Nick Viall

So Dakota, I would say, is more strategic about his Darvo.

It's more of a manipulation tool.

So when he gets vulnerable, I think that his vulnerability looks really real.

Like, oh, I'm sorry.

I lied.

I shouldn't have done that.

I should have been more transparent.

then he starts to cry or get teary, and that feels really compelling.

But that could also be seen as him doing a little bit of denial and then a little bit of attack because we're kind of getting sucked into his story.

And then he can be very specific about the timing

Of his stuff, like the timing of like, I think, are we all on the same page now that like he was probably the one who like released the video and gave it to TMZ?

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.