Arie Luyendyk Jr. is not happy with his edit following the controversial breakup with “The Bachelor” contestant/ ex-fiancee Becca Kufrin.
Now, in a profile with GQ magazine, the former Bachelor opens up about his decision to end his relationship with Kufrin to pick the runner-up, Lauren Burnham.
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“I don’t understand why I’m the fall guy for filming the breakup on a television show, which we all signed up to be on,” he tells the mag.
According to Luyendyk the “unedited” breakup was actually total stitch-up job. “It was completely edited,” he spills. “I was told to stay on that couch. I tried to leave, and then production was like, ‘You need to go back inside. She’s finally calming down. I feel like you owe it to her to have this conversation.’ So then I went back in the house.
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“They cut out, obviously, production talking to me from 10 feet away.”
He adds that calling it “unedited” “was super unfair to me.”
After the fallout from the GQ article, ET reached out to Warner Bros. Television — which produces “The Bachelor” — for comment, and received the following response: “WB will not be commenting.”
Kufrin was announced as this season’s Bachelorette after the split aired. “The Bachelorette” returns Monday, May 28.