Bachelor in Paradise stars Alexe Godin, Andrew Spencer and Katherine "Kat" Izzo have slammed Jeremy Simon for not taking accountability in the Susie Evans and Bailey Taylor Brown drama.
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Jeremy had also vented to Brian Autz about how he wished he had given Susie -- and not Bailey -- his rose.
Jeremy, who continued to seriously pursue Bailey during this time, had also mentioned how he'd propose marriage to Susie on the spot if she came back to Paradise.
"Watching it back, unfortunately, Jeremy, if I knew all of the things that I saw [watching the show], I think I would've given you, maybe, 24 hours before I told Bailey," Kat admitted to Jeremy during the reunion hosted by BIP bartender Wells Adams.
"The thing is, I think a lot of us are learning things in real time and we were unaware of the extent [to which Jeremy had spoken about Susie]."
Kat said it ultimately fell on Brian to say something because Jeremy had made shocking comments directly to him.
"And I don't want to speak for anybody, but I will say, for myself, I only knew about the phone call, if that. It was word of mouth, word of mouth, and I still didn't know," Kat shared.
Kat said she never wanted Bailey to watch Bachelor in Paradise back on ABC and "feel embarrassed," adding, "And unfortunately, I think some things that were said did embarrass her."
Kat reiterated, "I just didn't know that things were as [bad] as they were."
Kat said she received a lot of "hate online" for not telling Bailey about Jeremy's actions and she thinks that's unfair because she didn't know the whole story.
Had she known during filming what she knows now, Kat explained, "I probably would've said something or at least said something to you, [Jeremy], directly, like, 'This is your responsibility to handle.' I just didn't know the extent."
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOWBailey pointed out how Jeremy should've told her "every day of the week" and there's no excuse for it.
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But Bailey also apparently thought Alexe should've spoken up and said something when Jeremy remained silent.
"Alexe, I love you so much, but I wish my best friend and my roommate would've told me," Bailey announced, adding how the women had shared a room every single night together.
She added, "I wanted all of us to have each other's backs."
Alexe shared how she has apologized to Bailey "multiple times" privately and publicly for not telling her.
"I should've told you from the phone call. I will say, one thing that hurt my feelings, was I considered you a really good friend, Jeremy, before going in," Alexe admitted.
"And when you told me about the phone call, you kind of said, 'We've talked about it. It's good,' and you were kind of, like, letting me know to stay out of it."
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"You did," Alexe claimed. "You told me you had just talked to Bailey... I said, 'You should tell her,' and you said, I mean, I wish they had the tapes..."
"No," Jeremy interjected. "I might have said, 'I'll take care of it,' but I never said that I talked to her about it."
"Not about the phone call," Alexe clarified, "but you said, 'We've talked and we're good.'"
Alexe said it doesn't matter at the end of the day because she should've told Bailey what she had heard.
"Maybe I meant, 'We're good,' like I'm going to talk to her about it,'" Jeremy noted.
Andrew asked why everyone was "taking flack" for not telling Bailey when Jeremy had said he was going to do it -- and should've been the one to do it.
"My thing was, I'm sitting here with my partner, and she's destroyed," Andrew said of Alexe.
"I'm not going to sit here [and let her take that] when [Jeremy] had ample time to get on Twitter and be like, 'Hey, direct hate at me!'"
Jeremy acknowledged how he doesn't have Twitter, which prompted Andrew to clap back saying that he should've used Instagram then to address the public.
"You never took accountability," Andrew told Jeremy. "You never once apologized to Alexe for everything going on. Nobody wanted to be in this situation!"
Jeremy insisted he's had to deal with "tens of thousands of comments" online and has been "taking accountability, publicly and privately, for months" -- including during a recent appearance on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.
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But Andrew fired back, "Bro, you never talked to her. Not one time did you ever text her."
Alexe and Andrew claimed they had reached out to Jeremy all season long via text or FaceTime, but Jeremy alleged she only touched base when she was getting heat.
Bailey confirmed the Bachelor in Paradise cast had a group message going in which they talked about things after every episode.
"I don't want to rehash it, because obviously I love you, but what hurt my feelings is we had talked it out and then you guys came to visit us in Chicago and I thought we were good," Alexe said.
"And it was surprising to me, and caught me off-guard, that I learned publicly that it was brought up again, and it felt like the blame was put on me on a podcast. And that you didn't care about the phone call but it was more about me not telling you."
Alexe told Bailey that it seemed "there was no accountability towards Jeremy," which "really hurt" her.
Bailey insisted she had said on the podcast that Jeremy should've been the first person to tell her but she was also justified in feeling sad about the fact Alexe had never mentioned it to her.
"We were sharing so many secrets about our lives. We were sharing everything, and I just thought that you had my back the entire time. That's why it hurt," Bailey cried.
"Yeah, [Jeremy] was my boyfriend, but at that point, I knew him for like 10 or 12 days. But even after I left, I wasn't even mad about it... I said, 'I wouldn't do that, but I also know that people were in a difficult situation and people don't want to be dragged into drama.'"
Bailey admitted Bachelor in Paradise was "not a good experience" for her and she was often in a negative mental state.
"I didn't want any of my friends to receive hate," Bailey said.
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Sean McLaughlin interrupted the chaos to announce, "You guys were all after [Brian Autz] when it filmed, and now you're all coming for Jeremy?! Make it make sense."
Alexe went on to explain how she didn't tell Bailey about the phone call because she and Jeremy had a friendship before the show.
"I gave you grace knowing that you really, really liked [Bailey], and you had told me that," Alexe told Jeremy.
"And when the whole phone call thing happened, I did tell you to tell her, but the reason I didn't tell you was because I didn't want to jeopardize something that I thought was going really, really well. And that's the only reason I didn't tell you."
Alexe added, "If I felt it was any vindictive thing or malintent, I would've told you."
Bailey then apologized to Alexe for receiving hate and not reaching out to her during that time.
"I think it's just because we've been receiving so much hate. It's really just been way too overwhelming for me," Bailey announced in tears.
Jeremy, speaking on all the hate, thanked Sean, Lea Cayanan, Jonathon Johnson, Spencer Conley, and Dale Moss for reaching out.
"That's what's crazy!" Andrew complained. "[Alexe] called you and texted you all the time! It's insane."
Bailey explained how she "wasn't in the place to talk to either" Alexe or Andrew at that time because she felt like her whole world was crashing down on her.
However, Bailey and Jeremy are still together and plan to move in together soon.
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