!"
At the end of the honeymoon, Alyssa told Chris that she didn't want to live with him once they returned to Boston, but Alyssa told her husband during their chat with Pastor Cal that she'd still like to "work on things" and see what they "could do."
Alyssa looked at Chris during Wednesday night's episode and explained, "I wanted to come here today because I don't like the way things have been going and I don't like how they got here. I've been in a better headspace since I've gotten home and I'm still working towards that."
She added, "[I want] to stop the pattern... and figure out how we can move forward from this place that we're in."
Chris, however, was on a different page after feeling totally rejected for a week.
"For me, this is my 'Decision Day,'" Chris stated.
"Are you saying that you want a divorce?" Pastor Cal asked.
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"I want a divorce," Chris confirmed.
Alyssa started to cry and vented about how she had worked so hard to get to this point and never thought this would be the outcome -- a situation of "arguing, miscommunication, disrespect and feeling alone."
Chris simply determined he and Alyssa would be happier long-term apart and if he wasn't her top priority for continuing the process, then he didn't want to continue the marriage at all.
"I'm angry, I'm disappointed, I'm frustrated still. But it's never been about who I was matched with, it's never been about the process, it's always been about that the person I married didn't even want to try to be married to me," Chris concluded.
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