Johnny’s Put up-‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Revelations About Victoria, Greg

As followers nonetheless get well from the season 8 finale of Bachelor in Paradise, Johnny DePhillipo is opening up about his cut up from Victoria Fuller — and the position each Greg Grippo and Gabby Windey performed in his damaged engagement.

Johnny appeared on the “Almost Famous” and “Click Bait” podcasts following the Tuesday, November 22, reunion, claiming on each reveals that Rachel Recchia and Gabby’s season of The Bachelorette airing kicked his relationship with Victoria off on the mistaken foot.

“She was heartbroken. She was upset that she was engaged and that it was very a lot the highlight was on me and another person,” Johnny, who left after his fantasy suite date with Gabby, advised Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti. “And it was exhausting to be blissful as a pair and attempt to blossom after I needed to form of promote my present.”

Johnny and Victoria have publicly disagreed on the timeline of their breakup. She claimed they cut up lower than one month after they received engaged on the seaside.

“There was a risk for us to doubtlessly work towards one thing. Breakups are complicated, proper? I imply everyone knows that. I’d be loopy to say that I lower off communication fully,” the Bachelor season 24 alum advised Us Weekly earlier this month. “We ended our engagement three weeks after after which shortly after that we have been fully carried out.”

Johnny, for his half, stated they didn’t name it quits till September. He additional alleged that she’s altering the narrative due to transferring on with Greg, who she was first publicly noticed with in late October. Johnny, nevertheless, urged issues began taking place with Greg and Victoria in late August after they attended the identical party. Victoria has denied all dishonest allegations.

“That celebration — that is when her angle form of switched. And that is after I was like, ‘She’s not going to work on something,’ like, she’s gone. However up till that time, I assumed we have been capable of work on no matter it’s we have been doing,” he advised Ben and Ashley, noting that there was speak about not being engaged however nonetheless transferring ahead as a pair. “We have been speaking day by day. We have been FaceTiming, we have been planning. I had purchased tickets to [go to] her home earlier than that celebration, , like, at no level the place I used to be like, ‘Oh, we’re carried out.’ We have been very a lot nonetheless collectively. … I feel the principle factor was like, ‘Are we going to stroll on that stage engaged?’ … At no level was I like, ‘We’re not collectively anymore.’ I imply, you do not say I really like you to somebody that you simply’re not collectively [with].”

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The realtor concluded that the “most heartbreaking” and “crushing” a part of the state of affairs was seeing Greg be part of Victoria on stage on the reunion.

“After I heard that he confirmed up and she or he form of was simply all about it —and I used to be similar to, ‘Why?’ I went by way of two reveals, I went by way of Bachelorette, and now I am on Paradise. And I did all of Paradise with you. I went by way of all these occasions collectively, and we have had our ups and downs and now I used to be on stage for 5 minutes,” he stated. “I needed to sit in my trailer on my own. I used to be like, ‘That is bulls—t.’ I did not get to spend time with the solid who I really like. I did not get to see Wells [Adams], I did not get to speak to anybody. I received to go on stage, have a combat with somebody that I actually care about, after which stroll away, like, empty-handed from all the things. That evening sucked. I name my mother crying. I used to be similar to, ‘That is f—king terrible.’ I do know that we’re not allowed to have our telephones, I used to be like, ‘Give me my f—king telephone, I would like to speak to my mother proper now.’”

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Johnny advised the “Click on Bait” crew that Victoria known as him crying “three days” after they wrapped Paradise due to season 19 of The Bachelorette. “I needed to promote me and Gabby,” he stated. “I used to be similar to, ‘That is heartbreaking to me.’ It is like, she needs to be blissful. And he or she’s like, ‘I do not really feel blissful.’ And it was terrible and I feel that began a variety of rocky conversations earlier than our [first] blissful couple [weekend].”

He additional defined the state of affairs on “Nearly Well-known.”

“I actually do suppose my season airing had an enormous position on this relationship. Attempt to, like, put your self in our footwear and it was very very similar to we’re engaged and that is alleged to be our time and our second and we need to be so blissful, however we have been so at midnight and the world knew me as being with Gabby [and] not being with Victoria and that basically damage her,” Johnny advised Ben and Ashley. “She was heartbroken. She was upset that she was engaged and that it was very a lot the highlight was on me and another person and it was exhausting to be blissful as a pair and attempt to blossom after I needed to form of promote my present and it was only a bizarre factor as a result of a variety of her associates have been getting engaged too — a variety of her associates that aren’t on TV, and so they have been all, , publicly on the market. It was heartbreaking. She was actually upset about a variety of issues.”

He added {that a} podcast look he did in regards to the Bachelorette didn’t assist. (Whereas he didn’t get particular, Johnny appeared on “Bachelor Pleased Hour” on August 9.)

“I had carried out a podcast for Bachelorette. And I feel which will have been our first massive combat the place I used to be speaking about Gabby, form of previous tense, nevertheless it felt actually current to her,” he stated. “I feel she simply felt like, , I wasn’t as upfront together with her as I ought to have been on the seaside. And he or she thought a variety of the issues I stated to Gabby, I stated to her, so I feel that basically threw her off. I feel that was actually one in all our first massive fights.”

“She, , honestly advised me about Greg and her at Paradise. Andrew [Spencer] and all of them, they know that her and Greg have been speaking prior. And I do not know what occurred with him, nevertheless it did not work out,” Johnny claimed to Ben and Ashley.

He additionally advised Joe Amabile, Natasha Parker and Tia Sales space that Victoria known as Greg after they received dwelling from Mexico.

“I did not know who Victoria was. And I used to be like, ‘That is my fiancée, I will belief her.’ After which she had reached out to Greg a few weeks after Paradise — she known as him,” he stated. “And that did not sit proper with me. However I did not need to be that jealous particular person. And I felt like she needed to shut the door with somebody as a result of she left and in 30 days received engaged. And this was one thing she needed to do.”

In response to Johnny, issues took a flip in late August when Victoria attended a celebration with Greg.

“After I noticed [footage of] them collectively [at Natalie’s party] and she or he stopped speaking to me, that is after I was similar to, ‘I do not like this,’ , you get that intestine feeling,” he stated. “After which all the things simply form of received confirmed after rumors began surfacing. I have never advised anybody about it. And I used to be similar to, effectively, ‘Now there’s rumors and I had a intestine feeling.’”

“We’re at two totally different locations in life,” he admitted to Joe, Natasha and Tia. “However at the moment in Paradise, you do not actually see a variety of that s—t. … Paradise is an entire totally different world, you are secluded. And popping out, , Victoria could be very established. And that is a part of the explanation why I did not need to get engaged on the primary present, , I used to be nonetheless in paramedic college and I used to be nonetheless doing all this stuff. And there is issues that Victoria needed that I could not give her. … It did not sit proper together with her [after Paradise]. … I simply did not really feel like I can care for in the way in which that she needed me to.”

Victoria has maintained that issues have been over between them three weeks after the present completed filming. Johnny, for his half, claimed they didn’t finish their relationship till mid-September and tried to work on issues in couple’s remedy. After going weeks with out speaking, he noticed her once more when he traveled to Nashville for his birthday. (Whereas he didn’t say the date, Johnny was born on October 9.)

“I went to Nashville and I feel that is when … we had a speak about the place we have been and all the things was, like, proper round my birthday. I went to her home, and we talked about all the things,” he stated. “She was gone. … It was chilly. I already thought she was with another person. … I simply form of was like, ‘I ought to have by no means got here right here.’ This sucks. I’m not excellent, although. I am not gonna put all the things on her.”

Johnny added that issues turned “actual” when Victoria was seen with Greg in Italy in late October, days earlier than they taped the reunion on November 4.

“That is when it actually, like, received below my pores and skin. And he or she had reached out proper earlier than the reunion. … I did not need something to do with it, so I did not reply,” he stated. “She [reached out] to simply form of say what’s up, and, , ‘How’s this reunion gonna go down?’ And I feel she needed to debate it. … perhaps it might have been higher for the each of us, however I used to be simply, like, not blissful on the time.”

Throughout the reunion, Victoria claimed Johnny known as her a “f—king c—t” – which he strongly denies.

“Hell no [I didn’t say that],” he advised Ben and Ashley. “It is simply one of many many arguments that we, perhaps, have stated issues to one another that, , essentially wasn’t the most effective factor to say or wasn’t your best option of phrases. … I feel Victoria simply had her again in opposition to the wall and she or he simply grabbed no matter she might and twisted it round in some loopy approach that made me look dangerous. So , once more, I am not excellent. And me and her have been in loads of fights the place we each have stated issues to one another. And I’ve apologized to her however that was uncalled for.”

He additionally maintained that he was joking about her not cooking or cleansing. “It was actually only a joke as a result of she hates to cook dinner and clear. And I really like cooking and cleansing. So , it is simply, like, somebody cooks, somebody cleans. Somebody cleans, somebody cooks. And I used to be like, ‘If I cook dinner and clear, what are you gonna do?’ Nothing like, ‘What do you do in a relationship?’” he stated. “You don’t must cook dinner and clear, that is the twenty first century — who provides a s—t?”

After their tense onstage reunion, the twosome noticed one another on the BiP press day on November 5.

“After the reunion, she really had reached out, like, instantly after and, , we each felt terrible. We simply felt like we got here out swinging at one another. And he or she was actually torn up. I did not reply. I simply thought it was all bulls-t,” he stated. “However I ended up seeing her on the afterparty on the press [event] and form of bumped into one another, did not say actually something. After which we talked a bit of bit after, , she stated she needed to discuss all the things that went down and I agreed.”

Whereas the pair “hashed out all the things,” issues have been solely higher between them for a “cut up second” — till Nick shared the video of Greg kissing Victoria.

“Then she goes to Nick’s home and subsequent began posting movies on TikTok. And I used to be like, ‘Alright, nothing was f—king real.’ You realize, it is simply again to the general public platform and I used to be getting tagged in it,” he stated. “And I used to be simply, like, you have been right here crying 20 minutes in the past … come on. … I actually do care, however like, I simply cannot preserve answering and no extra talks, like, I am carried out. … [I] always really feel like I am simply getting put down, like, kicked whereas I am down. … Nick is somebody I met, and now he is out right here posting gentle launches? I am like, ‘Dude, what?’ Like, I get it, no matter. However, like, come on — , I am gonna see that, , the general public’s gonna see that.”