Maria Georgas REVEALS Why She “Declined” Being the Next Bachelorette E! News
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00:00 Yeah, I was offered the role.
00:02 I mean, it was mine until I said it wasn't.
00:07 The Bachelor alum Maria Georgis reveals
00:10 why she didn't want to be the next Bachelorette.
00:13 The 29-year-old, who appeared on Joy Grazia Day's
00:16 season of the hit dating show,
00:18 joins Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast
00:21 and opens up about being, quote,
00:23 "offered the role but having to decline."
00:26 Were you offered the role as Bachelorette?
00:28 Obviously, I have been trying my hardest
00:31 to stay silent about this,
00:33 but I think that moving forward
00:35 and if I'm going to be in this world,
00:37 I have to be honest,
00:39 especially with the people who have supported me.
00:41 And the answer is yes.
00:43 Yeah, I was offered the role.
00:45 I mean, it was mine until I said it wasn't.
00:50 And yeah, it became very overwhelming
00:52 to the point where I had to decline.
00:54 In fact, the reality star adds
00:56 that the casting decision was so, quote,
00:58 "set in stone" that she even had done fittings.
01:02 But as fans recall, in March,
01:04 Jen Tran was announced as the lead
01:07 for the upcoming season of The Bachelorette,
01:09 a decision Maria suggests was due to her
01:12 not being ready to hand out the roses
01:14 while Jen was.
01:16 You know, she was one of my closest girls in the house
01:18 and she was always verbalizing
01:20 how badly she wanted this.
01:23 When everyone around me was so supportive
01:26 of me being in this position
01:28 and everyone wanted this for me,
01:30 I kind of took a second.
01:31 I'm like, "Why am I not happy?
01:33 Why am I not excited about this?"
01:35 And it took me realizing that it's just not my time
01:38 where I was like, "Guys, respectfully,
01:40 I need to decline."
01:41 And having already been one of the final four
01:44 on The Bachelor, Maria knew what the role would require
01:48 and ultimately felt like it wasn't a journey
01:50 she was ready to go on.
01:52 I was not in the right headspace for this,
01:56 especially knowing that, like,
01:58 because I know the extensive process it was
02:01 to be on the show, right?
02:02 So having a bunch of guys do the exact same thing
02:04 and they're there for me,
02:06 I didn't want to waste anyone's time.
02:08 And honestly, like, yeah, it was hard for me
02:12 to kind of jump right back into it, honestly.
02:15 However, Maria notes that Jen is the best person
02:18 for the job.
02:20 She is the most perfect bachelorette in my eyes.
02:23 Like, I couldn't think of anyone better to do this.
02:26 And she was so ready for it,
02:28 and that was enough for me to kind of say,
02:30 "Yeah, this is, it's not my time."
02:33 It was a hard time because everyone, again,
02:36 everyone was so wanting this for me.
02:39 But I, yeah, I just, I just needed to be home
02:43 with my family and friends and take that time off,
02:46 to be honest.
02:47 E! News has reached out to ABC for comment,
02:50 but it's not yet heard back.
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