The Bachelor's Maria Georgas has revealed if she's really squashed her beef with Sydney Gordon, Lea Cayanan and Jess Edwards after it it appeared the women had made up and hugged it out on The Women Tell All.
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Maria, Lea and Sydney had a few heated exchanges on The Bachelor: The Women Tell All for Joey Graziadei's season.
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For instance, Sydney announced how she and Maria just communicated differently, and Maria fired back, "You're right. I speak the truth and you make up lies... We do speak different languages."
But by the end of the broadcast, both Sydney and Lea apologized to Maria.
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Sydney admitted her behavior on the show was, in fact, "annoying" and she had said things she didn't mean, and Lea told Maria, "I don't think I ever got the opportunity to know you for you outside of the conflict. And for that, I am so sorry. I think you're a wonderful woman."
After taping The Women Tell All, Maria assured People that her beef with Sydney and Lea is "finished and squashed."
"We actually made up and I respect those girls," Maria shared earlier this month.
"I said this to Sydney, because she said to me, 'I don't think you were this, that, and the other thing. I don't believe that anymore. I'm sorry that I said those things.’ And I was like, 'You know what? I believe you didn't think those things of me. I think that you were just trying to go to bat for someone.'"
Maria was referring to Madina Alam, whom Sydney thought she was supporting by taking jabs at Maria.
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Maria had made a comment about Madina being the oldest woman in the cast, but her intention wasn't to cause harm or be catty. Sydney, however, interpreted the comment differently and went on to call Maria a manipulative bully.
"I don't know what she was trying to do. But I do believe that she didn't mean those things," Maria added of Sydney.
Once Joey sent Sydney home during a two-on-one date against Maria, Lea took up arms to defend her bestie in the house, Sydney.
Lea observed Madina calling Maria beautiful after the two-on-one date, and so Lea took it upon herself to check Madina and let her know that her behavior wasn't indicative of how a good friend of Sydney's would act.
Madina was offended by the confrontation, but Lea -- a self-declared girls' girl -- thought she was having her friend's back and doing the right thing.
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Lea then called Maria "a drama queen baby" in a confessional and admitted to Joey that many of the girls were shocked by his decision to keep Maria on the show.
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For Jess' part, she got angry at Maria for stealing time with Joey during a cocktail party when she had already secured a rose. Jess thought Maria's actions were "rude" and "disrespectful."
Maria told People that Jess' reaction to her at The Women Tell All "kind of surprised me."
Maria elaborated, "I don't know where she's at. She apologized to me after calling me a b-tch. And we were good since then."
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But Maria revealed, "And then she tried to come at me and I was like, 'Listen, I thought I was going to tell the world that we were good and then you're trying to play me.' So Jess, I don't know yet. To be continued."
It therefore appears there is still tension between Maria and Jess.
However, Maria previously confessed that she was "not innocent" in all the drama that took place while filming The Bachelor.
"I'm not innocent in this," Maria conceded.
"I like to say that I am a woman who speaks her mind and will defend herself at all costs, that's just how I was raised. But if I could go back, I would do things differently... Next time I'm gonna just zip it."
Maria, however, insisted to People that she felt "great" overall about how things played out on The Women Tell All, which aired Monday, March 18 on ABC.
"A weight has been lifted," Maria noted. "I feel like now I can go out into the world and just be myself and not have to be asked many questions. I feel good."
Maria also assured fans that she received the closure she needed from Joey, who made a brief appearance on The Women Tell All to confront his exes and answer their questions.
"Being able to see his thoughts and he's saying what he's saying, just all together seeing him with the other women as well. It just all came together the way it needed to be. That gave me closure," Maria shared.
Maria recently admitted she'd be "stupid to say no" to starring on The Bachelorette's next season, but if that doesn't work out for her, she'd apparently be open to a stint on Bachelor in Paradise.
Maria confirmed that she wouldn't give the spinoff an immediate "no" if she's asked to make an appearance and look for love on the beach in Mexico.
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"I know a lot of people would love to see me on the beach," Maria acknowledged.
"It's funny because before going on the show, my dad was like, 'Okay, I'm accepting Bachelor. Definitely not Bachelor in Paradise.' But I'm open. Bachelor's hard. But Bachelor in Paradise is kind of fun," Maria told the magazine.
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Maria also previously mentioned how she wouldn't even immediately turn down another stint on a future The Bachelor season.
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