Married at First Sight star Katie Conrad claims she never had any hard feelings toward Taylor Dunklin after accusing her husband Derek Sherman of flirting with Taylor on the couples' retreat.
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During the April 8 broadcast of Lifetime's Married at First Sight: Unfiltered, Katie, Taylor and Married at First Sight expert Pastor Calvin Roberson watched back a Season 10 clip of Katie sitting across from Derek and Taylor at the dinner table on the couples' retreat.
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"Derek loves all the other wives but me," Katie said, as she watched Derek and Taylor laugh about things together.
After Taylor pointed out Derek was "hilarious," Katie told her to cut it out because it was ruining her marriage. Katie then stormed out of the dining room, mocking Taylor's words about how Derek was supposedly "so great" and she was "so lucky" to have him.
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Although the situation appeared tense between Katie and Taylor, Katie assured host Jamie Otis on Unfiltered that there's no bad blood between them.
"I never had any hard feelings towards Taylor. It was like as soon as we were able to talk about why I felt that way, we were good," Katie shared.
"No girl fight. Got it!" Jamie said.
"No girl fight, no," Katie confirmed. "We're not going there."
"Unlike me and [my husband Brandon Reid], me and Katie have productive arguments," Taylor said with a laugh on Unfiltered, referencing her tumultuous and often volatile marriage to Brandon on the show.
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"Yes," Katie noted.
Jamie asked Katie how she felt watching that clip back of her outburst.
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"I was heated. I was heated," Katie admitted. "I think it's my fault because I held a lot of things in up until that point and I wasn't really speaking my truth."
"So Taylor didn't know [how I was feeling]," Katie continued.
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"And that's why she was like, 'You're so lucky. You lucked out.' Because compared to what she got, she's like, 'You are so lucky! Derek is amazing!'"
Both Jamie and Pastor Cal laughed about how Katie poked fun at the show's choice of husband for Taylor and how their relationship worked out.
Jamie even admitted, "I do agree," that Taylor probably gushed about Derek because she was comparing him to Brandon, who was skeptical of Taylor's intentions throughout the show and picked fights over production following them around and Taylor hanging out with her friends.
When asked whether she knew why Katie walked away from the dinner table that night on the retreat, Taylor responded, "Yeah, no. I had no idea that she was actually upset because when I talk to Katie, she speaks so highly of Derek."
"She [shared] all the positives," Taylor added.
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Taylor, however, addressed Katie and said she could totally understand where Katie was coming from.
"I can definitely see how, like, you want this connection. You want to joke around and you want to be friendly with Derek," Taylor explained. "You want him to pursue you and talk to you like that."
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"Right," Katie acknowledged.
Pastor Cal agreed the ball was in Derek's court and he could've treated Katie differently at that couples' retreat.
"Yeah, he dropped the ball that time," Pastor Cal noted. "Every guy should make it a rule to never in public be friendlier with anyone more than he is with his own wife."
Jamie admitted she "would have been a little jealous too" had she been in Katie's shoes.
"I really would have," Jamie confessed.
Later in the Unfiltered broadcast, Katie owned up to having stirred up arguments with Derek just to get attention and test his feelings for her. She didn't feel Derek put much effort into their marriage when cameras weren't rolling.
However, with every fight came a resolution, and neither Derek or Katie wanted to give up on their marriage.
"I think Katie could be the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with, the person I want to madly love and never look back," Derek said in a confessional in the latest Married at First Sight episode.
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"So, I need to figure out how to reassure Katie that she should say, 'Yes,' [on Decision Day]. I want her to say, 'Yes.'"
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Katie, however, said she felt torn and wasn't sure Derek was "the" guy for her with only days remaining until "Decision Day," which will air on the next Married at First Sight broadcast on April 15. Katie worried she and Derek aren't compatible and had developed more of a friendship than a romance.
"I don't feel special at all... There is a giant emotional disconnect. As soon as I think I'm closing the gap, it shoots way open again," Katie explained to her father Dante.
Katie didn't think Derek knew how to express himself, and she called him "a boy" instead of a man.
Katie had been hoping for an older, more mature man waiting for her at the altar, but she said she got a baby-faced boy with a baby personality to match.
Married at First Sight's tenth season, which currently airs on Wednesday nights at 8PM ET/PT on Lifetime, also stars Michael Watson and Meka Jones as well as Jessica Studer and Austin Hurd.
The season's other couple, Zach Justice and Mindy Shiben, ended their marriage nearly two weeks before "Decision Day." However, viewers will receive an update on their relationship in the upcoming Married at First Sight episode.
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