HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Jake Pavelka is still standing behind his decision that will air on Monday night's season finale of The Bachelor.
"I just hope that everybody understands the decision I made because I'm the one who has to live with it," the 32-year-old Pavelka tells People. "The show will keep going, another season will get under way and the public will move on to being obsessed with another person's budding romance, but my life will keep going so I tried to make the best decision I could, the one that I could live with. I still feel like I made the right decision now a few months later. I'm happy because of that."
While Pavelka obviously couldn't reveal what happens, he did say that the two finalists — Tenley Molzahn and Vienna Girardi — have a lot more in common that people think.
"Everyone says they're apples and oranges, but they really aren't," he explained. "They are more like an orange and a tangerine. The way they express love is very different but when you get them down to their cores, they're exactly the same girl. I think people will probably see that by the end."
"That was comforting to me actually because it would be strange if I had fallen hard for two opposites," continued Pavelka. "Both of the women are fun and have a ton of energy and big hearts. Vienna and I connected fiercely over conquering our fear of bungee jumping together. Tenley has been hurt before but has done a great job of being unguarded and showing me who she is like when she danced for me. They have the same family values. They just express them differently."
As for ousted contestant Rozlyn Papa, the hunky commerical pilot believes she showed her "true colors" on last week's "Women Tell All" episode, in which she repeatedly denied hooking up with one of the show's producers and then accused host Chris Harrison of being unfaithful.
"I can understand being a little bitter, but these are consequences of the decisions you made," said Pavelka. "I don't respect her trying to place blame on the show or calling them liars or acting inappropriately toward Chris Harrison who is happily married. I felt bad for his wife. It made for great TV, but it was very hard for me. I understand it as a storyline but people were shocked behind the scenes. She rid the show of a high-level producer in the process."
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