Jessi also reveals where she currently stands with fellow reality stars Demi Engemann and Marciano Brunette.

Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi breaks her silence on cheating scandal

Jessi also reveals where she currently stands with fellow reality stars Demi Engemann and Marciano Brunette.

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November 13, 2025 4:04 p.m. ET

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**This article contains spoilers for *The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives* season 3. **

Jessi Ngatikaura is telling her truth — no matter what it takes to prove it.

The *Secret Lives of Mormon Wives* star is opening up about the rumors that have swirled about her since the season 2 finale, in which *Vanderpump Villa*'s Marciano Brunette claimed they had an affair.

Throughout season 3, there's a lot of back-and-forth between Jessi, Marciano, and Demi Engemann, who was previously accused of being flirty with Marciano, about what really happened.

In season 3, Jessi admits that she and Marciano kissed and had a brief emotional affair, despite accusations that the pair did more. Jessi and her fellow MomTokers spend much of the season trying to clear her name — and they do, after Jessi and Marciano take a lie detector test that reveals they were both telling the truth when they said they did not have sex.

Jessi Ngatikaura.

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"We did kiss twice, we were texting," Jessi tells *.* "It was an emotional affair and I'm willing to come clean about that, but I do not want anyone thinking more happened because if I'm gonna tell my story, I want it to be the truth."

They take the lie detector test when the MomTok group goes on an overnight girls' trip to St. George. Marciano meets them and has dinner with the women while they wait for the test results.

While the result of the big question vindicated Jessi, some of the other results were inconclusive.

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Marciano on "Vanderpump Villa".

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Jessi clears it up now: "There was one question that was like, outside of the kissing, did you have any physical contact with him? And I said No. And I think it came back either failed or inconclusive. And I guess what I was thinking was, okay, no we didn't have sex, we didn't do anything sexual, but like we did hold hands, he did like touch my leg and I just wasn't thinking those things counted."

"The other one was, did you ever lie about Marciano? And I said No. And then did you lie about Demi? And I said, no. But in the moment I was telling the truth, finally. So I was like, no, I'm being honest," she continues. "But I had lied about Marciano for six months when I was hiding my affair. And then I did lie about Demi when I was still friends with her trying to cover up what happened with her and Marciano. So I just didn't take those things into account."

She adds, "I think the fact that we were willing to take [the lie detector test] shows that we were willing to like tell the truth."

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Jessi might view the entire encounter a little differently in hindsight.

"I was way too friendly with him, and that's what I regret, watching it back," she says. "I was in a weird headspace of I was treated so badly by [husband] Jordan for a long time. We were separated. I was in a weird headspace where I really thought we were heading for divorce. There were unresolved feelings with Marciano. I was also trying to get him to agree to a lie detector test, plus tell us the truth about Demi. So I had to be nice to him. So my head was just in a weird spot."

Jessi reveals that it's been "about six months" since she's spoken to Marciano, around the time they filmed the season. She's "decided it was best to block him, and I haven't talked to him since."

She has spoken to Demi since the finale's big sit-down, where she says they were all able to get to "a more cordial place." But in true MomTok fashion, "we got to a better place for like a couple months and then more things happen," which we'll likely see in future seasons.

Jessi and Demi appeared in the audience of *Dancing With the Stars* in September to support Whitney Leavitt (who's still in the competition) and Jen Affleck (who went home on the Oct. 28 episode).

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"We were sitting near each other, just small talk, but we have not spoken since then. We're not friends, we never will be again," Jessi says of Demi.

"Towards the end of the season, you see that like we try to be cordial again and work through our issues and when you have someone that you work with, like, it's just nice to be cordial. It's nice not to have issues, especially a previous friend, but too much has happened," she continues. "Especially watching the season back, it reopened so many wounds for me that I was like, I kind of forgot you were that awful to me."

While Whitney tries to juggle relationships with Demi and the other MomTok women in *SLOMW *season 3, it sounds like she might finally be back in the fold.

"I will say, Whitney is good with everyone in the group right now," Jessi says. "She's doing *Dancing With the Stars,* so she's not like in the group the way she used to be 'cause she's like not in Utah, but we're all like supporting her and cheering her on."

All episodes of *The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives* season 3 are streaming now on Hulu.**

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