PEOPLE sign up for reality TV shows for lots of different reasons: fame, money, opportunities and more.

But what Clare Verrall endured from her Married at First Sight reality TV experience was nothing to envy.

In her Coffee Chats interview, Clare shares with Matt a less than glamorous look behind the scenes of her time on the show, including why she feels the only thing that matters to the producers is creating a good show and the psychological health of the contestants takes a distant second.

Listen to the podcast with Married at First Sight star, Clare Verrall here:

Matt Collins: Tell me your first thoughts when you walked down the aisle and saw your partner, Jono, for the very first time.

Clare Verrall: When I first signed up they ask you what is your ideal type. I'm not a looks-based person. I'm not about blue eyes or anything like that. I am more about the personality. All the psychological stuff they say they do on the show, they don't. The tests were very general, not specific at all.

MC: So are you suggesting the claims the show makes that they conduct these psychological tests with trained professionals didn't actually happen?

CV: Without a shadow of a doubt in my case. Without doubt.

MC: Why do you say that?

CV: Because in my situation, I couldn't be around people with a short temper or a short fuse. So my perfect person is someone who is able to have an intellectual conversation on a deeper level, that is very important to me. As well as somebody I can have a real belly laugh with.

MC: And that wasn't Jono?

CV: He was a good-looking guy but he wasn't for me. As it turned out, things are never as they seem.

MC: How so?

CV: The show received thousands of applications, but not from people who would necessarily make good TV. So they actually approached him. He didn't sign up for the show.

MC: How do you mean?

CV: He was a friend of one of the producers or something like that. They played footy together or something.

MC: So he didn't have to do the application process?

CV: No he didn't, they actually approached him. They knew he had a short temper. He was very hot-headed. The main issue was that he had been arrested and charged for assault in the past. Channel Nine knew that and it was part of our contracts that you cannot have been arrested, even if you had been let off. He even told them that beforehand.

MC: Clare, even before the show you had a horrifying incident which left you with ongoing emotional issues, didn't you.

CV: Yes, I was walking my dog one morning and a man jumped out from behind some bins and attacked me. It left me with severe PTSD.

MC: How did that affect you once you went on the show?

CV: I went in a bit broken but I came out completely shattered. They told me I would have ongoing support after the show, but I didn't. After the show, I was trolled on social media really badly.

MC: How bad did the online bullying get?

CV: The first time I attempted suicide was an evening when the bullying got so bad and I thought I can't take these comments anymore. The world hates me.

MC: It's really sad it got to that point.

CV: I'm not the only one, many people have taken their lives after starring on reality TV.

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