Viall, 39, left his season ofThe Bachelorengaged toVanessa Grimaldi, but the pair ended up breaking things off five months after season 21 finale aired. Speaking on her friend Taylor Nolan’s podcastLet’s Talk About Itlast month, Grimaldi, 32, revealed that she didn’t initially want to end the show engaged, but wanted to continue to date.
Viall joined fellowBachelorNation alumKaitlyn Bristowefor the live taping of herOff the Vinepodcaston the Los Angeles leg of herKB Fall CrawlTour on Monday, and the formerBacheloretteheld nothing back, asking Viall straight away what he thought of his ex’s words.
Viall clarified that he was allowed to drink instead of answering a question before agreeing to let Bristowe continue, and once he was assured that was how the game was played, she proceeded.
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“Vanessa has spoken out – pretty recently – aboutnot wanting to get engaged on the show,” Bristowe said. “How did you feel about her talking about this publicly? Tell us the truth, or drink.”
After some engagement with the audience — who were encouraging Viall to skip the question and drink instead of answering — Viall asked, “So, the question is, what do I think about it? Or not, whether it was true?”
“Yeah, what do you think about it?” Bristowe clarified.
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“Uh, I mean, it was fine. Right? I mean, like, was I irritated?” Viall said. Bristowe joked that his reaction “to everything” is “it was fine,” to which Viall added, “Well, you try to be level-headed.”
On theLet’s Talk About Itpodcast, Grimaldi — who is currentlydating Canadian businessman Josh Wolfe— saidThe Bachelordidn’t air a conversation between her and Viall discussing their engagement.
“I didn’t want to get engaged. They didn’t air this,” she said. “I had a conversation with him, and I said, ‘Listen, wouldn’t it be better if we just date outside of the show and then get engaged? Because that’d be more meaningful. We’d get to know each other.’“
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“He said, ‘I know to you it could be just a piece of jewelry, but there’s so much meaning towards us leaving engaged because there’s going to be so much attention,’” Grimaldi recalled Viall saying.
“There’s going to be so much backlash on us once we’re done with the show. At least this is going to hold us so much more. It’s going to hold us together. It’s going to hold us together more than it’s true. ‘Cause you have, like, something you’re working towards, right?’ “
Grimaldi added that she “wouldn’t have said yes if I didn’t picture him as someone that I could’ve potentially grown with.”
“I think if we weren’t engaged, we would’ve broken up sooner,” she added.
source: people.com
