Married At First Sight Australia star Jessika Power slams trolls after death of ex Sam Abdulrahim

Jessika Power has been left heartbroken over the death of her ex-boyfriend and underworld figure Sam "The Punisher" Abdulrahim. Photo / @jessika_power / Instagram

Married At First Sight Australia star Jessika Power has lashed out at trolls who criticised her support of her late ex-partner, Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim.

The pair enjoyed a short-lived romance in 2019 after Abdulrahim, a former member of the Mongols motorcycle gang with known connections to the criminal underworld, was released from prison. They had stayed in touch until a few months before his death, Power said.

The 32-year-old was shot several times, including in the head, in an alleged ambush in the carpark of Quest Hotel in Preston, Melbourne, about 10am on Tuesday (local time).

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Abdulrahim was labelled a “great protector” by Power, who paid tribute following his death.

However, her kind words sparked backlash online, with the former MAFS star facing criticism over her support of Abdulrahim.

In a rant on Thursday, Power hit back at trolls who she claimed weren’t being “respectful” to a man who had lost his life.

In 2019, Married At First Sight Australia star Jessika Power dated Sam Abdulrahim, a notorious gangland figure who was killed this week. Photo / Instagram

“I’m just over it and it doesn’t need to reflect back into my personal life now … please be respectful and understand that someone has passed away,” she said in a video posted to her Instagram Story.

“And that we don’t need to be a**holes on the internet constantly and I know there are some troll accounts out there that go, ‘Oh, I wanna be a piece of s*** today’.

“Just stop doing it because it’s not fair on anyone and this is actually a real-life event and it is actually really hard on people.

“And it doesn’t need to affect me ... and my [current] relationship right now,” she said.

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Her outburst comes after she described her ex as a “family man” and “really good guy”.

“Everybody looks at these bikies and Mongols as bad people, but he was a family man, he was dedicated to his family,” she said on Tuesday.

“He was protective of his family and he was certainly protective of me when we were together.

“He’s a dad, he’s a husband, he’s someone’s son and he’s just a really good guy.”

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She went on to share that a big reason for the split was Abdulrahim’s criminal connections.

“I just feel like that underworld thing at the minute in Melbourne and Sydney is just getting out of hand,” she said.

“It was part of the reason why I ended up leaving because I just didn’t want to be around that.”

- Additional reporting by NZ Herald.