Sarafiena, Zoe. Disney/Matt Sayles (2)
Sarafiena Watkins is expressing regret for the feedback she made about Zoe McGrady’s costume on The Bachelor.
“I hated that. Wasn’t my finest second,” Sarafiena, 29, mentioned on the Thursday, February 20, episode of the “Bachelor Joyful Hour” podcast of her remark. “I used to be arduous on myself for therefore lengthy about it. However I’m additionally giving myself some grace with it as a result of I’m human and all of us say some issues we don’t imply, or, we’re like, ‘That was s—– within the second.’”
The drama between Zoe, 27, and the remainder of the ladies got here to a head throughout a bunch date cocktail celebration on the February 10 episode of The Bachelor when Sarafiena made a remark about her fellow contestant’s costume.
“That’s the shortest costume I’ve ever seen in my life,” Sarafiena mentioned to a bunch of ladies on the sofa, which Zoe overheard.
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“I rise up and seize a drink for, like, one second and I hear folks speaking and Sarafiena says that my costume is simply too quick,” Zoe defined in a confessional. “Critically? That’s not [a] lady’s lady, you already know? I don’t get it. I wasn’t asking for a touch upon my costume, and I wasn’t even speaking to her.”
Zoe appeared emotional as she vented her frustrations to fellow contestant Chloie Costello and in the end introduced up her issues about folks “who’re being faux” to Grant Ellis.
“It’s been a protracted day. It’s really very irritating for me,” Zoe advised Grant. “I feel clearly, with the primary group date, that was me in my component. Athletics. Clearly, you noticed final week the place there’s, like, the competitiveness and since then, there’s little jabs at me consistently. Some lady’s like, ‘Oh, your costume is so quick.’”
Grant interjected to ask who made the remark, to which Zoe opted to not give him a reputation. “I don’t wish to see folks throwing jabs, I don’t need that. So I respect you coming to me and telling me. I see you attempting and placing your self on the market, and I respect that,” Grant mentioned. “However don’t cease being you, alright?”
Now, the second is water beneath the bridge for Zoe and Sarafiena’s mended friendship. After the remark, the duo had a dialog — which led them to appreciate they shared similarities.
“In a bizarre means, it really obtained Zoe and I to bond as a result of we realized that we had been feeling the identical issues, however we had been simply articulating it in several methods,” Sarafiena mentioned on Thursday. “I used to be going by means of issues at the moment as a result of it’s such an emotional, rocky journey. We, typically as folks, don’t know tips on how to talk properly. I actually do suppose, in a bizarre means, it obtained us to actually see one another in a distinct mild.”
The Bachelor airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
