Bachelor in Paradise couple Pieper James and Brendan Morais have seemingly broken up after nearly two years together.
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Pieper took to TikTok on Monday, October 2 to apparently confirm that her relationship with the model is over.
"When they say 'go to hell' but I'm still recovering from the whiplash my last relationship caused me," Pieper wrote over a video of her lip-syncing to the 2001 hit "I'm Already There" by Lonestar.
While Pieper didn't mention Brendan directly, Pieper's followers immediately assumed this was The Bachelor alum breaking the news of her split.
"This is how I find out?" wrote one fan.
Another TikTok user wrote, "Is this about Brendan?"
Another person commented, "Girl when he moved to LA you should have known."
Other people complimented Pieper on her excellent timing, and some friends advised her to stay strong.
Brendan, for his part, may have fired back at Pieper.
On Thursday, October 5, Brendan shared photos of him shirtless on a Pickle ball court.
"Play games with my pickle ball! Not my heart," Brendan captioned the images.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOWPieper, who left Bachelor in Paradise's seventh season in 2021 dating Brendan, conducted a Q&A session on Instagram in January and opened up about potentially getting engaged and married.
One fan asked Pieper when she and Brendan wanted to tie the knot, and Pieper replied, "Eventually," according to BachelorNation.com.
Pieper explained, "I'm not sure. It's not at the top of my priority list like it used to be. I feel like marriage is fed to girls as this thing that's so amazing and will fix all your problems."
Pieper confirmed, "I love Brendan," but continued, "I'm happy with where we are headed right now. I know for at least me personally, I need to 'get my sh-t figured out' and be a little more independent in all aspects of my life before I'm ready for us to be married."
"I'm sure he would agree," she concluded.
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Pieper went on to share that her goals for 2023 were working a full-time position; making quality fashion, hair and travel content on [Instagram] and TikTok; and doing more traveling around the world.
On Bachelor in Paradise's seventh season in Summer 2021, cameras appeared to catch Brendan using Natasha Parker as a placeholder while waiting for Pieper -- whom he had dated for about two months "without labels" before filming began -- to arrive in Paradise.
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Pieper and Brendan were also taped talking about their influencer status and the number of social-media followers they had prior to the show.
Natasha, who had developed strong feelings for Brendan along the way, called the bachelor "a liar" and a "manipulative" clout-chaser considering he insisted he and Pieper just had a "super casual" fling back home and had only hung out twice.
Several Bachelor in Paradise 7 cast members, including Demi Burnett, told Brendan and Pieper to leave the show if they had any "dignity" left, which resulted in Brendan complaining his co-stars were making "a pathetic attempt to intimidate" him.
But since they were not wanted on the beach and the environment had become toxic, Brendan and Pieper left the beach on their own terms and said they'd continue their relationship at home.
Once the footage aired of Brendan betraying Natasha, he lost more than 100,000 Instagram followers and Pieper's follower count dropped about 9,000. As for Natasha, she gained nearly 400,000 followers, Entertainment Tonight reported.
After a bumpy ride on Bachelor in Paradise, Pieper told Us Weekly in September 2021 that she and Brendan were "working through things" in the real world and "taking it day by day."
E! News reported later that month the pair had split in order to focus on themselves and quiet public backlash, but during an October 2021 appearance on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast, Pieper denied the breakup report and set the record straight.
"That's just all they are, is rumors," Pieper said at the time.
"I mean, I can understand [with] Brendan unfollowing me [on Instagram] and that kind of thing why people maybe came to the conclusion that we split. But we're still together."
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Pieper said she and Brendan intentionally kept their romance under wraps after leaving Bachelor in Paradise together.
"The reason we didn't choose to go public [with our post-show romance] like everybody else on the show was just because, obviously, our experience was a little bit different. We tainted our own experience in that way," Pieper explained at the time.
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Pieper acknowledged how she and Brendan saw "flaws" in themselves when watching their Bachelor in Paradise season back.
"Obviously I wasn't there the whole time and I didn't see it all, so seeing it all play out [is a lot]," Pieper admitted. "But we're together... That's where we stand right now."
Pieper told Becca on her podcast that all the Bachelor in Paradise drama actually strengthened her bond with Brendan.
"We were dealing with conflict kind of with each other but also from an outside perspective. It did make us stronger [because] right away, we knew how we both communicated in arguments... and how we dealt with, like, exterior bad things," she said.
After Brendan and Pieper's stint on Bachelor in Paradise, Brendan released a lengthy seven-minute video apology on his Instagram account and was adamant about the fact he and Pieper had never been in an exclusive relationship prior to Paradise.
And Pieper -- who previously claimed, when drama was at its peak, she had no regrets -- said in late 2021 that she was "truly sorry" for hurting Natasha and anyone else through her actions.
"I'm not saying it was, like, peaches and rainbows the whole time," Pieper noted of her Brendan relationship.
"But it was good to kind of have that feedback and know down the line if something comes up how we both deal with those things."
Pieper said although she had robbed herself of a genuine Bachelor in Paradise experience dating and getting to know multiple men, she's pleased with her choices and the outcome overall.
"At the end of the day, I'm happy with my decision. I'm happy with Brendan, as controversial as that might be to say," Pieper told Becca.
"I just kind of did what I always do and followed my gut and my heart and connected the dots. That's the experience I got."
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