September 09, 2021 • bachelor insider
‘Click Bait’: Natasha Parker Tells Her Side of the ‘Paradise’ Drama with Tayshia Adams’ Full Support
On this week’s “Click Bait with Bachelor Nation,” Joe Amabile, Natasha Parker, and Tayshia Adams react to the “Bachelor in Paradise” drama involving Natasha, Brendan Morais, and Pieper James.
As fans saw, Natasha and Brendan’s “Paradise” connection was shelved as soon as Pieper hit the beach. Despite Brendan previously telling Natasha that he and Pieper were not a couple before “Paradise,” the two seemingly picked up right where they had left off.
This immediately sparked conversations about Brendan and Pieper’s relationship prior to the show, which has been documented by fans on social media since April.
During Monday's episode, Brendan and Pieper also had explicit conversations about their potential social media growth and the exposure they’d get as a couple on the show.
Now Natasha is sharing her side of the story on “Click Bait,” and she’s revealing what really went down between herself and Brendan, both before and after Pieper’s arrival.
Natasha started off by revealing a conversation she had with Brendan that didn’t air. She said, “The thing that people didn’t see him saying to me was he really wanted to take this slow, and that the reason why he wanted to navigate our relationship slowly is because he’s been married before and he’s been divorced.”
Natasha explained that she truly believed that he was guarded because of everything he’d gone through in his past, not because of any relationship with Pieper.
She shared that she trusted Brendan because of what he told her, including, “‘You can’t compare us and what we have to these other guys because these other guys are waiting for other people to come in and I’m not,’ which was a complete lie.”
It wasn’t long before Natasha’s co-host Tayshia chimed in. As Bachelor Nation recalls, Brendan was on Tayshia’s season of “The Bachelorette,” and Tayshia had Natasha’s back when it came to Brendan.
On her season, fans saw Tayshia and Brendan connect over the fact that they’d both gone through a divorce and how challenging that was for each of them.
On “Click Bait,” Tayshia said, “I know what that actually feels like, and it’s actually something that I bonded with him on because that is such a painful experience, and that’s something that he was using to manipulate a situation. The fact that someone did that is so disgusting to me.”
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At one point during the podcast, Natasha broke down in tears when discussing people’s allegations that she was just there to ruin Brendan and Pieper's relationship.
She said, “Don’t say that to me. These are my real feelings. This is how I really feel, and don’t say, ‘Natasha was brought in to bring Brendan and Pieper down.’ All these things, I’m watching this and I’m reliving this, and I cried for two weeks on that f**king beach.”
She continued, “I want to focus on the positive because there’s so much positive. But to know what they did and the lies that he said and the things that we shared… it was all just fake to him.”
At the end of the day, though, despite the heartbreak she endured on the beach, Natasha says she’s grateful for the experience and where she’s at now.
She shared, “Through everything, there’s lessons that you learn about yourself, and you learn about people. There’s a lot more ‘Paradise’ coming up and I’m just really grateful, but it’s just really hurtful when people say things and run with things that are untrue about you.”
To hear more of Natasha, Tayshia, and Joe’s conversation, listen to the latest edition of “Click Bait with Bachelor Nation” below.