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Bachelor’s Melissa Suspected Molly Was the Other Woman
Melissa Rycroft’s shocking dismissal by fiancé Jason Mesnick on national television was a surprise to Bachelor fans — but not to Rycroft herself.
“I knew on the night After the Final Rose I wasn’t getting dumped,” she tells Ellen DeGeneres in an interview scheduled to air on her talk show Thursday. “We had already ended the relationship. And that was mutual.”
But there was one major surprise in store for Rycroft: the other woman, runner-up Molly Malaney.
Once the cameras stopped rolling, Rycroft and Mesnick sat down and talked about how their relationship had changed after the finale. “When we brought up how difficult [the relationship] was, he kind of gave up and I couldn’t understand why at the time,” says Rycroft.
“I repeatedly asked him, ‘is Molly involved in anything?’” she says. “And when they moved up the taping of “After the Final Rose” … I asked Jason, ‘Am I going to be blindsided by anything? Is there anything you want to tell me?’
“And he said, “No, gosh no,’” Rycroft tells DeGeneres. “And the second I went out on that stage he goes, ‘P.S. it is Molly.’”
Feeling Betrayed
Though Rycroft didn’t know for sure if Mesnick was also seeing Molly during their relationship, Rycroft says she had a suspicion. “Anybody that’s been cheated on, you know, and being a woman I got that feeling because he just backed away from me and I knew he had contacted her,” she says. “I know there had been at least one contact … where he was ‘checking on her’ and so it was just in the back of my mind.”
His answer?
“He kept saying ‘no,’” she says, adding that the feelings of betrayal are worse than the breakup itself.
“I understand it was a breakup and I’m not mad about that,” she says. “We all get broken up with but to be lied to [is worse].”
Dating Is the Best Revenge
But there’s good news for the jilted reality television star — she’s in a new, supportive relationship: She’s dating a man named Ty.
“Now that everything is over I’m so excited,” Rycroft says. I’ve known him for two years and kind of done the dating on and off. He has been by biggest rock and supporter throughout this whole process. He’s become my best friend.”
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/03/05/bachelors-melissa-suspected-molly-was-the-other-woman/
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'The Bachelor''s Melissa On Jason's Betrayal and her New Man!
With fans still reeling over the controversial conclusion to this season of "The Bachelor", Melissa Rycroft shares her feelings about being dumped on national television with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.
On a taped episode to air Thursday, Melissa explains to the talk show host that she felt betrayed by 32-year-old Jason Mesnick's controversial decision to leave her for runner-up Molly Malaney.
DeGeneres asks if the three could be ever be friends to which Melissa replies; "Jason and Molly don't quite have the characteristics of someone I would want to be friends with. I feel like on a level, they did both betray me."
That doesn't mean, however, that Melissa is sitting home jilted, and longing for Jason. The 25-year-old reveals to Ellen that she has moved on and there is even a new man in her life!
Watch the video for more on the shocking "Bachelor" conclusion and for a look at Melissa's mystery man!
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/03/71440/index.html
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Melissa Rycroft on Ellen 3/5/09
credit with thanks to ellenshowfan
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Picture of Melissa and the guy she is seeing now, Ty that was shown on Ellen
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'The Bachelor''s Jason Mesnick Defends His Decision
Jason Mesnick isn't doing a whole lot of press following "The Bachelor: After the Rose" shocker in which he ditched Melssia Rycroft and asked Molly Malaney to give him a second chance. But he did do one interview and here is what he had to say:
"Melissa definitely knew before going on [the show]," Jason told momlogic.com when the Web site asked him if Melissa knew their relationship was over. "I mean our last conversation was: 'Are you gonna to wear the ring? Because you know we're not together.' And I think that she probably had some hopes still that maybe I was gonna change my mind, 'cause she was really upset. We didn't talk a couple of days before we shot. And that's okay. No matter what I said, she was going to be upset. We've talked about not being together over the phone but I had to tell her stuff in person, too. I'm not as cowardly as it might seem or as much of a jerk as I might seem for doing it on camera. But that was my only chance to do it."
Jason goes on to say that in hindsight, he now realizes he shouldn't have proposed to Melissa in "The Bachelor" finale, but in the moment, he thought he was doing the right thing and that Melissa was the woman he had always dreamed of.
As for the harsh reaction to his decision, which has taken him from being the most popular "Bachelor" to possibly the most disliked, he tells momlogic.com, "I think it's fair for people to have the right to judge me. But it was the truth."
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/03/71457/index.html
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