Arabella Del Busso claims 60 Minutes darkened the room to make her look bad

Arabella Del Busso, the ex-girlfriend of NRL star Josh Reynolds, has accused 60 Minutes of darkening the room to make her look bad in her interview last month.

Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday, the lingerie model said she was ‘mortified’ to see how she looked under the harsh spotlight.

‘The room that we had was really, really dark,’ said Arabella, whose real name is Donna Preusker. 

She also speculated that ‘the light and and camera angles’ could have contributed to her looking ‘fat’ on screen. 

‘I was like, “I cannot believe I look like that!” Also, it doesn’t really help that I actually was crying a lot. It was really hard and very intimidating,’ added the former WAG. 

During the interview, for which she reportedly earned a five-figure sum, Arabella tearfully denied faking pregnancies and miscarriages during her tumultuous relationship with Josh.

Reflecting on her TV appearance, she told Daily Mail Australia she had felt ‘belittled’ by interviewer Tom Steinfort and the 60 Minutes team. 

She went on to claim her legal team had been banned from attending the interview, which took three hours to film.

While she was allowed to have her uncle in the room as a support person, Arabella was supposedly prevented from seeing him while she was on camera.

‘I just wanted him in eyesight of me so [he] could just see if I needed a break, or if the questions were getting a little but too much. But they wouldn’t let him within eyesight,’ Arabella claimed. 

Arabella said this was the reason why she ‘kept looking to the right’ during her controversial interview, which aired on May 31.

‘I kept looking to the right because I was like, “I need a break,” or “I just need a little bit of time out to cool down.” And I wasn’t able to have that,’ she said.

Arabella also accused 60 Minutes of editing the footage so it looked like she had stormed out of the interview twice, when in fact this had only happened once.

‘They really tried to paint me in a really, really bad light and it is a bit disappointing. But at the end of the day, there’s nothing that I can do about it,’ she added.  

Elsewhere in her interview with Daily Mail Australia, Arabella denied she had heavily edited her recent photo with radio presenter Kyle Sandilands.

‘I just wore makeup! I haven’t done any editing,’ she said of the photo, which was taken at KIIS FM’s studios last week.

Discussing the speculation surrounding her social media photos, Arabella said: ‘I think it all comes down to how they made me look on 60 Minutes.’

Arabella had previously denied using Photoshop to edit her flawless Instagram images in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph . 

‘I actually do look like my Instagram photos. There is a bit of lighting [editing] here and there. That’s all,’ she said.

In her 60 Minutes interview, Arabella admitted to passing off another woman’s ultrasound scan as her own in order to ‘spite’ her then-boyfriend.  

When asked by reporter Tom Steinfort if she had lied about getting pregnant, she sheepishly responded: ‘I’m denying those claims.’

‘Is that a no?’ Tom asked, to which she replied: ‘I didn’t say that.

‘I’m here to tell you what’s actually happened. Especially with headlines, you know people think I’m a psycho, they all think I’m crazy.’   

Arabella and Josh had met on Instagram in 2018 and had a one-night stand, after which she claimed she fell pregnant with twins. 

Despite initial concerns about having children with a woman he had just met and wasn’t in a relationship with, Josh embraced the idea of becoming a father.

‘When I got over the first period of shock, natural instincts kicked in,’ the Wests Tigers five-eighth said.

Josh announced he was expecting twins by sharing footage of his gender reveal on social media in December 2018, and said the parents-to-be had set up a nursery.

But Josh’s excitement soon turned to suspicion when Arabella failed to ever show him any ultrasound sonograms.

‘Every time there was a scan, there was always an excuse,’ he said. ‘I was going, “You can’t find a baby scan, the photos? This is a bit fishy.”‘

But then at 19 weeks’ pregnant, Arabella claimed she had miscarried.

‘At that stage I was so into this whole relationship/baby thing. I was hurting so much. It broke me,’ an emotional Josh said on 60 Minutes.

‘It was the most exciting time of my life and I had feelings for this girl.’

Then in March 2019, Arabella claimed she had fallen pregnant a second time, but only weeks later miscarried again.

The couple’s heartache was short-lived, and in June she was pregnant for a third time.

But Josh’s suspicions were once again raised in August that year after Arabella sent him her 12-week ultrasound scans. 

‘The scan she sent me was off. I went to my mates and showed them and they were like, “Mate, that is not a proper scan,”‘ Josh said.

Arabella claimed she couldn’t remember where she’d had the ultrasound done.

When asked on 60 Minutes if the scan actually belonged to her, Arabella clarified: ‘No… [I did it] because I was being spiteful.’