Married at First Sight star Jamie Marinos has revealed the shocking way she found out a man she once dated dating for a year was a meth addict.
Jamie, 28, had It's A Lot podcast host Abbie Chatfield gasping for air as she shared her 'nightmare fuel' dating story on Friday.
The bubbly blonde, who was matched with groom Dave Hand on the experiment, met her now-ex on Tinder in 2022.
She described her on-and-off relationship with the 'gorgeous' and 'heavily tattooed' Melbourne DJ — who would routinely disappear before reeling her back in — as a 'toxic cycle that [she] couldn't break'.
The season 12 fan favourite bride had been single for five years before she moved to Melbourne from her native South Australia.
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Married at First Sight star Jamie Marinos has revealed the shocking way she found out that the man she'd been dating for one year was a meth addict on Abbie Chatfield's It's A Lot podcast
'I was in a new city and this was really exciting so I did what any woman would do and I go on Tinder,' she told Abbie.
'Obviously, I met some really horrific men in this process and then got what felt like a good match.'
'It was one of those things we were really hyper-affectionate off the bat. We were bantering non-stop and I didn't want to stop speaking to him. It was hard and fast,' Jamie continued.
'He had a robust vocabulary and that's very attractive to me. I thought, "He's not a complete dud this is amazing."
'He's a DJ and worked in sales. I love a bit of a party boy. This is my problem, the party boys are not it.'
Jamie had started seeing the DJ and had met him a couple of times 'when the first ghost happened'.
Ghosting is the common online dating practice of ending a personal relationship with by suddenly, and without explanation, withdrawing from all communication.
They had made plans to meet up before he abruptly stopped responding to her messages.
![She described her on-and-off relationship with the 'gorgeous' and 'heavily tattooed' Melbourne DJ — who would routinely disappear before reeling her back in — as a 'toxic cycle that [she] couldn't break'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/05/23/02/98673379-14741469-image-m-25_1747964262546.jpg)
She described her on-and-off relationship with the 'gorgeous' and 'heavily tattooed' Melbourne DJ — who would routinely disappear before reeling her back in — as a 'toxic cycle that [she] couldn't break'
'That was kind of the trend for the next year,' Jamie revealed to Abbie's dismay.
'This man had me in a chokehold.'
Jamie explained the DJ would 'love bomb' her and 'blow up [her] phone' – only to 'ghost' her out of the blue.
He would then resume contact after a few weeks, or months, of silence, as if nothing had happened.
Jamie told Abbie she believes her ex's unattainability is what kept her coming back for more.
'It made it like a challenge for me. It was the most toxic situation. We'd get into arguments. He'd say I wasn't putting enough effort in. It was such a bamboozle,' she said.
'But he was someone that, even if went silent for a couple months, I knew he'd come back.'
By the end of 2023, Jamie had been seeing the DJ on-and-off for an entire year when she got the 'rare' opportunity to catch him in person.
Jamie left Abbie on the edgy of her seat with her story and the former Bachelor star admitted she was shocked when she told her about his drug habit rather than the stock standard 'he cheated' tale
She and her sister were both working at the same nightclub when he sent her a message, inviting them to his friend's house.
'He was calling my phone and shared the address, and was harassing me about when I was coming,' Jamie said.
They arrived at the friend's house, had one drink, and after about 10 minutes, her ex said he had to go out 'for an errand'.
Her ex's friend then invited them to watch the White Chicks movie with him while they waited. The movie finished and Jamie's ex still hadn't come back.
When he did eventually return, he went straight up to his bedroom, without saying a word, and shut the door.
'The friend said: "He gets a bit like that. He smokes meth",' Jamie recalled.
'So I found out I was in a situationship with a meth head.
'And then I brought this information to other people that knew him and everyone knew. Everyone's like, "of course, he is! You didn't know that??"
Since leaving the experiment, Jamie has moved into a supervisor role at a nightclub in Melbourne, where she works two days per week to maintain a sense of 'normalcy' amid her newfound fame
'He didn't remember things. He'd get moody. The frantic texts. The going missing. No wonder I couldn't make sense of this man, he was on meth the whole time!'
'The extreme ups and downs then made perfect sense to me but I wish anyone would've told me!' Jamie added.
She said that she and the DJ remained in touch, strictly as friends, after she learned the truth.
Jamie left Abbie on the edgy of her seat with her story and the former Bachelor star admitted she was shocked when she told her about his drug habit rather than the stock standard 'he cheated' tale.
'I thought this is a classic Australian man,' Abbie said in horror.
'We know things are bad in the Australian dating scene when I didn't think that was happening at all. I thought this was a normal story.
'I didn't think it was going to meth, I thought he's got a girlfriend or something.'
'Men in Australia are mirroring the behaviour of meth addicts,' Abbie declared.
'That is not good.'
Since leaving the experiment, Jamie has moved into a supervisor role at a nightclub in Melbourne, where she works two days per week to maintain a sense of 'normalcy' amid her newfound fame.
