Joey Graziadei Says Maria Georgas Is 'Misunderstood' on The Bachelor

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Even Joey Graziadei doesn’t completely understand what went down with Maria Georgas and her fellow Bachelor season 28 contestants.

“I don’t have any idea what took place. You guys are seeing as much as I’m seeing,” the 28-year-old tennis pro admitted to Us Weekly when asked about Maria’s various feuds in the mansion. “Because each and every conversation I had with them was once one-on-one. I didn’t get to peer the crew settings. I think that Maria can every now and then be misunderstood. I get that she explained that herself — that she’s a bit of rough round the edges and was once surprised that she didn’t get along with numerous the girls in the house.”

Things were given complicated for Bachelor Nation when Madina Alam accused Maria of dismissing her considerations about being the oldest girl on the season. Sydney Gordon’s makes an attempt to shield Madina backfired and led to Sydney accusing Maria of being toxic and pronouncing several things to the different ladies that didn’t air on the sequence. Maria denied Sydney’s claims, and Joey picked Maria over Sydney on a two-on-one date. Lea Cayanan subsequently took over the anti-Maria campaign, but Joey persevered to face by means of the Canadian, who secured a place in his top six.

“I believe what I always go back to, despite the fact that, is that she had a strong reference to me and I all the time on this scenario was seeking to focus on the connections,” Joey advised Us of Maria. “I will’t regulate what is going on in the space. All I will regulate is the opportunity to get to understand those girls the very best that I will from what I see and what we communicate thru. So the reason why Maria stayed, the reason she’s nonetheless round, is because now we have a connection that was building and I wanted to look it through. So yeah, it’s arduous to talk on that stuff because I still haven’t observed it all and America nonetheless hasn’t seen all of it. That’s all the time how it’s going to be.”

With the drama going most commonly unresolved, it’s most likely that the upcoming Women Tell All will center of attention a lot on age-gate.

“I can be there,” Joey confirmed to Us. “Obviously, I don’t know if someone’s able for that, but it is going to be what it’s supposed to be and I will clearly be there so as to add any conversation that I need to. … I've nothing however appreciation for each and every of the girls, the ones that have left [and] the ones which can be nonetheless right here. I think everybody should proceed to steer with kindness and realize that this is an excessively tough situation that we get put into.”

In addition to Maria, Joey’s closing contestants are Daisy Kent, Kelsey Anderson, Kelsey Toussant, Rachel Nance and Jenn Tran. While Daisy has appeared to be a front-runner since receiving the first one-on-one date of the season, a brand new theory suggests that Joey and Kelsey A. spoiled the finishing by posting pictures from identical backgrounds in fresh weeks.

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“Obviously anything else that comes out like that, I can’t in reality talk on it. I do know individuals are really making an attempt to figure out what’s going on,” he stated of the hypothesis. “Yeah, I will’t talk to the rest that’s sent as it’s not actually one thing that I’m being attentive to.”

The Bachelor airs on ABC Mondays at Eight p.m. ET. For more from Joey, pay attention to Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast.

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