Rachel Recchia received a DM from a contestant who ‘rejected’ her rose
Rachel Recchia
Paul Archuleta/Getty ImagesYears after her season of The bachelorette of Gabby Windey, Rachel Recchia had a former flame in her DMs.
“I got a DM from one of these guys who rejected my rose,” Rachel, 28, said on the Saturday, December 21, episode “Almost famous” podcast, noting that she received the message about a month ago. “He deleted the message, but I have a screenshot.”
While wondering why the contestant would send the DM, Rachel said, “If you’re going to send a message like that, which he also apologizes for in a way, say it with all your heart.”
“He starts with, ‘Yo. How are you Rachel, so random, I know. I literally just thought about my time in the Bach House and all the regrets I have for not following through with things. I definitely had to reach out because it’s something that’s been on my mind and something I’ve been thinking about for a few years. What could have been and how nice things could have been/were,” she read. “So I’m just reaching out to you to see if you’d like to chill out and grab a drink or two and go out.”
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Rachel explained that she thinks the contestant is thinking about how he has “completely lost the experience of the show.”
“I’m like, ‘You didn’t even give me a chance and so I’m not giving you a chance now,’” she said. “But you know what, we could have been something.”
Rachel explained that the former suitor, who follows her on Instagram, “chose to go home in week 2” even though she “wanted him there.”
“I hate to read it, but you got me,” Rachel told cohost and former Bachelorette Trista Sutter. “That’s crazy.”
While recalling her time starring as Gabby, 33, Rachel explained that the contestants split between the two women.
“From what I understand, the boys didn’t know that if you didn’t get a rose from one, you didn’t get one from the other,” Rachel said. “So a guy said ‘No’ to my rose because he thought he could get it from Gabby, which is fair, and then he just tumbled.”
Rachel called this rose ceremony “the most humiliating night” of her life. “Your confidence is already like, ‘Do these guys like me?’ I’m so nervous, I’m doing this for the first time,” she said. “To have people say, ‘I’d rather go home than go out with you’… it was horrible.”
From Rachel’s perspective, the men “really want to have power.” She added: “They are so used to being the one who is the pursuer, and when it is in our hands I feel like it takes away their masculinity. If they feel like, ‘Oh, I’m not your front runner, I’m just leaving because I don’t want you to reject me,'”
Rachel eventually accepted a proposal from Tino Franco in season 19 of the ABC series, but the couple called it quits when it was revealed he had kissed another woman during a rough patch in their relationship.
