An epic moment of revenge — or crossing the line? Bachelor Nation has mixed feelings about how Rachel Recchia’s final moments with Tino Franco went down during the live Tuesday, September 20, finale.Shortly after viewers watched Tino, 28, propose to Rachel, 26, the flight instructor revealed that they went through “growing pains” and things escalated “around the time of the premiere” in July.
After seemingly getting back to a “great place,” the general contractor admitted he cheated on her.“I messed up and kissed another girl, but the second I did I knew I belonged with you,” he said. “This was the tiniest thing ever. … I tried to just get past it. … The stuff you said hurt so much.
You said ‘I don’t know how this is going to work … I can’t do happy couples this weekend like we planned.’”Tino went on to accuse Rachel of saying she wanted to give her engagement ring back.
She denied his claims.“I was exhausted,” she said. “We were in a bad place, but … Never once did we say we are broken up.”After declaring she was “done,” the twosome reunited with Jesse Palmer — and things got awkward as Rachel alluded to the fact that there was more to the reason behind their post-show issues.“We both don’t want to air out why those things were happening,” she said. “There were things that they cut out that we both know maybe led to us being in this bad place.”The duo continued to argue over her Neil Lane engagement ring.
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