After Marciano Brunette claimed he had an affair with Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Ngatikaura — which she denied — Scheana Shay is now entering the conversation to share what she saw take place.
“I have no NDA signed. I can say whatever the f*** I want. But out of respect for all of the viewers who are left on that cliffhanger [on season 2 of Mormon Wives], I don’t want to reveal too much because I know a lot,” Scheana, 40, teased on the Friday, May 23, episode of her “Scheananigans” podcast.
Scheana claimed that Marciano, 31, told her — and Demi Engemann — about his alleged affair with Jessi.
“The three of us had a FaceTime call together after that night at TomTom. I did not see [Marciano and Jessi] making out but they were, however, all over each other. Very, very flirty,” Scheana alleged. “I literally was standing right next to him and I was like, ‘Damn, I don’t greet him with hugs like that.’”
According to Scheana, that group outing led to her sister questioning the interactions between Jessi, 32, and Marciano as well. She said, “My sister was like, ‘What’s going on with Marciano and Jessi?’ She goes, ‘His hand was on her thigh the entire show.’”
Scheana claimed the situation got even more confusing when they went to Jessi’s hotel room that night. They spoke with Jessi’s husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, and then were about to leave at 3 a.m. when Scheana and her husband, Brock Davies, noticed Marciano wasn’t with them.
“I thought they already had each other’s numbers but I don’t know. So then he ends up coming down in the elevator. And Brock goes, ‘Oh, you think they just got one in?’ I’m like, ‘No! What are you talking about? We were just on FaceTime with Jordan. Absolutely not,’” she recalled. “Maybe they were just finishing a conversation or something they didn’t want to say in front of us.”
Scheana noted that Jessi has been outspoken about how she “is not in an open marriage” and “not a swinger” after previously discussing swinging in a past relationship. On the car ride home, however, Marciano appeared to be in contact with Jessi.
“We get back to the house and he’s like, ‘I think I’m going to go back.’ And I’m like, ‘Excuse me? No, you are not.’ Brock was livid. He’s like, ‘I swear to God. That is someone else’s wife,’” she continued. “Marciano’s like, ‘Well, for all I know, she’s a swinger. They’re open.’ I’m like, ‘Before you walk out of this door, you message her and you say, ‘Is Jordan cool with this?’”
Marciano sent Jessi a message in front of Scheana, with the Vanderpump Rules alum claiming, “[Jessi] says something [in response to his question about an open marriage] along the lines of like, ‘Oh yeah, definitely. Haha.’ Something that was very affirmative and was a yes. He shows me the text and he’s like, ‘I’m out.’”
Scheana alleged that Marciano returned four hours later. As Vanderpump Rules viewers may remember, Scheana confirmed that she has most of her friends’ locations saved on her phone and claimed she saw Marciano and Jessi were located at her hotel room.
“I have Marciano insinuating and alluding to like, ‘Yeah, that happened last night,’” Scheana said before noting that Jessi denied anything took place between her and Marciano. “I’m like, ‘Jessi, I know both of your locations were in the same place.’ She goes, ‘No. He went and saw another girl and didn’t want to go back into your house that late in the middle of the night. He asked if he could come crash in my hotel room and he just slept on the little like couch chair.”
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Scheana’s version of events comes after Marciano claimed on season 2 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives that he had an affair with Jessi. During an interview with Bustle on Thursday, May 22, Jessi subtly addressed the drama.
“That was definitely a hard watch. We are continuing filming, so you guys will see this story unfold,” she shared. “I would say that viewers can look forward to me being very vulnerable and going behind the curtain of my real life and marriage.”
Jessi noted that, hopefully, being candid about her situation in the next season would “help a lot of women” going through something similar, adding, “Because of the show, I can’t say much about it. But relationships are really hard, and people make mistakes.”
After watching Marciano’s scene with Layla Taylor, Jessi clarified that there was more to the story.
“I will say that it’s not what he made it sound [like]. What he said was not accurate. I wish I could speak now,” she said before agreeing with the interviewer that Marciano’s claims were hard to believe. “Honestly, yeah, he’s a piece of s***.”
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