Arie Luyendyk Jr. Feels He's Framed by 'Bachelor' Producers Over That Breakup Scene
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The former race car driver, who dumped Becca Kufrin on TV, says he feels '100 percent' betrayed over the way he was portrayed when he broke off his engagement to Becca.

AceShowbiz - Arie Luyendyk Jr., the most hateful man in "The Bachelor" history, blames ABC for the way people reacted to his split from Becca Kufrin. The former race car driver proposed to Becca in the season 22 finale of the show, but broke up with her on TV weeks later to be with the runner-up, Lauren Burnham.

Now, Arie says he feels "100 percent" betrayed by the crew over the way he was portrayed when he broke up with Becca. The painful breakup scene was billed as the "first completely unedited scene in reality television history," but Arie tells GQ that's so not true. "It was completely edited," he says.

The 36-year-old hunk says producers told him filming the breakup scene would "make Bachelor Nation fully understood that he was being respectful and just following his heart." According to Arie, the producers said to him, "Then we can show you going back to Lauren, and people are going to rally behind you because you took this big risk and you did it for love." They tried to convince him, "At the end of the day, people will just want to see you happy."

Arie explains the reason why he stayed in the house when Becca asked him to leave. "I was told to stay on that couch. I tried to leave, and then production was like, 'You need to go back inside. She's finally calming down. I feel like you owe it to her to have this conversation.' So then I went back in the house," he shares.

He continues, "I left, came back. I stepped away from the couch, I went back to the couch." But they kept talking him into staying. "They cut out, obviously, production talking to me from 10 feet away," he says, adding that calling it unedited "was super unfair to me."

But Arie says that "there's still a lot of love" for the crew, realizing that "it's their job to make it entertaining for people."

Arie goes on arguing that he did the right for everyone by filming the breakup scene. "I think if you look back at it now, it was positive for everyone. Everyone ended up getting closure and also an opportunity to be with the person that they were really meant to be with," he claims. He also thinks that without the breakup scene, Becca wouldn't have had a chance to star on "The Bachelorette" because "people wouldn't be able to cope with the fact that she just got broken up with on television."

Despite all the wrath that he feels from the Bachelor Nation, Arie has no regret. "The fact is, I'm really happy with Lauren," he says. "So for me, it was all worth it."

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