Maria Georgas announces a major reaction after being targeted by Jenn Tran and ex-fiancé Devin Straders Drama.
“Just got back from a quiet trip,” Maria, 30, wrote on her Instagram story on Wednesday, September 4. “This is not what I wanted to find at home, but I have a few things to say and this time I’m not going to hold back.”
Maria — who performed Joey Graziadeis Season 28 of The Bachelor alongside Jenn earlier this year – apparently referring to Jenn and Devin’s After the last rose Discussion during the final on Tuesday, September 3 The Bachelorette. During the episode, it was revealed that Devin was following Maria on social media, only one day when he broke up with Jenn.
“Breaking off an engagement over the phone? The next day I wake up and I’m following girls on Instagram?! And not just any girl, but Maria?!” Jenn said while confronting Devin, which drew audible gasps from the audience. “Not only is that so disrespectful to everything we shared together – I just don’t get it. It completely invalidated our relationship. Everything we felt for each other. Did that even mean anything to you?”
Jenn also accused him of going to clubs with other people. Bachelorette candidate Jeremy Simons rather than properly mourning their breakup, which he facilitated over the phone. Devin, for his part, struggled to come up with an answer before admitting the allegations.
“I can’t excuse the Instagram follow. I know it hurt you. … I disappointed you and I can’t say anything else,” he told her, adding that he had “big doubts” after they left the show and “unfortunately it was too late to let you know.”
Jenn and Devin initially got engaged in the finale, with Jenn flipping the script by proposing first. In the scene, she put a ring on Devin’s finger after he said “yes.” Devin returned the sentiment by getting down on one knee and opening a box containing her ring.
After the last rose revealed that Devin broke up with Jenn sometime in July after three months together. “He basically said he doesn’t love me anymore and doesn’t feel the same anymore,” Jenn recalled to the moderator Jesse Palmeradding that Devin said he “regretted” the engagement. “He was checked out. It wasn’t what he wanted anymore.”
While Jenn claimed she fought for their relationship, she claimed Devin had no interest in couples counseling.
“We left Hawaii engaged,” Jenn said through tears. “I thought I had found the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. As soon as we left Hawaii, everything changed.”
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Devin’s decision to follow Maria is an even bigger swipe considering Maria, a fan favorite on Joey’s season, had turned down an offer to become the next Bachelorette but backed out after the role was “set in stone.”
“I was offered the role. It was mine until I said it wasn’t,” she confirmed on an episode of the podcast “Call Her Daddy” in May. “It was so overwhelming that I had to say no.”
While the reality star admitted that she tried her best to support Jenn and stay quiet about her exit from The Bachelorette, she ultimately decided it was best to be “honest” about what happened.
“It was set in stone. I was there,” Maria claimed at the time. “When everyone around me was so supportive of me being in this position and everyone wanted this for me, I took a moment. I thought: Why am I not happy? Why am I not excited about this? It was only when I realized that it’s just not my time that I respectfully said: I have to decline. I have to take a step back.”
When it was announced in March that Jenn would be the lead in season 21, Maria made her feelings about the choice clear. “Couldn’t be happier ❤️,” she wrote under one of the duo’s Instagram stories at the time.
“When I tell you how happy I am for her, you best believe it. We were there for each other. Always,” she captioned a second story showing the two holding hands at a rose ceremony. “I will be cheering her on every step of the way. She deserves this moment. And it is HER moment. The representation alone makes so many little girls proud that they can look up and see a beautiful Asian woman on our screens. Way to go Jenn!!! Get your man!!!”
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Meanwhile, Jenn later responded to Maria and Daisy Kent, another season 28 contestant, that they both turned down the role.
“Obviously, I didn’t have my phone with me when all of this happened because we had started filming right after the announcement,” she said during an episode of “Call Her Daddy” in June. “Going back to all of that, yes, of course I was really disappointed to see all of this because the truth is there are a lot of stories out there and they’re not necessarily true.”
Jenn pointed out that there were 21 seasons of the show and that in each season there were “several people” in the running for the job.
“Several people are interviewing or holding meetings about the whole thing, doing fittings or filming introductory packages,” she said, “and you’re never really yourself until you are.”
