The Bachelor star Grant Ellis is opening up about his personal journey with celibacy.

Ellis, 31, recently took to social media to announce his decision to abstain from sex until he finds the right partner. Now, he’s shedding more light on what led him to this choice.

Appearing on PodcastOne’s “When Reality Hits” on Friday, October 24, Ellis revealed, “I’ve only been in two relationships in my life. When I commit, I give it everything I have. I want my next relationship to be meaningful and lasting, so I’m doing my best to hold off until I meet the right person.”

After his time on Jenn Tran’s season of The Bachelorette, Ellis was chosen to lead season 29 of The Bachelor. Although he proposed to Juliana Pasquarosa during the March finale, the engagement ended three months later.

Just weeks before their breakup, Ellis spoke openly about his relationship with Pasquarosa. “We’re taking it one day at a time,” Ellis, 31, told Us Weekly on May 21 at the Bringing the Beach to Beverly Hills to Rebuild Malibu event. “She is a wonderful person, and we’re just enjoying our time together.”

“I’m doing my best, and I want my next relationship to be the one,” Ellis shared with podcast host Brittany Cartwright. “If you’re not it, I’m just not gonna.”

When cupid does strike, Ellis joked that he will be ready to connect with his forever partner.

“When we do have sex, it will be great,” he said with a laugh. “I’m very good, but I’m waiting.”

On October 12, Ellis surprised some followers when he posted a video to social media confirming he was celibate. In his message, the former professional basketball player opened up about his personal decision to wait for sex.

“Me being the most recent Bachelor, I feel like I have a little authority in the dating space being that the show is about dating,” he explained. “I think finding something serious — finding something that’s worth pursuing — is really hard, especially out here in LA and major cities like New York.”

While choosing to be celibate can be “hard,” Ellis believes he’s making the right decision for himself.

“I’m a man,” he shared. “I definitely have my urges, my desires, and I’m just being fully transparent. I have messed up in the past.”

According to Ellis, what keeps him on the journey is his relationship with God.

“Mainly it’s because of my faith. … God knows the desires of your heart and he knows what makes you happy,” he explained. “The same God that knows how to make you happy, He would know how to give you a partner without having to test drive things.”

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This isn’t the first time Ellis has been open about his views on sex and intimacy.

During an interview with ABC’s former Bachelor Nick Viall, Ellis said he handled his fantasy suites with care and understanding.

“People are going to think I’m a player or this or that — or that I’m trying to get my rocks off,” Ellis said on a March episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “I wasn’t. I went in there with real intentions and prior to that, I was celibate for a year. I got out of a seven-year relationship and I was hurting, so, like, sex is great but I wanted to make sure it was with someone who was my person and then we could f*** all the time.”