“I just don’t have the right mindset to give some of the guys the energy and the time they deserve,” she announced to the group.
Before the rose ceremony, though, Greg pulled Katie to check on her.
So when she resumed the rose ceremony, Katie didn’t give Karl a rose.
Hunter talked about being married and having two kids with his ex-wife; Tre divulged about choosing between love and his career; and Quartney discussed losing trust in a past relationship.
Thomas dropped the biggest truth bomb, though, when he admitted to having ulterior motives for coming on the show.
“I couldn’t sit here and look you in the face and say, ‘Yeah, when I showed up to this place I was here for the right reasons,’ because I didn’t know who you were,” Thomas confessed.
“I got really, really drunk and I picked a fight with my girlfriend at the time and then I went to a party and I got more drunk and I got high and I ended up cheating on her and kind of blowing up my entire life in one day,” he shared.
“I was in denial about what happened, so much still that I tried to form a relationship with him because I didn’t want to believe what actually had happened,” she continued.
At the afterparty, Katie called the date “transformative.” She also used the time to press Thomas on the red flags he mentioned earlier.
Thomas wanted to right that wrong, so he paced in the hallway while Aaron talked to Katie about how his dad’s death affected him.
When confronted again by the men, Thomas backtracked on what he said earlier about telling Katie he was falling in love with her.
“I felt like I was being selfish,” he confessed of coming on the show as a single dad.
continued to tell the story of his past over dinner, recalling how he met his wife in college, they got married and then welcomed a son in 2016.
I know what it’s like to give everything and I have finally gotten to this place where I’m ready to open my heart.
Michael felt similarly.
“It feels fraudulent, it feels like, almost like a campaign, like, you want to be Bachelor.
Though Thomas assured the other men he no longer had the idea of being the next Bachelor on his mind, they still felt unsure of his intentions and what it’d mean for the process going forward.