Ellen Apologizes to "Jerk" Bachelor

Ellen DeGeneres apologized to The Bachelor’s Brad Womack on her talk show Friday after calling him a jerk for not picking any of the contestants on the show.  He told her that he didn’t feel that he took the easy way out by not picking a partner but that he regrets something he said to finalist DeAnna Pappas.

DeGeneres asked him about one moment from the show in particular – when he told Pappas that the finale would be "a good day" for her.

"I definitely regret that," Womack, 35, replied. "I don’t know if I got caught up in the moment. I don’t know if I was trying to comfort her. I bear the full brunt of responsibility for saying that. I do. She deserves someone to be straightforward and honest, which I thought I was. That’s one very, very bad decision of mine that I made."

"I did not take the easy way out," he said. "In fact, I took the tough way out in order to show these women respect, in my opinion. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong."

DeGeneres, who had apologized to Womack on the air Thursday, did so again Friday. "I really appreciate you coming here," she said. "I’m so sorry that I judged you because I didn’t know the full story."

Still sounds like a bit of a jerk to me….