Party crasher! Merissa Pence came to speak to Peter Weber about Victoria Fuller on the Monday, February 17, episode of The Bachelor — and she may have ruined the 25-year-old contestant’s chances with the 28-year-old pilot.
Merissa was teased a “mystery woman” on the promo for the hometown dates of the season. Not long after Peter arrived in Virginia Beach to meet Victoria’s family, he was stopped by his ex. While her face is blurred, Us Weekly can confirm that Merissa is the one who confronted Peter.
“Wait, Merissa!” Peter said after he walks away from Victoria on the day portion of their date, which included a Hunter Hayes concert. “I saw you and I’m like, ‘She looks so familiar.’”
After the two briefly catch up, Merissa warned Peter.
“Just be careful. That’s all I’m going to say. I’m from here and I just know what a good guy you are,” she said. “I would hate for any of who you are to be affected by somebody else. … I know that you’re a great guy and I don’t think that you deserve with [who] you are on a date with right now.”
Peter went on to ask Merissa how she knows Victoria.
“I actually used to be friends with her. Things happened, probably a couple months ago and we’re just not friends anymore,” she explained. “I don’t think it’s a good relationship for you to be in. I know you’re a great guy. We never had any problems ever. … I would hate to see that come to fruition for you.”
Earlier this season, Peter and Victoria’s relationship was interrupted by one of her exes: country singer Chase Rice. After the “Eyes on You” crooner sang to the couple on their one-on-one date, Victoria was forced to confess that she dated him before she joined the show. Rice, for his part, said he was “pissed off” that he was brought into the drama.
“It’s over the top. It’s unnecessary, I didn’t expect it,” the singer said in a radio interview. “But at the end of the day, it happened. … I don’t know if it’s the producers, or if they just got lucky,” he continued. “I know what I think, but I’ll let everybody else figure out what they think.”
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“It was casual and I got to meet his parents and his brother and we would just, like, hang out at his parents’ house and go out to lunch or dinner or whatever,” Merissa told Us. “We were friends for quite a while after [our breakup], but then I was in a serious relationship and Peter had started dating someone else as well, so we really didn’t chat too much.”
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Merissa told Us that she and Victoria met through mutual friends. “Virginia Beach is a pretty small town. As time went on, I became friends with a girl who was best friends with Victoria,” she explained. “And so we all kind of started hanging out and it just became more of like a forced friendship versus like … I wouldn’t, like, voluntarily go hang out with her.”
Merissa added that Victoria “thinks the world revolves around her.”
“If there is a guy she wants, she’s like, ‘He’s mine.’ There is a one-way street there and nobody else is getting involved,” she claimed to Us. “[She’s not] this coy person.”
Victoria, for her part, clapped back at “rumors” spreading about her in November 2019 after Bachelor blogger RealitySteve claimed he got several negative emails about her: “There will be a time & place where I can defend myself, but for now I choose to wait. HOWEVER, bullying is NOT ok. Nor is it fair. Especially when casting judgement and basing opinions upon pure speculation, assumptions, & LIES.”
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Much like Peter’s contestants (and ex Hannah Brown), Merissa competed in beauty pageants. She was named Miss Teen Virginia in April 2011.
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Merissa currently works as a marketing coordinator in the Norfolk, Virginia, area.
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“My dream job is to become a model for Victoria's Secret. I have dreamed of this job ever since I started watching their annual fashion show,” she said in an interview for FIDM’s website. “This show really inspired me, seeing how much fun the girls were having and their true personalities showed me how much fun this job could be, even though it is a lot of hard work. Then I'd like to begin my career in fashion production and hopefully produce a Victoria's Secret fashion show one day!”
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