'Bachelor Pad' revives battle of the exes

Season 14 "Bachelor" Jake Pavelka once said of his former fiancee, Vienna Girardi, "I hope she falls 3,000 feet to her death." Yet Pavelka -- who, along with Girardi will be on this season's "Bachelor Pad" -- still wonders why his acrimonious ex won't return his calls.

"The point of me going on ["Bachelor Pad"] was because she was on," Pavelka 33, said Thursday in a teleconference for Monday's second-season premiere. He and Girardi, 25, will share a house with other former "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" contestants.

"We started a conversation about a year ago we didn't finish," he continued, bemoaning that Girardi hasn't responded to his overtures for closure. "I've taken my step, now she needs to take her step."

Being on "Bachelor Pad," he said, was "my opportunity . . . to finish the conversation" both for himself and, he added, "for America."

He would not say whether closure occurred during the "couple of weeks" he was in the house. A preview clip, however, shows Girardi in tears, fighting with her new boyfriend, Kasey Kahl. "I have my ex-fiance, who I can't even be in the room with, and instead of you trying to make that easier for me, you're getting mad at me," she tells Kahl. "What I need is for you to be comforting, not be mean to me!"

Pavelka probably can't count on any closure help from Kahl. "I think probably that had Kasey and I met under different circumstances we'd be really good friends," Pavelka said. "At least on my part there's no animosity. Unfortunately, Vienna's filled Kasey's head with some things that aren't true and when he met me, that's what he had in his mind."