Rachel Recchiais dipping her toes back into the dating world.
The formerBachelorettestar opened up about her post-show dating life during an appearance on theBachelor Happy Hourpodcast.
“Well, obviously taking it slow, but I actually did go on a date last week,” Recchia, 26, told co-hostsBecca KufrinandMichelle Young. “It did go well and there is a second date in the future.”
Recchia said the mystery man was “a random person” who “slid into the DMs.”
“We just went and got coffee. It was casual,” she added.
Asked whether the pair kissed, Recchia played coy and said, “Maybe!”
Regarding her love life’s future, Recchia said she’s still open to the possibility of dating other men. The reality star even addressed the likelihood she’d ever appear onBachelor in Paradise.
“I will go if Michelle goes down with me,” she said. “I will not go without her.”
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“I was under the impression we were pretty much done,“Franco said to Recchia. “But then we started on the right trajectory. You started seeing therapy. You did amazing. You did everything I asked. So as it went on, you know, I kind of just tried to forgive myself, bury it, just not get in your hair over something so tiny.”
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After Recchia had a tense confrontation with Franco during the finale’sAfter the Final Rosesegment, her runner-up,Aven Jones, made an appearance and asked to catch up.
Later giving an update on her connection with Jones, Recchia said onKaitlyn Bristowe’sOff the Vinepodcast: “I just care about him so much that I genuinely just want him to be happy in whatever capacity that is with me or, like, whatever it is. I just really want to see him just thriving.”
“So what’s to come? I don’t know. I mean, I’m definitely open to seeing what happens but it’s two people, we’ve been through so much,” she continued. “I just got back to L.A. from everything that happened [on the] show — New York, I was in Vegas. So I think we’re both kind of just going to see where it goes — if it goes anywhere.”
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In that same podcast interview, Recchia told Bristowe, 37, that she was “not actively trying to date at all.”
“But I do feel like I’m not in a position where I’m, like, so broken that I need months to heal. That’s the consensus I’ve seen online — ‘she needs to heal,'” she said. “I’m OK. I’ve been doing the work. And I’ve been broken up with [Tino] since before you guys knew. So I do feel like I am in the spot where I do want that, but I’m not, like, on the dating apps. … I don’t want to start doing that yet.”
source: people.com
