Grant Ellis has seemingly clapped back at his The Bachelor runner-up Litia Garr for launching a line of "Gaslight Survivor" hats.
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In the video, Grant was sitting on the edge of a bed and smiling big.
Grant captioned his post, "Everybody's journey is different, and breakups are hard but loving yourself is the key to healing."
One fan wrote in the comments, "Everyone is just talking to each other through hats," to which Grant replied with three crying-laughing emojis.
Earlier this month, Litia had dropped a line of hats throwing shade at The Bachelor's Season 29 star.
Litia launched a line of blue and green trucker hats that read, "C'mon Now" and "C'mon Now: Gaslight Survivor" on June 24. Each hat features a horse as well as a few stars.
Litia and Grant rode horses during one of their The Bachelor dates, and Litia memorably said, "Come on now," after Grant broke up with her during the Final Rose Ceremony in the Dominican Republic.
Litia and her friends modeled the hats, and Litia set her post to "Gaslighter" by The Chicks.
Lyrics of the song include: "Gaslighter, denier / Doin' anything to get your ass farther / Gaslighter, big timer / Repeating all of the mistakes of your father."
Litia had included the link to where fans could shop and buy her new hats in her Instagram bio.
Multiple women called Litia "iconic" for how she bounced back from her split with Grant, but some fans accused Litia of making light of situations in which women are abused and gaslit for years in a relationship.
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On The Bachelor's Season 29 finale, Grant was torn between Litia and Juliana Pasquarosa ahead of the Final Rose Ceremony.
Grant said he was in love with both women and could picture them both as his future wife.
Grant ultimately dumped Litia in second place and got engaged to Juliana, and Litia was so shocked by Grant's decision that she accused him of having a last-minute switch up.
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Litia proceeded to slam Grant for lacking honesty, maturity and accountability on The Bachelor: After the Final Rose, which aired in March on ABC.
Litia claimed on AFR that Grant had assured her from their first solo date on that she was going to be his winner -- to the point where he almost stopped the show -- and that he actually said the night before the Final Rose Ceremony that he was "excited" to get engaged to her.
But Grant apparently had a different recollection of events.
"There's a lot [she said] that I didn't align with," Grant told Us Weekly about Litia's claims.
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Grant seemed to suggest that he had made vague statements to Litia that she possibly misinterpreted or misunderstood. (This is likely where Litia's gaslight accusation came from).
"When you are the Bachelor, you do see your Final 2 contestants as somebody that could be your wife," Grant explained.
"That's where some confusion came into play. There's room for interpretation when things are said, 'off camera.' At that point in time, I can't really say much. I'm not going to argue."
Grant essentially took responsibility for misleading and hurting Litia, even though he apparently didn't view Litia's allegations as being accurate.
"I just have to accept whatever the conditions are and apologize and let her feel how she feels because she's in a tough situation and she's hurt. I understand," Grant said at the time.
Grant's third-place finisher Zoe McGrady defended Litia in April, just about one month after The Bachelor's Season 29 finale aired on ABC.
"I think [Litia] is 100 percent valid to feel that way," Zoe said on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.
Zoe continued, "I will say, the way he has kind of acted since we've left filming was a bit different than the man that he was showing us while we were filming... I don't love how he has spoken about the two of us [Litia and myself] and all of the women since leaving."
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Zoe also apparently wanted Grant to take accountability for his actions.
"I think that he can just acknowledge the fact and the reality of what we were in! You're allowed to change your mind! You're allowed to have said, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said these things,' or, 'Maybe I should've done less,'" Zoe reasoned.
Zoe said it would've been fine had Grant simply claimed he got "caught up" in The Bachelor process.
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"Not even [that] but rewriting history! There is reality. There's TV. And then there's reality TV. Just because things were not aired does not mean they did not happen, right?"
Litia, however, insisted she was no longer mad at Grant anymore during a May interview with Us.
And Juliana and Grant said they had "definitely moved on from" their drama with Litia during a May appearance on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.
Grant and Juliana have since split and ended their engagement.
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