Patti Stanger‘s “breakup” with her former Millionaire Matchmaker employees Destin Pfaff and Rachel Federoff still leaves a bad taste in her mouth.
The reality star stopped by the Bravo Clubhouse for Thursday night’s (May 16) episode of Watch What Happens Live, where she revealed the last time she spoke to the married couple, who starred in the first six seasons of Millionaire Matchmaker before attempting to reunite with Stanger in the Million Dollar Matchmaker spinoff.
“If you watch Million Dollar Matchmaker on [We TV], the president wanted them on the show and I was not happy because we had a bad situation,” Stanger said during the After Show. “I saw them the last time then. I didn’t recommend them but you sign a contract.”
When host Andy Cohen asked if she had a “bad breakup” with Pfaff and Federoff, Stanger replied, “They did some really unethical things that they could’ve gone to jail for so that’s why.”
DECIDER has reached out to reps for Pfaff and Federoff for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication.
Ahead of their 2016 reunion with Stanger, Pfaff and Federoff opened up to BravoTV about their roller-coaster relationship with the matchmaker.
“Patti was an important part of our life,” Pfaff said at the time. “Patti was my best friend. I worked with her. I ran her business for 10 years and, speaking for myself, it was a big part of my life and it became a big part of Rachel’s, too.”
Federoff added that Stanger was “hurt” when she and her husband decided to leave the business in 2013.
“We were a family, so yeah, it was difficult and there was drama and there was spitting fire back and forth on all parties,” she said, while Pfaff added, “The relationship is still very fragile. Reuniting with anyone can be a fragile situation … The biggest part is understanding we didn’t want to abandon anybody, but sometimes you need a moment to work on yourself and that’s what we needed.”
Watch What Happens Live airs Sunday through Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.
