Earlier than season 9 of Bachelor in Paradise kicks off, Us Weekly is trying again on season 8 with star Johnny DePhillipo.
“I feel I’ve matured a lot. You develop a lot [filming Bachelor in Paradise], you actually do. And it’s not only a present. It’s an enormous remedy session, in a manner,” Johnny started on a latest episode of Us Weekly’s “Right here for the Proper Causes” podcast. “And also you speak about all the pieces in life and what you need and the way you need to be handled and the way you need to deal with others. … You actually do stroll away with some good.”
Bachelor Nation will recall Johnny getting engaged to Victoria Fuller throughout the 2022 season. “We have been good for a bit bit. We have been good till we weren’t,” he quipped to Us.
Johnny and Victoria cut up whereas the present was airing, and she or he shortly moved on with Bachelorette season 17 alum Greg Grippo. When requested whether or not the stress of getting engaged performed a job of their cut up, Johnny informed Us that he thinks he and Victoria would’ve suffered “the identical destiny” whatever the Neil Lane diamond.
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“It’s numerous stress, however once you’re there [and] so in that world — it doesn’t really feel like stress once you’re there,” he stated. “It simply feels proper. After which it doesn’t actually occur till you permit and also you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m engaged. Oh s—t, let’s determine this out.’”
Whereas Johnny and Victoria didn’t determine issues out, she remains to be relationship Greg. Johnny informed Us that he isn’t shocked that the twosome are going sturdy.
“Truthfully, no. She actually favored them and she or he nonetheless does,” he defined. “And it took rather a lot for her to do no matter occurred. So she appeared tremendous pleased about all of it and good. I’m pleased. She’s pleased.”
The final time the exes spoke was after the BiP reunion in fall 2022. “After the reunion, we had talked for a bit bit nearly all the pieces that went down and that was it,” he stated. “We form of went our personal methods.”
Regardless of the messy breakup, Johnny informed Us that he has no regrets. “It was an expertise. It was wonderful, unhappy. It was pleased. It was all the pieces,” he stated. “It was only a roller-coaster. However like I stated, no regrets. I loved each second of it.”
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Whereas Johnny informed Us that he was contacted by the community to return for season 9 of BiP, he opted to spend time in South Jersey together with his grandfather, who has Parkinson’s illness.
“He’s form of the glue to our household and I don’t understand how for much longer he has, so I made a decision to form of choose up and are available right here for a pair months,” he stated earlier than detailing his bartending gig. “And there was a neighborhood café bar that was hiring and I knew them and I’ve been bartending perpetually. So I made a decision to bartend for the summer season and that’s what I’ve been doing for the previous two, three months, and I’m loving it.”
As for his love life off display, Johnny informed Us that he’s seeing somebody — who followers may’ve noticed within the background of one among his latest Instagram posts.
“It’s form of ongoing proper now and she or he’s a tremendous particular person and we’ve been having a lot enjoyable collectively, however I simply don’t [know]. I’m shifting again to Florida and it’s very, form of, tough in the mean time,” he informed Us of his thriller lady. “It’s a bizarre factor. However I look after her rather a lot. So yeah, she’s tremendous cool.”
For extra from Johnny, together with his response to ex Gabby Windey’s new romance, take heed to Us Weekly’s “Right here for the Proper Causes” podcast.
