The Bachelor 2025 star Grant Ellis and his fiancée Juliana Pasquarosa have revealed how they feel about his second-place finisher Litia Garr’s epic anger on Monday night’s show finale.

In an exclusive interview with Parade, the happy couple who got engaged during the grand finale commented on how Litia accused Grant of leading her on.

Grant had a hard time deciding on his final lady and had told both women he loved them. But as shocked Bachelor fans saw, Litia, 32, fumed, “It’s all about you,” after Grant, 31, told her he had a stronger connection with Juliana, 28.

The day after the finale aired, Grant told Parade, “Looking back at some of the things she said that she chose that time to get really personal, that’s okay. I hope this isn’t a detriment, [but] me being in a lead [role], whatever darts are thrown my way, I kind of just gotta take it. I understand that she is hurt. I understand that it’s a situation or opportunity to express how she feels and to garner maybe an audience to back her up. I feel sorry for hurting her. And yeah, I just apologize. What more can I do?”

Referring to Juliana on camera, Litia had angrily told Grant, “I would have a lot of questions if I were her.”

When asked about Litia’s comment, Juliana said, “I think we are two different people. We tried to go through this process as true to ourselves as we could. And I think at the end of the day, I didn’t have to ask any questions because I was provided with all the information I needed before the season started airing. Nothing shocked me at all.”

In fact, Grant and Juliana are eager to express their love and finally share it publicly.

“I think that we built our relationship on a friendship, and I think that’s what differs from everything else that’s out there,” Grant told Parade. “I really admire her perseverance and her strength and her ability to stay herself through any situation and her ability to stand on what she believes. Whether that’s how she feels about something in our relationship or she feels about somebody else, she’s gonna say it. She’s not going to back down, and she’s going to be the person who she is, regardless of the outcome. So I admire that.”

Juliana, in turn, described Grant as unique. “I think a lot of men have a nervousness to show their heart and their soul. And Grant has said it many times but he does wear his heart on his sleeve. He’s compassionate. He hears you. He listens to understand rather than to respond. And he’s full of a lot of love and a lot of light. He is my best friend.”

When asked about a wedding date, Juliana told Parade there is no timeline.” We are just trying to make it through every day. Every day’s a new day. We’re gonna learn, we’re gonna grow, we’re going to make new memories to experience life together. I want to do that. I don’t want to focus on the next step. Because we really just conquered a huge step [getting engaged] and we gotta celebrate that.”

But Grant admitted to already having thought about what their wedding might look like. He previously told Parade he’d be open to a live ABC TV wedding if it were offered. And on Tuesday, he said that he and Italian American beauty Juliana also have a location in mind! [

“We] have had discussions and it’s in the future. But in Italy somewhere with close family and friends and a nice saxophone and a lot of love, kind of people that know us and care about us and love us.”

Grant and Juliana told the live studio audience during the “After the Final Rose” special that they were going to move to Boston together.

The former basketball player turned day trader elaborated to Parade that he’s still in his longtime residence for now. “Right now I’m living in Houston. It’s very easy for me to get on the plane. And we’re in the [Boston] apartment shopping phase. We’re approaching it.”

Juliana, whose hometown is the Boston suburb of Newton, Mass., said they decided on Boston because “My family’s just such a backbone of my life. I see them every day and it was going to be hard for me if I had to move away. I’m not saying I can’t eventually ever do that, but if we want to be together, I think that was a good landing spot because he grew up on the East Coast, [with his] dad in New Jersey and friends in New Jersey. And we can always go visit [his] family in Houston.”