'Bachelor in Paradise's Kat Izzo explains why she thinks Sean McLaughlin lied about her secretly messaging her ex

Katherine "Kat" Izzo has explained why she thinks Sean McLaughlin lied about her secretly messaging her ex-boyfriend while filming Bachelor in Paradise.


Allyshia claimed earlier this summer that Kat had a boyfriend back home during filming and was going to "deny, lie and cry" her way out of it.

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And Sean alleged that Kat had snuck an iPad into her hotel room and was secretly messaging her now ex-boyfriend with the plan of reuniting with him after Paradise.

Since Kat has denied all the allegations, she was asked why she thinks Sean made that up.


"There's really nowhere for you to hide on the show... Where did he pull that out of?" Joe Amabile asked Kat during the September 11 episode of his "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.

"Or do you think it didn't start with Sean and it might've started with your ex?" Joe's wife and co-host Serena Pitt chimed in.

Kat replied, "I think it was a combination."

"I do know that what ended up happening when they got voted off, when they were put in that hotel, was he called my ex and said things about what I was doing in Paradise that ultimately also weren't true."

Kat claimed, for example, "Sean [was] saying I was talking on-camera about cheating on me and getting [my ex] all riled up. At least that's what it sounds like."


Kat went on to admit, "I don't really know what was exchanged [between Sean and my ex] in that conversation that led him to say something to that extent."

But Kat pointed out how Sean's story has been inconsistent because she's heard she had snuck in an iPad and a laptop.

"If you're going to speak on something that has a lot of weight, I think it would be in your best interest to make sure you have your facts aligned," Kat snapped.

"I can't speak on why he did what he did or why she did what she did. I still don't know from what my ex had said. I know for sure that there were no receipts because there's nothing to give."

Kat concluded, "The conversation that was had was not accurate on both ends."


On Bachelor in Paradise's Season 10 finale, which filmed in May and aired earlier this month on ABC, previously-eliminated cast members returned to vote for whom they thought deserved to win money, and Sean, feeling betrayed, threw Kat under the bus in front of the entire cast.

"I was able to make some phone calls and get the real story... Kat, you denied that we were even friends. And fortunately, I'm mutual friends with your ex, so I gave him a call. He told me some things that were really enlightening," Sean announced.

He continued: "When we came to Bachelor in Paradise, Kat's plan was never to find love. She actually stashed a laptop and started texting him love letters. You said that this was going to be something for your career and you're here to stir up drama... and I have the receipts."

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During the Bachelor in Paradise cast reunion last week, Kat challenged Sean to show his alleged receipts.


"I bet [my ex] didn't give them to you this morning, because there's nothing to give," Kat said during Part 2 of the reunion on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.

The reunion host, Wells Adams, later asked Sean, "You said you had receipts. So are there receipts? Do you have a love letter?"

Sean replied, "Well I think there is -- the truth with the receipts is I think it's somewhere between us."

"Was she texting her ex when we got to the resort? No," he admitted. "Do I think you were texting him when we were at the staging hotel in Costa Rica? Yes."

Sean reiterated how the truth is probably "somewhere in the middle" between the former friends' stories.


"Do I have the receipts? The guy, I won't mention his name, he doesn't want to be involved in any of this, which obviously I get," Sean explained.

"So I wasn't really hounding him at all, or all that much. I asked for them today -- not his text messages or love letters -- but more so just timestamps [to prove] I'm not lying about the iPad thing, whether or not there was a plan [for them to get back together] or love letters."

But Sean insisted that he definitely "had a conversation" with Kat's ex after when he and Allyshia self-eliminated from Paradise.

"When I got my phone, I called my family and called my friends, and then I called the other guy," Sean recalled with a laugh.

Kat and Sean had become friends when they both appeared on Bachelor in Paradise's ninth season in 2023, and due to their ties to Tampa, FL, they also had mutual friends.

In August, Allyshia told Nick Viall on "The Viall Files" podcast, "Sean's best friend who was [Kat]'s boyfriend at the time... He said [Kat] has been sending him love letters since Day 1 of Paradise."


(As Bachelor in Paradise viewers can recall, Kat and Dale Moss had begun dating on Day 2 of Paradise.)

"I never said that you guys were in a relationship, so that's been misconstrued," Sean clarified at the reunion.

He added, "It was more so the plan to get back together after. That's the way that I said it, and that's what happened."

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Wells asked Sean, "And that's what this ex said to you?"

Sean replied, "Yes, it was confirmed."


Sean elaborated, "I'm not 'the right reasons' police. Everyone has their own things going on. I think where I actually draw the line is the plan -- allegedly the plan to go on Paradise and get back together afterwards on top of, like, that type of stuff."

Kat asked Sean for clarification on whether her ex actually said they were in a relationship going into Paradise.

"No, that was the plan, and then you broke up," Sean alleged.

"Right, so then what [Allyshia] said actually wasn't valid. That's what I'm saying," Kat pointed out.

Sean acknowledged how, either way, Kat was in contact with her ex at the start of Paradise.

Sean suggested that while it's fine for someone to date before Paradise, it's not okay to go on a reality show with the intention of reuniting with that love interest post-show.


Sean also said, "At the end of the day, that's where I draw the line, is sneaking something in and texting them when we're about to start filming."

Sean claimed that Kat allegedly secretly messaging her ex was "outside" of Paradise boundaries.

"That's not a fair assumption to make, that I was out there consistently texting this man. And I know for a fact that that is not what he said. And I know for a fact he did not say that we were in a relationship," Kat explained.

"I don't know what else was said as far as getting back together. I know that he confirmed that we were possibly seeing each other before, because yes, I was dating before Paradise. I'm allowed to do that; I'm going on a dating show."

She therefore concluded, "To say that I was in a relationship or that I was consistently talking to somebody is not true, period!"

"Well, I disagree," Sean noted. "It depends on how you context it."


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