The Bachelor’s Litia Garr opened up about her split from season 29 star Grant Ellis for the first time since their shocking breakup.
Litia, 31, previously alleged that Grant, also 31, had given her reassurance that she was his final pick ahead of the finale, and she doubled down on her claims during her appearance on the “Relationsh*t with Kamie Crawford” podcast on Friday, April 11.
“He was saying things like, ‘I can’t wait for the cameras to go away and we can just be together. I just want to hang out and talk and chat and not feel like we have to talk about heavy stuff all the time,’” Litia said. “We had light moments, but the things that were shown definitely were the most important things that were being discussed.”
She continued, “When leaving my suite, I was like, ‘OK, I’ll see you tomorrow. I can’t believe it, like, we’re getting engaged,’ because of all the things he had just said to me during the whole conversation. He was like, ‘I know. I can’t wait. I love you. I love you. I love you,’ when he was being, like, rushed out the door.”
Litia speculated that their conversations could have been a result of Grant’s “people pleasing” nature, but she was confident that if he didn’t stop her when she started to talk then she would be his final choice.
“I stood there and I was like, ‘If it’s not me, he won’t let me speak.’ After everything that he said, hopefully he would just let me know before I do my big declaration — he knows what I’m about to say,” the venture capitalist explained. “And we stood there for a minute, and he was like, ‘They told me to let you talk first.’ He, like, prompted me to give my speech. And so I was like, ‘Oh, OK, like, great. I’ll just say everything that I need to say.’”
Litia also noted that Grant had given her a journal to write down her feelings throughout The Bachelor process and alleged that he had told her he wanted to read the pages together after filming completed. However, Juliana Pasquarosa, the woman Grant chose in the end, has since revealed that she, too, received a journal.
“I don’t know everyone’s conversations with him. … Why would you give multiple women journals and ask them to write down all their feelings for you so you can read through it at the end? Why would you ask multiple women to do that?” Litia said.“That seems to me like a stroke of the ego, so that you know everyone is really dwelling and sitting in this Grant, Kool-Aid world.”
Along with Grant’s comments about the journal, Litia shared that when he kissed her upon her arrival was “another thing” that made her believe they weren’t about to end their relationship.
“There’s, like, a million things the whole time why I thought it was gonna go a different way, but that was the part to me, on the drive away from the breakup, I was like, ‘He asked me to give the speech,’” Litia went on.
“He’s doing his best to be a good partner to the person he’s in a relationship with now. And so I think that’s kind of the place where he’s coming from with all this,” she concluded. “To me, everything that I said on the couch during After the Final Rose, I said during our breakup. I knew that I signed up to be a part of a TV show, and that that came with an audience that was invested in the story of our relationship. … I just kind of wanted to add context to why I was surprised.”
