- Tonight on "The Bachelorette"...
- I'm not supposed to be falling for three people,
but I am.
- Queen Charity!
- It's like watching your favorite
prince and princess fall in love.
I am 100% in love with you.
- Whoo!
I never felt like fairy tales were meant for me,
but here I am.
- [crying] I'm so done with this.
Does he feel like, in his hearts of hearts,
that I truly could be the one?
- In my mind, there is that doubt.
- I'm afraid to show that side,
because there's a solid part of me that feels like
it could be a mistake.
It can be tough to be
in a relationship with me,
because it can be a roller coaster.
- We're a week out from a proposal.
Like, what's the next surprise?
[dramatic music]
I can't believe my eyes,
because he's not supposed to be here.
I'm shaking. [laughs]
I just told him right now
that I was falling in love with him,
or am--I don't know.
What are we gonna do?
♪
This is not a drill.
♪
[soft music]
♪
[seagulls calling]
[bright music]
♪
This week, we're in Fiji, and we are at overnights.
So I'm on cloud a million.
♪
It's been a long but beautiful journey to get here.
And I truly cannot believe that
I will be getting engaged in Fiji.
♪
It is so gorgeous here.
I mean, take a look.
Everyone, take a look.
It's stunning.
The waters are crystal clear.
They're blue and turquoise.
I mean, all the shades of blue.
It is so romantic.
♪
This is the absolute most perfect place to be in
coming into overnights
and knowing there's a lot of magic
that will happen this week.
My God.
♪
[squeals]
"Bula."
Yeah. [laughs]
I'm happy.
♪
Last week was Hometowns,
and I had to say goodbye to Aaron,
which was the most difficult thing I've ever had to do
and something that, like, is in the back of my head.
Because he is somebody that I was falling in love with.
♪
But going into this week,
I have three guys left:
Dotun,
Joey,
and Xavier.
All of those guys told me that
they were falling in love with me,
so hopefully these overnights
will give me the clarity I need
so I can make the most difficult but best decision
of my life of who I'm gonna choose to be my husband.
♪
[soft music]
- I am so excited for my time with Charity this week.
What we have is really special,
because it really feels like she's meant for me.
At the end of our time here in Fiji,
someone's gonna be getting on a knee,
and I feel very prepared for that to be me at this point.
Obviously, I don't know what the connection she has
with Xavier or Joey is like,
but I am continuing to try to stay positive.
I feel pretty ready
for it to be just me at the end of this.
♪
- I'm falling in love with Charity.
She's a special woman,
and I can see a future with her.
But my Hometown didn't go great.
The last moment we had was her stepping into a vehicle crying
and me not sure why she was upset.
So this week, I hope that we can get back on the same page.
I think this place is an amazing place
to tell Charity I'm in love with her.
[sweeping music]
♪
- Before this, like, I was afraid
of committing to one person forever.
But now I think it's a possibility.
Charity has allowed me to open up and also be vulnerable.
And she's been vulnerable
and open with me as well.
She deserves 100% honesty.
And I plan to continue to give her that.
So at this point, I could see her as my wife.
♪
- So how are you liking Fiji?
- Oh, I love it.
I'm like, I want to live here.
- Is this, like, bucket list place for you?
- Oh, this is absolutely, like, probably top three.
- Well, I gotta say, Fiji looks very good on you.
- Oh, thank you.
- Yeah, it has been such a long journey
to get here, right, literally and figuratively.
- I--yes.
- I know it hasn't always been easy.
And at the last Rose Ceremony,
you had a really emotional and really difficult
goodbye with Aaron. - Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Uh, yeah.
Um, that was a really, really hard one.
He was someone that I was extremely close to,
someone I still very much deeply care for.
So it's still weighing on me.
But I know, like, this is a big week.
And I'm here with three incredible men.
So, like, I'm just moving forward,
and these connections are growing, like,
at a rate that I can't even describe.
- Tell me about Xavier.
How are you feeling about him at this point?
- I am feeling so good about Xavier.
But I mean, with him, I just think I'm still wanting
just to see that he is ready
for an engagement at the end of this.
And like, he's expressed it to me,
but I don't know why I feel like he's just saying that.
I don't know. That's just my own thing.
And sometimes that's, like, my insecurities coming out.
But this week will give us the uninterrupted time
to really just lay it out and--and see.
So I'm hopeful.
- All right.
Let's move on to Dotun now, shall we?
- Yeah.
Me and Dotun's connection is unreal.
It's just unreal that there has not been
anything that's been, like, alarming.
- Yeah, like, is it too good to be true?
- Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Am I, like, so, like, locked in that I'm like, you know...
- There's nothing wrong with this man.
- My blinders are on? Yeah.
[laughs] - All right.
Well, how are you feeling about Joey at this point?
- I feel so good about Joey.
I'm in a place, truly, where I am falling in love with him.
But coming off of Hometowns last week,
am I getting the real Joey?
I think that's, like, the burning question for me.
So I'm just really wanting to talk about it
and see, like, what does Joey make sense of that as well.
- And listen, the dates that you're gonna be on
here in Fiji could change everything for you,
because these are overnight dates.
Just how important is this off-camera time
that you're gonna have with some of these men?
- Oh, it's so important, obviously.
Like, it's Fantasy Suites, but it's like, for me,
it's more so just building that bond and just having
that uninterrupted time and just being able to, like,
have real and raw conversations.
And that's my goal, is for these overnights
to give me clarity.
So I know, like, this week
will be transformative for the better.
- Well, listen, the last time I saw you
before the Rose Ceremony, you told me
you were falling in love with four men
at the same time. - Ridiculous.
- Is it safe to say you're still falling
in love with three men... - Mm-hmm.
- At the same time now? - Mm-hmm.
- And is it still crazy?
- It's still crazy.
I don't think it's gonna stop being crazy.
But I know, like, the three men that I am falling in love with
are, like, the best men ever, so it's gonna be a heavy week
emotionally, but the goal is to get the clarity,
spend this time with each of my guys, and however it ends,
it'll lead me one step closer to finding my--my husband
and my forever person.
So we'll see.
This week is super important.
I'm not supposed to be falling for three people, but I am.
And as I stand here right now,
I have no idea who I'm getting engaged to.
- All right. You got a big week.
- A big week. - I'm gonna leave you to it.
- [laughs] Thank you, Jesse.
- As always, I'm around if you need me.
- And if I'm being real, like, that's what I'm actually
so concerned about going into this week,
is that by the end of the week,
I could actually say to all three, "I'm in love."
♪
No way.
Saying that right now sounds insane,
but like, the likelihood of it actually happening
is pretty great.
Ugh, God help me.
[relaxed music]
♪
- We're in Fiji right now.
This is lit. The ocean.
You can hear the waves crashing.
It's a perfect environment if you want to fall in love.
Last time me and Charity spoke at Hometowns,
I told her that I was falling in love with her.
So I know how I feel about her.
There is no question in that respect.
But there is that doubt.
Can I get on one knee and be certain about it?
I'm hopeful that today will illuminate that.
♪
- Today is my first overnight date,
and it is with Xavier.
And I'm so excited.
I miss him so much.
I have not seen Xavier since, obviously, Hometowns.
Last week definitely helped with having his parents
and his sister confirm, like, Xavier is ready.
And he did express he's falling in love with me.
And that's exciting.
Hi. Oh!
- I missed you so much.
- I missed you!
I can see a future with him, but it's still
in the back of my mind that I do question,
does he feel like, in his hearts of hearts,
that I truly could be the one?
And hopefully today will provide me
some sense of peace with that.
- You are looking fine. Killing it.
- I'm so freaking happy. - So am I.
- This is gonna be a great day.
- This is so incredible. - Are you excited?
- I'm so excited.
Like, I don't even know what to do.
- Okay.
We are on one of the 333 islands
that Fiji has.
- Okay, 330.
- But this is our own private island.
- What? - Yes.
- Okay. - Isn't that insane?
- Oh, it's so beautiful.
- All for us, but not just us.
I did bring some friends.
They have something super special for us.
- All right. I'm ready. - All right.
Come on, guys. [laughs]
- [singing in non-English language]
[drumming]
[all singing in non-English language]
♪
- Oh, my God. - Isn't this insane?
I brought some friends along the way to help me.
And I call them out for a little performance.
♪
It's obviously super special to their culture.
I'm in awe.
Xavier, he's in awe as well.
- I can't even believe it. - I know.
Like, what is happening?
- This is insane.
♪
- Bula. both: Bula.
- Welcome to Fiji. - Thank you.
- We are so happy to have you with us today.
I can see the true love between you two.
- Love is very important in our culture.
It's rooted deeply into our culture.
- So we'll have to wear the traditional clothing.
- Okay.
- So please, Charity--
- Yes.
- You'll follow me. - Okay.
I'll follow you. - All right, bye.
- See you soon. - See you soon.
- Okay. - Thank you.
- You? - Yeah.
- You're coming with me.
- Okay.
Sounds good.
The Fijian people tell us that we're to split up.
And I'm like, why are we splitting up?
I just got here.
- You're gonna take off all your clothes.
- Okay.
- No, I'm just joking.
- [laughs] I was like, uh...
Uh, I don't know what we're doing,
but I know that Fiji has, like, a rich culture.
And I'm just trying to embrace it and have fun today.
- Gotta oil you up, you know, bro?
- Yeah, absolutely.
There's no possible way that I'm not gonna
have a good time with that beautiful woman.
[mellow music]
[laughing] Whoa.
Yo.
Wow. Woman king.
Like, she's-- she's doing it for sure.
She's looking great.
I'm just, like, in shock.
That's low-key my queen right there.
Queen Charity.
- Hey, Xavier.
- [laughs] - Hey, you look good.
They are carrying me in, awaiting my king.
- Got you a chariot.
- I know. Literally.
Like, it is top tier.
I am queen.
- Hi. - Hello.
- You look good. - I got oil everywhere.
- I know. I'm like, I gotta be careful.
- Bula. - Bula.
- As you can see, this is the traditional wedding
for a bride and groom.
- Part of sharing one's love to each other
is through the dance.
So right now, we're gonna be teaching you
our traditional dance.
- Okay.
[all singing in non-English language]
[drumming]
- This is a super special day.
We are learning about the Fijian rituals
and ceremonial procedures before marriage.
- Is it good? - Yeah!
- Yeah! [laughs]
This is like the wedding rehearsal
before we walk down the aisle.
- Ha!
[all cheering]
- Yay! That was so good.
I'm so hopeful.
It could be me and Xavier in the end.
- Welcome to our kava ceremony.
- Kava.
- We do a kava ceremony
for very important occasions,
such as a wedding ceremony.
- I'm having fun, but you know,
at the same time, I'm like, this is very serious.
- You're wife to be, "Adi."
- Okay.
- And you're "Ratu."
- "Ratu." Okay.
- We are trying to get to an engagement.
And this date has serious undertones
about, like, our love
and possible future together.
So yeah, it's pretty intense.
I will say.
- And Ratu, when Adi drinks,
you clap three times.
That symbolizes that you got her back.
- Got it.
I still have a bit of fear because getting married
is a huge responsibility.
- [speaking Fijian]
- It's a matter of, can I do this,
or can I not do this?
♪
If Charity and I are going to spend the rest
of our lives together, she deserves 100% honesty.
♪
- After you both drink as Mr. and Mrs.,
you have to acknowledge your love for each other.
So Adi.
- Mm-hmm.
- What do you want to say to Ratu?
- Xavier, you make me feel like
I have full potential to one day blossom
into all that I can be.
And so us together will be a beautiful journey.
So thank you.
- That was great.
- [clapping] That was beautiful, guys.
Ratu, what do you want to say back to Adi?
- You are a delicate flower
that I don't want to crush when I pick up.
- Mm.
- I am willing to water the seed...
- Aw.
- To see it grow and blossom into something beautiful.
And once it's ready, I will pick it.
- Xavier is saying I'm a delicate flower
that he doesn't want to crush when he picks up.
There's a million ways to interpret that.
Thank you. - Vinaka.
both: Vinaka.
- One way to look at it is, like,
I'm super protective over you,
but then there's another way of like, okay,
when you do pick me up, why would you crush me?
Like, I don't know.
This is, like, super special,
knowing, like, marriage is around the corner,
like, that they wanted to share, like,
their rituals with us.
And to be spending it with you is super special
because we're in a place where
we're propelling forward. - Yeah.
- I don't know about you,
but that's where I feel like I'm at.
- I definitely agree.
I think that, you know,
I've made tremendous strides in this.
And I think you have also made tremendous strides
with me as well. - You have.
I didn't think that we would be here,
but I'm, like, so glad we did
because I just see so much growth in, like, you
and then also myself of just, like,
leaning in and trusting you
and wanting--like, wanting this so bad
for the both of us. - Yeah, absolutely.
I think about just, you know,
marriage as not like a business, but like--
- Yeah, well, it is like... - Yeah.
- Together. - You have to invest in it,
right? - Yeah, yeah.
- And you gotta make smart decisions together.
Like, for me, it's, like, trying to make sure
that you're somebody
that I can be in the same accord with.
And like, when there are those tough conversations...
- Yeah. - You know, how are we both
gonna handle those tough conversations,
you know what I mean? - Yeah. Yeah.
Going into tonight,
I would love to understand truly,
yet again, the burning question of,
Xavier, are you truly ready, without a doubt, no concerns?
Like, do you feel like in the matter of certain days,
I can be the one, yes or no?
I hope it's a yes.
It would be heartbreaking if I was to say goodbye
to someone who I am falling in love with.
And so I just hope that there is not anything
that could keep us from moving forward.
♪
[soft music]
♪
- You know, I just got eliminated by Charity
a couple nights ago after Hometowns, you know,
after telling her that I was falling in love with her.
And yeah.
I mean, that was a very tough conversation to have,
especially when you're about to leave someone
that you think so highly of,
that you formed a strong connection with.
The last time I saw her, Charity tells me
that she's not sure if she's made the right decision,
and really just kind of replaying that in my head.
There's a lot of things I want to say to her.
♪
So now I'm going to Fiji
to go after the woman that I'm falling in love with.
Charity is definitely worth fighting for.
And you know, I really hope
that Charity just accepts me back.
♪
[relaxed music]
♪
- Ah, this is so romantic.
- This is beautiful.
I am super excited for tonight.
Thank you. - Mm-hmm.
Absolutely.
- Okay.
Tonight is overnights.
It's so much more than just, like, oh, it's Fantasy Suites.
I think for me and Xavier both, this overnight
holds so much for us to overcome
these doubts and these fears that we both have had.
Like, it's up to both of us whether or not
we're gonna let our fears and doubts hold us back.
And for me, it's like, I don't want that
to be the case anymore.
Isn't this beautiful?
- This is amazing.
- I'm so happy.
- I'm so happy too.
Today was incredible.
- It was so spectacular.
- Being on Fiji, on a private island with you,
was all a man could ask for, for real.
I am looking forward to having alone time with Charity.
- Just a beautiful date and being here on this island.
Like, we're in Fiji. That's insane.
- Insane.
My heart is fully committed,
but my head is, like,
putting my heart against the wall
and, like, telling it to stop.
- To see our growth up until this point gives me hope.
- In order for me to be able to get on one knee
and there is no doubt, no fear,
I need to be completely open and honest.
I'm nervous, obviously, about the things
that I have to tell her, but I hope that
she will accept me for me.
The date was amazing, incredible,
and I know one aspect of the date
that sticks out in my head is just--
- Oh, I was gonna ask you.
I was like, what's your fav-- what's your favorite part?
- Definitely you riding in that chariot towards me.
I felt like that is a queen that I want to be, you know,
a king for, you know, so...
- Period. [laughs]
- That was awesome.
But there is another moment
that, you know, sticks out in my head.
We started to dive deep, and I really wanted
to get deep because there are-- a lot of questions
arise in my head because I'm so invested
and, like, intrigued by the possibilities
of being with you forever.
- Yeah.
- And it is scary.
- That's okay.
- But it's also very calming because I've grown
to, like, accept and visualize what that looks like with you.
You know I'm a logical person. - Yeah.
- I overanalyze sometimes, but rightly so,
because this is forever we're talking about.
And so that's what's been troubling me,
is my heart is 100% with you.
But I think the doubt and the fear
is the boxes that, you know, you--can't be checked,
you know what I mean? - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- So that's where the doubt stems from.
[tense music]
- Oh, my God.
Are you kidding me right now?
I have a little bit of a fear that Xavier could hurt me.
And I don't know why I feel that way.
I don't.
And because I care so much,
I'm going the extra degree of, like, trying to make sure,
like, I'm protecting myself, in a sense.
I wish I could have, like, the perfect formula
to, like, know if, like, the person
that I'm gonna end up with will check those things off.
But like, I think what we, like, both have to focus on
is, like, strictly, like,
the foundation that we're building.
When we know that, like, the foundation
that we're building is strong, like, those little things,
honestly, like, will be a breeze.
It's scary as hell to think about, like,
Okay, what the hell life is gonna be like after this.
But like, if you can, like, truly envision that with me,
then that's what you hold on to,
and that's what, like,
you make happen, like, no matter what.
- Yeah, I--
I think this has allowed--
this is definitely growth.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I believe so too.
- With an engagement right around the corner,
it's important to share with her who I am completely.
The waiting and the anticipation,
it's really, like, killing me right now.
I am ready to, like, finally
have that conversation with her.
I just hope that she understands
where I'm coming from.
For a long time, I've been, like, just thinking.
Um... - Mm-hmm.
- And another aspect that was very serious for me--
that is very serious for me is, you know...
♪
Um...
so in the past, with my ex,
I was unfaithful.
[dramatic music]
And I wanted to tell you that
because I know that
that is, like, very triggering for you.
- Mm-hmm.
- And it was disrespectful.
It's not the man that I am.
And I know that for a marriage, you cannot do that.
- No way. - You know?
- Are you kidding? - Yeah, exactly.
- No way.
- That's why I felt the need to tell you
because I thought you deserved to know.
♪
- I am shocked.
Infidelity, that is the fear.
That's the biggest fear.
I'm looking at our date that we had today,
and knowing how great it was,
and then this just...
completely derails it.
Are you--are you kidding?
♪
Okay.
Give me a second.
♪
Give me a second.
[sniffles]
To hear him say this, in this moment--
we're, like, a week out, two weeks out from a proposal.
- [sniffs]
- What's next?
Like, what's the next surprise?
♪
[tense music]
♪
- Xavier dropped a huge bomb.
He told me he cheated on his girlfriend.
I know exactly what it feels like.
♪
I've experienced infidelity
on and off for about six years.
It literally breaks you.
I think there's nothing worse in this world
than betrayal with a person that you love.
My dream and my hope is, like,
if I'm falling in love with someone, like,
I want that love to be forever.
How I feel about Xavier,
I want this to be a forever thing.
Like, I feel like I owe it to us to hear him out.
[dramatic music]
♪
Okay.
Hi. - Hey.
I'm back.
Okay.
Sorry, I just had to, like, collect myself.
Um, okay.
Whew. Deep breaths.
Um, just continuing our conversation,
obviously, you saw me get a little emotional, um,
about all of that, because it is a sensitive spot.
And it's a sensitive spot for my life, um,
because obviously, that's what I endured
for, like, six [bleep] years. - Yeah. Yeah.
- Um...
- And I just want to tell you
that, like, if you do end up with me,
I don't want to ever be unfaithful to you.
- Mm-hmm.
♪
I'm, like, wanting to be with someone
who's going to protect me, like, from that.
And just, like, I'm very curious
to know, like, two things.
Um, one--
- Was it multiple times?
- Yes.
Was it multiple times?
It's like you knew.
Was it multiple times?
And then also, how long ago?
Because I know, like-- was this, like,
the most recent relationship where...
- Mm-hmm. - It was, like, 2 1/2 years?
- It was multiple times in the span of five days.
- Oh. Okay.
- And it happened, like,
two years into our relationship.
So prior to that, like,
there was just, like, a long period of time
where I just wanted her to do and be who I wanted her to be,
and that was wrong.
And I just chose myself instead of choosing her.
- This is exactly what my ex did.
I, in my past, have overlooked all these concerns.
And then now, I'm like, mm, absolutely not.
Thank you for feeling like I am deserving to know,
because I 100% am.
But I mean, I'm curious to know, like,
what work did you do on your end
to become, like, a better person
or to learn and grow from that?
Because if not, like, that mistake 100%
is capable of being hap-- like, happening again.
- [sighs] I think the main thing
that I learned and that I did to, like, grow from that
was to, like, just be more introspective.
♪
And so I was just more in tune with, like,
okay, why am I doing this?
What made me do this?
And so I think that that's the only way
I can develop change is by questioning myself.
I realized that I not only hurt her so much,
but I hurt myself.
And like, it made me question my own character.
- Mm-hmm. - And like, it--
I really don't want it to define me.
But sometimes... - It's--
- I, like, question myself
because, like, you know, I did do that.
- What do you mean by, like,
when you say you question yourself?
- I question, like, you know,
if I'm put in that position again--
- Okay, so when you say
"I'm put in that position again,"
what do you mean? Like, explain that.
- When I'm in the position on vacation
with my boys and that [bleep] around me.
- Okay.
- I'm like, shut the door.
I know how to, like, deal with that now.
You know?
- Okay.
- Uh...
I know it makes you uncomfortable.
- It doesn't make me uncomfortable.
It's one of those things that I'm like,
okay, let me flesh out.
Because it's like, I absolutely don't want that
ever to happen again to me. - Absolutely.
- And that's why, like, my standards
are, like, ridiculously high.
I'll never apologize for them. - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- I refuse to ever go back there.
My only question is just, like, the simple fact of,
like, I want to know--
- Is it a possibility--
- That it would happen again? - Yeah.
It's not a possibility if I choose to be with you--
- With me.
- And you choose to be with me. - Okay.
- Because being on a girlfriend status and, like, doing that,
that's like, damn, that [bleep] sucks.
You know? - I'll be damned.
- Right. - I would be damned.
- But being on a wife status?
- Are you kidding?
It's inexcusable for any level.
Are you kidding? - Right.
- Like, no way.
- Not gonna do that.
Is it gonna be hard to do that? Hell yes.
Because I never have been in a position where it's like,
you have to just choose one woman
for the rest of your life.
And that freedom is gone.
- Mm. - Gone.
- We're two weeks out from a proposal,
and you can't tell me that you trust yourself
from not making a mistake of loyalty again?
Like, what--what is this?
But, like, the simple choice is, like,
your love should be so, like, firm...
- Exactly.
- With me that it's like, okay.
- Right. But you're--
- Bitch walks by, bye. Like, okay.
- That's what I'm-- - Like, are you kidding?
- If you choose me and I choose you,
I'm not gonna [bleep] do that. That's...
- Then what the hell are we talking about?
Then you're saying you're good?
Is that what you're saying?
- I am saying I'm good...
- If it's-- - But it's [bleep] scary.
- Okay. That's--that's fine. - That's what I'm saying.
- That's valid. It's scary.
It's [bleep] scary too.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay.
Okay.
I mean, I don't want you to think I'm not--like,
I'm not upset. - Mm-hmm.
- Don't think that.
- No, you're pushing me, challenging me.
- Correct.
And I always will. - Mm-hmm.
- And I'm cautious.
- Yeah.
- And I think you understand that.
Rightfully so, right? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
♪
Xavier says things with no hesitation.
He just, like, gets them off his chest,
which I appreciate that.
And he is someone who's very honest and open.
I appreciate his honesty.
I appreciate him being vulnerable
and sharing something to me that was so close to him.
I'm not looking for a crafted answer.
I'm not looking for you to be at 100%.
But there's just something I need to know.
This card... - Mm-hmm.
- Is super meaningful.
I think, with the conversations that we've had tonight,
conversation that was raw,
it was real,
it was hard as hell.
The question of the day is,
can you be someone that will show up for me
at the end of this
if we both feel like this is right in our hearts?
♪
Can this be somebody that will maintain loyalty to me?
♪
I hold this card...
not because I doubt you,
but because I believe in you.
And I want this.
Like, I want this for us.
I want this to work.
[sniffles]
♪
I don't have any doubts about
what I'm capable of giving to you.
And I just, like--
I need to know that you're going to do
what it takes for you to show up for me.
Like, you're gonna put in the work.
Like, you're gonna make it work without a doubt.
It's only gonna work if you want it to work.
♪
So will you do that?
Will you do that for us?
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- The question of the day is,
can you be someone that will show up for me
at the end of this?
Like, I care so much about Xavier,
but what Xavier shared with me, it's upsetting.
Just trying to make sense and understand
everything, truly, that just happened.
And I want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
♪
I hold this card...
not because I doubt you,
but because I believe in you.
I need to be 100% confident in his ability
to trust himself to be loyal.
I'm not asking for anything more.
But I need to know that you're going to do what it takes
for you to show up for me.
Like, you're gonna put in the work,
like, you're gonna make it work, without a doubt.
It's only gonna work if you want it to work.
♪
So will you do that?
Will you do that for us?
♪
- It has to be no doubt
and 100% certainty...
- Mm-hmm.
- For me to do that.
And in my heart, there is not any [bleep] doubt.
But in my mind,
there is that doubt.
[tense music]
And for me to get to that point...
♪
That has to happen tonight.
♪
- Kay.
♪
- I need to see more.
- Okay.
♪
Oh, my God.
This is, like, literally making me so upset.
♪
That makes no sense to me.
What do you need to see?
Nothing.
This is me. Like, that is what you get.
Like, us in a bedroom is not gonna determine
whether or not you can see longevity in a relationship.
♪
Yeah, [bleep] this.
I'm so mad. I'm so mad.
It was [bleep] that you cheated on your girlfriend.
What did you learn from that?
How did you better yourself?
You can't even answer.
That's letting me know right now that you haven't
done [bleep] to work on this.
♪
[sighs]
[clears throat] - I'm sorry, it's--
- No, I don't--
- I'm not trying to make you upset.
- No, I know you're not.
- But I want to give you the whole honest answer.
And I'm--
- You are giving honest answers.
- Right.
And I understand how, you know, like...
[huffs]
[sighs]
- It's not the transparency.
It's not the accountability.
I just sat there and I gave you praise for that.
It's the answers that followed
of me getting the reassurance that I need
that this is not gonna be something that's repetitive,
this is something that you can sit here
and say without a doubt, I'm a loyal man.
It's just a simple promise of, I don't know,
can you trust yourself to not, like, hurt me?
I'm sorry.
Like, maybe that's too high of an expectation.
But like, at this point, the amount of doubt
that you have for yourself,
I don't have that doubt for you.
But I'm asking you in this moment,
do you have that doubt for yourself?
And you couldn't even give me a yes or no.
♪
What am I supposed to do with that?
And like, that's fair because that's what you feel
and that's where you're at.
I don't want to force you to get there prematurely.
I only want you there if you're fully ready.
Because when I choose my person,
I want that person to be secure in themselves,
and I want them to be ready.
♪
- I should have taken more time to think about that answer.
- Mm-mm.
No way.
Me in this moment of being Charity Lawson,
who Charity Lawson is in 2023, not willing to settle,
not willing to put up with just whatever, being selfish--
when I said something I struggle with,
I'm gonna be selfish in this moment.
And I wish I could open this,
but it's not happening.
- Okay.
[sighs]
♪
Well, I did not expect...
- Me, either. Me, either. - This to end me like this.
♪
And I'm sorry.
- You don't have to apologize.
- No, I do, because allowing the doubt
to flood in your head and...
♪
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
- I'm mad. I'm sad.
I'm disappointed.
I'm frustrated that it's not you,
and this isn't happening today.
Because I thought it was.
♪
Let's go.
[sniffles]
Come on.
♪
Sending Xavier home was the absolute last thing
I expected.
♪
I am angry, upset,
but ultimately disappointed.
[sighs]
Because I held onto so much hope with this man.
I saw the potential.
I saw it clearly.
But he couldn't see it clearly.
He didn't see it enough.
♪
- I don't know what else I can say
if you're comfortable in that decision.
Just know, Charity, that you can put me in this car...
- And I am.
- And I don't--
I--I--it's--I understand now.
♪
- Okay.
Give you a hug.
- I love you.
♪
- It's the most disappointing goodbye yet.
♪
Jesus help me.
♪
Okay. Bye.
♪
Oh, my God.
Help me.
♪
[crying]
♪
- I know that I just hurt her so much.
♪
That woman put her heart on the line every single day.
And I doubted myself and us.
And I shouldn't have done that.
I should have...
♪
I shouldn't have doubted it.
- [sobbing]
I am was so done with this.
[sniffling]
It was heartbreaking, but I would be a fool
to sit here and keep someone who I know
that they are not ready.
I'd be a fool.
And that, I am not.
[crying]
I am--[bleep] God, I'm done.
I hate that what happened tonight
is making me lose hope.
I [bleep] hate that for myself.
♪
I am so upset.
[somber music]
♪
- Waking up this morning, I am waking up alone.
♪
I sent Xavier home last night because Xavier is not ready
for commitment to one person.
I'm not here to fix anybody.
I'm not here to build a man.
Like, this isn't build-a-man workshop.
I have no choice but to move forward.
I am focused on the two great people that I have,
Dotun and Joey.
And God willing, one of them will work out
like I'm praying and hoping.
♪
Today is my date with Joey.
I'm excited to see him,
but I do have concerns, because at Joey's Hometown,
his uncle felt like Joey was not really himself,
which was so confusing for me because I'm like,
what am I missing?
Am I getting the real Joey?
But I'm hopeful, and I'm looking onward and outward
to spend today with Joey.
I want to have a good time with him
and hopefully find the answers that I need.
♪
[light music]
- Today is my overnight date.
And I feel like it's going to be the most important day
for me and Charity.
Last week, she got to meet a big side of me
in terms of meeting my family.
And it was beautiful in so many ways,
but at the end of the Hometown date,
when she got in the car,
she was just crying and looking down.
And that felt like it was a goodbye.
It was tough to not really know
what she was thinking and not being able
to talk to her about it.
It's just the first time I had some serious doubts
if she felt the same way about me.
So today I just want to get back on the same page.
I cannot wait another moment to see her today.
♪
[birds chirping]
Waiting in the middle of nowhere.
[animal grunts]
[squealing]
[engine rumbling in distance]
[rock music]
♪
Yes.
♪
- [laughs]
- Badass.
♪
How sick is that?
- It's pretty sick.
Hello.
- Hi.
You look amazing.
- Hi.
I have water on my face.
How are you? - Good now.
- Missed you.
- Missed you too.
You good?
- I'm good.
I have a super fun date. - I can tell.
That looks like the right way to get around.
- I think so.
- I think we got a fun one planned.
- Are you ready? - Let's do it.
- Let's hop on in.
- It's great to see Charity after a week.
Just seeing her, seeing her smile,
all the feelings come rushing back,
all the confidence comes back.
- I'm gonna say a prayer, honestly.
- I'm not saying a prayer. - You're not?
- I got nothing but faith in you.
- Okay.
[laughs]
- As much as there's a lot of important things
that I want to talk about,
I just want to have a full day of fun.
Yeah!
Hopefully just take the next step in our relationship.
That's really important.
♪
- [squeals]
[laughs]
- My Hometown didn't go great,
but I do need today to go perfectly.
[engine winds down]
- No, why is it doing this?
No way. - Reverse it back.
You're good.
You got it.
This thing's loud.
- This is the hard one.
- Yeah.
So we go back--yeah.
- Nope.
- You got this.
[engine grinding]
That seemed like something.
- Me and Joey tried to have a nice ATV date today.
The ATV said... [clears throat] Nope.
[engine grinding]
- I can tell Charity is frustrated.
The ATV, it, uh-- it does not want to go.
[engine revving]
- I am looking at Joey, and he sees me
slightly having a little bit of a panic.
Joey, do you want to drive? - Sure.
- Okay. - Yeah.
We'll see how it goes. - We'll see.
- I'm like, I don't think I would do anything different,
but I'm staying positive in every possible way.
[engine revving, grinding]
That's the noise you don't want to hear right now.
- I don't know. All right.
Well, you know what, Joey?
We tried. - [laughs]
- This isn't working, clearly.
We had to just end it a little early.
But despite things not going as planned,
Joey responds great.
- I'll follow your lead.
- Yeah, I don't know really where we go.
- Okay. I'm up for whatever.
- Great. - We're doing it.
[birds chirping]
- So cold, I know.
- Shoes are wet. - Shoes are wet.
- Just hold on to me if you're gonna fall, okay?
- You know what? I don't care at this point.
- Were we supposed to go ATVing through this?
- Oh, yeah. - Because there's no way
we would have made it out of here--
that was a very good pivot.
- Yeah, I'm sorry. - No.
Any way I'm holding your hand, I'm not complaining.
There's just such a-- beauty around,
walking through this forest.
I'm truthfully just happy
because I'm spending time with her.
And it's now just becoming a more intimate date.
I'm hearing more moving water.
- I am too.
- Ooh. - Ooh.
[upbeat music]
Oh, what a moment.
Joey is someone who's patient, someone who's flexible.
He's someone who's just calming.
- It does feel so good. - It really does.
I, like, honestly forgot that the ATV didn't work out
because he's just appreciating
what this moment is supposed to be entailing.
And that's just the both of us.
- That was crazy, by the way.
Coming in, like, I didn't know what
we were gonna be doing.
And it was obviously going to be a lot of fun.
But those ATVs did not work.
- Yeah.
And that's the thing.
I just want to say, like, thank you,
obviously, for being a trooper and just going with it.
- I think in a relationship in general,
there's a lot of roller coasters and turns.
And it's more about how you get through it together.
So... - Exactly.
- We're here now, and that's all that matters.
- How are you feeling, being here?
I know we talked about it, but how are you feeling?
- Yeah, no, like, I can't, like, tell you enough
how excited I am for what this week is gonna become
and what's possible.
- Yeah. - But I would be lying
if I didn't tell you, like,
I had a really tough week last week.
- Mm-hmm. - Um...
when you got in the car when you left,
like, I could kind of see through it.
And I could see you were still crying,
but you, like, wouldn't look at me.
So when you were going away, it was the first time
that, truthfully, like, felt like we might not
have been on the same page or like
it was possibly a goodbye.
Yeah, I got in my head. - Yeah, no.
And part of that was, like, yes, I was gonna miss you.
And like, I just realized like, okay, I just met your family.
And like, every conversation did go so good.
- Good. - Um...
but there was one conversation with Uncle Joe.
- Mm-hmm. - He was mentioning
the tennis courts.
And he was like, um,
"The Joey that I saw on the tennis courts
I don't feel like was the Joey that I know."
- Mm-hmm. - I was just curious to know,
like, what his take on it was.
- What that meant? - Yeah.
- I did feel uncomfortable,
and it had nothing to do with you.
But I was so worried about how I was gonna look,
and I wanted you to have a good time.
And I think it was--
as much as you've been doing so much for me,
that was the first time I was doing something for you.
So I think I just felt a lot of pressure.
And then him showing up is like--
- It was like, surprise.
- Yeah.
I didn't know he was gonna be there.
It was--I was uncomfortable.
That's the only way I can describe it.
There's reasons why my family has questioned
if I was being myself, because I think a lot
about what other people feel.
And sometimes it makes me stop being myself.
But that hasn't been the case for Charity.
She's consistently made me feel great.
But I'm really glad to talk to her about why it was there.
And I think we're just building a foundation
to getting to a really good spot.
Was there anything else from the day,
like any other conversations? - No, it was just like--
that was the only thing
that, like, stuck with me. - Yeah, okay.
- Like, yeah.
So we're--we're good.
- Good.
[soft music]
♪
- I am feeling a lot better.
I think we should, um... - Is it time?
- Go, um... - Waterfall.
- Take a little splish-splash.
- All right.
- Asking Joey about that comment,
I got all the clarification I need.
[sweeping romantic music]
♪
Me and Joey kissing at the waterfall is magic.
Tonight is my overnight dinner with Joey.
I'm eager to tell Joey that I'm falling in love.
But I need to be 100% sure,
especially because of how last night with Xavier
took some twists and turns.
So it's huge, yeah.
There is pressure on tonight.
♪
[soft music]
♪
- I feel so good going into tonight with Joey.
I am so ready to spend more time with him
away from everything.
But I haven't told Joey that I am falling in love,
and I don't want to hold back anymore.
So going into tonight, what I need to see from Joey
is just a continuation of what we've been building on today--
the honesty, the openness, the vulnerability--
for me to be at a place where I'm confident
to read that card, to extend that invitation,
and to take our relationship to a whole new level.
♪
- You look so good. - Thank you.
You too.
- Wow.
- Isn't it pretty?
Thank you. - Mm-hmm.
I'm just excited.
I'm just--I'm ready to see
where tonight goes with Charity.
I think it's gonna be one of the more pivotal points
that really get us to where we need to be.
Long time no see.
- Long time no see.
- But there's been a lot that I've been waiting
to talk with Charity about.
I want to get her to understand
that I'm not gonna always be perfect.
- So shall we grab our drinks?
- Yes, of course.
There's a lot of times in my life
where I'm not the best version of myself
and don't have the same air of confidence.
both: Cheers.
- You know, there's another version of me
that's scared, nervous, worried, anxious,
uncertain about his future.
And it's definitely, I think, important to show.
But it's scary to show that to someone you care about
because it might push them away.
- How are you feeling after our chaotic day?
- After our day? - [laughs] Yeah.
- I'm feeling great, honestly, after today,
just because, like, I don't know.
I'm a big person that doesn't go in
with, like, expectations in any way.
And it obviously didn't go according to plan.
But it was nice just to be able to walk with you.
And kissing by the waterfall wasn't the worst thing ever.
- It was not the worst. - No, it wasn't the worst.
- Not at all.
Today was--it was wild.
It was good.
- Yeah, this is amazing.
Like, I can't-- I couldn't ask for anything
more than this right now. - Mm-hmm.
I want to ask, like, in just, like, a transparent moment,
like, are you nervous about, like,
anything, like, moving forward?
- Yeah, it's not that-- I don't know.
There is a part of me that has belief that sometimes
people fall in love with the idea of me
and that person that is that great guy.
And then when they get to, like,
know me a little bit better,
they--they... - Preaching to the choir.
- Maybe don't think it's, like, who I truthfully am anymore,
and they start to question.
Like, if this was a relationship where we had
more time, you would be able to see
more moments like last week.
You'd be able to see more times where--
for me, I call it when I get in a funk or just like a moment
where I have a little sense of doubt.
And the big thing for me is I know how I am.
I give off a very confident persona.
I'm a great energy.
I've been told that my entire life.
And it's something that I'm grateful that people say that.
I think it's something that I always strive to be.
But I am human. - Yeah. Yeah, you are.
- And there's moments where I don't feel that way.
But then I try to push to be that person
that I think everyone sees me to be.
That's the part that can be, like, taxing.
And I know it can be tough to be
a person in a relationship with me
because it can almost maybe sometimes feel like
it can be a roller coaster.
But it's just me, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- So I don't know.
- Hearing Joey talk about this,
like, I just feel so, like, bad.
I just want to, like, give him a hug.
But I feel like he puts a lot of pressure on himself.
But I relate so much to that.
And so it's something that I'm very understanding of.
From what I'm taking it as is like,
I feel like I'm a lot like that in this sense.
But I feel like for me, it's like, I struggle a lot
with, like, people pleasing.
I think that stems obviously from relationships,
but also just, like, growing up, when I got rewarded
or when I got attention, it was when I was at my best.
And so I think that, like, conditioned me to be like,
okay, like, this is what it takes in order
to get rewarded or praised by people
and still is something that I will say
I'm actively working on.
Because it's so hard to, like, get out of that.
And it's an unrealistic expectation
to place on anyone... - Yes.
- To be, like, the same or to be as consistent
every single day with their emotions.
Like, that's just not--
that's not normal, I feel like. - It's not real.
- Yeah, it's, like, not real.
It's not normal.
So I feel like I'm similar in that sense.
100%.
- It's refreshing to hear that back.
Charity's making me feel extremely special.
And no doubt a huge weight has come off my shoulders.
It just feels like we see each other
and understand each other.
It's just nice to be able to--to talk through it.
Just want you to understand that side of me,
just because, like, I know I told you in New Orleans
that I was falling in love with you.
I told you at Hometowns I was falling deeper
and deeper in love with you.
But since that moment,
I've realized that I am in love with you.
And I've been wanting to tell you that for a while,
but I am in love with you.
And I just want you to know that.
- Oh, Joey, that makes me so happy.
Um, I mean, you saying those words to me in this moment
could not make me happier.
And after the day that we spent,
it's not even a matter of,
am I falling in love with you?
I am in love with you.
And it is the best feeling.
And to say those words, like, and just
to be smiling right now is, like, huge for me.
I'm so excited...
- Come here. I'm like-- - To be feeling this.
I know. [laughs]
♪
I haven't said "I love you"
or I'm in love with someone in a long time.
And I'm just like--
I'm floating.
[laughing] Like, actually levitating.
♪
It makes me so happy on the inside, like,
just to know that we're really both in the same place.
We're, like, so in sync with each other.
So I'm the happiest girl.
Um, I have something for you.
Do you mind opening it?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
[soft music]
- "Charity and Joey, today you've learned
"that life has bumps in the road,
"but it's how you work together that matters.
"Should you choose to forgo your individual rooms,
"please stay as a couple in the Fantasy Suite.
Jesse."
- So what do you say?
- Yeah, 100%.
- Great. [laughs]
I think we should go. Are you ready?
- Yeah, yes.
All I'm feeling is just happiness, validation,
because for me, it's extremely hard to be insecure.
The fact that we know there's love there now
gives me so much more confidence.
It's everything I could have asked for.
- Oh, my goodness.
[gasps] Are you kidding?
- This place is awesome. - Are you kidding?
- It's huge.
- [laughs] Should we go upstairs?
- Yeah, let's do it.
Let's see what's upstairs. - Okay.
When I look at Joey, like, I look at him
as someone that I'm, like, incredibly grateful for
because he is, like,
the definition of, like, a perfect person
and the person that I prayed for.
- Ooh.
- Oh, my goodness.
Wait. This is so beautiful.
♪
We both continuously pour into one another,
and we care so much about each other.
Tonight makes me incredibly hopeful that, I don't know,
our love could reach new heights.
♪
[soft music]
[birds chirping]
♪
- Thank you for last night.
- How are you?
- I'm good. How'd you sleep?
- Good. - [laughs] Good.
♪
These are, like, the hard moments.
It's like you don't want to get up.
- Yeah. - I don't want to get up.
- We can just stay here all day.
- I can't. - Fine by me.
- [laughing] Okay.
Waking up this morning, I am blissful.
I feel so at peace.
Like, I can't--I'm beaming.
Like, you know when you're just glowing
because you're just so happy?
Like, joy is within my heart.
- Yeah.
I want to make sure you're feeling good.
- Yeah.
- I believe you.
- My face tells it all.
- Mm-hmm.
- It's just a look of love.
A love with Joey feels eternal.
Oh, God. That's a big word.
[laughs]
Can I just say that?
That's okay.
A love with Joey feels eternal.
- Sadly, we can't stay here all day,
but it's good to know that we want to.
- Mm-hmm.
I am in love.
I'm in love with Joey.
I still can't believe I said it,
but I'm just like, ah, I did.
And it feels so good.
- Everything was how it needed to be for me to just
not have doubts moving forward.
- Good.
- Waking up next to Charity this morning feels right.
I could do that for the rest of my life for sure.
Last night, I finally got the opportunity to tell Charity
that I'm in love with her,
and to hear her say that
she's in love with me too was amazing.
- The feelings that I have
are feelings that I've--I've prayed for.
I am in love with you.
And waking up this morning,
it's just--it's stronger by the second.
So...love you.
- Love you too.
This morning, I have zero doubts
that we're on the same page.
But I know there's more to come.
Maybe something will get in the way
just because of an amazing experience
she has with one of the other guys.
That's the scary part.
I'm just gonna focus on trying to be okay.
- I don't want to do this.
- You're good. - I know.
- It's not goodbye.
It's see you later.
It's all part of it.
- I know.
I just don't want it to be.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Her being upset and crying doesn't feel like
a goodbye this time.
It really truthfully feels like I don't want this to end.
So I feel strong about where I'm at right now.
♪
[light music]
♪
- I'm really excited to spend some time with Charity today
in Fiji and get to enjoy the waters
with her, the person I care about.
I'm coming into this just missing her.
I can't wait to see her face, her smile.
I have no idea what's in store today,
but I don't want it to just be la-di-da-di,
because Joey and Xavier are also here,
and it's a little unnerving.
It's not fun to think about not growing a relationship
when others are.
So I want to just continue growing our connection today,
but definitely not sitting back and relaxing.
♪
- Today is my last overnight, and it's with Dotun.
And I absolutely cannot wait
to explore this island with him.
And I'm so excited.
He's an incredible person.
He has an ability to make me feel so loved and prioritized.
And he doesn't even know that he's doing that for me.
Hi!
- [laughs]
- That is how he is so special to me.
- Look at you. - Look at you!
- Oh, so beautiful.
How are you doing?
- I'm good.
How are you?
I missed you.
Oh, so happy.
- I'm so happy.
- Oh, my goodness.
Welcome to... - Thank you.
- Freaking Fiji. - This is fire.
- We're gonna have a good day.
- I can't wait.
- I have a super fun date planned for us.
- Let's go. - Are you ready?
- I'm 100% ready. - Okay.
Let's go.
- Let's rock and roll.
[upbeat music]
♪
Guess what we're doing today.
- I'm seeing a couple... - Okay!
- Jet Skis here.
Let's run. - Okay. Mm.
It seems like there's no bad thing about Dotun.
And that scares me a little bit,
because it feels like
everything between me and Dotun thus far
is way too good to be true.
Like, is this, like, real?
But at the same time, I'm tired of, like,
looking for something to go wrong.
Why, no? Come on.
Why is it going?
I'm not pressing anything.
- I think some of them come with brakes.
- No! - [laughs]
- Like, don't run into me. [laughter]
So you know what?
Today, we're just gonna have a great time.
♪
- Whoo!
[engine revving]
- No!
Toodles!
♪
- Charity is so much fun.
- [squeals] - [laughs]
We're vibing with each other.
She's riding my waves.
I'm riding her waves.
It's the best time.
I'm looking out for the waves and trying not to crash
and look like an idiot in front of Charity,
but it's hard to do when I keep staring at her.
She just looks fire.
Like, so good, hair flowing in the wind.
I wouldn't mind crashing for that view.
My hair is matching the vibe of me and Dotun today,
which is wild, young, and free.
[laughs]
The ocean is ours.
It's here for me and Dotun.
We are in Fiji on a private island at a sandbar.
This is like a dream date.
♪
- I didn't know you could look even better,
but somehow, you've managed--
- Stop. No way.
- Somehow you've... - This is the best...
- Managed-- - This is the best compliment
right now, because you don't understand.
I'm like... - Somehow, you've managed.
- Just accepting this.
And how I'm looking is how I'm looking.
- I don't understand you. - Oh, I love this.
- It's crazy. [cork pops]
- Yay. - Look at that.
- We just popped champagne in Fiji.
- We just did! Like, who can say that?
- I know. - That's awesome.
I wanted to say, it's just been a really beautiful
beginning, middle, and obviously coming up
on the "end."
- Yeah.
- And I don't think this would be a fairy tale
if there was anybody else,
even if they did things in a similar way.
- Aw. - Like, it really--
- Now you're gonna make me cry. [both laughing]
- Well, let it come out if it's gonna.
- Have we had--like, we talked about it.
I don't think we've had a bad moment.
Like... - No. Yeah.
- It's just been, like, exciting.
- Seriously, I think about that all the time.
- You don't understand. - [laughs]
- No, I mean, I just, like, I need to pause for a second.
Like, your family, oh, is so incredible.
And I don't know if I told you this,
but your mom essentially, like, prayed with me.
- Oh, wow.
- And like, it just reminded me, like,
this is something my mom would say to me in these moments.
And so I don't know.
Like, as weird as that sounds, but like,
I felt every single word that she said for me.
Like, my prayer life is important.
Like, I'm praying right now.
Like, okay, like, my husband.
Like, he's here. Like, just help me.
Like, I'm listening to these things.
I'm following those things.
So that moment with your mom was pure.
- That's crazy. - Yeah.
Like, I literally love your family so much, so...
- Aw. They love the hell out of you.
- [laughs]
- Charity really speaks from her emotions,
which I think is just so admirable.
And I'm just so grateful and appreciative
to have somebody like Charity in my life.
But if I'm gonna be getting engaged to Charity
at the end of this, there's something
she should know and be aware of know.
You know something funny?
You mentioned, like, you found your husband, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Um... - No way I'm ready for this.
- So this is kind of funny.
Like, I really don't know much about the show.
- I assumed, but it's okay. It's okay.
[laughs]
- So, like, I didn't really understand
what happens at the end of all this.
- Wait, stop. - [laughs]
- No way.
- Up until probably, like, three or four weeks ago.
I don't remember who I asked. I asked one of the guys.
I was like, so like, what-- what, like, kind of happens?
- I love it.
- And they're like, it's an engagement.
And I was like, for maybe a millisecond, taken aback.
- Mm-hmm. - And I thought about you.
I was like, I'm actually fine with that.
- Aw.
- So I don't know.
Just a testament.
- That is the definition of truly trust in the process...
- 100%. - Because you don't know.
Like, you don't even know what the hell happens
at the end of it. but you're just like,
here, and like, you're being yourself
and seeing if it could work.
And I don't know.
Like, that does excite me in a sense.
- Yeah, I'm happy to be in that position.
I'm happy to get to the end.
And I mean, to me, it almost feels more real.
- And yeah, I was gonna say, like, it's so real.
- Yeah.
- A absolute fairy tale.
- Yeah.
- Like, truly.
[romantic music]
♪
I'm on cloud nine with Dotun.
Everything up until this point with Dotun
has been exceptional.
Like, it has exceeded all of my expectations.
♪
What we are creating and writing
is the most beautiful love story.
Even though there's nothing in my gut that's telling me,
like, oh, no, like, hold on, I still feel a little nervous.
[laughs]
Because my gut has been wrong in the past.
But I'm hopeful that with Dotun,
that's not the case.
♪
[upbeat music]
♪
- Are you ready? - I'm pumped.
- [laughs]
- Tonight's huge for me.
I'm excited to get uninterrupted time together
in a way that we haven't been able to
and see a little bit more of the raw parts of who we are.
We don't have to wait.
- Oh.
♪
- I feel like Charity's my person.
It feels like the world is trying to tell me
Charity's my person.
And I have no reason to believe that the world is lying,
or the universe, or God.
- Good. [laughs]
- [growls]
- That was great.
- I'm smitten and in love with Charity.
- God, now I'm just gonna show up to dinner
with no lipstick on.
Okay. - [laughs] I'm sorry.
But as things continue to be fairy tale-like,
that puts me at a big risk now.
- Okay. - Oh, they went off today.
- [laughs]
- I think I feel the love on her end,
but I haven't heard those magical words from her.
And that makes me feel a little nervous.
So at the end of the day,
my heart is still very much on the line.
- You look so cute.
- I've just been trying to keep up with you.
- You're doing great.
[both laughing]
- Thank you.
- You're doing a great job.
How are you feeling after today?
- Um, I feel great.
- Good. - I feel amazing.
I feel at peace. - Good.
- I feel at home. Today was awesome.
- I know. - And it's like, we keep
talking about this fairy tale, you know, story
that we're having, which is so crazy.
Like, I just never felt like fairy tales were meant for me.
- Aw.
- But here I am.
And you've let me embrace that.
And it makes me think that, you know, fairy tales can be
there for anybody, you know?
And I feel so lucky and special about that.
So cheers to you for being my fairy tale story.
- Oh, stop. Now I'm gonna cry.
It's too early. - Cheers.
- That was so, so beautiful.
To hear Dotun feels that our relationship is a fairy tale
and he doesn't deserve it, but our love is one for him--
it's huge to hear that.
I mean, I've talked to you about it,
just my past relationships and my fears.
And just, I never had just, like, ease or just effortless.
And honestly, like, my relationships was, like,
the root and stem point for me.
Like, getting to a point where
I was, like, developing anxiety.
And like, that was awful.
And like, do you have any fears
or, like, just fears in relationships in general?
- Not that I've tried to stop thinking about fears
because I feel like my mind can run away with that.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- If something comes up that is fearful,
then I would make note of that.
But nothing has come up yet. - Yeah.
- So to me, that's a good sign.
- Right, right.
- Like, I've thought about life after this.
Like, it's not something that's new to me.
I didn't start about it this week.
- Right, yeah.
- I'm sure, again, it's gonna take some sacrifices
here and there. - Yeah.
Let me just be real for a moment,
but I think the reality is, like, there is noth--
like, it's so crazy.
Like, nothing is scary.
Nothing feels wrong. - Yeah.
And I think that's kind of
what is so crazy about it, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, going back to New Orleans,
I expressed my feelings for you,
that I was falling for you... - Mm-hmm.
- And I sat with it. - Mm-hmm.
- And that feeling only grew more and more
each and every day. - Oh.
- I know, it's crazy.
[laughs] - Hella. [laughs]
- And so, you know, I always talk about
my brain and my heart.
And you know, my heart's run away.
And I think my brain is that part
that is making sure that,
oh, afterwards, like, what's going on?
Is everything gonna be okay?
And I can tell you that it's in line
with where the heart is now at this point.
- Mm-hmm. - And yeah.
You know, the scary part is that I'm not scared.
The way that I care for you, the way that I feel about you
when I see you, like, holding you, all these things
are such a clear sign to me.
♪
Uh, it's scary how easy it is to say
that I'm genuinely in love with you, Charity.
- Oh, my goodness.
- And yeah.
It's scary how easy that is for me to say.
- I'm so sorry, but like, I'm sitting here.
I'm like, mm, because the exact same thing
you just expressed, like, 100% is where my heart was at.
I am 100%, like, in love with you.
And being able to say, like, I love you,
like, that is where I'm at.
And I don't want to hold that in.
And I'm not going to hold it in anymore.
- Don't hold it in.
- And it feels so freaking good to say.
- Same, same.
I'm totally in love.
- Aw, you make me happy.
Come here. - Of course.
[soft music]
♪
I feel so good,
better than I can imagine right now
because not only did I tell Dotun tonight that I love him,
but he is also feeling the exact same way.
- I'm free.
- I know! [laughs]
It's so good.
Being in love with Dotun feels good.
[laughs]
♪
Like, it's indescribable.
You got me hot and steamy. [laughs]
- You're telling me. [sighs] - Mm.
- It feels very freeing, like a weight off the shoulders,
and now I can just move forward.
- Truly. - Yeah.
The engine's choo-chooing. - Yeah.
[laughter]
- Do you mind opening this?
- Of course. - Okay.
- I'll be happy to.
- And could you read it out loud?
- Okay.
"Charity and Dotun, what a wonderful day together."
Facts. - [laughs]
- "Exploring the turquoise seas of Fiji.
"I hope this adventure helped you grow closer as a couple.
"Should you choose to forgo your individual rooms,
"please use this key to stay as a couple in the Fantasy Suite.
Jesse."
- Well, what do you say?
- I say 100% yes. - Okay.
- This night and hopefully every night
for the rest of our lives.
- Oh, how beautiful. Kay.
- Let's do it.
♪
It's nice to be in love again and to feel loved.
Like, okay, I can finally breathe.
[sighs]
Everything that it took to get here
and the ups and downs and the doubts
have all been so, so worth it.
- All right. Hey.
- Oh, this is fire. - Is it not?
- I really do think love is the most powerful thing,
and to have that right here in this moment with Charity--
I don't know, it's hard to stop smiling.
This is fire. - This is actually insane.
No kidding. - It's crazy.
Love is the greatest story ever told.
And I'm living my story right now.
- Come here. - [sighs]
[sweeping music]
♪
- It's like watching your favorite
prince and princess, like, fall in love.
Like, that is what this is.
♪
I don't even want to say fairy tale.
It's not a fairy-- like, this is real life.
It's happening.
It feels like we're free as two birdies
that are in love and flying.
Okay.
Goodbye, everybody.
Flapping our wings.
Goodbye.
♪
Come here.
[laughing]
[birds chirping]
[soft music]
♪
- How can we top a day like yesterday
and a night like last night?
♪
- Keep doing it.
- Mm, somehow.
- Somehow. - Somehow.
Waking up this morning next to Dotun
just feels so good.
- [laughs]
I feel like I could have not asked for a better night.
I'm really happy.
- Happy as hell.
- What an understatement.
- Yeah.
It's the understatement of the century.
- [laughs] - Yeah.
- Dotun has me on cloud nine.
Somehow, every time we're together,
it just constantly exceeds my expectations.
Truly.
[laughs] Truly.
- I'm a happy boy.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I feel great.
- Mm-hmm.
Even though it's, like, great waking up,
this is, like, the hard part.
- Yeah.
I'm so over these goodbyes.
♪
At this point, I'm just ready to move on
and hopefully have a life with her.
But I'm aware that there are other men still here.
- Okay.
- [sighs]
- This is not normal at all.
- I know.
I respect her decision to make sure
all options are exhausted.
- [sighs] Love you.
- But it--it doesn't feel good.
If I don't get what I want at the end of this,
which is Charity,
just knowing how I feel about her now,
how strong I feel about her,
how much I want a future with her,
I will be heartbroken, for real.
♪
[thunder rumbling]
[tense music]
♪
- So I'm in Fiji right now.
I'm very excited to see Charity.
I'm ready to see her yesterday.
You know, after sending me home last week,
the fact that she said that
she didn't know if it was the right decision
really kind of threw me off.
So I'm here to do everything I can,
lay everything out there,
just making sure that nothing's left unsaid.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Bula.
I'm just lost around here.
Do you know where Charity's at?
- No, I don't.
Ah.
- That's okay.
No worries. Thank you.
I gotta figure it out.
♪
I'm really putting myself out here right now.
This is such a risk.
I mean, I flew halfway across the world
to see Charity.
She has no idea that I'm here in Fiji.
I told Charity I was falling in love with her,
and that's something you just don't throw away, either.
Falling in love is still right there.
I need more time with her.
- [laughing]
- I feel very deeply for Charity.
That's why I'm here to talk to her.
I'm here to explore where her head's at.
And now I hope today Charity just accepts me back
and also gives me a chance to just
show her the man I truly am.
♪
Hey, Charity.
♪
Can I talk to you for a second?
- Oh, my God.
- [laughs]
- Hi. - Hi.
How are you? - I'm good.
Hey-- - Wait, let me get up.
Wait. Hi.
- I know. - Hi.
- Hey, look, I know I caught you on a whim.
- Uh-huh.
Wait. You look so good. - Thank you.
No, you do too. I love your fit.
I know I caught you on a whim.
If you need to take a second, that's cool.
- Okay. - My heart's pounding too.
- No, same. - Yeah. [laughs]
- What's going on?
- I mean, I don't know what's happening.
I can't believe my eyes,
because he's not supposed to be here.
Um, I said goodbye to Aaron last week.
But he's here in flesh.
And...am I mad about it?
No.
Like, I'm excited to see him.
- Yeah, but take as much time as you need, okay?
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Okay. - All right.
Thank you.
- Uh-huh. [laughs]
- Um, okay.
I'm just trying to make sense of this.
But it's just like, like, I don't know what's happening.
[soft music]
♪
- How was that for a surprise?
- Oh, uh, talk about a surprise.
- Yeah.
No, we can sit for a second.
- Okay. - Um...
whew.
- Aaron came back, and I'm happy,
but there's other--there's other emotions going on.
I'm overwhelmed, 100%.
I mean, this is not a short flight.
This isn't across the street.
You're, like, here. Yeah.
- Yeah. - In the flesh.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- 100% - I'm shaking.
- [laughs]
[sighs] - Oh, no.
- You remember how it went last week?
I was kind of shook.
I didn't really know what to say.
- Mm-hmm. - And it wasn't
until the van door was closed where I was just like--
like, this is real?
Like, no gimmicks? Like, I'm gone?
Like, our relationship is over? - Mm-hmm.
- And that's probably the hardest emotion
I've had to ever sit with. - Mm-hmm.
- You know, even driving back to San Diego,
I knew that there was more I could have given.
And then when you said also you wasn't sure
if you were making the right decision,
that's really what got me stuck and in shock.
So I mean, that's really why I'm here, to talk about that,
and also see where your head's at.
I want to know if you've been thinking about it as well.
- Mm-hmm.
Um...
I 100%, like, understand where you were at.
Um...
I--I've been there.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And...[sighs]
I will be very honest.
Uh...
I'm, like, shaking.
I, um...
♪
Yeah, um, I have been--
I've been thinking about it every single day,
our relationship, and obviously, what it meant
and to make sense of, like, saying goodbye.
That--that does still stand of, like, I don't know
if I made the right choice.
And that hurts me, because our relationship
was something that was so good and so powerful.
And I was, like, falling in love.
Um...
and that's something, like, I hadn't verbalized to you.
Like, truthfully, falling in love,
um, and still care so much about you.
- Wow. - Yeah.
I don't know if that's gonna make anything better,
but I think you deserve to know that.
Like, and yeah, leaving that night,
I--it--every morning,
I woke up, and I was like, I don't know.
Like, it was in, like, the pit of my stomach
of, did I make the right choice?
And...
♪
I don't know.
- I am very happy to hear you say that
you were falling in love, or you are.
I still feel the same way.
And I'm just glad that time did provide clarity,
because I know exactly where I want to be.
And I'm just glad to be sitting here, honestly.
Like... - I'm so glad.
- I knew when I saw you, I'd feel--
- Yeah.
- I mean, I'm--
like, literally, I don't know how long that flight was.
- I know! I'm like, you're here.
Like, I can't believe it.
- [laughs]
- Can I just, like, step away for a sec?
- Yeah, that's okay. - Yeah.
I'll be right back. - Yeah.
♪
Take as much time as you need.
I'll be by the beach, okay? - Okay.
- Yeah.
All right.
- How am I feeling?
I can't believe my--
I can't believe what's happening.
I don't know, like, seeing Aaron in flesh
literally took me back to the Rose Ceremony.
I'm like, I literally was losing my mind
because I did not want to say goodbye to this man.
It was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
But like, I did send him home.
And I was like, all right.
I'm gonna live with that.
I'm gonna live with that forever.
But I just told him right now
that I was falling in love with him,
or am--I don't know.
Am?
He's not here anymore, so--
but he's here now.
♪
What do I say?
Like, I still care for him.
Like, you cannot shut off,
like, how you feel about someone,
whether that's two days go by, a week.
But the reality is that it is not just me and Aaron.
I'm in love with Joey
and very much in love with Dotun as well.
It's already a crazy concept that I'm feeling that way
about several people.
But now, like, with Aaron, like, he is so st--
he's a strong connection.
And I'm just like, what are we gonna do?
I like, just-- I actually don't know.
Again, this is like--
this is insane.
It's a lot.
It's a lot on the line.
♪
This is not a drill.
♪
- Next week...
Welcome to "The Bachelorette," "The Men Tell All."
All of your favorite men from Charity's season return...
- If you weren't there
for an engagement, why were you there?
- You were ready to marry whoever the Bachelorette was.
- It should be about Charity's journey to find love,
and it ended up being about Brayden.
- And they're ready to tell it like it is.
- You guys caused all the drama.
- I'ma look you in your face and let you know.
- You have no [bleep] personality, dude.
Shut the [bleep] up.
[audience gasping]
- I just wanted to see Charity, not the Bachelorette.
- I feel like I was my 100%
authentic self to you the whole time.
I don't think I ever put on for anybody in this house.
- I really loved you.
- Please let me know how the hell
I'm supposed to, like, take that moving forward.
[audience gasping]
- Plus...
all: Gerry! Gerry! Gerry!
- Meet the first ever Golden Bachelor.
You were trending on social media.
- If I knew what that meant,
I'm sure I would appreciate it a whole lot more.
[laughter]
- Then, in two weeks...
- I know that I am getting engaged,
but I don't know who it's going to be.
- Charity's incredible journey comes to an emotional end.
- I don't want to leave here and regret my decision.
- You're gonna have to come down to one person.
- It's scary to think that Charity
might not choose you.
- Like, my brain is, like, clouded.
- I can't imagine Charity with anybody else but me.
- There's, like, a small panic in my head.
I really see her as the mother of my children,
my future wife.
- How will her fairy tale love story end?
- [sobbing]
For the first time in all this,
I'm, like, truly not okay.
[sobbing]
I don't even want to think about the fact
that our story ends today.
I'm gonna have a panic attack.
You are not supposed to say goodbye
to somebody that you love.
- It's all coming up on "The Bachelorette."
- There's a salamander on top of us.
- There's two. - This isn't a joke.
- No, there's not two. There's zero.
- No, do you see--no.
Okay.
Come over here.
Like, look right there.
It's a big one! - Oh, I see.
- And if it falls on this table...
- The little salamander?
[both laughing]
- I'm, like, terrified.
I'm gonna be paranoid now.
- Really?
They're not gonna drop.
They've been doing this longer than you have.
- Did I not tell you what my biggest fear is?
- I thought it was bungee jumping,
but maybe that's changed.
- Well, that's like-- yeah, like a...
- Okay. - Fear of that.
Different genre, I guess, but...
- Yeah, hit me. - It's, like,
anything that crawls--like, anything that's not human.
- I get you. - Like, this type of stuff.
Like, spiders. - Yeah.
- Roaches-- don't get me started.
- Yeah, yeah. Those are disgusting.
I'm with you on those, but that one's tiny.
- No way. Do you see it?
- I do. I see it. I see it. - Okay.
Oh, my God.
- Yeah, they're everywhere on the island.
I feel like-- - I haven't seen any yet!
So, like... - [laughs] That's crazy.
- Have you been seeing 'em? - Hundreds, at least.
- Okay. - [laughs]
- I'm, like, freaking out. Oh, my God.
They're literally everywhere. I'm sorry.