The Bachelor's Jason Mesnick said he's surprised by the public backlash since the final show aired a few days ago, which we saw him dump Melissa Rycroft on air and moments later, cuddle up to Molly Malaney, asking for a second chance. He just doesn't get why people are so angry - he says he broke it off with Melissa a week before the show, so what's the problem. Really?
Said Jason, "I don't know if the public expected me to just pretend like I'm in a good happy relationship. I mean, is that what people really wanted to see? Because that was the other option, but never a real option for me.
"It sucks that everyone thinks I'm dragging Melissa over the coals right in front of everybody because it's not true. What's funny is that everybody loves the fact that I break up with somebody every week in the regular part of the show... and now I'm being judged."
Mesnick claims he broke it off with Rycroft on the phone a week before the taping of the Final Rose after show. (Some how that doesn't seem much better).
He said he doesn't blame her for the way things changed between them, but said for him, he changed his mind about staying with her "right after the holidays.
"She didn't do anything wrong, but we had this great communication style where we could talk about anything while we were on the show, and then all of a sudden we're together for longer periods of time afterwards and we just couldn't talk about stuff."
According to Jason, Melissa knew that they'd both be on the after show, to talk about what went wrong - that she was not blindsided. He said there was no prior discussion between them about what would be said or how it would play out on TV.
He added, "Her response had been, 'How do you want me to react to that? I wasn't going to coach her. I just told her that we were going to talk about things again [on the show] and however she felt is how she was going to react. I'm never going to tell anyone what to say."
The big question is, if he was unsure about Melissa, and still had feelings for Molly, then why not propose to Molly? Or not propose to either if he was on the fence? Wouldn't that have been better? To really think about how you feel, before leaping?
Mesnick says he didn't propose Molly because "he was scared." So, you ask another to marry you instead? This man confuses me.
Jason said, "We had this young, fun, friendship relationship with a lot of passion. People who have been together for a long time all say, 'The passion is the first thing to do.' In my regular everyday life I wouldn't have stopped dating any one of [the final three]. I would have gone and tried to experience more with each of them."
And of course, this isn't just about Jason. His little boy, Ty, 4, is involved too. He's young, but still, it must be confusing for the kid when he's told that Melissa is going to be his step-mommy, be a part of his every day life and then, poof, she's no longer in the picture. How does Jason tell his son what's happened?
"I don't know. I think that I want him to look at me and just say, 'My daddy had this crazy experience and it's OK to do some things differently from other people. It's OK that relationships don't work because that's part of real life.' I want him to see how real it was and how hard it was for me and that how much all that pain was worth it in the end."
Would Jason ever want Ty to find love on TV?
He said, "I hope Ty would be the type of person to think about doing something different, absolutely. I wouldn't say necessarily a TV show."
Yes, because we all see how well that worked.
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