The Bachelorette's next episode will apparently feature JoJo Fletcher learning of her ex-boyfriend Chad Rookstool's unflattering accusations about her, and it's safe to say she isn't happy.
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In a preview clip for Monday's The Bachelorette June 20 broadcast released by ABC, Fletcher cries in a confessional, completely offended about Rookstool's recent claims that she told him she never really loved former The Bachelor star Ben Higgins.
"This is the sh-t I'm talking about!" Fletcher yells in the clip as tears stream down her face.
According to ABC press materials, during the episode Fletcher "must tackle her own slur in the media as she reads a shocking story calling into question her character" -- which is an apparent reference to Rookstool's late March interview with In Touch Weekly which was published while The Bachelorette was filming.
In the interview, Rookstool, a 39-year-old Dallas salon owner, claimed he reunited with Fletcher after her The Bachelor breakup, and that they hung out every day and were intimate again. During that time, she allegedly denied having developed real feelings for Higgins.
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"JoJo told me, 'Chad, come on, you know it was TV,'" Rookstool told the magazine. "I think she just got sucked up in the show rather than actually trying to have legit feelings."
Rookstool also claimed Fletcher dumped him to star as the Bachelorette but planned to leave the door open. He alleged that her desire to appear on the show was to further her career, calling it a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
In the preview clip, Fletcher is clearly distraught over the allegations. She and Higgins both expressed love to each other numerous times on The Bachelor, and she truly appeared crushed and heartbroken when he chose to propose to now-fiancee Lauren Bushnell instead.
"Coming onto last season [of The Bachelor] was the best thing that could've happened for me because I realized I don't deserve people like that in my life," JoJo says of her ex-boyfriend of two years.
"And for him to say that I never really loved Ben, that pisses me the f-ck off. Because that probably was the truest form of love that I've felt."
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Fletcher then gushed to the cameras about the relationship she had with Higgins, seemingly still devastated over the split.
"I felt respected. I mean, I was happy. It was a good love, and to be dragged back to that, that's such a terrible time in my life. I'm mad," Fletcher explains. "I hate him! It's not fair."
In a late May interview with Reality TV World just before The Bachelorette premiered, Fletcher insisted Rookstool was lying in his interview.
"Yeah, the tabloid that came out about Chad is completely false. I had no idea that he had done that until kind of later on, so those were very untrue. And I decided to completely put that in my past and not think about it again," Fletcher told Reality TV World.
Fletcher may have persuaded The Bachelorette fans her intentions are pure, but according to ABC, she'll have to convince her bachelors that she's really on the show to find love.