Stella and Filip have split less than a year after their final vows engagement on Married at First Sight, ending the show's only season 13 couple to stay together. Stella Mickunaite also posted on Instagram today that she made mistakes and has regrets, putting the breakup in plain view rather than leaving it to social media speculation.
Season 13 finished, then changed
Filip Gregov and Stella Mickunaite were the only couple to stay together when season 13 ended, and their final vows proposal made them one of the franchise's clearest success stories. That made the split more than a private ending: it resets the status of the pair that had been presented as the proof point for the series.
Fans noticed the pair had unfollowed each other before the breakup was reported, which turned quiet account activity into the first visible sign that the relationship had shifted. Stella then added her own version of events on Instagram, saying, “I made mistakes. I have regrets. And while those truths are painful to sit with... they’re also incredible gifts,” and, “Love isn’t only about having a good heart. It’s about the impact we leave on the heart standing opposite ours. That is a lesson I’ll carry with me.”
Filip made the call
A source said it was ultimately Filip who decided to end things, after wrestling with the decision for a while and realising they were not on the same page about what they wanted out of life. The same source said there was no huge explosive fight; it was a slow realisation that they were heading in different directions, and that money became a sticking point.
Stella was described as absolutely heartbroken, and she genuinely thought they had a future together. The source also said she had always been very ambitious and wanted someone who could provide the lifestyle she was looking for, which is the part of the story that moves this beyond a simple breakup and into a clash over expectations.
Different goals, no bad blood
The source said they genuinely cared about each other, but sometimes love is not enough when long-term goals do not align. That is the real business of the split: not drama for drama's sake, but two people leaving the relationship with different ideas about where life was heading and what it should look like.
For readers who watched them emerge from final vows as the rare couple to keep going, the takeaway is blunt. Stella and Filip did not fall apart in public; they ran out of alignment, and the sticking point was not a single blow-up but the financial and lifestyle gap that finally made the relationship unsustainable.
