AshLee Frazier reportedly felt responsible to shield friend Zack Kalter from Clare Crawley's promiscuous influence, resulting in drama that has yet to boil over.
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"AshLee and Clare have not spoken since the show ended," a show source told Us Weekly in its latest issue. "And AshLee doesn't regret what she said because she views Clare as somebody with questionable morals."
Kalter was unfazed by Frazier's catty comment yet surprised the bachelorette would even bring it up.
Frazier, 34, "felt she had to be the moral majority of the house and steer Zack away from Clare," explained an insider. "She thought Clare was somebody with a lower moral standard than her own."
Frazier made the offensive remark thinking no cameras were around. However, once the bachelorette discovered that wasn't the case, she immediately started doing some damage control.
"AshLee was just being a gossip," the source told Us. "She definitely didn't want it to get back to Clare."
Frazier admitted to some of the girls at the beach villa she had said something she shouldn't have to Kalter. She seemingly tried to pass off the Crawley insult as a little slip of the tongue in order to downplay its significance.
"She wanted to make it seem like, 'Oh, I just said something I shouldn't have.' She just wanted it to blow over," noted the Us source.
But Lacy Faddoul, who was convinced Frazier pretended to be something she's not for the cameras, rushed to Crawley's defense and spilled the beans about the Kalter conversation. Despite Frazier's apologies, Crawley called her out for being "disrespectful, tacky and tasteless." Crawley also made it clear they'd no longer be friends.
It would make matters worse if Crawley truly never slept with Galavis. Crawley reportedly said in February she just had innocent fun with the Bachelor in the ocean. The Us insider backed up such a claim, insisting Crawley had "fooled around in the ocean but didn't have sex" with Galavis.
"For AshLee to say that so blatantly when it didn't even happen was crazy," the insider explained, also acknowledging that Frazier and Crawley didn't even know each other before appearing on Bachelor in Paradise.
At the beginning of Bachelor in Paradise's season, Frazier initially took up an issue with Crawley when the bachelorette had asked her only love interest, Graham Bunn, out on a date. Frazier had been very open about the fact she went on the show just for Bunn.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOW"I definitely think AshLee came off a little clingy," Bunn told Us, "though I wasn't aware at the time the extent of how angry she was."
However, Crawley took back her date offer once she learned how deeply Frazier felt for Bunn. Crawley wanted to avoid starting a conflict with Frazier at all costs.
"Clare really did AshLee a solid by not pursuing her guy. Yet AshLee still decided to get involved in her relationship with Zack," the source said. "She was always causing problems... She didn't really have any friends in the house because she felt she was better than all of them."
A fellow Bachelor in Paradise contestant also told the magazine that Frazier "talked pretty negatively about everybody" and "everyone knew how deceitful she could be."
Once Michelle Money made Bunn, her best friend, aware of how Frazier talked about girls behind their backs, Bunn was "genuinely freaked out" by the drama, according to the insider.
During Monday night's Bachelor in Paradise Rose Ceremony, Frazier offered Bunn her rose only for him to walk out on her in order to reflect on things. Frazier just stood at the scene with an unemotional, blank stare on her face.
"She was bizarrely calm," said the insider. "That's just her."
Bunn sincerely considered rejecting the rose in fear he was dating someone he barely knew.
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