Nick Viall

I think when we can, like, you watch the video and it seems, it feels very obvious, and I stand behind this, that he's the victim in that situation, but he's like...

conscious enough to know to pull out his phone and start recording.

He sits on that video for a while, and then he weaponizes his victimhood at the exact right time and releases it three days before The Bachelorette is supposed to premiere.

So he is actually the victim in that video.

He is getting attacked by her, and then he sits on it.

And this is kind of a pattern of his where he times when he releases stuff.

So he's really good at weaponizing his victimhood.

And that's why it's so hard to pin him down or be like, he's just Darvo.

But he's more of a sophisticated, manipulative Darvo.

While Taylor, she could also qualify for Darvo, deny attack, and reversing victim and offender.

But she's more reactive.

I think her Darvo response is more of like a trauma response.

It comes from feeling flooded.

It's not calculated like Dakota's is.

She's like really dysregulated.

She can't hold complexity.

She's like, this is your fault.

This is all your fault, right?

And she's totally hijacked in the moment.

Yeah, yeah.