Real Housewives of Sydney star reveals if the show was scripted or not

The Real Housewives of Sydney was infamously dubbed ‘too extreme’ to air in the US.

And in a new interview, cast member Krissy Marsh claims that not only was the drama not scripted, but that producers were blindsided by how nasty the cast turned out to be.

Speaking to the Back From Reality podcast, the 48-year-old said: ‘I don’t think even the producers knew what they were getting.’

She added: ‘I don’t think they realised how crazy and how nasty some of these women were.’

The former reality star said that none of the drama was fake, and that producers didn’t even need to encourage anybody to drink because the women ‘were getting drunk on our own accord’.

Krissy said that things got so nasty and vicious at one point that she quit the show during filming to try and protect her family.

‘There was point in the show where I basically walked off the set,’ she said, revealing that the incident took place at an art gallery event roughly four weeks into filming the season.

‘I never told anyone in my family what had gone on … I decided that I was out and that the effect that this could have on my children long term wasn’t worth my five minutes of fame,’ she said.

Krissy revealed that she rallied some of the other cast members together and that they all walked out on a scheduled promotional shoot for the show until producers agreed to remove a potentially defamatory scene from the series.

‘They had no option but to basically cut out and write out what had been said that night,’ she said.

While Krissy declined to reveal what exactly was said, she said it was much worse than the drama that viewers saw on screen and that it was something that could’ve affected her children. 

She added that the mystery castmate that said the remark about her family was ‘not of sound mind’.

The Real Housewives of Sydney debuted on Foxtel’s Arena in February 2017.

It featured Athena X Levendi, Matty Samaei, Melissa Tkautz, Lisa Oldfield, Krissy Marsh, Victoria Rees and Nicole O’Neil, and followed their personal, professional and social lives.

Many viewers branded it the ‘nastiest’ Housewives series in the history of the global franchise.

Foxtel’s executive director of television Brian Walsh agreed, saying in 2019 that the show had gone ‘too far’.

‘A lot of the women in this show were nasty for nasty’s sake and have no redeeming features,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.

American network Bravo, which has aired several seasons of the Real Housewives of Melbourne, also reportedly refused to pick up the Sydney version because of its ‘extreme’ nature.