Jessi Draper Reveals What Led to Emotional Affair With Marciano Brunette
The reality star reflected on why she ultimately had an emotional affair with Vanderpump Villa‘s Marciano Brunette, whom she also kissed, when her relationship with Jordan hit a rough patch in 2024.
“I felt so trapped in that marriage like I couldn’t do anything right,” she explained. “I was so beaten down emotionally. I was just so unhappy, deeply unhappy. I felt trapped, not only with my money and my business—like you saw in season four—but also, he made me feel like I couldn’t leave.”
“I was just really, really upset,” she continued. “I met Marciano and it was the first person who was nice to me and told me I was cool and pretty and fun and that I was worth something. I just remember being like, ‘Oh, like this is how a man should talk to you.'”
Although Jessi knew she shouldn’t have engaged in an intimate relationship with Marciano, which was confirmed on SLOMW season three in 2025, she admitted that even at the time, she knew that it might lead to the end of her marriage.
“I remember thinking, ‘If I do this tonight,’ just kissing him by the way, ‘It will give me a reason to be done,'” she said. “It’ll give Jordan a reason to leave me. Like I could be free.”
As she put it, “Even if it was me that did the bad thing, I was like, ‘Maybe this could end it.'”