UPDATE — 6/25/25 at 8:37 p.m. ET: – Grant Ellis had a few of his personal ideas in response to fellow members of Bachelor Nation commenting on his break up from Juliana Pasquarosa.
After Ashley Iaconetti and Trista Sutter candidly shared their blended emotions about how Ellis has dealt with the breakup throughout the Tuesday, June 24, episode of the “Nearly Well-known” podcast, Grant took to the podcast’s social media web page to reply.
“Everyone seems to be criticizing and I get that. I did every thing I may to make the connection work,” Grant wrote in a since-deleted remark, which was then learn on a particular breaking episode of “Nearly Well-known” by Ashley’s cohost, Ben Higgins. “So did Juliana. I’m able to distance my emotions when one thing isn’t for me. The lesson discovered over heartbreak any day.”
Ben then gave his “private opinion” to Ellis’ comment, saying “it comes throughout a bit of chilly.”
“We’re watching, not even just a few months in the past, we have been watching them come out publicly. They have been asking for the general public’s help of their relationship. They have been speaking about their future collectively,” Ben defined. “They have been speaking about transferring in collectively. They have been claiming the purpose we didn’t see them collectively was due to the gap however that was going to be an answer right here quickly.”
Ben identified that Ashley “made the idea issues weren’t good” between Grant and Juliana lengthy earlier than the breakup was introduced, which was met with “criticism” from the general public” despite the fact that “she was proper.”
“However I don’t assume it’s an unfair remark for [Grant] to make,” Ben continued. “Once more, I believe he’s in a season of safety. He’s attempting to maneuver on previous this to attempt to determine what life seems like past the connection and past the Bachelor. He’s attempting to get again out into the world and date whereas his fireplace continues to be burning from the present.”
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Bachelor Nation alums Trista Sutter and Ashley Iaconetti have some ideas on how Grant Ellis is conducting himself following his break up from Juliana Pasquarosa.
Trista, 52, and Ashley, 37, broke down Grant’s current Instagram Reside throughout a Tuesday, June 24, episode of the “Nearly Well-known” podcast. The previous Bachelor girls couldn’t recover from the latest lead revealing he was “not heartbroken” after his breakup from Juliana.
“The not heartbroken factor. I’m sorry. You have been engaged,” Trista mentioned. “That’s stunning to me.”
Ashley chimed in, including, “That’s chilly.” Trista agreed.
“Even when it was a mutual break up, you say you’re heartbroken as a result of you have to be unhappy in regards to the ending of one thing that might have ended up in — that ought to have ended up in marriage,” Ashley continued. “That was the intention.”
Trista added, “When you’re not heartbroken, was your coronary heart ever in it? Have been you in love? Like didn’t you inform her that you just cherished her and also you’re not heartbroken? That actually is the which means of the phrase heartbroken.”
Trista famous that when she was the Bachelorette, she felt “heartbroken” on the primary evening within the Bachelor Mansion after she despatched individuals house.
“Possibly his definition of heartbreak is simply totally different than ours,” she added. “I don’t know.”
Ashley was attempting to see each side of the state of affairs and brazenly puzzled if Grant was actually telling the reality or was, as an alternative, “on the protection” after the breakup.
“It didn’t work out, and now he’s like, ‘Oh, don’t care about her. I’m transferring on. It’s not going to be an issue for me to maneuver on,’” she speculated. “Simply attempting to appear like he’s not affected.”
Trista, in the meantime, wished Grant would “be trustworthy” together with his followers about his emotions going ahead.
“Be genuine with the truth that you have been simply engaged to somebody and also you clearly cared about her,” she mentioned. “Are you able to not admit that, you understand, it’s unhappy to be ending a relationship that you just thought was your future?”
Grant proposed to Juliana throughout the finale of his Bachelor season, which aired in March. They introduced their break up almost three months later. Us Weekly has confirmed that Grant and Juliana have each unfollowed one another on Instagram.
Within the aftermath of their break up, Grant went dwell on Instagram and answered fan questions on his failed engagement.
“Why did I break up with Juliana? I didn’t break up with anyone,” he mentioned on Sunday, June 22, including that “life goes on” after their “mutual” break up. Whereas he’s now formally single, followers shouldn’t anticipate him to rekindle issues with any of his different former Bachelor contestants.
“I don’t rekindle. I transfer ahead,” Grant mentioned. “I’d not get again with anyone from my previous. Life is greatest whenever you transfer ahead, not backward.”
