The Bachelor alum Juliana Pasquarosa had her household on the forefront of her thoughts all through her cut up from Grant Ellis.
“It's so odd as a result of I believe I used to be having a lot angst in regards to the break up being introduced as a result of I felt oddly embarrassed on the sense that … on my household's finish, we take marriage very severely and — simply earlier than even filming — I had this purpose like, ‘I simply need to make my household pleased with who I'm once they watch it again.' In order that was actually laborious for me,” Juliana, 28, stated on the Monday, August 18, episode of the “Trading Secrets” podcast.
She continued, “After all, they didn't choose me and so they didn't discover it embarrassing, however that was what I struggled with essentially the most. I actually didn't care what anyone else thought. I used to be similar to, ‘I actually hope my household's not upset with me.'”
Juliana and Grant met on The Bachelor season 29, the place she in the end accepted a proposal from him within the finale. Watching the season again, Juliana admitted that there have been occasions she would grow to be pissed off with Grant.
“There have been occasions in conversations that I watched when he would say sure issues, I'd get extra upset with him as a result of I'm like, ‘Do you perceive the burden of what you simply stated to that particular person?'” she stated. “Extra as an accountability than being flustered as a result of I knew that he was going to be doing that after I was filming and I can't be upset with one thing that I agreed to do. So I reminded myself of that quite a bit.”
Lower than three months after the engagement aired, the pair shared through social media that they known as it quits. Whereas reflecting again on their choice to share their cut up publicly, Juliana famous that she doesn't assume they “owe anyone something” however viewers did grow to be invested of their love story.
“I believe it will have been good to supply some readability, however I additionally assume that that may have been a extremely laborious dialog for Grant and I to have on how can we verbalize it?” Juliana stated, including that the cut up was mutual. “After the preliminary dialog — we had loads of conversations, it made sense for the each of us.”
When requested the place they stand at the moment, Juliana emphasised that she needs him the very best. “I need to see him succeed and I'll all the time assist him,” she stated. “I believe he's a extremely nice, real man and I can inform he's supporting me from afar.”
As she navigates life after the cut up, Juliana shared that she's getting again on the market on the courting app Raya and could be open to being on Bachelor in Paradise or the lead of The Bachelorette — whereas additionally denying hypothesis that she is romantically linked to Jenn Tran's ex Matt Rossi. (Matt appeared on The Bachelorette season 21 in an effort to win Jenn again. She in the end acquired engaged to ex Devin Strader.)
“I went to highschool with Matt Rossi,” Juliana defined, including that they're “completely” simply pals. “We really put up a video the opposite day simply type of like teasing that we're kissing. However no, it's simply enjoyable.”
