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‘Bachelor’ Winner Juliana Pasquarosa Calls Out Litia Garr: ‘My Feelings Were Hurt’
Juliana Pasquarosa is opening up about her strained relationship with The Bachelor runner-up Litia Garr. Finding support through friendship in the midst of their journeys to find love with Grant Ellis, things changed after Pasquarosa got engaged to Ellis.
Pasquarosa stood by her man as he navigated an awkward After the Final Rose conversation with his runner-up, and now she’s opening up about her fractured friendship with Garr.
“I think my feelings were the most hurt by Litia,” Pasquarosa revealed on The Viall Files. “I don’t think that that was expected in any capacity. I think we’ve talked between filming and even when this whole show was airing. I did my best to check in with her.”
She added, “I thought there was a good relationship but it seems like actions since AFR and moving forward have not been the kindest and that took me by surprise and my feelings were hurt by it for sure.”
Nick Viall listened to Pasquarosa’s complaints and asked if Garr’s behavior felt like a “mean girl,” to which Pasquarosa responded, “Definitely.”
Pasquarosa continued, “I think the first stab that I felt was when she brought my name up in the breakup. I think that that was uncalled for.” She referred to when the Utah-based contestant said Pasquarosa should have “a lot of questions” for Ellis. “I know that I deserve someone waking up one morning and knowing without a shadow of a doubt that they are going to choose me,” she said.
The winner didn’t appreciate that Garr continued “to make kind of those jabs on stage, saying she is glad that this isn’t a part of her love story and that she deserves a man that’s not so confused up until the last second when Grant and I know the reality of it and that was strictly a jab at me. I think that those things took me back.”
Yet, that’s not where her displeasure with Garr ended. Pasquarosa was hurt when it felt like the rest of the ladies were picking sides. She explained, “I want her to be supported. I’m not saying by any means that I don’t want her to feel like she has a girl gang behind her lifting her up because I can’t imagine what it’s like to get to that point and maybe have your heart and your ego bruised. But I think at the end of the day, I had relations with a lot of the girls, and at no point were they making digs at him or our relationship. Where now it’s like, maybe that’s a platform that’s being used for whatever purpose it is but it’s hurtful and it’s not anything I want to surround myself with at any point in my life.”
Pasquarosa admitted that some of the friendships she had built with her fellow contestants during the show haven’t materialized post-filming. “It’s been interesting. I think when we finished filming and we kind of came back to regular day life, it took me a minute to start engaging with the girls again,” she said. “I had expressed to a couple of them that that right there was my biggest fear, because of the end circumstance, that my relationships with them were going to be not as great as I had hoped for. I was reassured in the moment that it would be fine and that the girls were fine compartmentalizing relationships, but I think after AFR and kind of just some things that have come up from that, I have seen the reality of it.”
Despite the drama, she is trying to look at the bright side of things. “It definitely hurt my feelings at first, and I didn’t quite understand it, but it was a quick bounce-back,” Pasquarosa noted. “I hate to say I didn’t come in there to make friends, but I was excited about the friends that I had. At the end of the day, I had 30-plus people fly out from the East Coast to the West Coast just to celebrate me. I’m good, I’m chilling. And I love Alli Jo [Hinkes]. Me and her are BFFs.”
