Abhay Singh
Maria Georgas responded to Bachelor Nation’s conversation about Devin Strader’s social media activity after Bachelorette Jenn Tran called out him for following Georgas on Instagram the day after their engagement was broken off via phone call.
Georgas and Tran both competed on Joey Graziadei’s season.
“I just don’t understand it.”
“What I can’t understand is everything that you did after we’ve broken our engagement, so disrespectful to everything that we had shared together, I just don’t understand it.” Jenn informed Devin before he made his decision to follow Georgas.
Devin said “Obviously I failed you, And there’s nothing I can say other than that. But, everything I felt for you was real.”
Maria shared a lengthy TikTok answer on Thursday, September 5, captioning it, “Put it to rest”.
“Last night was hard to watch, and my heart goes out to Jenn, I can’t speak on her relationship. The only two people who can speak on her relationship are her and Devin.” Said Maria.
She also added I’m over coming to defense for my character, I know who I am and my friends and family know who I am. The fact that I had you guys watch me through a screen and still be able to see how real I was, I have no words. I understand Jenn having to speak up about it – say your piece, girlfriend, I respect it. I just think without the full context, it leads people to believe a whole different narrative.”
Maria confirmed that Devin follows her on Instagram, but she doesn’t “pay attention” to who follows her or who doesn’t.
She said “I had no clue about that until people brought it to my attention, And by that time, when I found out, he had unfollowed. Let me clear the air on something. I have never met Devin before.”
But Jenn claimed in After the Final Rose that Devin didn’t grieve their split; instead, he went “clubbing” with another competitor, Jeremy Simon.
“I never went clubbing out with [Devin],”
Maria stated “I never went clubbing out with [Devin], He did his own thing. Did I go out with Jeremy – a night with friends, a bunch of us together? Yes, I did.”
Maria plans to meet people in real life and maintains friendships, expressing her normality and not apologizing for meeting other Bachelor franchise contestants.
“I can’t control who follows who, But what I can control is what I do about it. And what I’m doing is not following back. And I never followed back,” she continued “Now seeing how things transpired, I will never follow that man.”
She also added “My character, my innocence, my peace is important to me. And I will not f— that up for no one,”
“Just because [Jenn and I] separated our ways and are no longer friends doesn’t mean we hate each other, It doesn’t mean that if someone is going to disrespect her in my face, that I’m going to sit here and stand for it. Because I’m not.” She stated.
She finally ended the message by saying “I’m just a regular person who went on a reality TV show. Stop holding me to a standard that doesn’t exist,”
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