Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos is sharing her response to a previous restraining order filed in opposition to certainly one of her suitors.
It emerged earlier this month that Man Gansert’s ex-wife, Heidi, filed for a short lived protecting order in opposition to Man, 66, in October 2021, however voluntarily dismissed the submitting a month later.
“The Golden franchise is just a little bit distinctive as a result of we come right here with a number of previous. We’ve lived a number of life and it doesn’t utterly shock me that there are issues that they’re perhaps not happy with in a while,” Joan, 61, shared on the Wednesday, October 23, episode of “The Viall Recordsdata” podcast hosted by former Bachelor Nick Viall.
Joan continued, “I by no means noticed that facet of Man or of anyone. My interactions with all the blokes have been pure and beautiful and I’d have by no means had any indication that there was any form of previous that he had. I had no concept what the interactions together with his ex-wife have been at the moment.”
For her half, Joan mentioned that Man has been an amazing suitor for her affections on The Golden Bachelorette. (Viewers noticed Man make Joan’s high three alongside Chock Chapple and Pascal Ibgui on Wednesday’s episode of the ABC actuality courting competitors.)
“He was so type to me and he was so open and he was so weak. He cried. He talked about, you already know, lastly feeling completely happy for the primary time in so a few years. I by no means in one million years would have guessed that there was any form of previous there,” Joan mentioned.
She added, “I nonetheless consider that he’s a form and good particular person. You understand, perhaps he made a mistake. I don’t know. I don’t know something about [it] apart from what you guys know.”
Within the October 2021 submitting, obtained by Individuals and The U.S. Solar, Man’s ex claimed that he “bodily tried to threaten” her. In one other incident, Heidi mentioned Man “motioned like he was going to shoot me together with his hand formed like a pistol.”
Man addressed the submitting in an announcement shared by way of Instagram earlier this month, saying that he and Heidi resolved the problems between them on the time.
“This was an unlucky state of affairs that occurred throughout an extremely demanding time for me and my former partner and was in the end resolved when she voluntarily dismissed her request for a protecting order,” Man, 66, wrote in an October 10 assertion. “Collectively, we crafted a decision that was agreeable to each events.”
“My ex-wife and I lately requested the court docket to seal her software for the protecting order as we had hoped to take care of privateness for our household,” he continued. “However, I do know that being within the public eye comes accountability.”
A supply advised Us Weekly on the time that manufacturing discovered from Man through the present’s vetting course of that an software for a short lived protecting order was filed in opposition to him by his ex-wife after a disagreement, however confirmed that it was by no means granted as Heidi voluntarily dismissed the appliance shortly after the submitting. Due to this fact, he was cleared to proceed by the casting course of.