'Bachelorette' Lead Rachel Recchia Admits To Ignoring Red Flags From Tino Franco

Ending in controversy and heartbreak, the “Bachelorette: After the Finale Rose” episode left viewers in shock.

Not only did fans find out that Rachel Recchia and Tino Franco got engaged, but they soon found trouble in the waters, having to relive the entire season in the spotlight as it aired to the nation. Ultimately, the audience came to find out that Tino cheated on Rachel, leaving Rachel confused and heartbroken.

Now, weeks after the finale aired, Rachel is admitting she ignored red flags from Tino.

The 26-year-old appeared recently on the "Off the Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe" podcast, where the "Bachelorette" lead opened up about many topics, including her ex, Tino Franco. When speaking to host Kaitlyn Bristowe, Rachel seemed upset that none of her other men had voiced concerns about Tino while filming the reality show.

"It's so tough because it's like I don't want to speak badly, but there were so many things that I saw, and I'm like, 'Why did not one person come to me?'," she began.

"Not one person thought to maybe bring something to me, and I get it. There's a stigma around being a snitch or [ratting] out people, but I think there is a time when it gets to that point," Rachel continued. "When people start pulling themselves out because of it, bring that to me. And no one did."

Rachel did go on to say, "I can't blame them. I totally get why they wouldn't want to; I dealt with something similar on [Clayton Echard]'s season. I get it. It's just difficult... I wasn't involved in any drama, but there's a point where there's no other option, really."

Weeks after "The Bachelorette" officially ended, the co-lead of the 19th season is admitting she noticed red flags with Tino. "And then to see some of the things he would say in his interviews and kind of treating it like it was a game -- or even just watching back me saying how I felt to him and having his reaction be so, like, nothing behind the eyes," she told Kaitlyn Bristowe.

Although, she sees the red flags now, during filming, those signs were not visible to her because she was blinded by love. "It was just in the moment, you don't see it because you are in love! And then you watch it back and you're like, 'Oh my.' It's like, 'Wow.' Some of the things I saw was really hard to watch. It was horrible," Rachel explained.

Things did not end well between the two, as during the “Bachelorette” live finale, Tino ended up coming on stage to talk with Rachel once again, to which Rachel was still not happy.

“Rachel, I am so sorry,” he began as soon as he sat down on the couch. “My actions are on me and I own them completely. From the bottom of my heart I’m sorry for what I did. I’m sorry it took me so long to tell you, and I’m sorry that that meet-up came off like I was trying to put any responsibility of what I did on you.”

He went on to say how he wished “everyone really got to see the love story that we lived,” but ultimately brings up the ring again. “When we started letting our conversations get into ‘I can’t love you anymore,’ and you said you didn’t want to wear the ring…”

Rachel immediately interrupted, “Do you want to get into that? We were going through a really hard time and it’s deeply personal to both of us. And I think we both don’t want to air out why those things were happening, but we can. Do you want to talk about it?”

More back and forth happens, but ultimately the two ended on a rough note and did not work anything out. And regardless of how things ended, Rachel admits she does not need closure from Tino or that relationship. "With Tino, the second I found out what he did, I'm like, 'I didn't need closure.' I just wanted to know -- I needed to know -- what happened. I didn't know what my plan was moving forward," Rachel explained on the podcast.

"After our talk, I was like, 'I don't need anything else moving forward, because if someone could treat me like that... sitting down and telling me that I'm the reason he did that, I didn't need anything else from him," Rachel concluded.