‘The Bachelorette’s Tino Admits He Regrets Cheating On Rachel In 1st Interview: ‘I Do Not Stand By It’

For the archetypal clip pursuing his breakup with The Bachelorette star Rachel Recchia, 26, Tino Franco, 28, opened up to former Bachelor star Nick Viall, 42, astir his regrets. “I perfectly regret it. And I’ll accidental it a cardinal times, it was the biggest mistake of my life,” Tino said during the Oct. 20 occurrence of The Viall Files podcast. “I’m decidedly not connected Team Cheater,” helium continued. “Like, I bash not basal by what I did astatine all. It was not cool. It wasn’t just to Rachel, and it haunts maine regular still. It’s thing I’m ashamed of and surely privation I could person done it otherwise similar a cardinal times over.”

When Tino reflected connected the commencement of their relationship, helium told Nick however good helium and Rachel were making their long-distance narration work. “We conscionable communicated truthful good successful the opening and we acceptable the measure of making that concern the champion we could for a agelong time,” helium shared. The TV prima besides revealed that helium and the blonde quality would person conversations that would “get elevated” but that it “doesn’t springiness you immoderate excuse to enactment out.” Tino past added that helium wished helium could person done things differently.

While taking accountability for his actions Tino touched upon the engagement ring play that helium and Rachel besides talked astir during After The Final Rose. “We weren’t connected a break,” Tino said astir their relationship status astatine the time. “I don’t cognize wherever that came from. We were not separated oregon thing similar that. When I acted out, I felt similar possibly we were starting to cheque retired and we were conscionable successful a truly acheronian place. It’s hard to picture because, adjacent looking backmost connected it, it takes maine to a spot wherever I truly privation I conscionable didn’t bash that oregon didn’t enactment out.”

Rachel Recchia & Tino Franco got engaged during the play finale of ‘The Bachelorette’ connected Sept. 20. (ABC)

After Nick got Tino to unfastened up more, helium past asked him astir the moments that led him to buss idiosyncratic that wasn’t Rachel. “I was feeling a small successful the dumps. It was different 1 of those we were giving each different abstraction things truthful we hadn’t talked successful a mates days,” Tino said. “I was getting attention. It sucks for maine to person to accidental this ’cause it’s truthful shameful and I’m truthful not arrogant of it. I conscionable benignant of gave in. I conscionable leaned successful and we kissed. And that wasn’t just to that miss either. That wasn’t considerate of her feelings astatine all. She doesn’t privation to beryllium wrapped up successful immoderate of this. I did it and I realized truly quick, ‘I don’t cognize what the aboriginal holds for maine oregon Rachel, but I cognize this is not who I americium and this is not what I should beryllium doing.'”

Rachel and Tino got engaged during the Season 19 finale of The Bachelorette. The engagement was filmed backmost successful May but officially aired connected Sept. 20. When Rachel went into her last roseate ceremonial Tino was the lone antheral left, arsenic she had conscionable eliminated Aven Jones and Zach Shallcross opted to exit the show. During the After the Final Rose episode, Rachel revealed wherefore they broke up.

“Throughout it all, I consciousness similar I ever tried,” she said. “All I wanted retired of a spouse was idiosyncratic who was going to basal adjacent to maine and enactment me. Around that time, I wasn’t feeling that support. If I’m not feeling it, I astir apt wasn’t giving it, arsenic well. We took immoderate clip and tried to fig it retired and however to determination forward, and for the astir part, I thought we were astatine specified a large place, but it didn’t crook retired that way.”