Victoria Larson claims she was “manipulated” into being the villain on her season of The Bachelor.
Larson, 32, first appeared on season 25 of The Bachelor in 2021 in an try and win the guts of Matt James. In a video shared through TikTok on Friday, March 14, Larson wrote that she was “manipulated into being the villain” for the collection “[because] I needed airtime and to entertain throughout covid when all the pieces was cancel tradition.” Larson added that she “acquired demise threats and hate mail day by day for 2 years” consequently.
Within the feedback of her video, Larson wrote, “Tbh it harm that nobody stood up for me within the media and had my again, they have been extra involved for his or her photos and model offers, in truth Matt is the one one who spoke as much as the reality of the way it was.”
Larson had gained notoriety as a villain throughout her time on The Bachelor and, later, Bachelor in Paradise, likening herself to a goddess or a queen and being accused of bullying by her fellow contestants.
As for Larson, she beforehand opened up about her negative experiences whereas filming the present, calling it the “worst expertise of my life” through her Instagram Story in 2021.
“Nonetheless, I try to look with higher perspective,” Larson continued. “There are far more vital points on the earth and mine are minuscule compared. Concentrate on my blessings at all times. … One in every of my favourite issues is when individuals acknowledge me and are purposefully impolite to me [because] they assume I’m an terrible particular person. It’s virtually as nice as the web trolls.”
Larson stated on the time, “I hate the producers, really,” including that “they’re manipulative and choose and select ‘story traces.’”
In a January 2021 interview with Good Morning America, Larson shared that she didn’t remorse her actions on the present.
“Actually, it was all in good enjoyable,” she stated. “If my phrases or actions harm anybody, like, I sincerely apologize and I’ll do higher and maintain myself accountable. I’m not a bully. I’m actually not. … [The other contestants] knew me and knew my coronary heart and knew that I actually by no means have unwell intent, so I believe they considered it in another way simply because they know me.”
Larson defined she had “anticipated being well-received” so receiving “the bullying messages and the hate mail and the demise threats, [I] wasn’t actually ready for that in any respect.”
She added, “100%, it was stunning. I don’t assume my kindness actually acquired to indicate by way of and I actually do have a very good coronary heart. I really turned pals with one of many new women.”