The Bachelor’s Dina Lupancu had hopes of mending her relationship with fellow season 29 contestant Carolina Quixano — but that didn’t happen at the Women Tell All.
“I thought we were going to resolve things and that we were going to talk it all out and come to a place of understanding,” Dina, 32, exclusively told Us Weekly of her relationship with Carolina, 29, after the Women Tell All taping earlier this month. “I said my piece and what I was sorry for and the way that I came at her in the last episode prior to hometowns, because that was genuine.”
Dina shared that she “truly can’t watch” the season, where she vied for the affections of Bachelor Grant Ellis, because she finds it to be “so cringe.”
“The sentiment I don’t regret, but the way that I presented it was just too much, so I was happy I was able to say that, but I just don’t feel like I got any of that back from her at all,” she admitted. “I just thought, ‘OK. This isn’t as productive as I thought it was going to be.’ That sucked.”
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Fans of Bachelor Nation watched as the pair’s friendship quickly turned sour when Dina began siding with the remaining contestants over Carolina’s negative behavior. As the show aired, Dina and Carolina fired social media TikToks back-and-forth at each other, proving that they hadn’t made amends.
While rehashing her online feud with Dina at the Women Tell All, Carolina left the stage. She ultimately returned during fellow contestant Alexe Godin’s hot seat with Jesse Palmer.
Dina, who said she was “so tired and so exhausted” after the taping, shared that she wouldn’t change the social media exchange with Carolina. When asked whether she had any “regret” over their online interactions, Dina told Us, “No! Honestly not at all.”
“I didn’t have malicious intent when I did it. I genuinely did not think for a second it would get the attention that it did or it was me slighting her,” Dina said. “I didn’t see it as a whole thing, that was crazy. I don’t regret it. It added some color and showed it was real. The Madrid stuff, the Scotland stuff, it is all real and still real because we are talking about it.”
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While Grant sent Carolina packing ahead of hometowns, he gave a rose to Dina — who took him to Chicago, but didn’t introduce the lead to her family. (While she said on the show that her family opted out, she revealed to Jesse on Monday that she was the one who didn’t bring her family onto the series because some of her brothers didn’t agree.) Dina ultimately was eliminated from the show at the rose ceremony, with Grant’s final three including Zoe McGrady, Litia Garr and Juliana Pasquarosa.
“[I realized I wasn’t The One] during hometowns,” Dina told Us. “Something that was hard for me, and I didn’t realize until I lived it, was that when you are waiting for your hometown — and mine was last, there is, like, 7 days [of waiting]. Before that was a travel day and then the date in Scotland, we barely got to talk. So you are talking [about] nine days when we didn’t see each other, we didn’t talk, we don’t have our phones, so you don’t have anything to continue to foster that connection.”
Despite her elimination, Dina hasn’t ruled out a return to the franchise — specifically on the beaches of Mexico for the upcoming season of Bachelor in Paradise.
“I am not sure. Genuinely I am not sure,” Dina said of appearing on the spinoff series. “Obviously being in the experience again and seeing the girls, it made me miss it. But [I don’t know], I also haven’t stalked any of the guys, so I have to do that.”
The Bachelor airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Sienna Leone
