“The Bachelorette” delivered on its promise for the most dramatic season finale ever.
Moments after viewers watched Tino Franco propose to Rachel Recchia and vow to spend the rest of his life with her, he admitted to cheating on his new fiancée in Tuesday night’s tense conclusion.
“I screwed up and kissed another girl,” the general contractor, 28, told the flight instructor, 26, during an emotional confrontation.
“The second I did, I knew I belonged to you, and it was the smallest thing ever, so I just tried to… push past it,” he said. -he explains.
As Recchia pressed Franco for more details, he shared that he kissed a woman he met before appearing on the ABC reality series, but insisted they “never had a date”.
Franco then pulled out a diary in which he documented his post-show conversations with Recchia about her wanting to return her engagement ring, apparently trying to blame it on the ‘Bachelorette’ co-responsible as their relationship was falling apart quickly.
Recchia then begged her fiancé to “tell the truth”, saying she “strongly” doubted he only kissed the other woman.
As Franco burst into tears, Recchia said she was “done” with him and took off his ring.
After a commercial break, the former couple came face to face for the first time since their split on camera.
Franco again apologized for his actions, telling Recchia he couldn’t “imagine what [she was] pass” and praising her for “always” being “so nice” to him.
“You were amazing, and you didn’t deserve what I did,” he confessed, acknowledging that his “mistake was not [her] default.”
As his family watched from the audience, Recchia told Franco there was “absolutely no excuse” for what he had done.
“You broke my heart,” the former “Bachelor” candidate added, calling the California native’s transgression “inexcusable.”
In another surprising twist, the segment ended with “Bachelorette” host Jesse Palmer bringing out Recchia runner-up Aven Jones, who asked the Chicago native to leave with him. She enthusiastically agreed as Franco stood up with a stunned look on his face.
Franco had been a favorite since the start of Season 19 and even received the coveted first impression when it premiered in July.
But Recchia and Franco hit a bump in the road when her parents didn’t give their blessing to the reality TV stars’ romance during the show’s dates in their hometown in August.
Still, the pair continued their engagement earlier in Tuesday’s finale, with Franco telling Recchia on his knees in Mexico that he would “love [her] until the end of time.”
Clearly not.
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