HEARTBROKEN Married At First Sight star Jessika Power has revealed her dad has died.
The Australian reality star took to Instagram today to share the devastating news.
She shared a pictured of herself with her late dad and wrote: “…doesn’t feel real. We love you dad. I hope you’re up there having a port with your mates and looking down on us missing you forever.”
The Mafs favourite had a closer relationship with her father, Troy, than her mum, whom she distanced herself from some years ago.
Ex-boxer Troy and Jessika were estranged for many years but reconnected and formed a strong bond six years before she starred on Mafs in 2019.
He attended her TV wedding to Mick Gould and even threatened him to punch the groom after his best man’s inappropriate reception speech.
Speaking on Lads Dads And Couple Of Beers Podcast, Jessika previously opened up about her tough childhood.
“My mother has sold stories on me, I’ve had best friends sell stories on me,” Jessika claimed.
“My mother and I haven’t had a relationship in about seven years but she decided four years ago that we were really close and sold stories that were completely fabricated and false.”
The betrayal was one of the lowest points in Jessika’s life.
She continued: “I’ve gone through the worst of the worst, but the worst thing was my mum selling stories.
“I remember just completely breaking down on the floor, I remember falling on the floor thinking ‘how could she do this to me?’.
“I hadn’t spoken about my mother, I hadn’t brought her up in the media, I hadn’t discussed anything and I was always batting down interviews about her.
“The story was basically slandering me as a brat, saying that I wasn’t the child that she brought up.”
Jessika explained that her childhood was different to other kids at her age.
“My mother had a drug addiction from a very young age, that’s the reason why she sold the story because she needed money,” she continued.
“She hit on my ex husband saying she would have been better matched with him, saying all of my plastic surgery was disgusting.
“I was so defeated at that point – even though we don’t have a relationship and don’t have respect, the last shred of respect I had for you was now gone.”
She added: “I was just sad…I can wake up in the morning and cop hate from thousand of Australians and I don’t care.
“But when it’s your mother, who you haven’t spoken to in a long time.
“I gave up my childhood for my mum when she had her drug addiction and raised my little brothers and brought my mum up as she was so incompetent in life.
“When I gave up my childhood for somebody, I never asked for anything back, it really hurt me.”
