Married At First Sight groom Danny Hewitt has claimed he was the worst affected by his TV wife Bec Zacharia's infamous crude 'finger bang' comments that caused carnage during the couples' retreat. Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail, Danny, 34, admitted watching the drama unfold on screen again was anything but easy.
'It was stressful to be fair… stressful, a bit triggering,' he said. 'Bit of PTSD, you know what I mean? I probably should've just not watched it and gone to the pub instead.' Danny found himself at the centre of the retreat chaos after wife Bec Zacharia's 'finger bang' comment detonated one of the most uncomfortable moments of the season.
While the remark sparked outrage from Rachel Gilmore and divided the group, Danny insisted there was no malicious intent behind the joke. 'We know Rachel's sensitive. If you cracked that joke about me, I couldn't care less. But Rachel is sensitive, so Bec probably should have read the room a little bit better.' According to Danny, the comment came during what had been the most positive night of the entire experiment.
As tensions escalated following the fallout, Danny made the call to remove himself and Bec from the retreat entirely. 'I'd had enough of all the bulls**t, so I was just like, 'Let's get out of here.' The pair temporarily left the experiment and were later checked into a hotel away from the rest of the cast. Danny admitted the retreat placed him in what he described as the worst position of anyone in the experiment.
'If I don't stick up for Bec I'd be called a s*** husband. But when I do stick up for her, she's not always in the right. I just had to pick which loss I wanted to take.' He revealed tensions had already been brewing behind the scenes before the retreat incident, and he told Bec he wanted her to be 'ride or die' for him.
