The Bachelor alum Juliana Pasquarosa had her family on the forefront of her mind throughout her split from Grant Ellis.
“It’s so odd because I think I was having so much angst about the break up being announced because I felt oddly embarrassed on the sense that … on my family’s end, we take marriage very seriously and — just before even filming — I had this goal like, ‘I just want to make my family proud of who I am when they watch it back.’ So that was really hard for me,” Juliana, 28, said on the Monday, August 18, episode of the “Trading Secrets” podcast.
She continued, “Of course, they didn’t judge me and they didn’t find it embarrassing, but that was what I struggled with the most. I really didn’t care what anybody else thought. I was just like, ‘I really hope my family’s not upset with me.’”
Juliana and Grant met on The Bachelor season 29, where she ultimately accepted a proposal from him in the finale. Watching the season back, Juliana admitted that there were times she would become frustrated with Grant.
Juliana Pasquarosa is ready to move on after her split from Grant Ellis. “Closing this chapter with a healing heart and a quiet kind of peace,” Juliana, 28, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, June 17, alongside photos of herself modeling three different bikinis. “Not because it was all easy, but because I made it through […]
“There were times in conversations that I watched when he would say certain things, I would get more upset with him because I’m like, ‘Do you understand the weight of what you just said to that person?’” she said. “More as an accountability than being flustered because I knew that he was going to be doing that when I was filming and I can’t be upset with something that I agreed to do. So I reminded myself of that a lot.”
Less than three months after the engagement aired, the pair shared via social media that they called it quits. While reflecting back on their decision to share their split publicly, Juliana noted that she doesn’t think they “owe anybody anything” but viewers did become invested in their love story.
“I think it would have been nice to provide some clarity, but I also think that that would have been a really hard conversation for Grant and I to have on how do we verbalize it?” Juliana said, adding that the split was mutual. “After the initial conversation — we had a lot of conversations, it made sense for the both of us.”
When asked where they stand today, Juliana emphasized that she wishes him the best. “I want to see him succeed and I will always support him,” she said. “I think he’s a really great, genuine guy and I can tell he’s supporting me from afar.”
As she navigates life after the split, Juliana shared that she’s getting back out there on the dating app Raya and would be open to being on Bachelor in Paradise or the lead of The Bachelorette — while also denying speculation that she is romantically linked to Jenn Tran’s ex Matt Rossi. (Matt appeared on The Bachelorette season 21 in an effort to win Jenn back. She ultimately got engaged to ex Devin Strader.)
“I went to high school with Matt Rossi,” Juliana explained, adding that they are “totally” just friends. “We actually put up a video the other day just kind of like teasing that we are kissing. But no, it’s just fun.”
