Peter Weber's mom, Barbara Figarola Weber, wants ABC and The Bachelor production company to lift their non-disclosure agreements with Peter so he can share his truth in response to former The Bachelor producer Julie LaPlaca's shocking claims.

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Peter -- who filmed The Bachelor's 24th season under Julie's direction and guidance in late 2019 -- recently slammed Julie in the media for exposing personal details about their professional-turned-intimate relationship in her new memoir, The Love Producer.

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In her book, Julie claims she developed an emotional connection with Peter while filming his season and then they had sex prior to taping The Women Tell All special in early 2020 while The Bachelor's 24th season was airing its last few episodes on ABC.

Julie also alleges that she had sex with Peter multiple times in March 2020, only days before he began dating his The Bachelor fifth-place finisher, Kelley Flanagan. (Peter and Kelley proceeded to date on and off until their official breakup in 2023).

Several days after The Love Producer hit shelves on July 7, Barbara took to Instagram to defend her son.

On Saturday, July 11, Barbara posted a photo of Peter smiling and wrote, "Lift the NDAs Let Peter Tell HIS Story!"

Barbara also tagged her husband, Peter Weber Sr., and Renee Halverson-Wright, who competed on the first season of The Golden Bachelor in 2023, in her upload.

Renee also reposted Barbara's plea via Instagram Stories.

Barbara is clearly suggesting that Peter hasn't fired back at Julie with his own version of events because NDAs restrict him from doing so.

Not only did Peter star on The Bachelor, but he also previously competed on Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette.

Julie -- who claimed in her book that Barbara was "praying" for her and Peter to end up together -- produced both seasons before leaving her position with ABC in 2021.

Although Julie has said in interviews that she wanted to share her heart and healing journey in her book to help other women going through similar situations, Peter told TMZ that Julie's actions are "unforgivable" and extremely disappointing.

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"To have her laugh in my face while I was very vulnerably expressing my reasons for wanting to be left out of this book was unforgivable. (And yes, she knows I have the conversation recorded)," Peter told the website.

Before Julie's book was publicly released, former The Bachelor star Nick Viall accused Julie of grooming, manipulating and seducing Peter -- which he dubbed "gross" and "wrong" behavior -- when the pilot desperately needed her support as a trustworthy friend and therapist via Instagram.

Peter commented on the Instagram post and said he's responsible for his own choices, but he also vented, "I asked Julie on multiple occasions to please keep private, intimate details, private. This wasn't about a TV show anymore."

Peter also claimed Julie had given him some manipulative and bad advice during filming.

"Curious though if she mentions in the book about my last one on one with Hannah Ann, and how in the middle of our dinner conversation during one on one producer interviews, Julie tells me 'you will look like the biggest idiot in the world to America if you give her your rose,'" Peter alleged.

"I find it wrong to mess with a person's headspace like that and then go on to write a book about them."

In response to Peter and Nick's backlash, Julie denied that she groomed Peter or even made a mistake by hooking up with him during the July 7 episode of "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast."

Julie also alleged that she had offered both men a copy of her book to read and they opted out of reading it.

"Both of them ghosted me and are forming their own opinions now without understanding my heart and what I put into it," Julie said.

"So, yeah, it's been a little interesting. It's really interesting to see the power of a man with a mic and the assumptions people form just based off of one person's words. So yeah, it's been interesting."

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Julie said she finally professed her love to Peter over the phone in March 2024 -- which was about four years after they last hooked up -- but they both decided their timing was always off and they should just remain friends.

However, any friendship Julie and Peter had was ruined when she told him about her book. Peter allegedly blocked Julie, who also said Peter threatened to sue her prior to its publishing.

Julie admitted to Ashley Iaconetti and Ben Higgins that she's "not shocked" Peter is so upset with her.

"I think he's operating from a place of fear, and understandably so. All I can do is send him love... I think he came into my life for a reason, and I'm grateful for what the situation with him led me to," Julie shared.

"So I'm at peace with not staying friends. I feel bad he's so upset, but I think I knew, intuitively, that I needed to share this story. It's not just a Tell-All about Peter; it's about my journey and my story that he was a character [in]."

She added, "I've let men hold me back a lot in the past, and I just won't let them do that anymore."

Julie also revealed in her book that she was in talks to star on The Bachelorette for Season 16 -- at the time she was hooking up with Peter -- but the position ultimately went to Clare Crawley.

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