Juliana Pasquarosa is facing backlash after eagle-eyed fans noticed a nod to President Donald Trump in a since-deleted video.
In the original video, Juliana, 28, and former Bachelor Grant Ellis stood next to each other as he played on his phone and pretended to talk. “Should I post this?” the text over Juliana’s video read.
In the clip, Juliana proceeded to playfully punch Grant, 31, in the face. As he exited the frame, a chalkboard was visible in the background — and was marked with the date of Trump’s inauguration party in January.
Juliana deleted the video, reuploading the clip with the same contents except placing white and red heart emojis over the contents on the chalkboard.
@julianapasqua Clearly neither of us are good at TikTok bc I was off with my timing and also punched him in the face for real
@Grantellis_
She captioned the post, “Clearly neither of us are good at TikTok bc I was off with my timing and also punched him in the face for real .”
After fans called out Juliana for reuploading the video, she allegedly went on to set the record straight.
“This is crazy btw,” one fan wrote in a since-deleted message in the comments section, attaching a screenshot of the original video. Per fan screenshots, Juliana replied, “Glad you took time to comment, not my house, not my white board.”
“I don’t think it’s cause she’s embarrassed, it’s [probably] covered bc she has to deal with these judgement comments. It’s OK to support who you want to support, freedom baby,” another user wrote, to which Juliana allegedly responded, “Appreciate you! Funny thing is, this isn’t even my house — was just doing my best to protect someone else’s privacy but you can’t win em all.”
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While the comments section was flooded with users’ thoughts on the controversy, numerous other comments were fans weighing in on Juliana’s playful punch in the video.
“That punch….She must have finally watched the finale 
,” one user wrote, to which Juliana replied, “.”
In the season 29 finale of The Bachelor, Grant appeared torn between his final two before proposing to Juliana. While Juliana chose not to watch the finale as it aired live last month, the season 29 winner ultimately tuned in.
“It was just that night, I knew emotions were going to be high. I knew that it’s kind of a quick turnaround from when he has this conversation with her to when I come out. And I didn’t want my head to be in a head space that felt frustrated with the reality of what was said,” Juliana explained on the Tuesday, April 1, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “Because obviously things that Grant and I have talked through, and I know that I can get a little defensive for him, and I didn’t want to come out there with anything other than, like, excitement for my moment. So I just was like, I’ll be in my dressing room, call me when you need me, and then I’ll have my moment, and then I’ll go home and watch it on my own time.”
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Now that Juliana has watched the finale, she shared that she wasn’t thrilled with how runner-up Litia Garr handled Grant calling it quits with her — and bringing up Juliana’s name. (In the finale, Litia, 31, claimed that she would have “a lot of questions” if she were Juliana based on what Grant had promised her.)
“I think the first stab that I felt was when she brought my name up in the breakup. I think that that was uncalled for,” Juliana said of the comment Litia made on the finale. “Then to continue to make kind of those jabs on stage, saying she is glad that this isn’t a part of her love story and that she deserves a man that’s not so confused up until the last second, when Grant and I know the reality of it and that was strictly a jab at me, I think that those things took me back.”
She continued, “I want her to be supported. I’m not saying by any means that I don’t want her to feel like she has a girl gang behind her lifting her up because I can’t imagine what it’s like to get to that point and maybe have your heart and your ego bruised. But I think at the end of the day, I had relations with a lot of the girls and at no point were they making digs at him or our relationship. Where now it’s like, maybe that’s a platform that’s being used for whatever purpose it is but it’s hurtful and it’s not anything I want to surround myself with at any point in my life.”
