'The Bachelor': Zach Reveals What He 'Begged and Pleaded' for During His Season -- and Why He Was Told No

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Zach Shallcross' way on . On Monday night's episode of the ABC series, Zach said goodbye to Greer after they lost two weeks together, first from his COVID diagnosis and then from hers.

While Greer told Zach that she'd be «more than happy» to introduce him to her family during Hometowns, he admitted that, given the time lost, he didn't feel «100 percent confident» in doing so.

Sending Greer home, Zach told ET in an interview, was something he never imagined, and something he tried desperately to prevent.«I would've never known in a million years that I'm going to get this COVID curve ball of taking a whole week away from us to where you can't just put everything on hold, as much as I wanted to,» he said. «I begged and pleaded, [and] they're like, 'No, we have to keep this going.'» «So when I finally come back and she gets COVID right when I get back, that time is taken away from her.

And again, we can't stop everything,» Zach added. «And it's like, 'All right, these relationships are either really progressing with these days or they're not.' At that point, when she had come back with Hometowns right around the corner, I didn't feel confident enough to go there and meet her family because there were other relationships that I was very sure I was going to meet the family.»Still, Zach admitted that sending Greer home was «tough,» which host Jesse Palmer confirmed in his own interview with ET.«Zach got it in London, Greer got it in Estonia, and as a result, it did affect a lot of the relationships, particularly between the two of them,» Jesse said. «I mean, they essentially went two weeks without having any face time, which on this show is like an eternity.