Why I Cheated, The place I Stand With Rachel, Aven

One month after his dishonest admission and subsequent cut up from Bachelorette Rachel Recchia, Tino Franco is opening up about his tumultuous journey.

“We will speak about [almost] something at this level. Clearly, there are issues that, you realize, transpired between me and Rachel that — as we’ve each mentioned — are deeply private. And we’re not going to the touch it that, [but] I feel we are able to very simply undergo the timeline with out touching any of that,” the 28-year-old Bachelorette season 19 winner started on the “Viall Information” podcast on Thursday, October 20. “I don’t stand by what I did in any respect. It was not cool. It wasn’t truthful to Rachel. And it haunts me each day, nonetheless. It’s one thing I’m ashamed of. And positively, like, want I may have performed it in another way, like, 1,000,000 occasions over. … I’m making an attempt to undergo and unfold and determine why my insecurities, my ego may simply take over my actions like that and simply led me down this path to go to all-time low.”

Moments after watching Tino and Rachel, 26, get engaged final month, Bachelor Nation noticed their relationship crumble as he admitted to kissing one other lady whereas the present was airing.

“I wish to put it to mattress — we weren’t on a break. I don’t know the place that got here from. We weren’t separated or something like that,” Tino instructed Nick Viall earlier than shedding gentle on why he stepped out on the pilot. “After I acted out, I felt like … we have been beginning to take a look at. We have been simply in a very darkish place. Like, it’s exhausting to explain as a result of even trying again on it, it takes me to a spot the place, like, I actually want I simply didn’t try this and simply didn’t act out.”

He defined that the pair had hit a tough patch over the summer season when he went out with mates and led one other lady on.

“If you undergo exhausting occasions in a relationship, it’s exhausting to persuade your self that there’s a lightweight on the finish of the tunnel,” he mentioned.

The final contractor cited his insecurities as the rationale he cheated.

“I simply sort of gave in. I simply leaned in, and we kissed and that wasn’t truthful to that lady, both. That wasn’t thoughtful of her emotions in any respect. Like, she didn’t wish to be wrapped up in any of this,” Tino mentioned. “And I noticed actually shortly [at the time], like, ‘I don’t know what the long run holds for me or Rachel, however I do know this isn’t who I’m, and this isn’t what I ought to be doing. So I acquired out of there.’ And it was fairly haunting.”

Tino went on to confess that not telling Rachel about his indiscretion instantly was nearly as huge of a mistake as dishonest on her within the first place.

“Largest remorse, exterior of truly doing it, was not telling her instantly. I ought to have instructed her the day after, arms down. Rachel deserves all that point again, and I can’t give it to her. And all I can do is, you realize, inform her I’m actually sorry,” he mentioned. “On the time, it simply actually felt like, you realize, the connection is sort of checked out of and I didn’t wish to deal with it, like, publicly and all that. … I knew it was a one-time factor. [In] the next weeks, I took remedy far more critically as a result of I used to be like ‘OK, what why did I discover this poisonous outlet? That is shameful. This isn’t who I wish to consider I’m and I received’t consider that.’ It’s a low-character second, for certain. Worst factor I may have performed to someone in a relationship who I actually, actually liked.”

Tino defined that issues began to get higher between him and Rachel as his slip-up loomed behind his thoughts.

“I averted conditions that would have put me in the identical footwear — ingesting, hanging out with [that] good friend group in these conditions. I did all of the steps I ought to have been doing earlier than my mistake as a result of then I might have had a wholesome development to get again on monitor in my very own head and dealing with my very own insecurities,” he mentioned. “So didn’t inform her instantly and time simply sort of stored going alongside. And me and Rachel would discuss each day. We sort of put collectively a sport plan of like, ‘OK, do we would like this to work?’”

So, how did issues go when Tino lastly confessed to Rachel? And what was his dialog with Aven Jones like after the runner-up appeared at After the Closing Rose? Hold scroll by means of for extra from Tino: