Genevieve Parisi Says She Fell In Love With The "Wrong Man" On 'Paradise'

Genevieve Parisi and Aaron Clancy were considered one of the strongest couples on this season of "Bachelor In Paradise,"until Tuesday, November 1’s episode when the two had an explosive fight.

Although the two made up, it wasn't long before they had yet another fight, and fans began calling Aaron a "gaslighter".

Towards the end of "Paradise," rumors began circulating that Aaron was just using Genevieve as he had not one, but two girlfriends back home. During the final episodes of the reality show, Aaron broke up with Genevieve, shocking not only Genevieve, but Bachelor Nation.

Now, Genevieve is speaking out, admitting she fell in love with the wrong man.

The 27-year-old bartender recently went onto the “The Ben and Ashley I: Almost Famous” podcast, where she told hosts, Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti, that she "fell in love with the wrong person."

"I think you can fall in love with the wrong person, for sure, and I think that I just didn't fall in love with the right person for me," Genevieve admitted. "I was falling in love with him before our first argument... I think I was falling in love before I was realizing all the problems."

When looking back at one of their first fights, Genevieve acknowledged that she and Aaron "weren't communicating well" while they were on the beach. "I felt like whatever I was saying, it wasn't being received or heard," the 27-year-old told the hosts.

Ben and Ashley asked Genevieve if she was in love or just in lust with Aaron, which is when Genevieve shared, "Looking back, I don't know. It's hard looking back to believe that I was in love, to be honest. I don't know. I don't know."

At the end of the day, Genevieve said she went into the "Bachelor in Paradise" process "with so much hope," which, she admitted, may have had an effect on her judgment.

"I just wanted to make it work; I wanted to find my person," Genevieve said.

When on “The Ben and Ashley I: Almost Famous” podcast, Genevieve Parisi also addressed those rumors circulating Aaron Clancy and him having girlfriends back home during "Paradise."

“I absolutely think that [Aaron] had to leave the beach single and he had no plans of leaving in a relationship — and definitely not engaged,” she explained. “If you look at the timeline, it doesn’t make sense to convince me to stay [when I packed my bags] two times when you could’ve let me go days before. You could’ve [denied] me the rose. It doesn’t make sense!”

She also brought up how she is no longer calling the girlfriend rumors “rumors” as there is proof to it. “I don’t know if I want to say ‘rumors’ because I think there’s proof of it,” Genevieve continued to explain, “that Aaron had a girlfriend before leaving for Paradise — and not only one, but two.”

According to Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone, Aaron Clancy is currently dating a woman, whom he actually began spending time with at least nine months ago — prior to “Bachelor In Paradise.”

“It’s pretty clear she’s making it known on her Instagram that her and Aaron are a thing,” Carbone said on his podcast. Although he did not mention the mystery girl’s name, Carbone did say Aaron is definitely currently dating and/or hooking up with the woman.

“And based on some of her IG posts,” Carbone wrote in one of his blog posts, “[it] seems like this is someone who’s been around for a while.”

Just days after the initial reports broke, a woman reached out to Reality Steve regarding Aaron Clancy, claiming she was dating the reality television star as well — making her the second woman Aaron dated before the show.

“She started seeing Aaron in September of last year right when the last season of Paradise was airing,” Reality Steve wrote. “They dated from September through November when they broke it off. In January of this year, they rekindled and started dating again, this time more serious.” He then noted that this woman said she dated Aaron “from January through May, a couple weeks before he left for Paradise.”

The spoiler blogger continued to say there was an “undeniable” overlap between Aaron dating the new woman and his current girlfriend, who Aaron was also dating before the show.

She also posted a photo with Aaron in Summer 2021 from when they apparently took a trip to Tulum, Mexico together — prior to “Bachelor In Paradise.”

“There’s nothing that I’ve found from right before he left for BIP filming,” Carbone continued to write. “But I’m just being realistic here. Aaron is no different than a lot of the guys in this franchise. Plenty of them go on the main show and BIP with women back home that are basically put on ‘hold,’ or they have in the back of their minds if things don’t work out.”