“And I still don’t. ‘Hate’ is a very strong word. It’s like, when am I going to keep trying to put effort into something that I know I’m not going to get results from, you know?”
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Devin seems to feel helpless regarding his feud with Sam.
“I know Sam isn’t going to like me for some reason, and at this point he hasn’t even discussed these things with me,” Devin admitted to podcast co-hosts Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt.
“I don’t even know why he doesn’t like me. I have no idea, except maybe that I pissed off a few of his buddies, like Aaron and (Thomas Nguyen). I have no explanation for why he thinks about me the way he thinks about me.”
Devin confirmed that he and Sam “don’t like each other,” but there’s no hate involved, at least not on Devin’s part.
“In my eyes, I am the embodiment of everything he disagreed with his entire life,” Devin said.
“I’m now friends with many of the guys in the house. Sam and Thomas voluntarily isolated themselves from the group and just did their own thing.”
Devin continued, “So they haven’t made it any easier for us in this already uncomfortable environment… I’m trying to, what did he say? ‘Keep the bottom line in mind.’ I’m trying to, and they’re not! I think that’s the big discrepancy between Sam and I.”
Devin continued Sam’s confessionals The Bachelorette The 21st season was “very revealing” about his character and personality.
For example, Sam has called Devin disrespectful, selfish and “a bully,” and in conversation with Thomas, Sam called Devin an “ankle-biting dog.” (In light of backlash from Sam’s family, Jenn recently said Sam’s edit was accurate and that he should “take responsibility” for what he said on the show.)
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“He told me to my face, ‘I don’t respect you’ or ‘I don’t like you.’ I understand that. But to call me a bitch and stuff behind the camera is very telling,” Devin said.
“Again, I don’t talk about these guys the way they talk about me. When I make a joke about them or Sam in particular, it’s usually like I just did it, like, ‘Let’s keep things simple.’ I never joke.”
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Devin boasted that he wasn’t shocked by what he saw on the show and that it was “fun” to watch it again.
“When you say that nobody bothers you and you don’t let nobody bother you, and yet you let them bother you so much and talk about it so much, that says a lot about you,” Devin said, adding, “So I didn’t take offense.”
Sam, Thomas and Aaron were the boys in the house who had the biggest problems with Devin.
Aaron memorably accused Devin of stepping on the other guys’ toes and “making a fool of himself” by stealing extra time with Jenn. Aaron, thinking Devin lacked emotional intelligence, also gave him a book on self-development.
When Aaron stopped The Bachelorette to train to be a fighter pilot, he dropped the bombshell on Jenn by saying that some of her bachelors weren’t ready for engagement and some of her guys weren’t on the show for the right reasons.
Devin confirmed that Aaron had indeed talked about him.
“That’s what he told me! He told me during our conversation at the bar that I wasn’t there for the right reasons,” Devin noted.
“So in my mind I was like, ‘Okay, I know he’s talking about me. At least have the decency to say my name.’… He didn’t have the decency to tell me. He did, but he did it kind of sneakily, and then he says it to this poor girl who’s on her journey, trying to do her thing.”
Devin complained that Aaron “messed up” Jenn’s trip “without any interest” and that it was “a frustrating experience.”
Devin, however, insisted that he did not know much about it The Bachelorette when he was cast in the show and only stayed because of Jenn.
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When asked if he could confront these men if he ever met them in person, Devin told Joe and Serena, “I think Aaron is definitely more salvageable than Sam.”
“It just seemed like Aaron didn’t have too much of a problem (with me). It was more because of the group he was hanging out with,” Devin argued.
“After telling them about it and making such a big deal about it, I think he felt the need to be the voice of reason.”
Devin clarified that the group consisted of Sam, Thomas, Aaron and Spencer Conley.
“But it was mostly just those three – Thomas, Sam and Aaron. It was like every time I breathed there was a reason to reach for the guns,” Devin recalled.
“Every time I moved or looked away, there was a problem.”
But Devin admitted that he had a team behind him, even if sometimes it felt like he was alone on an island.
“(My team was) bigger than you would expect. (Jonathon Johnson) was very close to me, and (Grant Ellis) and (Sam Nejad). I love Sam N. and (Brian Autz) and (Marcus Shoberg). Marcus was fantastic to me and even (Austin Ott),” Devin revealed.
Grant even spoke up for Devin on an episode of the podcast “Bachelor Happy Hour” in July.
“I think Devin was fixated on Jenn… I felt like if Devin felt something specific, he would say it and do it that way,” Grant explained.
“If he feels that way, he’ll say it and let you know – and that’s just the way I am! So I respected that… If someone feels like they’re entitled to time, like, ‘I don’t owe you time… I’m trying to be with Jenn, so that’s how I’m going to approach it.'”
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Elisabeth Kwiatkowski
Elizabeth Kwiatkowski is deputy editor of Reality TV World and has covered the reality TV genre for more than a decade.
