MAFS bride Stacey Hampton has provided proof of her cease and desist demand for Jessika Power – just hours after the blonde claimed the legal letter didn’t exist.
Stacey, who is a law graduate, swiftly uploaded the letter to Instagram on Tuesday afternoon and encouraged fans to tell Jessika to ‘check her emails’ for it.
Titled ‘social media defamation’, the letter listed four defamatory comments made by Jessika that have allegedly caused Stacey ‘significant hurt and distress’.
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Blonde brides at war! MAFS star Stacey Hampton (left) released PROOF of the cease and desist letter she sent to Jessika Power (right) on Tuesday – but Jessika refuses to take the threat of legal action against her vicious recap seriously
Stacey initially threatened Jessika with a cease and desist letter last week, after the 2019 MAFS star slammed her in a vicious recap of the show.
The email instructed Jessika to immediately delete the video recap and all comments – which Jessika has chosen to ignore.
‘That will be all from me. Let’s see who rises above,’ Stacey signed off, unaware of how Jessika would respond.
Jessika, 28, still appeared to find the situation comedic, as she wrote with laughing emojis: ‘Thanks for letting me know Stacey emailed me. I’m having my lawyer look over her Word document-issued cease and desist letter.’
‘Someone let Jessika know to check her emails’: Titled ‘social media defamation’, the letter listed four defamatory comments made by Jessika that have allegedly caused Stacey ‘significant hurt and distress’
Not worried? Jessika, 28, still appeared to find the situation comedic, as she wrote with laughing emojis that her lawyer would look over her Word document cease and desist letter
She screenshot her emailed response, which read: ‘Hi Stacey, please provide evidence and outline the “damages” you are saying you’ve suffered and are entitled to as a result of the alleged defamatory material.’
However, Jessika also added sarcastically: ‘Maybe I’ll start sending cease and desist letters to anyone who speaks about me.’
Earlier in the day, Jessika had laughed off the blonde’s legal threats and questioned whether there was ever a letter drawn up by her ‘make-believe lawyer’.
‘I didn’t receive a letter from her make-believe lawyer’: Jessika (pictured) laughed off Stacey’s threat of legal action on an Instagram Q&A session on Tuesday morning, just hours before Stacey published proof she had already emailed the letter to the star
Jessika also said she was confused as to why Stacey, who is a law graduate, couldn’t write the cease and desist letter herself.
‘I find it funny that you’re supposed to be barrister or a lawyer, but you can’t issue the cease and desist letter on your own,’ she said.
After repeatedly referring to herself as a ‘lawyer’ on the controversial reality show, Stacey admitted she’s yet to actually practice law – and is just a law graduate.
‘I just got admitted to the bar – I’m not allowed to practice law,’ claimed Stacey, while defending her achievements in front of all of the other brides on the show.
Truth: ‘I just got admitted to the bar – I’m not allowed to practice law,’ claimed Stacey, after referring to herself as a ‘lawyer’ on the show. Pictured: Stacey holding her legal diploma on the steps of the Supreme Court of South Australia in a picture she shared in 2019
Stacey had threatened Jessika with a cease a desist letter over an Instagram video.
She claimed that she was forced to seek medical attention after Jessika disparaged her in a paid MAFS recap video for New Idea and Who magazine.
In the recap, which Jessika posted on her Instagram Stories, she said that Stacey was ‘pathological’ in her denial that she had secretly slept with Mikey Pembroke on the show.
Brides at war! Stacey had threatened Jessika with a cease a desist letter over an Instagram video
She also branded Stacey’s on-screen husband Michael Goonan a ‘piece of work’, among other things.
After the video went live on Friday night, a furious Stacey privately messaged Jessika on Instagram and threatened her with legal action over the recap.
‘You’re still calling me names and getting your 10 cents in,’ Stacey wrote.
‘How f***ing embarrassing. You’re so last season, stop it.’
Drama: In a paid recap video for Who and New Idea, Jessika said that Stacey was ‘pathological’ in her denial that she had secretly slept with Mikey Pembroke on the show
She continued: ‘I’m organising my lawyer to send you a cease and desist letter. I request no further comments from you here on in.’
Never one to hold back, Jess fired back: ‘Oh Stacey, get over it babe.
‘If I had a lawyer send a cease and desist letter to everyone who said things about me I would have been on the phone to them every day.’
She continued: ‘I’ve been asked (and paid) to do the recaps for Who magazine and New Idea. If you don’t like what I said then don’t act so shady.’
‘How f***ing embarrassing!’ After the video went live on Friday night, a furious Stacey privately messaged Jessika on Instagram and threatened her with legal action over the recap
‘If you don’t like what I said then don’t act so shady’: Jessika argued back that she was just doing paid recaps for a magazine and that Stacey needed to ‘get over it’
When contacted for comment by Daily Mail Australia on Saturday, Stacey said that Jessika’s remarks about her and Michael had harmed her mental health and forced her to seek medical attention.
‘In order to stop Jessika defaming my character on a social platform, I’ve met with lawyers to have a letter sent which will enable me to be free of slander,’ she said.
‘Jessika will no longer be able to put me down and cause my mental health to become worse.
‘I sought medical attention after reading her comments on her [Instagram] Story and they wrote me a letter outlining her impact on [my] mental health.’
She added: ‘Her whole [Instagram] Story was an insult to me and my ex [Michael].’
‘I sought medical attention after reading her comments’: Stacey claims that she was forced to seek medical attention after seeing Jessika’s Instagram video
Earlier this week, Stacey told Daily Mail Australia that she went to hospital and was on antidepressants due to the online trolling she’s received since her alleged affair with Mikey was exposed at the Married At First Sight reunion dinner party.
Jessika has been the official Married At First Sight recapper for Who and New Idea magazine this season, and shares weekly recap videos to her Instagram page as part of the collaboration.
She’s not the only former MAFS star to throw shade at Stacey, with Martha Kalifatidis and Michael Brunelli criticising Stacey in a recap video for the official Married At First Sight YouTube channel.
Denial: Stacey maintains that she never slept with Mikey, despite evidence to the contrary