Instagram comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat I\u2019ll say is this; I asked Julie on multiple occasions to please keep private, intimate details, private. This wasn\u2019t about a tv show anymore,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
LaPlaca, a Connecticut native who now lives in Topanga, Calif., said she is choosing to \u201chonor his opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/em>I think Peter is coming from a place of fear and ego instead of a place of love . . . I wish he had read the book and can see that I\u2019m coming from my heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\nLaPlaca said her role as a supervising producer with the franchise entailed a close relationship with the lead. I\u2019m the one interviewing them and helping guide them on their journey, prepping them for their dates and just with them all the time.\u201d instagram \/ julielaplaca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn the memoir, LaPlaca reveals the first time they had sex \u2014 in 2020 at Weber\u2019s parents\u2019 house, where he was living at the time, after watching an episode from his season of \u201cThe Bachelor,\u201d which had been filmed in 2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeter came to the doorway. \u2018Jules, come here,\u2019 he said. I walked into his room, not realizing what was about to happen . . . \u2018We don\u2019t have to \u2014 this is bad,\u2019 he said. \u2018It\u2019s up to you.\u2019 . . . My face said it all. He leaned in and we kissed,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter reached up and turned the lights off, just like in the fantasy suites. The rest is what happens when the cameras stop rolling, and stays between Peter and me.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Connecticut native now lives in Topanga, Calif. and works as a life coach and hypnotherapist. Courtesy of Julie LaPlaca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLaPlaca said she left out the physical details of that hookup, and the two that followed, to honor her feelings for Weber, to whom she eventually confessed her love years later.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not here to spill any juicy details. I\u2019m just here to share my truth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She also recalled the hate she got from \u201cBachelor\u201d fans before she even slept with Weber. <\/p>\n
On New Year\u2019s Eve in 2019, while Weber\u2019s \u201cBachelor\u201d season was still airing and America did not yet know he didn\u2019t end up with Hannah Ann Sluss, to whom he proposed on the show, LaPlaca joined him in Times Square for his \u201cRockin\u2019 Eve\u201d appearance.<\/p>\n
She posted an Instagram photo of the evening, and internet sleuths saw Weber\u2019s jacket in the background, and came to the conclusion that they ended up together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had people comparing me to Harvey Weinstein . . . telling me I need to get cancer and die . . . telling me I was ugly . . . There are some mean trolls out there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\nLaPlaca began writing \u201cThe Love Producer\u201d as a fictional account \u201cbecause I wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d have the courage to share the nonfiction side,\u201d she said. Courtesy of Julie LaPlaca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDuring all that drama, LaPlaca got a call from \u201cBachelor<\/a>\u201d creator Mike Fleiss, who told her the network was considering her for the role of \u201c The Bachelorette<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThey seemed really excited about it and it really felt like it was going to happen . . . It really was a Cinderella story . . . So I was disappointed when it didn\u2019t,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
LaPlaca decided to quit after seven years with the \u201cBachelor\u201d franchise<\/a>, never telling her bosses about her tryst with Weber.<\/p>\n\u201cI had a lot of fear around it. I dreaded anyone finding out. I lived in paranoia for a while . . . and ultimately it was probably one of the main reasons why I left the show,\u201d said LaPlaca, who is now a certified life coach and hypnotherapist.<\/p>\nAfter seven years with the \u201cBachelor\u201d franchise, LaPlaca quit, never telling her bosses at ABC about her tryst with Weber. Instagram \/ Pilot_pete<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAlthough LaPlaca said it\u2019s \u201cvery possible\u201d she\u2019d still be working for the \u201cBachelor\u201d had she not fallen in love with Weber, she realizes everything happened for the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lifestyle as a reality TV producer really isn\u2019t a healthy one. You think it\u2019s normal that your eye is twitching for like, three weeks straight, and my hair was thinning and I was pulling out chunks and waking up in piles of sweat,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so I think it all unfolded exactly as it should.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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