A MARRIED At First Sight star has been branded ‘nasty and disgusting’ by a show rival, in a row over a podcast.
In the special one-off episode, which aired on Monday night, Erica Roberts appeared at a dinner with a host of other brides and grooms from the E4 favourite.
But since her appearance on the show, an explosive feud has broken out between her and Sacha, from the most recent series.
The feud began after Scottish reality star Erica said on a podcast: “Obviously she’s found God and stuff,” while talking about Sacha.
Her co-host then laughed and repeated what Erica had said, to which a smirking Erica responded: “She has.”
Sacha then shared the clip on her social media, and wrote over it: “Laughing at my religion? Why would they leave this in the edit? Doesn’t make the podcast look very cute. Had loads of messages about this, way to offend a whole community. Really gunning for me.”
Erica has now addressed the moment Sacha was upset about in an interview with The Tab.
She said: “Absolutely NO ONE laughed at her or anyone’s religion. Watching the pod back we can see how it sort of looks as if Meryl laughs at me saying ‘she got up before me and did a speech about how she found God and stuff’ – ultimately Meryl laughed at my wording of ‘God and stuff.
“Meryl is religious and believes in God herself so why would she laugh about that? And I would never judge or mock anyone’s faith and beliefs as I have a good few religious friends. She is simply blowing this way out of proportion and what she’s doing is actually extremely damaging and nasty.”
Erica continued: “I’m actually quite shocked someone who preaches the way she does is behaving like this knowing the hate, abuse and unnecessary drama it’s going to send to my door.
“But moral of the story, there was absolutely no judgement, her accusations are all completely false and her behaviour is disgusting.”
This week, Sacha went further to say their feud has been the result of the "Devil's work".
Speaking in a TikTok video, she said: "It's become quite evident to me that what I'm experiencing is spiritual warfare, a spiritual attack.
"Due to being so open about my faith on TV.
"Obviously the devil doesn't like that, evil doesn't like that, it will try and tear you down.
"It was something that I was warned about this."
She added that she "won't rise" to the backlash.
The feud between the two women came to light when Sacha took to Instagram after she was accused of leaking information about an alleged fling between her ex Ross McCarthy and Erica.
In a long statement, she strongly denied that she was behind the story.
"Apparently I leaked the story on Ross messaging Erica, when we was together, calling her beautiful," Sacha said.
"I didn't deny it, that's true, but I wouldn't leak it. I don't care that much."
Sacha then went on to reveal how she didn't like Erica because she was a "mean girl" at this week's reunion.
She continued: "I unfollowed Erica because she wasn't very nice at the reunion.
"Shouting things about how our season didn't know how to dress, pulling faces over to Ella and whispering things about people.
"She seemed a really mean girl. Had nothing to do with Ross."
