Bachelor in Paradise host Chris Harrison isn't picking a side in the whole Nick Viall vs Josh Murray showdown, but he at least sympathizes with Murray a little bit.
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After what Harrison describes as a "whirlwind" week, the drama between arch rivals Viall and Murray heated up when twins Emily Ferguson and Haley Ferguson delivered a message to Amanda Stanton before leaving Paradise.
"It was hard for them to make the decision to leave, but as we all know, the last week of Paradise is very intense and they didn't want to lead anyone on. Unfortunately, along with them went all the men who attempted to win their hearts, leading to the biggest exodus in recent memory," Harrison wrote in his Yahoo! TV blog.
"But before they left, Haley and Emily pulled the pin out a grenade and left it in the sand."
The Ferguson twins warned Stanton that a reliable "source" -- aka Viall -- had said Murray joined Paradise for the wrong reasons. The source claimed Murray wanted to rehab his image by dating the innocent single mom and America's sweetheart after his ex Andi Dorfman trashed him in her It's Not Okay memoir.
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Murray's temper -- which Dorfman described in her book, as well as alleging he was verbally abusive -- also came to light, as he failed to handle a couple of situations in Paradise as maturely as the twins had hoped.
"Amanda is truly their best friend and [the twins] just wanted to make sure she was looking for red flags," Harrison wrote. "This, predictably, did not sit well with Josh and we finally got to see something we've been waiting for for a long time."
Murray flipped out on the cast as a whole because he had no idea why "the source" was talking behind his back. Murray demanded people speak up and voice their issues with him instead of potentially ruining his "strong" and "genuine" relationship with Stanton.
"Josh was clearly upset, which, by the way, feels reasonable in some ways. If I felt like I was being genuine and earnest and had to keep hearing that people were questioning me, I would be very upset as well," Harrison said in Murray's defense.
"This is one of those cases where people are just going to see the world from different perspectives. People who don't see Josh as genuine are going to see his outburst as a wild overreaction. People who think Josh is genuine are going to think he is absolutely justified."
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Without a doubt, Paradise is "a complicated place," according to Harrison, and he said it all comes down to whether viewers believe Murray or the people who question him.
Bachelor in Paradise's third season comes to a close next week with a two-part finale on Monday and Tuesday night.
Harrison teased the finale will be the "most epic" and "the most dramatic" one yet "in Paradise history."
"[Lace Morris] and [Grant Kemp] continue their volatile-spiked-with-passion relationship. [Evan Bass] and [Carly Waddell] continue their roller-coaster love affair. And finally, Josh and Amanda will need to figure out how things could work out for them outside of Paradise," Harrison wrote.
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