Married at First Sight star Taylor Dunklin admits she doesn't regret posting her Instagram video claiming to be single while married to Brandon Reid, and show expert Dr. Viviana Coles is calling her out.
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After a fight with Brandon, Taylor went out with her girlfriends one night and posted a video on Instagram Stories claiming she was single and having problems "finding the right man."
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The video -- which listed Taylor's "requirements," including a man who's "fine as hell" and 6'3" or taller -- crushed Brandon and resulted in him moving out of their apartment and wanting to end their marriage prematurely.
"Do you regret posting this video or do you stand by it?" host Jamie Otis asked on the March 4 episode of Married at First Sight: Unfiltered on Lifetime.
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"Umm, so, I don't regret posting the video at all," Taylor confessed, "because it really did get a lot of people off my back about asking if I'm in a relationship."
Taylor claimed on Unfiltered she had posted the disrespectful video in order to keep her marriage to Brandon and participation on Married at First Sight's tenth season a secret from fans of the show and her social-media followers.
Taylor alleged she had told Brandon her reasoning -- but only after he saw the video and was offended and disgusted by it.
"But I do wish that maybe I should've talked to Brandon first. That's what I wish would be different," Taylor admitted.
Brandon was particularly hurt at the time because he believed Taylor didn't think she was in the wrong for posting that video.
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Based on what Married at First Sight aired, Taylor never really apologized to Brandon or took any responsibility or fault for what she had done. Brandon thought Taylor's behavior indicated she didn't want to be married or committed to him.
On the contrary, however, Taylor claimed she "apologized for making the video."
"I said, 'I'm sorry the video made you feel like that.' I didn't do it in such a malicious way that I deserve to be, like, in the wrong. Did I make a mistake? Yeah," Taylor explained on Unfiltered.
Viviana -- one of the three experts who matched Taylor and Brandon to wed on Season 10 -- apparently didn't like the way Taylor chose to "apologize."
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"'I'm sorry if it made you feel that way.' We've all been on the receiving end of an apology like that, where it's like, 'I'm sorry that you felt that way,'" Viviana said.
"And for somebody who doesn't trust, for [Brandon], it's like, you didn't apologize -- you were just saying, 'I'm sorry you felt this way.' I wonder if he didn't feel like it was an apology."
Taylor attempted to clarify, "No, it's like, 'I'm sorry you saw the video and had that reaction to it.'"
Based on Jamie's facial expression and reaction, she didn't seem to think Taylor's clarification was anything different from what Viviana had been trying to explain.
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"Again, you're not saying, 'I'm sorry I did that,'" Viviana pointed out.
"No, I did say I'm sorry I did that!" Taylor insisted.
"Oh okay," Viviana conceded.
"I said, 'I made the mistake. Let me apologize for making [you upset and] let me tell you why I did that,'" Taylor recalled.
Also in the video, Taylor shared with her Instagram followers she wanted to find a man who has a job, has never been to jail, and has his "sanity in check."
"I feel like I have the most minimal f-cking requirements to finding a man and not a soul meets them. So, I guess I'll just be single forever," Taylor said in the video.
In the latest episode, Married at First Sight expert Dr. Pepper Schwartz met up with Brandon and Taylor together to get to the bottom of things. This was the first time the couple had seen each other since Brandon left his keys at the apartment and took off.
Although Taylor initially told Dr. Viviana Coles she posted the video to be funny and simply share her struggles with friends, she told Dr. Pepper a different story.
"He took his anger at production and then changed it to me," Taylor vented of Brandon's behavior at the end of their honeymoon in Panama.
"I told him, 'I'm not going to tolerate disrespect.' And I've been disrespected every day. If I'm not being disrespected, I'm being ignored every day. And it's just like, 'You know? I'm done.' That's why I posted the video."
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Dr. Pepper pointed out each party had done something seriously wrong in their marriage and so they must forgive each other and move forward, but Brandon said it would be hard since Taylor wasn't owning up to her mistakes.
"So where are we?" Dr. Pepper asked.
"I'm done," Brandon noted with a laugh.
"I'm over this. I can't be with her. She's not sorry! There's not one person who would see that video and not think it's disgusting. She was trying to hurt me and I can't be with someone like that."
Brandon also claimed men had been calling Taylor's phone at 3AM and she had probably signed up for Married at First Sight to be on a TV show. Brandon alleged Taylor had attempted to star on other reality TV shows in the past, like Temptation Island.
"And there's nothing I can say or do?" Dr. Pepper asked.
"No," Brandon replied, before removing his microphone and storming out of the apartment.
But Taylor still had feelings for Brandon and didn't want to have a failed marriage. She therefore wondered if they could both try again and planned to invite Brandon to a party hosted by one of her friends.
Married at First Sight, which currently airs on Wednesday nights at 8PM ET/PT on Lifetime, also stars Michael Watson and Meka Jones, Mindy Shiben and Zach Justice, Jessica Studer and Austin Hurd, and Katie Conrad and Derek Sherman.
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