Married at First Sight star Tristan Thompson immediately believed Mia Bally's story about her arrest -- no questions asked, and now he's explaining why he had blind trust in his wife of only two days.
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As shown on a previous episode of Married at First Sight, Mia was detained in a Texas airport while she and Tristan were traveling to Cancun, Mexico for their honeymoon.
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Mia was pulled away for questioning and spent two days in custody due to a warrant that had been issued for her arrest back in February.
Once Mia was released and returned home to her husband, Tristan asked whether the stalking claims he had read in the warrant were true and if she knew or had any type of relationship with the accuser -- all of which Mia denied.
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Mia insisted all claims against her, including unauthorized use of a man's credit card, were "100 percent false" and someone had stolen her identity. With that being said, Tristan dropped the topic, hugged his wife and pleaded they continue with their night as if nothing ever happened.
"And that was it?" Jamie Otis questioned Tristan on Tuesday night's Married at First Sight: Unfiltered special. "You were just able to let that [slide]?"
"Yeah, I had no reason to not trust my wife at that time as far as her word," Tristan replied.
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"So that's why I said, 'Okay, you have my complete trust. If you tell me it's not true, it's not true. I'm going to decide to trust you.' In the moment, I decided to trust her. And I said, 'Well, I don't want to keep on going through this. If you say that's it, you are my wife and I trust you, and it's not true."
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However, Mia apparently "came clean" to Tristan off-camera days later that she did, in fact, have a brief relationship with the man who had filed the arrest warrant.
"Really, in all honesty, I'm just living in the moment," Tristan recalled of the first night he spent with Mia once she was released from custody.
"I'm not even worried about tomorrow. And it's kind of like, 'Let's just -- whatever you say, I don't care. Let's just lay in bed and go to sleep.'"
"So you're saying you choose to believe Mia wholeheartedly in this moment?" Jamie probed.
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"In this moment, I'm choosing to believe her and I'm choosing just to try not to rock the boat," Tristan noted, adding he'll have no regrets at the end of this process because he absolutely saw it through.
Tristan and Jamie were also joined by Married at First Sight star Dave Flaherty and show expert Calvin Roberson on the Unfiltered episode.
"There's so much lead up to this, like you go through so much to prepare to be married, to be done after a couple of days and be done, like, I get that," Dave reasoned.
"I think it'd be really hard. Because you prepare, you gear up for the wedding, you go through the wedding, and then you really want to do this. You want to be married; you want to go through this. It's hard to walk away from that."
"That's a very good point that Dave just brought up," Tristan agreed. "Do I throw that all away? And I was like, 'No!' I didn't want to do that. I was like, 'I want to fight for this marriage.'"
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The arrest warrant had been issued after Mia's alleged ex-boyfriend, Jared Evans, claimed she had stalked him on multiple occasions in the 13 months that followed their December 2016 break-up and also made an unauthorized purchase of an Apple iPhone on his credit card a year after their split.
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