Juliana Slams Litia Garr Over ‘Mean Girl’ Behavior in Explosive Post-Bachelor Fallout
Bachelor Nation, brace yourselves — the claws are out, and it’s not just happening on screen.
Reality star and former Bachelor contestant Juliana has ignited a firestorm online after calling out current frontrunner Litia Garr for what she describes as “mean girl antics” following the jaw-dropping finale of The Bachelor.
The reality TV alum tuned in to watch the Bachelor season finale this week, and it didn’t take long for her to unleash some serious shade at one of the season’s most talked-about contestants, Litia Garr.
Fans may remember that Litia was visibly blindsided when Bachelor Grant ended things with her during the final rose ceremony — and let’s be real, it was a brutal moment. But it wasn’t just the heartbreak that had Juliana (and Bachelor Nation) raising eyebrows. It was what came out of Litia’s mouth afterward that sparked a wave of backlash.
“The switch-up is crazy. I’m disappointed.…I just want to be so clear that I’m confused and I’m sad and I’m mad,” Litia said, going on to say she’d have “a lot of questions” if she were Juliana.
In a confessional filmed post-breakup, Litia vented her frustration with some less-than-graceful comments about the other contestants, taking thinly veiled shots at finalist Alana and questioning Grant’s judgment in what many described as a bitter, ego-driven rant.
Juliana, who had been relatively quiet throughout the season, finally weighed in after seeing the finale for herself — and she didn’t hold back.
“I think my feelings were the most hurt by Litia,” Juliana, 28, said on the Tuesday, April 1, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast when asked whose behavior she was most “shocked” by after season 29 The Bachelor.
“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,” Juliana continued. “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.”
“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. Then to continue 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.”
She continued, “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.”
“Oof. Just caught up on the finale and… yeah. That was not it, Litia,” Juliana posted on Instagram. “I get being upset. I get heartbreak. But tearing other women down because you didn’t get your way? Not cute, not cool.”
She continued:
“You can be shocked, sad, even furious. But don’t let your disappointment turn into disrespect. Own your L with class.”
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“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. 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. It definitely hurt my feelings at first and I didn’t quite understand it but it was a quick bounce-back. 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.”
“I wasn’t super reached out to by a lot of the girls that I, maybe, thought I would have been reached out to by. I think when the AFR came and I had reached out to a few girls from my season that were gonna come to the actual live filming of it, I was told that they were coming in support of Litia,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh s*** I didn’t know sides were being taken like that.’ I tried to phrase it in a way that was like, ‘The more the merrier.’ That’s when I think I kind of learned the reality.”
