Seven years after Nick Viall handed out roses, he’s still as involved in Bachelor Nation as ever. The newest? Maria Georgas suggesting that the former lead performed an element is her season 28 edit.
Maria, 29, seemed at the “Call Her Daddy” podcast on Wednesday, May 1, and addressed the “rumors” about her past with Nick, 43. (She later instructed a tale at the podcast about Nick from about “seven years in the past,” which hyperlinks them in 2017 — the similar yr Nick used to be The Bachelor lead.)
“Nothing has ever happened between Nick and I, nevertheless it’s at all times been a friendship,” she declared. “He helped me via breakups. He was a good good friend to me at points, and it was once nice. But I take into account, and I never in point of fact understood it till actually being on the display, he had said to me, ‘I will be able to see you being the villain.’ He’s like, ‘You’re going to move on. You’re going to be the villain,’ And I used to be like, why me?”
Maria made it clear that she “never” went on the display with “the goal of turning into a villain,” but she let the chips fall and the drama with Sydney Gordon became a focal point of Joey Graziadei’s Bachelor season.
“I didn’t move in there and try to piss other folks off,” she defined. “But I be mindful him announcing, ‘People are going to come after you it doesn't matter what. I can just see it. You’re going to be the villain.’ It was once just funny because once I completed filming, there was once rumors about me being a villain.”
Maria theorized that Nick’s friendship with Ashley Iaconetti, who is close with Sydney, resulted in her edit on the show.
“I bear in mind any person sent me a photograph of Nick and Sydney in combination. They had been all buddies because Sydney’s pals with Ashley, and Nick’s close with Ashley and Ashley’s close with Sydney,” Maria stated all through Wednesday’s podcast episode. “Part of me used to be like, was this all planned? Because I knew I used to be innocent, hand to God. So, when this all began happening, and then believe dealing with that in the home after which coming out and seeing that she’s pals with Nick, I was like, there’s one thing conspiring.”
She added: “I used to be like, there’s something bizarre about all this. Because it was once too close to house.”
On season 28 of The Bachelor, Sydney accused Maria of downplaying insecurities fellow contestant Madina Alam had about her age. While Maria apologized, Sydney continued to accuse her of bullying and developing rigidity some of the ladies.
Maria additionally claimed that she and Sydney made amends in a scene filmed before their blowout fight — however it by no means aired.
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“She hugged me before the group date and she or he was once like, ‘Maria, I simply need to say again, I’m sorry for taking one thing out of context.’ It wasn’t shown,” she claimed. “We hugged it out. We had been just right. Later on that night time is when she was once like, ‘I think bullied by you.’ You hugged me previous that day. … It used to be loopy. But again, because I know she is a good particular person, deep down, I believe that once more, in this environment, it simply brought out the worst.”
Maria made it transparent that Sydney is “an awesome girl” and there’s no bad blood between them now. She made a an identical statement about Nick, noting the entirety that went down is “in the past.”
“I just want everyone to understand that there’s no animosity between us. I feel we've always been pals,” she mentioned. “He’s at all times been great to me, and I appreciate his courting. I admire the place he is now. I’m glad to look him develop. But yeah, to say that we didn’t have a past, that will be a lie.”
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