
Sarafiena, Zoe. Disney/Matt Sayles (2)
Sarafiena Watkins is expressing regret for the feedback she made about Zoe McGrady’s costume on The Bachelor.
“I hated that. Wasn’t my greatest second,” Sarafiena, 29, stated on the Thursday, February 20, episode of the “Bachelor Completely happy Hour” podcast of her remark. “I used to be onerous on myself for thus lengthy about it. However I’m additionally giving myself some grace with it as a result of I’m human and all of us say some issues we don’t imply, or, we’re like, ‘That was s—– within the second.’”
The drama between Zoe, 27, and the remainder of the ladies got here to a head throughout a bunch date cocktail get together on the February 10 episode of The Bachelor when Sarafiena made a remark about her fellow contestant’s costume.
“That’s the shortest costume I’ve ever seen in my life,” Sarafiena stated to a bunch of girls on the sofa, which Zoe overheard.
“I rise up and seize a drink for, like, one second and I hear folks speaking and Sarafiena says that my costume is simply too quick,” Zoe defined in a confessional. “Significantly? That’s not [a] lady’s lady, you understand? I don’t get it. I wasn’t asking for a touch upon my costume, and I wasn’t even speaking to her.”
Zoe appeared emotional as she vented her frustrations to fellow contestant Chloie Costello and finally introduced up her considerations about folks “who’re being faux” to Grant Ellis.

“It’s been an extended day. It’s truly very demanding for me,” Zoe instructed Grant. “I feel clearly, with the primary group date, that was me in my ingredient. Athletics. Clearly, you noticed final week the place there’s, like, the competitiveness and since then, there’s little jabs at me continually. Some lady’s like, ‘Oh, your costume is so quick.’”
Grant interjected to ask who made the remark, to which Zoe opted to not give him a reputation. “I don’t need to see folks throwing jabs, I don’t need that. So I recognize you coming to me and telling me. I see you attempting and placing your self on the market, and I recognize that,” Grant stated. “However don’t cease being you, alright?”
Now, the second is water below the bridge for Zoe and Sarafiena’s mended friendship. After the remark, the duo had a dialog — which led them to understand they shared similarities.
“In a bizarre approach, it truly received Zoe and I to bond as a result of we realized that we have been feeling the identical issues, however we have been simply articulating it in several methods,” Sarafiena stated on Thursday. “I used to be going via issues at the moment as a result of it’s such an emotional, rocky journey. We, typically as folks, don’t know the best way to talk nicely. I actually do assume, in a bizarre approach, it received us to essentially see one another in a unique mild.”
The Bachelor airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.