90 Day Fiance star Julia Trubkina has revealed that she and Brandon Gibbs had “a lot” of problems that were deeper than being at odds over having kids when they began filming 90 Day: The Last Resort.
Brandon and Julia starred on 90 Day Fiance’s eighth season and got married in April 2020, and then they starred on 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?.
But according to Julia, their relationship was in more trouble than they initially let on.
“During this therapy section, actually, we have a lot more of what we are going to share,” Julia, 31, teased to Us Weekly in a recent interview.
“A lot more we [had been] hiding for all of these years, but we came for one problem. We were like, ‘Okay, it’s only one problem that we have.’ No, we have a lot and not something like, ‘We can fix this tomorrow. Everything will be perfect.’ No, they are so deep.”
Julia became a United States citizen after she and Brandon tied the knot, but her family is back in Russia and she apparently misses them terribly.
Julia said on the premiere of 90 Day: The Last Resort’s second season that she couldn’t imagine having a baby without her loved ones around to help and support her.
“I mean, we are going to be talking about my family. Not only this is therapy when it’s kind of, like, we step away from Brandon’s family,” Julia shared of what’s to come on the TLC reality series.
“We kind of let them stay back in trying to fix our relationship. But, my family is kind of in our relationship and other stuff about kids is going to shock everybody.”
A preview of 90 Day: The Last Resort also hints at a cheating scandal in which Julia was allegedly unfaithful to her husband.
Julia said she went into counseling and therapy without “a lot of expectations.” She showed up on Day 1 feeling positive and optimistic, but Julia apparently didn’t know if the show could fix her marriage.
“I know from my side, I will be open up for 100 percent. I will do everything the therapist tells me,” Julia insisted.
“Doesn’t matter if it’s going to be bad or good, I will do everything. I think it’s a lot and that is good. So, I try to open up and I’m so happy.”
While Julia opened her heart and mind to the process, she anticipated it would take time to heal her wounds and mend her relationship with Brandon.
“It’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m going to leave this therapy, I will be good.’ No, I think it was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to open up, but it’s not going to fix me tomorrow. It’s going to help me to go into the right way,'” Julia explained.
“I’m trying to put my expectation low, so [I won’t be] sad if this is not going to happen.”
Julia joked about how everyone in the 90 Day: The Last Resort cast was “f-cked up.”
“We all have our problems,” Julia quipped to the magazine.
“Everybody has different [issues]… but not everybody going to open up.”
In addition to Brandon and Julia, the show also stars Ariela Weinberg and Biniyam Shibre, Gino Palazzolo and Jasmine Pineda, Rob Warne and Sophie Sierra, Josh Weinstein and Natalie Mordovtseva, and Stacey Silva and Florian Sukaj.
The six couples gathered at an Arizona resort all having reached a relationship breaking point. They were prepared to spend three weeks at the desert oasis undergoing a rigorous relationship bootcamp designed to rebuild trust and connections.
During the show’s premiere, Brandon said he loved Julia but they weren’t having much sex. He claimed the couple’s intimacy fell apart when he told Julia that he’d like to have a baby.
Brandon and Julia also announced during a group therapy session how they weren’t on the same page about having kids when they had initially agreed that they’d love to start a family.
Brandon shared that when he brought up kids to Julia, she got angry at him and shut down emotionally.
Julia explained how it was hard for her to be away from home and her family, which impacted her sexual drive and desire to start a family.
