@bbcnews: Lizzie, not her real name, appeared on Married at First Sight UK. She and her on-screen husband were having sex, but Lizzie says it turned violent and left her bruised. She also says that he told her if she told anyone what had happened he would get someone to throw acid at her. Then, one night she says he raped her when they were alone in the apartment. She met the welfare team the next day who took photos of her bruises. She described some of what she says happened, but not the allegation of rape. After the show broadcast, Lizzie told the show’s psychiatrist she’d been raped. Lawyers for CPL. the production company that makes the series, say the acid throwing remark had been reported as a passing comment, not a threat and that the bruises were described to the welfare team by Lizzie as being the result of rough but consensual sex. Channel 4 says it was only made aware of the rape allegation after the series had gone out, so it would be wrong to criticise decisions it and CPL made based on knowledge they did not have at the time. Lawyers for Lizzie’s on-screen husband say he denies rape, that all sexual contact was entirely consensual and that he denies being violent or making violent threats towards her. #MAFS #MarriedAtFirstSight #News #BBCNews

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