"Bachelor in Paradise": Josh Murray calls Andi Dorfman"s tell-all "a fictional story"

Chris Harrison on Chad Johnson"s "Bachelor in Paradise" Debut: "He Really Pissed Me Off"

Erin Jensen, USA TODAY 9:29 a.m. EDT August 9, 2016

Josh Murray steps up to the "Bachelor in Paradise" plate.(Photo: Rick Rowell, ABC)

Josh Murray entered Bachelor in Paradise just in the Nick of time.

On Monday, Andi Dorfman"s ex-fianc,the hunky former baseball player with teeth that would get lost in a snowstorm, caused a little bit of trouble.

Looking to "find a wife more than anything" and armed with a date card, Josh upset the palapa equilibrium when he asked Amanda Stanton out on a date. The night before she received a rose from Nick Viall, the runner-up from AndiandKaitlyn Bristowe"sseasons.

Nick wondered if Josh only asked Amanda out to torment him, and was concerned about some of the allegations Andi made in her book,It"s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After.In the memoir, released in May, Andi wrote thatJosh"often behaved like an emotional abuser."

"Quite honestly some of the stuff that is written about Josh is pretty aggressive and a little disturbing," Nick confessed to the camera."I know at least the things written about me aren"t fictional. There"s at least some accuracy to them. So, it"s hard to imagine that that"s not the case for Josh."

Amanda Stanton and Josh Murray on their date, probably not thinking about Nick Viall.(Photo: Rick Rowell, ABC)

While sailing with Amanda, Josh admitted that dealing with his ex"s tell-all hasbeen tough.

"She had some not-so-kind things to say, and it"s very unfortunate that she would depict me in such a false way," Josh told the mother of two from Ben Higgins" season of The Bachelor."It"s like, how am I supposed to comment on these excerpts that people are sending me to a fictional story, something that"s just not true at all? It"s definitely frustrating, but it doesn"t affect me until somebody asks me about it."

Josh continued."You have to be a bigger person no matter what kind of lies or egregious things are said about you. You have to try to take the high road...Honestly, it doesn"t affect me at all. G*d knows what the truth is. Like, that"s all that matters."

In an interview, Andi told us that her revelations weren"t an attempt to drag her exes."Ididn"t want any story that was in there just to be gratuitous or just to burn someone," she said."That was not my intention." Whenwe reached out to Joshs camp for comment, wedidnt receivea reply.

To theBachelor in Paradisecameras, Josh again wrote the book off as being "a fictional story.""There"s stuff that"s so ludicrous," he said."How do you comment on something like that?"

Josh"s explanation satisfied Amanda"s curiosity.

"I thought he gave a really good answer, and I trust him. And, I can tell how genuine he is. So, it"s not really something I"m worried about," she said in an interview. "I"m just excited to see where things go from here."

We can think of someone who isn"t so excited.

See how Nick deals with this possible new coupling when Bachelor in Paradiseairs onMondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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"Bachelor in Paradise" Contestant Sarah Herron on Chad Johnson"s Insults and Apology: "He"s Not Sorry"

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Playing "Bachelor in Paradise" Contestant Sarah Herron on Chad Johnson"s Insults and Apology: "He"s Not Sorry"

Bachelor in Paradise returns Monday night, and that means the return of Bachelorette villain Chad Johnson. In the season premiere last week, a drunken meltdown got Johnson kicked off the show by host Chris Harrison after just one night in Paradise. The disastrous debut included Johnson insulting contestant Sarah Herron, who was born with a disability, calling her called her a "one-armed b**ch". ET"s Nancy O"Dell spoke with Herron and fellow contestant Nick Viall at ET"s studios on Monday.

"It was disrespectful," Herron said. "It was way below the belt. [Chad] keeps saying it was a joke, and he was being funny, but he actually said really horrible things."

WATCH: Chad Johnson on His "Bachelor in Paradise" Debut: "I Regret Everything"

In our interview with Johnson last week, he offered an apology to Herron, but only when prodded. She isn"t buying it.

"I think if he really wanted to apologize to me, which he still should, and can, it should be in person," Herron said. "Reach out to me -- don"t do it on Twitter, don"t do it with a camera in your face. I just feel like he"s not sorry."

Herron said she hasn"t seen any sincere remorse from Johnson -- neither in our ET interview, nor in the apology he posted to social media after the season premiere. "He"s not taking any of it seriously," she said. "You"re making fun of something I have no control over. I was born this way, and if you want to take stabs at people with disabilities, that"s gnarly."

In the premiere, Herron wound up breaking down in tears. Viall defended her Monday. "I thought she did a great job of calling [Chad] out but at the same time keeping it classy and composed," he said. "It"s OK to show emotion, and she was clearly upset."

Viall is familiar with the "villain" label in Bachelor Nation -- Bachelor in Paradise is his third stint in the franchise, and he went head-to-head with both Josh Murray on Andi Dorfman"s season of The Bachelorette, and Shawn Booth on Kaitlyn Bristowes season. But Viall says Johnson is in a class all his own. "I think most people in the Bachelor world who ever get labeled as the villain -- usually it"s for little things like being assertive with the relationships, and maybe there are some jealousy aspects to it," Viall said. "I think Chad was one of the few real villains that we"ve had in Bachelor history, where some of the things he did were really just, honestly kind of despicable."

Viall said Johnson "really is" the way he seems on TV -- and that there was even more bad behavior from him that viewers didn"t see. "If anything, the show is limited by time constraints," Viall said. "There"s so many hours of footage. If anything, there"s plenty more they could have shown."

Bachelor in Paradise airs Monday and Tuesday nights on ABC. For Harrisons take on Johnson"s big blowup, watch the video below!

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