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'Bachelor' Finale Recap: The Rose Ceremony From Hell

'Bachelor' Finale Recap: The Rose Ceremony From Hell
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Clayton admits he's in love with three women--and that he's had sexual relations with all of them.

Part one of "The Bachelor's" two-part finale aired last night, and Clayton had a big reveal for the remaining contestants.


Jesse Palmer coined the term "rose ceremony from hell" as Clayton revealed to Gabby and Rachel that not only is he in love with both of them--but he still has feelings for the contestant who already left, Susie.

He revealed he told each of the three that he loves them, and that he had sexual relations with all of them.

Clayton then said to two,

"I know it’s not easy to hear, but I do believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I do see one of you being on the other side of it with me. I don’t have the answers. I don’t know who that is. I really don’t. I promise you if I knew the answer to that, I wouldn’t string someone else along. Ultimately whoever I pick, I love the most. That’s what I’m figuring out... Once I make that decision, all the other love, it was real, but it ends there."

Despite his heartfelt confession, Rachel and Gabby weren't convinced. When Clayton offered her the rose, Rachel accepted, but still told him,

"I just am so in love with you. I feel like my heart’s breaking. It’s just so hard to understand that the love that I feel, you can feel for three people."

Gabby rejected the rose when it was first offered to her. She said to Clayton,

"I came tonight thinking it could be you and I at the end, that we do have something very special and very unique. My trust in you and us is what carried me forward... I’m not in the business of competing with anyone for love."

When he asked a second time, she accepted, and agreed to go forward though she "might kick [herself] next week" for it.

Despite Gabby and Rachel's resolve in him, in the episode's last confessional, Clayton could only think of Susie. He admitted,

"I love both Gabby and Rachel, but when Susie left, my whole life got flipped upside down. How am I supposed to let that go? You told me to follow my heart, and guess what, if it goes and gets broken and I break my heart in the process, so be it. I know that my heart is telling me to go do this, if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work."

Jesse then arrived to reveal that Susie is still in Iceland. Clayton left with his final words,

"I just want one more shot."

Check out the two-hour finale on March 15 for the end to Clayton's story.

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Ryan Adamczeski

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Ryan is the Digital Director of The Advocate Channel, and a graduate of New York University Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing, with a focus in television writing and comedy. She is also a member of GALECA, the LGBTQ+ society of entertainment critics.

Ryan is the Digital Director of The Advocate Channel, and a graduate of New York University Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing, with a focus in television writing and comedy. She is also a member of GALECA, the LGBTQ+ society of entertainment critics.