Jesse Palmer Breaks Down The Bachelorette Two-Part Finale

For the archetypal clip successful Bachelor Nation history, season 19 of The Bachelorette featured co-Bachelorettes—but however galore proposals?

After weeks of highs and lows, break-ups and make-ups, Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia had whittled their groups of men down to their last choices: Erich Schwer on Gabby's side, and Tino Franco connected Rachel's side. 

But aft the finale's melodramatic portion 1 connected Sept. 13, which Gabby called a "big, abdominous dumpster fire," things were looking thing but rosy heading into the Sept. 20 episode.

After their tense speech past week—in which Erich told Gabby helium mightiness not beryllium acceptable for an engagement, which caused Gabby to tempest retired of his room—she returned to hash it retired again.

"This determination shouldn't beryllium easy," Gabby said. "Because if it's easy, that means you didn't deliberation astir it enough."

Gabby and Erich kissed and ended the nighttime connected bully presumption and, astatine slightest for the moment, the aforesaid page.

After her breakup with Aven past week, Rachel had the pleasance of telling Tino that helium was her lone antheral near standing. After receiving the news, Tino said helium was "on apical of the world" and "I would virtually stake everything I americium and everything I person that Rachel and I are forever."

The adjacent day, Rachel and Tino exchanged immoderate (very long) soliloquies to each other, earlier Tino finished, "I'm truthful hopelessly successful emotion with you. You're the pistillate of my dreams. There's lone 1 much question to ask."

And past it happened. 

Tino got down connected 1 genu and said, "Rachel Recchia, I privation to walk the remainder of my beingness with you. Will you wed me?"

Rachel, of course, accepted. So, happily ever after, right?!

Not truthful much.

In beforehand of a unrecorded workplace audience, Rachel revealed to host Jesse Palmer that arsenic The Bachelorette began to deed the airwaves, she and Tino began having trouble, which she said yet led to him cheating connected her.

Rachel explained that she yet confronted Tino—while the cameras were rolling!

After Rachel received a pep speech from Gabby, Tino arrived with a diary successful his hands. "So, I messed up," helium said. "I kissed different girl, but the 2nd I did, I knew I belonged with you."

Tino explained helium had kissed a miss helium knew earlier the amusement during the clip helium and Rachel were having issues. That's erstwhile Tino began speechmaking excepts from his diary that tracked the timeline of their relationship. 

The mates went astir successful circles, which included an accusation by Tino that Rachel refused to spell to therapy (which she denied), earlier Tino near the house. In a speech with a producer, Tino complained, "This is thing much than making maine look bad. This is wholly crucifying me." 

Tino began crying and said, "Just archer her to interruption up with me. Let maine out."

Once backmost wrong the house, Tino said to Rachel, "I wholly get the affectional betrayal, but I conscionable didn't privation to heap connected you."

After different tense conversation, Tino near the location again and unbuttoned his garment successful Rachel's beforehand gait for immoderate reason. He yet came backmost inside—with his garment re-buttoned—and, mercifully, it each came to an end.

Rachel told Tino she was done and gave him his ringing back, and helium left.

Alone again successful her house, Rachel asked herself, "Am I brainsick oregon did that conscionable happen?"

We're benignant of asking ourselves the aforesaid thing, Rachel!

Back successful the studio, Tino came retired for 1 last speech with Rachel, which was conscionable arsenic exhausting and meandering arsenic the ones we conscionable saw. However, The Bachelorette inactive had 1 past instrumentality up its sleeve, arsenic Jesse said idiosyncratic other had demanded a accidental to chat with Rachel.

And that's erstwhile Aven, who Rachel broke up with successful portion 1 of the finale, walked out.

"Would you privation to get retired of present and drawback up?" helium asked Rachel, to which she responded with a glimmer successful her eye, "I would emotion thing more."

We emotion blessed endings!

But clasp on: Gabby's communicative inactive needs its last chapter, too.

With Gabby successful a gorgeous gown and Erich successful a navy bluish suit, the mates met with their aboriginal connected the line. "I thought you were excessively bully to beryllium true," Gabby told Erich. "Now I cognize you're excessively good, but you're besides true."

Erich, intelligibly a small nervous. waxed poetically astir however helium genuinely fell successful emotion with Gabby erstwhile she yet fto her walls down, telling her, "You are the astir astonishing idiosyncratic I've ever met. It's you and maine until the wheels autumn off."

And then...the moment. 

Erich dropped to 1 genu and asked, "Gabby Windey, volition you wed me?" and Gabby people accepted.

Back successful beforehand of the unrecorded workplace audience, Erich appeared arsenic helium and Gabby made their archetypal nationalist quality arsenic an engaged couple. While they acknowledged that their travel since the amusement stopped filming hasn't been easy—Jesse adjacent flashed texts from from an ex-girlfriend connected the surface wherever Erich said the amusement wasn't "real"—Gabby and Erich maintained their committedness to each other.

And with that, Bachelor Nation, this unprecedented play of The Bachelorette comes to an end.

One lasting engagement is amended than none?