You are listening to the daily roundup here as part of the reality. Steve podcast. I’m your host reality. Steve. Thank you all for tuning in a very introspective Friday podcast for the daily roundup. As Devin finally speaks, he releases an Instagram story yesterday. We’re going to go over what he said and kind of tear apart.
His Instagram story. And then I’ve got an exclusive here. Remember on Monday, when I reported the story, I also showed the screenshots of Dema Devin’s homophobic slurs that he sent to somebody that was close to the situation. Well, that man has posted on his social media in response to what Devin posted yesterday.
And I was able to screenshot it. I will be putting it up on my Instagram story later, but you’re going to get it here first, as I read it to you. We’ll get to all that momentarily. Okay. Let’s get right into it. Devonstrator yesterday took to his Instagram story, certainly a decision there to release a statement in regards to what I reported earlier this week.
He started off by saying this. And we’re going to stop at every time that I have an issue with something that he said, following my time on the bachelorette, there have been many stories and misrepresentations put out in the media that I want to take a moment to address. I want to apologize for the video I released following the final episode.
I am not proud of that lapse in judgment. Devin, you put out a 13 minute video that had a sexed private sex conversation that Jen had sent to you, and then you deleted it and then you put it up again, just taking out the sexed part. And deleted it again. That’s not a lapse in judgment. You know, a lapse in judgment is if you run a red light, if you turn down a one way street, going the wrong way, if you forget to lock your doors, a lapse in judgment, you made a 13 minute video, edited it poorly.
I might add, but you edited a 13 minute video to sound good, to look good in your eyes. That’s not a lapse in judgment. So spare me with that. And then he goes on to say, I’m truly grateful for my time on the show and for getting the chance to know and love Jen. I certainly regret hurting her in any way.
She’s a very special person and I wish her nothing but good things. Whatever. He then went on to say, most recently there have been challenges from a low point in my past that have been brought up and severely misconstrued. The accusations are simply not true. As I have never inappropriately laid hands on another individual or treated my ex girlfriend in any of the ways that I have been depicted.
So what he’s saying there is his ex lied on a police report and nothing that she wrote is true. He didn’t go into any specifics. He just made a generalization, never did any of that. And I’m sorry, you got to go into more detail. If you’re going to say that it’s very easy to just give a generalization, like, nope, never did that.
Really? And we’re just supposed to take your word for it because you’ve been so honest with everybody. This ever since you’ve been on the show, he went on to say that restraining order was never granted and fully dismissed. See, this is where a lot of people have a major problem. Even EW. com wrote a story about this yesterday.
The headline of the story says Devon straighter falsely claims X did not have a restraining order against him in a statement posted Instagram. The disgraced bachelorette contestant says the restraining order was quote, never granted. It was, I put this out there as my response on Instagram yesterday, my Instagram story in response to Devin.
And basically what I said ended up being true. He’s hiding behind semantics. We have a signed restraining order, temporary restraining order. He was issued it on March 22nd, 2017, signed by the judge in East Baton Rouge Family Court and an extension of that order a little less than a month later on April 11th.
So, what he is basically saying is this, because there was no permanent restraining order, that’s why he’s trying to get away with, well, the restraining order was never granted. No, a permanent one was never granted. However The permanent one was never granted because the ex never went forward with it. She decided she didn’t want a felony on his record.
And so in return, she basically just said, leave me alone and I won’t file this. I don’t want this on your record. Both parties agreed to a title 36 Oh one. Stay away order. His attorney said yesterday to EW, the petitioner filed a protection petition for protection with the court based purely on unproven written allegations in the affidavit and nothing more.
The judge out of an abundance of caution granted a temporary restraining order until Devin was served the allegations that could respond at a court hearing. On the date of the hearing, the petitioner had the option of having a full hearing before the judge, but instead decided not to pursue a full restraining order and agreed to a mutual stay away order in which both parties agreed not to contact one another for a period of time.
This expired after six months. It was also agreed upon each party would pay half the court costs. Yes, she didn’t want to pursue, but Devin in this statement is basically trying to manipulate the situation because he’s saying, Hey guys, that restraining order was never granted and fully dismissed. Well, a permanent one.
Was dismissed because she never went forward with it. If she would have went to court and went for the permanent and a judge just didn’t believe her. And a judge just said, you know what, you’re not being granted this. I think he would have a leg to stand on, but that’s not what happened. And to sit there and say that restraining order was never granted, but a temporary one was, he kind of just forgets that part.
The whole point was you should never have been on the show. When you had a restraining order filed against you, how hard is that to understand? How come he never addresses that in his statement? Then he goes on to say my college ex girlfriend and I ended up reconciling And eventually ended our relationship on good terms This was the first time I ever fell in love and I learned a lot from our relationship It was a growing experience for the both of us.
I mean that is some complete misdirection there and complete Almost gaslighting. He’s basically trying to tell the audience, Hey, because we reconciled the other stuff isn’t true, or you shouldn’t take the other stuff as seriously if she was able to reconcile with me as numerous people emailed me after the fact.
Steve, you look at the statistics for women who have been abused. It usually takes an average of seven times before the woman leaves. So Devin is basically trying to essentially downplay the stuff that did happen in the original restraining order by saying she did this after the fact. So you guys. What are you getting mad at me here for?
She was seemingly cool with it. Just an absolute, total misdirection on this statement that he gave yesterday. Come on now. This was the first time I ever fell in love and learned a lot from our relationship. So again, he’s trying to tell us, Hey, I was new to this. This is why I acted the way Devin, that’s not an excuse.
You’re trying to downplay what we know now to be in the original restraining order, not to mention what was in the affidavit for the warrant for your arrest of what you did breaking into her place when she wasn’t there. I mean, it’s just, this was embarrassing. Like the guy doesn’t understand the seriousness of what happened here.
He clearly doesn’t, or else he wouldn’t have written that yesterday. The last paragraph, I know I’ve made mistakes in my life. I’m not perfect. Devin, none of us are perfect. You saying that isn’t going to make people go, Oh, he’s admitting mistakes in his life and he wasn’t perfect. Oh, totally forgive him.
Then Devin, none of us are perfect. We all make mistakes. That doesn’t tell me anything. This wasn’t a, I mean, again, he’s downplaying what he did. A mistake. Constant harassment of your ex girlfriend isn’t a mistake. That’s literally abusive behavior. Again, mistake is leaving your iron on before you leave to go out.
Leaving the, forgetting to turn off the stove. That’s a mistake. This is continuous abusive behavior. I’ve continued to work every day to be with some, to be someone that my family and friends would be proud of. I am truly thankful to everyone who has been by my side. Yeah. Yeah, some of them that are blowing me up.
Just tell them they’re annoying, by the way. So that was his statement. And there’s just, obviously it’s just so many things wrong with that. I just, I went over a lot of it right there. Got to understand something when it comes to temporary restraining orders. I know that the burden of proof is very low.
Most of them, like a lot of people emailed me, especially people that. Study domestic violence cases, handle domestic violence cases themselves. Yes, the burden of proof is very low and most TROs will be granted to women like his ex. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Just because she didn’t have to prove anything and it was her words, it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
You saw what she said. You saw what the policeman said. Did the policeman just make all that up? The cop just make all that up in a sworn affidavit? No, he didn’t. And this whole thing about reconciliation, again, he’s trying to throw out there, well we reconciled, so clearly it couldn’t have been that big of a deal to her.
And that is just so far from the truth. It’s, this was a very, very bad statement by him. By the way, he’s also hired a PR team that helped him with this. I don’t know what that PR team is getting paid, but I hope it was, I hope they did this pro bono because of Devin forked over even 13 cents to this company.
He should probably fire them. Going to take a break right here. And when we come back, I am going to read the statement that appeared on the friend of the X’s social media account last night. It’s podcast brought to you by mint mobile. You know, I love a great deal as much as the next guy. And when mint mobile came to me.
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