Married At First Sight’s Jessika Power laughs off Stacey Hampton’s threat of legal action

Married At First Sight bride Stacey Hampton threatened 2019 MAFS star Jessika Power with a cease and desist letter last week.

But Jessika, 28, has since laughed off the blonde’s legal threats and questioned whether there was ever a letter drawn up.  

During an Instagram Story Q&A session on Tuesday, she smiled while revealing: ‘No, I didn’t receive a lawyer letter from Stacey’s “make-believe lawyer”.’

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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.

‘Apparently she’s not even registered… I don’t know,’ Jessika said in a humours mood.

However, 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.

Stacey had threatened Jessika with a cease a desist letter over an Instagram video.

Stacey, 26, 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.

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.’

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.’

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].’

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.