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Melissa Rycroft Tells Ellen About The 'Bastard'

by Celebuzz on Mar. 5, 2009 07:42 AM / Leave a Comment

Melissa Rycroft, Bachelor Jason Mesnick's jilted fiancee, taped an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' show in which she claims that she knew something was up the minute the cameras were off.

Rycroft was recently dumped on camera by Mesnick for the runner-up Molly Malaney during the startling post-Bachelor After the Rose special earlier this week.

The show's creator claims the show wasn't staged.

"Once we got back, we both kind of sat in the real world, and we were talking about how [our relationship] was different," she says. "He kind of gave up, and I couldn't understand why at the time. Now I do - because I think there was someone else involved," she told Ellen, according to Us.

"I repeatedly asked him, 'Is Molly involved in anything?' And when they moved up the taping of After the Final Rose, I was going, 'Why did we move the taping up? What's going on?'"

Rycroft says that Mesnick didn't tell her that she had been replaced with her former competition until they were in front of the cameras.

"I asked Jason, 'Am I going to be blind-sided by anything? Is there anything you want to tell me?' And he said, 'No, gosh no.' And the second I went out on that stage, he goes, 'P.S. it is Molly.' And I went, 'Bastard!'"

Rycroft tells Ellen that she will never be friends with Jason or Molly, and has already moved on.

She's dating a (hopefully) non-bastard guy named Ty. The episode airs today.