The "Bachelor", Jason Mesnick Explains Decision For Dumping Fiancee Melissa Rycroft For Molly Malaney

After dumping fiancee, Bachelor winner Melissa Rycroft for the runner-up, Molly Malaney on camera, Jason Mesnick explains, he had no choice. He wanted to have done it off camera but he could not see Rycroft. “There were things I needed to tell her in person and I was not allowed to see her. That was part of the deal. I signed up for it in my contract. Your relationship is — good and bad — in front of everybody,” says Mesnick at an interview with PEOPLE. “If I could have, I would have seen Melissa the night before. It killed me. It kills me now” Mesnick continued.

On the two hour finale of the Bachelor, Mesnick proposed to Melissa. Following the finale was the After the Final Rose, which was shot six weeks after the Bachelor's final shooting. Mesnick then dumps Rycroft and confessed he still had feelings for Molly who gave him another chance.

Mesnick, who was rejected by DeAnna Pappas on The Bacherlotte last year, says he knows the viewers must think of him: ” ‘That guy is a jerk.’ But I’m not proud of what I had to do.”

Mesnick goes on to explain that after the Bachelor finished taping, he and Melissa were not communicating like when the show was going on. “After we got back into the real world, all of a sudden, we had less to talk about and I didn’t know why. I started thinking wow, what’s happening? Why aren’t we communicating the way we did when the show was going on?” says Jason, who held off on sharing his doubts with Melissa.

“I didn’t say something right away because I wanted to figure out what was going in inside of me,” he says. “There was part of me that wanted things to work out with Melissa so bad. But the whole other piece was I had these crazy feelings for Molly.”

Jason then says that he and Melissa had different ways of communicating and were not meant for each other.

This again proves that these shows for finding love do not work.

Source: People.com