'Bachelor' Nick Viall on His 'After the Final Rose' Regret

He wasn't trying to shame Andi Dorfman after she chose someone else.

ByABC News
September 14, 2016, 11:36 AM

— -- The new "Bachelor" Nick Viall has never been one to run from his feelings, which is why fans are very excited for the two-time runner-up to have his own show looking for love.

Viall first finished second in Andi Dorfman's season, where he cemented his legacy in the "Bachelor" Nation for his emotional reveal in the "After the Final Rose" special that year.

"I don't think sex is a taboo thing," he told People magazine about being on the show in the past and his times in the famed Fantasy Suite with two "Bachelorettes."

"I'm an open book so I don't mind the fact that it's out there. ... I slept with two women that at the time I felt deeply for and thought there was a good chance I could end up with," he told the magazine, but added that when he spoke about his relationship with Dorfman on live TV, "I regret that in the sense that it unnecessarily and unfairly caused Andi to get a lot of flack."

Viall was told by Dorfman on "After the Final Rose" that she realized she may have never loved him, but loved the man she chose, to which he responded by asking why she slept with him.

"I wasn't trying to accomplish that," he said of shaming her on TV. "Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors."

In reaction to anyone who calls Viall names for sleeping with Dorfman and Kaitlyn Bristowe on the show over two seasons, he said, "It's a little silly. I'm no saint, but that's not who I am."

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