Bachelor’s Litia Garr Reacts to Juliana Pasquarosa Saying She’s a ‘Mean Girl’

In addition to breaking her silence about her breakup from Grant Ellis, The Bachelor runner-up Litia Garr addressed winner Juliana Pasquarosa’s comments about her “mean girl” behavior.

Litia, 31, did her first post-show interview on the Friday, April 11, episode of the “Relationsh*t with Kamie Crawford” podcast. At the end of their chat, host Kamie Crawford asked about Juliana’s comment about “mean girls.” (On the “Viall Files” podcast last month, Juliana replied “definitely” when host Nick Viall asked if Litia’s finale actions felt “mean girl.”)

“I meant everything that I said. I think Juliana is beautiful, and I think she’s great, and anything that I’ve done that has been offensive to someone — that’s not my intention,” Litia said on Friday. “To me, the friendships that I have with the women in my season, that’s where I’ve invested time — in cultivating a friendship with them. So my friendships and any support that I get from them is the result of lots of FaceTimes and messages and checking in on each other and being there for each other. It’s friendship.”

While Litia has stayed close with several cast members from Grant’ season, often sharing content with them on social media, Juliana, 28, has stood by new fiancé Grant, 31.

“I feel bad that that hasn’t been her experience. That’s not my intention. I’m not gonna make my friendship smaller or ask my friends not to support me. I’m not gonna ask them to support me or to pick anything [either],” Litia continued. “They’re all their own people, and they’re supporting the people that they want to. And I think everyone, as far as I’m concerned, supports everyone. The women have all had their own, you know, issues with Grant and things right to them, and I think that’s important to remember. It’s not necessarily anything to do with her. It’s probably more to do with him. I can only speak for myself.”

During the March 24 finale of the ABC series, Litia was blindsided by Grant’s decision to break up with her and get engaged to Juliana. While Juliana initially claimed she didn’t watch the episode — during which Litia detailed all the reassurance Grant gave her — she has since tuned in, and had choice words for Litia.

“I think my feelings were the most hurt by Litia,” Juliana told former Bachelor Nick. “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. 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.”

One of the moments that upset Juliana was Litia saying that she should have “a lot of questions” for Grant if she got engaged to him.

“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,” Juliana said. “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.”

Juliana added that she didn’t want the other women on the show not to support Litia, but feels slighted by the group as a whole after getting engaged to Grant.

“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,” she said. “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.”

On Friday, Litia further addressed Juliana’s remarks and expanded on their relationship.

“There’s so many FaceTimes and texts between her and I that don’t have any bad blood. That was new information to me, when she felt that way,” Litia said. “It’s interesting that more than, like, the interpersonal dynamics of feeling left out by something or feeling a type of way watching it back, it’s not as much that interaction that creates the divide, it becomes polarizing when the internet gets involved. It’s hard not to hold it against that person when, ‘Why aren’t you stopping this hate? Can’t you see all the negativity that I’m getting?’ It’s easy for you to say that that’s not true, or if that’s actually how you feel, to talk to me about it privately. And at this point on our season — almost everyone has had a healthy dose of hateful comments and misconceptions — and so to me, to perpetuate hateful comments and narratives toward someone else is the thing that actually creates the divide. It’s less about what you actually did to me, and it’s the conversation that you let continue when we could have resolved this privately that makes it so that we can’t be close.”

Litia said that while the show was airing, the group was “all very supportive of each other and very aware” that being on the show is a “weird” and unique experience.

“We don’t need to be best friends, but in any way that I felt like I could, I wanted to stick up for anyone getting hate, even though we weren’t necessarily close, because we’re all in this together, and we’re all going through it for the first time,” she added.