Juliana Pasquarosa has revealed that she made a very unusual demand while filming The Bachelor that almost ruined her chances with Grant Ellis.

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Juliana received a romantic one-on-one date with Grant in Scotland that eventually led to her receiving a rose from The Bachelor star.

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Juliana will therefore be taking Grant home to meet her family during the upcoming The Bachelor episode airing Monday, March 3 on ABC.

But according to Juliana, she had asked Grant for something early in The Bachelor process that almost "screwed" everything up for her.

"I remember one of me and Grant's first conversations, I had told him, I was like, 'Do not give me a one-on-one too early because I won't open up,'" Juliana revealed during a recent episode of the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.

But when Juliana left Madrid, the bachelorette admitted to the podcast's co-hosts Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt that she was in "panic" mode and "shaking in [her] boots" because she was still waiting for Grant to ask her on a one-on-one date.

"So then we [arrive] in Scotland, and I'm like, 'Oh, I think I messed that up because I don't even know if I'm going to get one now!'" Juliana recalled.

"And I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I definitely screwed this one up. I probably should have kept my mouth shut and just let him do what he thought was best.'"

Luckily for Juliana, however, Grant honored her wishes and treated her to a princess-style solo date in Scotland.

"I think later one-on-one dates are better," Juliana noted.

"In the beginning, you feel for girls who get the first one-on-ones because then the rest of the time, they're watching other people get those opportunities and [they're] back in a group setting [on all dates]."

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Juliana was clearly excited to receive a one-on-one date during the international portion of Grant's journey to find love, but she admittedly called the date "so awkward."

Juliana confessed, "I was, like, praying that my date was not going to involve one of those, you know, singers or artists and it's just you two. I'm so awkward and I don't know how to dance."

"So I was like, 'That's probably not for me,'" she elaborated, "but luckily, we had professional dancers around us, and I hope they were stealing the show!"

Although the date brought Juliana out of her comfort zone, she said things were going "really good" with Grant at that point.

"I think this was definitely one of the times where we just had fun during the date portion, for sure... I started to feel really comfortable with him," shared the bachelorette from Newton, MA.

Juliana said she and Grant set out to just have fun and to see if their romance could actually work in the real world.

"And we did that!" Juliana gushed.

Serena acknowledged how Juliana went from group dates to one-on-one dates and never had to look back.

Because after Juliana received a one-on-one date in Scotland, she received a rose from Grant and then hometowns were up next.

"It was a good feeling, yeah," Juliana noted.

During a preview of hometown dates that aired at the end of The Bachelor's February 24 episode, Grant gives Juliana a little kiss in front of her family and her father snaps, "Did you just kiss my daughter?!"

Juliana's dad proceeds to warn The Bachelor star, "I'm an Italian guy. We protect our own; I've got a problem on my hands."

Juliana is very close to her family and seems to be a daddy's girl, which may have complicated her relationship with Grant.

In January 2025, Juliana had written on Instagram in honor of her father's birthday, "Forever in awe of all you do for your family, friends, community, & even strangers. The epitome of 'it's nice to be nice.'"

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Grant laments in The Bachelor preview that hometown dates were "a lot harder than" he "expected it to be," before adding, "The family not buying in could be a make-or-break situation."

Juliana teased on "Bachelor Happy Hour" that her hometown date was "god-awful" for her parents.

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