The Bachelor Season 14 Episode 8

Before we get into the finale next week, tonight the women tell all.

After half an hour of filler, Kathryn, Emily, Channy, Ella, Ashley, Valishia, Ashleigh, Corrie, Christina, Jessie, Elizabeth, Michelle, Ali, and Gia have returned.

Ashleigh says she planned to trip when she got out of the limo.

What was it about Vienna? Ella says that she’s only 23, meaning that little switch in her brain controlling when something is or is not appropriate has not yet formed. Gia continues to defend her, although she, too, had run ins with her on the show.

Elizabeth’s weird game that screwed herself over is something she says she’s never done before. She realizes why it looked like a game. And stupid.

Next up, a conversation about Rozlyn. It seemed to me that they were being awful careful about what they said, so as to avoid a lawsuit, leaving us with nothing but excessively vague accusations that we were left to assume meant something sexual. But it won’t hurt them if all the girls tear into her.

Her roommate Gia got to see where she was (or was not) at night, that being the bedroom. Ashleigh saw some cuddling and kissing on the forehead. Jessie seems to be the only one who saw anything worth talking about, claiming she saw them making out.

Before we get to Rozlyn’s side of the story, it’s time for Gia to talk about her journey. She knows what went wrong. Although she knew she fell in love with him, she was unable to vocalize that. With that said, she’s learned that she has to be more open about her feelings. Maybe even proposing at their first meeting like Michelle was ready to do.

Michelle, who had a breakdown throughout the entire process, is next. She has no regrets. Really? If she were in his shoes, she would have done the same thing as he did when he finally got rid of her, having for some unexplained reason kept her around past the first night. Seeing as she got dumped by Jake fairly early, Michelle has now decided that it’s not possible to find love through this process. Ali disagrees. Michelle’s defense for her behavior: editing. She also denies needing therapy.

Ali, who departed in order to keep her job (that storyline’s getting old), is back to discuss the decision that she considers a mistake. She still misses Jake sometimes. Her decision was based on the theory that, if he loved her, she could leave and he’d still hunt her down later, show or no show. Work is where she goes to hide from her emotions, so that’s where she went. She couldn’t run the risk of being unemployed, although if she could change things now, she probably would, economic meltdown be damned. Turning to her obsession with Vienna, that’s something she regrets, acknowledging that she was mean.

Now it’s time for Rozlyn. She’s entering the show the same way she departed: being escorted by security. She denies that anything physical happened at any point. It was just a friendship. So why did she not defend herself? She was never accused of anything. Well, she was, but it was really quite vague. Although Rozlyn says that she was not allowed to call her son until she got the producer’s phone, Ella and Valishia say they had no difficulty. Chris keeps asking if anything physical happened, apparently hoping he will get a different answer at some point. Rozlyn wants to know what this physical relationship supposedly was, seeing as Chris has never been clear about it. He plans to be clear about it… after the break.

He’d like to bring the girls in. Christina saw cuddling and excessive thigh touching. Jessie reiterates her story about kissing. Ella tells the story about how Rozlyn was on all fours one night, refusing to go to bed until the producer put her to bed. Rozlyn acknowledges having slept on the couch, but just one night. Valishia says Rozlyn was not anywhere in the house one night.

Rozlyn makes the point I’ve been thinking all along. If something was supposedly going on, surely they’d have some video footage. There are cameras everywhere. Chris’ claim is that there is a lot of downtime, and the producers know when the cameras will not be on. Or any other staff around for that matter?

Despite all these very G-rated accusations, I’m still having trouble buying what went on, mostly because I still don’t understand what they’re trying to sell me.

With that drama kinda sorta but not really behind, Jake can now come out on stage. His heart was crying when he had to say goodbye to Gia. He hates that Ali had to make that decision, but she’ll always have a friend. Kathryn does not feel she got a chance. Having watched the show back on TV, he wishes he’d given Christina more time, since he saw a side of her he hadn’t seen while they were at the mansion.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Bachelor Season 14 Episode 9, where we will find out who The Bachelor Season 14 winner is, which airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.