The “Bachelor In Paradise” drama is continuing off the show.
While on Ben Higgins’ iHeartRadio “Almost Famous” podcast, Dean Unglert slammed Blake Horstmann for sharing private text messages from Caelynn Miller-Keyes calling it “slut-shaming.”
“I got a big issue with the text messages. I respect what he did at first… I appreciate him apologizing for something he may not be proud of and taking ownership of that,” Unglert said. “What really crossed the line for me was he took private messages between him and another girl who didn’t consent to him releasing these messages and blasted them publicly to his followers which gets picked up to the news outlets.”
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He added, “Publishing and publicizing private text messages without consent from the other person as a public figure is one of the most disgraceful things you can do. I think it’s almost equivalent to sharing someone’s nudes.”
Higgins questioned Unglert for more clarification.
Unglert compared the private messages to sending nudes: “You never enter into a text conversation with anyone ever expecting them to screenshot and advertise them. The same way you would never send nudes.”
“The sharing of messages specifically from a girl who you were romantically involved with when she was drunk and horny and you go ahead and blast those text messages on your social is a very obvious form of slut-shaming in a sense and that’s really what’s frustrating,” he added later on.
According to E!News, Unglert and Miller-Keyes are now a couple having met through a mutual friend, but Unglert insisted he is “not defending” his new girlfriend.
“I’m not defending Caelynn here. She made a lot of mistakes,” he said on the podcast. “Judging by what we saw on the show, she comes across in not the best light.”
“There are a million ways Blake could have gone about sharing his side of the story and the worst way was by sharing those text messages in my opinion. Go to a news outlet, go on a podcast…don’t be sharing private text messages just to sway your own guilt and ego and make people you’ll never meet in your life like you more,” he shared. “The only reason he is doing that is because he wants strangers to like him more. I feel very strongly about this because it frustrates me.”
On Wednesday, Horstmann did apologize on his Instagram for sharing the photos.
“I’ve gotten way in over my head with women and have made a lot of mistakes and although never my intent, I hurt several people along the way,” he wrote. “I’m deeply sorry for my actions at Stagecoach but telling the world that I silenced a woman amongst many other harmful accusations was just too much.”
