Calls her aggressor
DeMario Jackson wants to make one thing clear: He didn’t make the first move.
The “Bachelor in Paradise” star broke his silence this week about his scandalous encounter with costar Corinne Olympios, saying she was the “aggressor.”
“That night was probably one of the wildest nights of my entire life,” Jackson (inset), 30, told E! News in his first interview since the incident.
“I don’t even know sober girls who can do what she did,” he said, in reference to his tryst with Olympios.
The three-part, two-night sit-down came just weeks after filming of the upcoming fourth season of “Bachelor in Paradise” was halted due to “allegations of misconduct” made by Olympios. She claimed Jackson took advantage of her and that she was too drunk to consent.
But according to him, it was the 24year-old blonde who made the first moves that night following a day of drinking by the bar.
“We were hanging out . . . kind of were just complimenting each other on being villains,” he recalled. “And then, you know, we started having a little bit more fun . . . and had a few drinks.” After drinking some shots, Jackson said, things got really hot
and heavy and Olympios re- quested that they go to the pool.
“I was like, ‘Hell, yeah!’ ” Jackson said. “You know, I’m down for it. I’m not gonna . . . I don’t think any single man — some married ones — wouldn’t turn down Corinne. She’s a beautiful woman!”
The former “Bachelorette” contestant told E! he felt funny about the drunken hookup and asked the cameras to stay close.
“It’s crazy because when you’re a man — mostly African-American man — no matter where you’re at, you always look for things that can help you out. And at that moment, I made sure the cameras followed us,” he said.
“It just seemed too perfect in a sense for me and, at the point, that’s when my Spidey senses got up.”
After removing their bathing suits, Jackson claims, Olympios suggested they have oral sex. “Things got wild because it was more her being the aggressor, which was sexy,” he said. “When you have a very attractive girl telling you what she wants, it’s like a very, like, ‘Wow, OK! This is hot.’ ”
Olympios would wind up making her allegations a few days later, much to the surprise of Jackson. “She wasn’t mad. We were hanging out,” he said.
In the weeks that followed, Warner Bros. cleared Jackson of any misconduct after rewatching the camera footage. Olympios’ legal team has pledged to conduct an investigation of its own.