Sadly, Demi Engemann (above left) was referred to as away on a vital Disneyland trip that she simply occurred to schedule for when this reunion was taping — oh no!

“We had already booked all of our flights and the Airbnb was nonrefundable or I’d’ve moved the journey to be there,” Demi mentioned on her Instagram June 8, per Us Weekly, after information of her absence first broke.

Whereas she did pre-tape some feedback with host Nick Viall beforehand that had been performed all through the reunion, that did not enable her to reply to any of issues issues introduced up about her — like a few of these textual content messages (Rattling, gurl!).

In actual fact, she did not discuss her purported fling with Vanderpump Villa’s Marciano Brunette (above middle) in any respect — and but, that was an enormous matter for the reunion (Double rattling!).

Even in Demi’s absence, she had an enormous presence within the reunion, actually proper from the beginning. That is as a result of her one-time BFF Jessi Ngatikaura (above proper) determined to drop the deets and share receipts of Demi’s alleged fling with Marciano.

For individuals who do not know, the Vanderpump Villa star was allegedly romantically — or no less than bodily — entangled with each Demi and Jessi at one level or one other. After a number of Mormon Wives stars, together with these two, appeared on Season 2 of the Villa, the drama spilled over into their Secret Lives.

When Marciano urged that he and Demi had shared greater than the emotional dialog — and one cheek peck — that viewers noticed, she was fast to close down any hypothesis she could have been untrue to her husband, Bret Engemann.

“On the expense of sounding impolite, there wasn’t even a distant attraction to him,” she insisted on the time. “It sucks that girls can’t be type and pleasant and even playful with males on this world with out it being taken as such as you’re open.”

Very completely different variations of what occurred performed out within the media, with Marciano being accused of being a “clout chaser,” and Demi saying he was “mendacity” about her, and really he was “the predator.” Marciano denied this, saying that all the things that occurred between him and Demi was consensual.

When the Villa reunion got here and went in Might with none additional readability about any of this, Marciano promised the reality would come out on the Mormon Wives reunion. After which within the MW finale, Marciano himself confirmed as much as shift his bombshell intimation by suggesting it was really he and Jessi who’d gotten just a little intimate behind the digicam’s backs.

Whereas Jessi did not come clear in some way about what she did or didn’t do on this reunion particular — gotta save one thing for the upcoming third season (she even notably wasn’t carrying her wedding ceremony ring) — she did add extra gasoline to the Demi flames by sharing textual content messages between her former bestie and Marciano.

Because it seems, the Vanderpump Villa star purchased into the narrative that the Mormon Wives had been all swingers, in line with Demi, so the flirting was fairly open and at instances sizzling and heavy. However it wasn’t simply coming from the Villa boys.

As Jessi pulled out her cellphone and began studying, she had a Demi textual content to Marciano saying, “Get excited hahah baptized by fireplace. Is that this the way you sweet-talk all the women!?” He purportedly replied, “Baptized by fireplace. Oh no all proper if that’s what you need for me. I did not notice I used to be sweet-talking you.”

And these included some very NSFW feedback, like Demi allegedly saying of oysters that they are “no completely different than swallowing c– and I wholeheartedly stand by that,” adopted by, “I am by no means going to have the ability to eat oysters once more and never take into consideration that. Ha ha ha ruined it endlessly, take pleasure in .” In order that occurred.

It is also value noting that Jessi’s husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, was additionally within the studio — backstage throughout all of this dishonest chatter — however Jessi simply wasn’t going to go there. When requested pointedly if she’d had intercourse, she replied, “Lots of the story is unpacked in Season 3. So I can not discuss it but.”

In different phrases, Hulu, let’s get this present again, stat!

Zac and Jen Affleck are all about placing within the work to make their marriage work, even when that work is 9 hours of remedy per week. And once they’re not in remedy, the couple is typically secretly recording Jen’s conversations with … we wanna say pals, however we’re unsure Jen would.

In Utah, it is completely authorized for only one celebration on a cellphone name to report any dialog, as it is a one-party consent state, so Jen and Zac aren’t breaking any legal guidelines right here. However she could also be breaking the MomTok code, or no less than friendship bonds.

Nonetheless, they managed to one-up Jessi’s textual content receipts when Zac performed audio recordings of Demi speaking about that journey to the Vanderpump Villa, and showing to inform Jen how they need to body the scenario with Marciano when requested about it.

“[You should say,] ‘Demi and I’ve very completely different concepts and completely different boundaries in our marriages. What I worth and what I actually recognize is the open and sincere communication and relationship that Demi and Bret share. I feel it is wonderful and it is one thing that I love,’” Demi was heard apparently teaching Jen in the right way to method the subject.

Demi went on, as Jen, “‘I could have jumped the gun about judging her about that. It wasn’t truthful for me to carry that over her head.’”

She then went on in her personal voice to clarify, “Then it doesn’t go into any element about what could or could not have occurred and sure members from the present. It is extra a private standpoint.’”

At this level, as famous by Us Weekly, it sounded as if Demi’s husband Bret chimed in to say that additionally they wanted to deal with the “sufferer” buzzword getting used.

Jen replied she “felt uncomfortable” speaking to Demi’s expertise all that a lot since they did not fairly see eye-to-eye about all the things that did and didn’t occur on the Villa, so Demi urged it in all probability could be finest if she simply did not say something in any respect.

Zac defined why that dialog wound up being recorded, saying it got here after he was within the room as soon as when Demi was speaking with Jen and he heard her purportedly trashing her then-bestie Jessi.

In response to Zac, Demi was saying of Jessi “that she had no respect for her, that she was disgusting and that she needed nothing to do together with her.” He then mentioned he instructed his spouse, “She is speaking about Jessi that manner. How do you assume she’s speaking about you?”

As such, when Demi and Bret referred to as them and Bret purportedly began saying they actually wanted to “work out [Demi’s] complete sufferer [narrative], since “it was gonna be clear to the entire viewers that she was not a sufferer,” Zac mentioned he determined it is likely to be finest to have a report of this name.

Whereas Demi wasn’t requested about this purported cellphone name, Whitney did observe that she thinks it is fairly “bizarre” to name a buddy and inform them what to say on-camera. Producers then had her again by sharing a clip of Demi telling Whitney what she ought to say from simply three hours prior.

Whereas followers wait to search out out what’s up with Jessi and Jordan’s marriage amid the Villa scandal — full with Marciano agreeing to a lie detector to set the report straight about what really occurred on the market — they will get their Mormon Wives repair by following two of the present’s stars over to Dancing with the Stars, as is was confirmed each Jen and Whitney will probably be competing for the Mirror Ball this fall.

For now, the reunion is streaming in full on Hulu … with Season 3 coming at a yet-TBD date.