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After confronting Zach Shallcross<\/strong><\/a> during the Monday, March 27, finale of The Bachelor<\/em><\/a>, Ariel Frenkel<\/strong> is sharing more insight about her overnight date<\/a> with the season 27 star.<\/p>\n \u201cHe spoke first, he kind of set the precedent for the whole week and the whole evening, which is also what I had a problem with,\u201d the 28-year-old New Yorker said on the \u201cViall Files\u201d podcast<\/a> about Zach, 26, making a rule about not having sex with his finalists. \u201cBecause throughout the entirety of our relationship, he\u2019s making me feel like an individual. So the difficulty of dating someone that\u2019s dating 30 other people is to feel like an individual. And he made such a point of making me feel that way on our one-on-one [and] in different moments. I never felt like there was anything but us, obviously, knowing there are other people in the mix. .. In saying, for this week, \u2018I\u2019m not going to sleep with anyone, I\u2019m not going to do those types of things,\u2019 and starting the full conversation at dinner off that way, I just didn\u2019t appreciate that we\u2019re now more in a collective situation in how we approach our own relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n Ariel added: \u201cAnd also, we\u2019re not having a conversation. It\u2019s a monologue, not a dialogue. \u2026 I feel like it\u2019s very frustrating when someone takes away your ability to even have a fluid conversation. I don\u2019t like when people just come to you with an idea and you\u2019re not having dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n Zach has openly admitted that his intention not to be intimate in the fantasy suites backfired<\/a> \u2014 especially after he had sex with Gabi Elnicki<\/strong> during the second overnight.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI had the same intentions as Zach that week, I personally was not ready for intimacy in that setting,\u201d Ariel told Nick Viall.<\/strong><\/a> \u201cAnd I felt like, if I\u2019m in an open relationship, and I know the other person could be with someone else the next night \u2014 they\u2019re entitled to do that, in my opinion. It\u2019s not for me to say yes or no \u2014 but I\u2019m personally not going to do that in my own, like, experiences. So I really didn\u2019t like that he started the entire date off that way. And he started the whole night off, like, predicated on sex versus us having a private conversation, being off camera, enjoying that time seeing even what happened. I don\u2019t like when you set a standard for how a night should go or date should go. I think you set yourself at a deficit that way.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Ariel, the twosome had a better time when the cameras went down. During their date, they talked about his \u201cissues\u201d with Rachel Recchia<\/strong><\/a> last season and \u201cbasically everything under the sun until the sun went up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe had so many laughs and it was really nice to talk to someone about the entire experience. Because there\u2019s so many moments \u2014 you have 30 minutes to talk to someone, you have to tell them about who you are as a person, your entire life,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo I feel like I really wanted to, for once, not have to say everything about myself in a short period, but actually talk about the experience, how he was feeling, what\u2019s going on with him what this whole, like, crazy process feels like off camera. \u200bObviously, we had the most authentic conversations on camera, but when you\u2019re off camera, it just feels more lighthearted. You can kind of breathe in a way. Even if you\u2019re always authentically being yourself. It\u2019s nice to talk about how weird everything is and address kind of how strange this process is to get to know someone. \u2026 We talked through the whole night. We fell asleep, probably, in the last 10 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n After Ariel didn\u2019t receive a rose, she was eliminated and Gabi and Kaity Biggar<\/strong> became the final two<\/a>. While Kaity, 28, was clued in on Zach sleeping with Gabi, Ariel didn\u2019t find out until she watched the show.<\/p>\n \u201cHe actually mentioned that to Jesse [Palmer]<\/strong> <\/a>that he was going to tell me. So that makes him not a man of his word twice,\u201d Ariel said. \u201cAnd although he might have known he was sending me home \u2014 I\u2019m not going to speculate when that was or when he made that decision \u2014 but regardless of me potentially going home and that relationship ending, it doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t show that relationship respect with honesty. So even if you know something\u2019s closing and a chapter is ending, it doesn\u2019t mean you should change the way you\u2019re acting [in] that dynamic. So I was still owed an honest conversation. \u2026 The reason why he even released the information saying what happened with Gabi, which I also felt like was wrong. \u2026 He shouldn\u2019t have said that. \u200bHe should have run it by Gabi before he decided to tell anyone privately, he should have told Kaity privately, he should have told me privately. So, the way everything was handled frustrates me, but on top of that, I feel like I was owed just that honesty. So regardless of him sending me home, that doesn\u2019t mean that respect just dissipates because he\u2019s decided that we\u2019re no longer in a relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n During Monday\u2019s finale, Zach apologized to both Gabi and Ariel for how he handled \u201csex week.\u201d He also revealed he and Kaity are happily engaged<\/a> with plans to move in together in Austin this summer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n Ariel Frenkel and Zach Shallcross<\/span> ABC\/Ricky Middlesworth; ABC\/Frank Micelotta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n