Bachelorette Katie Thurston Suggests Greg Grippo Is a Gaslighter

All is honest in love and roses? Not so quick. Katie Thurston and Greg Grippo’s Bachelorette breakup has fans and former contestants break up.

Issues went awry for the 30-year-old former banking supervisor and the 28-year-old New Jersey native throughout the Monday, August 2, episode of The Bachelorette after he opened up in regards to the lack of his father throughout his hometown date, telling Katie that she “fills” the outlet in his coronary heart for the primary time for the reason that household dying.

“I believe you’re lovely and I believe you’re nice. I didn’t know I used to be going to fall in love with you. I didn’t know that. And I’m in love with you. You simply make me the happiest I’ve ever been. I see it with you. That is actual to me,” Greg stated. “I haven’t been this susceptible with anyone in my life. I don’t know what else to indicate you at this level or what else to let you know at this level. I do know in my coronary heart I’m not going to have any regrets after this. I’m not going to get down on one knee twice. It’s a one-deal factor for me.”

Katie, who beforehand instructed ABC cameras that she was ready to say “I really like you” to 1 contestant till the top of the journey, left Greg confused when she longingly stared at him. When he requested what she was pondering, Katie replied, “I simply love you.”

The awkward second led Greg to doubt his emotions for Katie, catching her off guard. “I’ve by no means felt such as you’ve needed to surrender till proper now,” she stated, which upset him additional.

After ending the evening on rocky phrases, Greg confirmed up at Katie’s resort room the next day.

“I told my mom that you were The One. I used to be telling my entire complete household that. I actually felt that in my coronary heart and needed to specific that to you. I expressed that I do love you. I felt like I used to be telling that to a stranger. I don’t know why. This entire complete time has felt like Katie to me, and that evening, I used to be pondering that I used to be expressing my like to my future spouse, and also you didn’t even really feel it,” he stated. “You simply utterly dismissed it in my eyes.”

When Katie identified that she instructed Greg’s household that he was getting a rose this week, he snapped.

“I don’t give a f—ok in regards to the rose. I used to be simply telling you that you simply stuffed a gap in my coronary heart,” he stated. “I’ve by no means given up on you. I’ve fought so arduous for you right here … As a lot because it hurts me, I’ve reached my breaking level with this. I gave you all the things. I actually hope you discover one thing.”

Katie, who famous she “can’t even comprehend” Greg’s level, was very emotional as she questioned what she did mistaken. In the long run, he decided to quit the show.

“I’m, like, shaking. I don’t even know what to say. I’m shocked. I need to go away, if I’m being utterly trustworthy, as a result of I didn’t see any of this taking place,” she instructed Greg earlier than he stormed out. “I actually don’t know what to say, as a result of I’ve given you all the things. I’ve been nothing however trustworthy with you the complete time, and I felt nothing however confidence in us the complete time till that very closing second of that evening.”

Whereas Katie made some extent to log off Twitter earlier than her breakup with Greg began airing, she later took to Instagram to seemingly make her emotions recognized, sharing a post that reads, “So that you need to discuss gaslighting.”

The Instagram slideshow included a definition for the time period, referring to gaslighting as “a type of emotional abuse or psychological manipulation involving distorting the reality to be able to confuse or instill doubt in one other individual to the purpose they query their very own sanity or actuality.” The account additionally listed mendacity, discrediting, deflecting blame, minimizing, shifting blame and denying wrongdoing as indicators of gaslighting.

The three-hour season 17 finale of The Bachelorette airs on ABC Monday, August 9, at 8 p.m. ET. Scroll via for Bachelor Nation’s differing takes on Katie and Greg’s break up: