Daisy Kent Tried To “Force” A Connection With Bachelor Joey Graziadei

The Bachelor’s Daisy Kent is getting candid about her time on the show. On the April 2 episode of the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, she discussed her relationship with Joey Graziadei, admitting there “was something always missing” between them during filming.

“I was kind of trying to force it to be there, because I felt like we are a lot alike in ways,” said the Season 28 runner-up. “For a period of the show, I just kind of ignored it. And then when it got to the ending, I was like, ‘Yeah. I’m right. There is something missing between us.’”

In the show’s dramatic finale on March 25, Daisy shocked fans by eliminating herself before Joey handed his final role to Season 28’s winner, Kelsey Anderson.

During the interview, Daisy also revealed that she first picked up on an “energy between” Joey and Kelsey during hometowns, but “just blocked it out” at the time. “I was just so filled with anxiety,” she said. “Everything just started to physically hurt my whole body. I was just like, ‘This doesn’t feel right.’”

Recalling her self-elimination in the finale, Daisy said she’d informed Kelsey of her plans beforehand. “My reason [for] going to talk to Kelsey was from a friendship standpoint,” she said. “I know they both really cared about me, and I wanted them to know that I was going to be OK and that I supported them.”

While viewers were gripped by her shocking Bachelor exit, Daisy revealed “there was a lot more” from the women’s conversation that fans didn’t get to see.

“[We were] just talking about how I was feeling, talking about how she was feeling, talking about [how] we want the best for each other,” Daisy said. “She knew it was her, and she knew it wasn’t me. And she said, ‘I’ve been worried about you all week because I felt that it was going to be me.’”

In her own Bachelor Happy Hour appearance in March, Kelsey shared her honest reaction to Daisy’s finale bombshell, revealing that her “wonderful” co-star “had really good intent.”