‘The Bachelorette’ Role Was Not Right For An “Overwhelmed” Maria Georgas
deadline.comMaria Georgas was signed, sealed, and ready to become the next Bachelorette. “I was offered the role. It was mine until I said it wasn’t,” Georgas said during her Call Her Daddy podcast appearance on Wednesday. “It became very overwhelming to the point where I had to decline.” Georgas said that she’s “been trying my hardest to stay silent” about what happened in order to support Jenn Tran, but wanted to “be honest” going forward.
It got so far along, she told Alex Cooper, that she was “doing fittings” for the show. “It was set in stone. I was in it,” Georgas said. “When everyone around me was so supportive of me being in this position and everyone wanted this for me, I took a second.
I’m like, why am I not happy? Why am I not excited about this? It took me realizing that it’s just not my time where I was like, respectfully, I need to decline.
I need to take a step back.” Georgas said she was “not in the right headspace” to be The Bachelorette star. “I know the extensive process it was to be on the show.
Read more on deadline.com