The Bachelorette’sGreg Grippohas set the record straight about his relationship with fellow franchise alumBri Springs.
Grippo, 28, addressed recent speculation about him and Springs, 25, during this week’s episode of theViall Filespodcast. “I couldn’t believe waking up the next day to that,” he said of rumors that the two were dating. “Bri is just a friend. [I’m] pretty sure she has a boyfriend.”
“She was in my part of town. I’m in Hell’s Kitchen right now,” he continued. “She was grabbing dinner and she was like, ‘Hey, I don’t know what you’re doing, if you want to have food with my friends and I?’ I said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.'”
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Grippo said his time with Springs “was nothing but friendly.” “We ate a lot of food,” he said. “She knows how to pick a good spot. We did a lot of pasta.”
Grippo, meanwhile, is fresh off the heels ofKatie Thurston’sBacheloretteseason. The New Jersey native, who made it to the final three,eliminated himself from the competitionafter insisting he did not receive the reassurance he needed from her.
Grippo’sheated breakupwith Thurston, 30, sparked much online debate amongst viewers. During Monday’sAfter the Final Rosespecial, Thurston — whogot engagedto finalistBlake Moynes—called Grippo outfor the way he treated her at the time.
“The way you said that you are so in love with me, I filled a hole in your heart, and the second that things got awkward for you [and] uncomfortable, you ran. You’re a liar,” she said. “You did not love me. If you think that’s love, you don’t know what love is.”
Grippo, who apologized to Thurston on stage, alsoaddressed his behavioronViall Files.
“I was obviously way too harsh on her in those moments in that room, but it was just the way that we were talking to each other in those moments. I wasn’t communicating well at all,” he said. “My head was wrapped up in it not being [about] the show, which [was] what we were in. It’s really hard to pinpoint it for me. I just felt like I couldn’t read her in that moment, and it just didn’t feel like we were on the same page.”
source: people.com
