Jake and Vienna Spill on The Bachelorette about Heated Break Up

Vienna Girardi and Jake Pavelka appeared on the last half hour Monday on The Bachelorette to tell all about their break up. Chris Harrison said they were there “to tell the bitter details about their break up.”

Just in March Vienna was sporting a $42,000 Neil Lane diamond ring totaling 2.72 carats. Ahh, how fleeting is love. The public was always a little leery about the union, thinking Jake should have ended up with Tenley.

Jake joined Chris Harrison first, alone. “I just had dinner with you both a couple of weeks ago, and it all seemed fine,” Chris said to Jake, saying what a lot of people have thought. The pair has appeared at charity functions, television on at red carpet events looking like a couple in love.

Then all of a sudden, accusations were flying in the tabloid. Jake says Vienna went to the tabloids and sold a story even before he knew they were breaking up. Jake says  he was 2,000 miles away and came home, “and I’m on the cover of five magazines.”

Jake says the relationship was going downhill before he left, but “I wasn’t ready to stop fighting…I cannot fathom her doing this to me.”

Vienna came out to join Chris and Jake. The verbal clues said it all: clenched hands and folded arms.

Vienna took control of the situation, saying that a month after they started dating things started changing. It went downhill. She said it looked like they were in a relationship  when they were on a carpet or on television.  “When we were home it was lonely,” she said.

In the tabloids, Vienna accused Jake of being emotionally abusive and of having anger issues. She described a time when he flung a GPS device through the air.”

When Chris pressed her, she said it was mainly emotional issues that caused her to leave Jake (who says HE broke up with her). More precisely, she says, it was a lack of any emotion. “He was emotionally and physically not there,” she said. Vienna said she had to ask Jake for a kiss just a month after the two of them got together.

After the show, she thought they’d go back to life with him as a pilot and settle into coupledom. Instead, Jake did a stint on Dancing with the Stars and they went to Los Angeles. She thought he’d be a pilot but he wanted to pursue an acting career.

“At least I have a career,” Jake said, alluding  to his telling her to get a job several times.

Chris pressed on with Vienna: “But why did you take it to the tabloids?”

“The world is going to want to know what happened,” she answered, “and I know Jake would run right to a media outlet, and I wanted a voice in this.” She said she felt her wishes and her voice were always left out of “their” life.

 

Jake looked over at her and blurted out, “I’m so mad at you. I’m so disgusted with you. You sold me out to a magazine, then flirted with me all weekend.”

When the attention turned to Jake, he accused her of cheating, and hinted he had evidence. They seemed to be alluding to one particular charity event which Jake didn’t attend. Vienna says she was photographed dancing with someone with whom she was later linked.

Vienna interrupted Jake’s version, which she did nonstop to explain that she didn’t meet the man until 9 p.m. The importance of the timing will be a mystery to us all.

Ultimately, Jake said, “I didn’t sell this story.”  Chris interjects that the story went for $90,000.

Vienna balked at the $90,000 figure but said she took the money because she needed it. “you move me out to L.A. I have no car and no money,” she directed at Jake. Then she added that she knew Jake would come up with a story if she didn’t tell hers first.

They showed a clip of Jake proposing to Vienna at the close of The Bachelor. Chris looked over at the couple across from him and said, “Obviously this is going to hell in a handbasket.”  Why not just end it. He alludes to the fact that they had broken up several times.

Vienna says she broke up with Jake several times but he’d always persuade her to continue, that things would get better. It’s why she broke up with him while he was away she said.

Not surprisingly, Jake disagreed, “It was a game. She would take the ring off and go in the bathroom and want me to chase her.”

Not much was settled, just more venting, on the show. Jake says he was undermined and demasculated, and Vienna says she was controlled and treated like a child.

Part of the “reunion” of these two on The Bachelorette, said Chris, was to bring closure in the break up. Based on the venom that flew back and forth on the screen, it’s likely this will continue to play out.