Bachelor in Paradise’s Jonathon Johnson is owning up to his behavior in Costa Rica.
After viewers watched the former Bachelorette contestant get into a tense discussion with Jill Chin, Jonathon, 27, reflected on the argument in his own unique social media video.
“I’m not perfect by any means 😂 but we live and we learn ❤️,” he wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, July 16. “Also, Jill’s great, I was just emotionally overstimulated that night!”
Along with his post, Jonathon included a video of himself struggling to view a tense scene with his costar.
“Watching my past self keep a stupid argument going on national TV,” he wrote as dramatic music played in the background.
During the Tuesday, July 15, episode of Bachelor in Paradise, Jonathan revealed to Jill, 29, that he only saw them as friends. Things got complicated, however, when his strongest connection, Alexe Godin, told him that she didn’t feel a romantic spark.
Cameras rolled as Jill confronted Jonathan about a comment he made earlier in the season, when he said their date made his decision on who to give a rose to harder.
Jill started to think that Jonathon could be interested in being more than friends — an assumption he later denied.
“I meant you were making my decision harder because it made me remember that I need somebody I can have conversations like that with,” he clarified.
“But you didn’t mean that it was with me?” Jill asked before Jonathon said no.
Later on in the episode, the pair had another conversation where an apology was made.
“I’m so sorry,” Jonathon said. “The last thing I wanted to do was hurt your feelings and miscommunicate.”
Before heading to Costa Rica to film Bachelor in Paradise, Jonathon — who previously appeared on Jenn Tran’s season of The Bachelorette — exclusively told Us Weekly that he didn’t feel pressure to get engaged on ABC’s summer reality show.
“If I had to walk away because I just didn’t think it was right, I have no problem doing so,” he said at Hulu’s inaugural Get Real House event in April. “But I want to give an honest chance.”
Jonathon explained that he wanted to see someone “behind the smoke and mirrors or the cameras and the lights and really come into [the show] to find something genuine. If I can find that, I’m gonna throw my heart into it and hope for the best. But no pressure.”
Bachelor in Paradise airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
