- Jessi Draper Ngatikaura recently confirmed she had an emotional affair with Vanderpump Villa’s Marciano Brunette on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 3.
- She admitted it went down when she was briefly separated from her husband, Jordan Ngatikaura.
- During an appearance on Harry Jowsey’s Boyfriend Material podcast, Marciano dropped a bunch of updates—and asked the host to remove one of his quotes mid-interview.
Marciano Brunette is out here, still dropping bombshells about his emotional affair with The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Jessi Draper Ngatikaura. After he virtually showed up during the SLMOW reunion to discuss what went down with Jessi—and subsequently sued her co-star, Demi Engemann, for defamation—Marciano hopped on the mic for Harry Jowsey’s Boyfriend Material podcast to discuss the details.
Of course, his tell-all interview included revelations about the timeline of his affair with Jessi and where he stands with her and her husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, in the aftermath.
The Vanderpump Villa star claimed that the last time he spoke to Jessi was right before the season 2 premiere of SLOMW.
“I’ve been trying to be respectful and leave her out of all these things and go to Jordan instead,” he explained. “Because before I would go right to Jessi. But now I feel like I’m compelled to talk to Jordan and do the right thing.”
Don’t get it twisted, though. Just because Marciano’s on “texting terms” with Jordan doesn’t mean they’re totally cool. “He definitely hates me for sure. But I think we’re at an understanding now that we are cordial. We can speak to each other,” he added. “We’re on texting terms at least. But he has also repetitively told me, ‘Hey, we’re never gonna be friends.’ We can be in the same scene together, and we can be in the same room together and be cordial.”
As he dished about the drama, Marciano also let a certain detail slip in the heat of the moment.
“Jordan was going through her phone. Damn it. Oh, I didn’t want to say that,” he said before Harry offered to “cut it” from the December 9 episode. Marciano then cautiously continued his story, adding, “Either way, whatever. Jordan was going through her phone back in Utah and ends up calling production and is like, ‘I think Marciano and Jessi are still having an affair.’ I was like, ‘No, what?’ So production ends up calling Jessi and ends up calling me. We’re like, ‘No, we’re just we’re just talking.’ That was the last time I heard from her.”
While things have seemingly calmed down between Marciano and the Ngatikauras, he and Demi are still in the thick of their feud, as she alleged that he had groped her during the SLOMW cast trip to Italy.
“Everyone is going to handle these kinds of situations different. You never deserve unwanted touch,” Demi said in a confessional on the show’s third season. “No matter what it looks like, no matter what your relationship was like before or after, unwanted touch is unwanted touch.”
“This has fucking changed me as a person,” Marciano said of the scandal during his conversation with Harry. “In my mind, people think I’ve sexually assaulted someone. You think that’s not going to fuck with my head and mentally traumatize me where I am so overly cautious of every word and everything I do with anyone?”
On multiple occasions, Marciano insisted that he consensually kissed Demi off-camera. He has since fired back at her claims, suing her for defamation of character. In legal documents obtained by E! News, he alleges that Demi “reframed the obviously consensual interaction as one of sexual misconduct and then as sexual assault.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives cast members have yet to react to Marciano’s podcast appearance, if at all.
