“Lift the NDAs Let Peter Tell HIS Story!” Barbara Figarola Weber wrote on Instagram days after LaPlaca’s bombshell memoir hit shelves
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- Peter Weber’s mom wants him to share “his story” after former Bachelor producer Julie LaPlaca detailed their alleged romance in her new memoir
- Barbara Figarola Weber publicly called for her son’s NDAs to be lifted in an Instagram post on July 11
- Peter previously criticized LaPlaca’s decision to share private details in her book The Love Producer
Peter Weber’s mom wants her son to tell his side of the alleged behind-the-scenes romance he shared with former Bachelor producer Julie LaPlaca.
LaPlaca, 41, confirmed that she and Peter, 34, developed an emotional connection while he was shooting his season of the ABC reality series in 2019 and a physical one after the season wrapped in her new memoir, The Love Producer, which was released on Tuesday, July 7.
Four days later, the former Bachelor star’s mother, Barbara Figarola Weber, implied that he has not shared his side of the alleged romance due to non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) tied to his involvement with the reality series. In a post, she called for the contracts to be lifted in the wake of LaPlaca’s book.
On Saturday, July 11, Barbara shared a photo of Peter smiling on Instagram. Text alongside the image reads, “Lift the NDAs Let Peter Tell HIS Story!”
She also tagged her husband, Peter Weber Sr., and Renee Halverson-Wright, who competed on the first season of The Golden Bachelor in 2023, in the post. Halverson-Wright later reposted Barbara’s message on her Instagram Stories.
PEOPLE has reached out to ABC for comment.
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In The Love Producer, LaPlaca admits she developed real feelings for Peter early on while filming season 24 of The Bachelor, and says the pair spent hours talking about deeply personal topics including marriage, family and what they wanted from life.
The former producer also writes that their emotional connection eventually turned physical, with the pair allegedly having multiple secret hookups after the season wrapped.
Peter has publicly pushed back on her decision to share details of their relationship in her memoir.
Days before The Love Producer was set to hit bookshelves, another former Bachelor, Nick Viall, said on his podcast The Viall Files that he finds it “gross” that a Bachelor producer is “exploiting that experience.” In the comments of an Instagram video highlighting Viall’s comments about the book, Peter said he previously asked LaPlaca to keep “private, intimate details” out of it.
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“What I’ll say is this: I asked Julie on multiple occasions to please keep private, intimate details private,” he wrote. “This wasn’t about a TV show anymore.”
Peter also alleged that during filming, LaPlaca urged him not to give contestant Hannah Ann Sluss a rose during one of their final one-on-one dates, claiming that she warned him he would “look like the biggest idiot in the world to America” if he did.
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“I find it wrong to mess with a person’s headspace like that and then go on to write a book about them,” Peter added in his comment before criticizing former Bachelor host Chris Harrison for writing the memoir’s foreword. “The fact that Chris endorsed this makes me sick,” he concluded.
PEOPLE has previously reached out to a representative for Weber for comment.
LaPlaca previously said she was aware that Peter’s “not happy about” the book while speaking with Entertainment Weekly back in April.
“I spent all my years getting people to be vulnerable and share their heart on the show,” she told the outlet at the time. “And I realized I had shielded mine.”
“I will be sharing my truth that I suppressed for a while,” LaPlaca continued. “I dealt with some shame and some fear around sharing it. And part of my journey was working through that and allowing myself to get to a place to be fully vulnerable — like I got so many cast members to do. Every woman should own her story and own her truth.”
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