Married At First Sight’s Bryce Ruthven breaks down and tells Melissa Rawson he wants to leave show

On Sunday’s episode of Married At First Sight Australia, Bryce Ruthven broke down and told his bride Melissa Rawson he wanted to leave the show. 

Melissa, 31, confronted the radio announcer, 31, about his ‘secret girlfriend’ in Canberra, and Bryce responded in a flood of tears.   

‘It’s just constant attack after attack, accusations, lies brought up. I am leaving the experiment today. If you want come with me, that’d be great. If not I could understand. You have reasons to not want to come with me,’ he said. 

Melissa replied: ‘I don’t want to leave and be that couple they’re trying to hide something. We literally have a day left in the experiment. Tomorrow, we go pour separate ways and we work out what we need to do’. 

‘I’m just so sick and tired of this situation… Honestly I copped this last night. I’ve copped it the whole experiment, and I’m gonna go home…’cause I’m sick of this. I’m wanna go home,’ he said, breaking down. 

Comforting him, Melissa begged, ‘please don’t’ while a weeping Bryce sobbed between his hands. 

‘No, honestly, I’m so sick of this. I hate it,’ he wept, as Melissa cuddled him close. 

Melissa took the breakdown as a positive sign, saying, ‘it shows me just what our relationship means to him. You can’t fake emotion like that’. 

However not everyone was convinced, with some fans online accusing Bryce of ‘faking’ the tears. 

One person Tweeted: ‘No Melissa, Bryce breaks down every time he’s caught out. He then deflects the situation so that it’s 100% focused on him being the victim and you’re there to reassure him and thus feel needed… the toxic cycle continues’. 

Another added: ‘When Bryce gets exposed and confronted again, so he needs to play the victim again’. 

Someone else wrote: ‘Here we go with the ‘I’m the victim’ phases with the Narcissist – ‘Feel sorry for me’. And Yes Melissa you can Fake AN emotion you can Fake All emotions – Bryce has faked this whole relationship.’