Rachel Recchia. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
Rachel Recchia is poking fun at herself and her past relationship.
The Bachelorette alum, 28, reacted to a fan flawlessly recreating her iconic breakup with ex-fiancé Tino Franco via TikTok on Thursday, October 24.
“POV: me unwinding before bed,” the social media user captioned a video of herself acting out Recchia’s conversation with Franco, 30, in which they discussed him allegedly kissing another woman while they were engaged.
“I’m screaming,” she responded in the comments section of the post, to which the original creator replied, “No because I’m obsessed with you.”
In the clip, the TikTok user could be seen absolutely nailing Recchia’s reactions and tone as she repeats her side of the conversation word for word.
“You just called it tiny. You’re trying to minimize what it is and I literally would respect it so much more if you just told me exactly what happened,” she said in perfect unison with Recchia. “You just said you thought we were broken up. But then you told her, ‘I’m engaged.’ So this whole time, are we not engaged? Because that’s exactly what you told her after you kissed her.”
Recchia and Franco got engaged on season 19 of the long-running reality series in 2022; however, it was revealed that the pair had broken up post-filming as a result of Tino kissing a woman while they were going through a rough patch in their relationship.
@scorpioluvr99 Pov me unwinding before bed 😌 #thebachelorette #rachelrecchia #tino #thebachelor
Fans watched their filmed breakup play out on the After the Final Rose special, during which Tino expressed regret for his actions.
However, he seemingly shaded Recchia for joining the season 9 cast of Bachelor in Paradise in August 2023. “I’ll be watching, but focusing [on] rooting for the boys,” he said on the “After Reality” podcast.
One month later, Rachel clapped back during an interview on “The Viall Files” podcast, asking host Nick Viall, “Why am I not allowed to move on? And why am I not allowed to find love?”
She also alleged that there was “so much more” between Tino and the woman he cheated with than just a kiss.
“There was this emotional relationship happening and this person that it happened with was someone he was going to date after the show,” Rachel claimed. “It’s just hard for me to hear him continue to say ‘Oh it was just this one drunken mistake,’ because it wasn’t.”
She added: “I guess there’s just a lot to the story. It doesn’t matter now, I really have moved forward. That’s not something I want to harp on or be like ‘He was wrong for this, this and this.’ I guess it’s just hard to know what I know and still have this coming out.”
For his part, Franco addressed his alleged infidelity in an interview on the “Dave Neil Show” in September last year.
“The ball wasn’t in my court and I got slammed. I took an ass-whooping on national TV,” he said. “Which is fine because that’s how I was raised. You do something lame, you get your ass whipped, you pick back up and you keep going. Take your punishment!”
