Michelle Young’s season of “The Bachelorette” has been historic in multiple ways!

As fans know, Michelle’s final four is the first to be composed entirely of people of color, and both Michelle and her suitors celebrated this historic moment on social media.

But more history was made on Season 18 of “The Bachelorette” that fans might not know about.

Pardeep was the first Indian American contestant to ever receive a rose on “The Bachelorette.”

The fan favorite stopped by the “Click Bait with Bachelor Nation” podcast to discuss the significance of this moment and how he felt added pressure by making Bachelor Nation history.

Pardeep said that going onto “The Bachelorette” was already an extremely high-pressure environment, but the added level of representation he felt was another, more complex layer.

Pardeep said, “Once I realized I was the first Indian American to ever get a rose on this show, [it] was something that slowly started to creep up on me as days started to go by. Going in, you gotta go in with your best foot forward, and I went in representing a New Yorker and a scientist.”

He continued, “But slowly, I realized that there was actually a lot more going on here and if I slip up or make a mistake, it can poorly characterize anyone that looks like me. That could be really bad, so I started to get into my own head early on.”

Pardeep explained, “I wanted to be on my best behavior because if you’re the first to do something, anything you do is very scrutinized. I don’t think anyone else cared except for me. I am the one with this role I had where I felt like I was representing what was dateable for an Asian American on a national TV show. I think that for a general audience like this one, they have never seen someone with my face and my name as a viable dating partner. I had to represent that really well even though I didn’t make it past week two.”

And while it got in his head, he was happy to pave the way, saying, “Going into this show, I had zero role models, really. You have the Caucasian football player or baseball player going on the show, but then you bring in the neuroscientist from Brooklyn, it just doesn’t fit any mold.”

He said he has no regrets about his experience, despite getting sent home on the early side.

When it comes to getting rejected by Michelle, Pardeep said “I am somebody who grew up in an environment where I was constantly surrounded by rejection. I grew up in one of the poorest communities in Brooklyn, I had a single mother, I lived in the projects, and my grandparents were indentured servants, so I’m used to rejection. So regardless of what happened, I always loved and respected Michelle’s decisions and had to keep my chin up.”

And while Pardeep’s full time job as a neuroscientist can be extremely high pressure, he said nothing compares to the feeling of night one on “The Bachelorette.”

He detailed his that experience, saying, “Night one of ‘The Bachelorette’ was something that you only experience once and you can never experience it again, even if you do it all over. It was like walking on the moon. You step out of the limo, it’s dark, it’s cold, everything is in slow motion, you’re lightheaded, you look up and see the stars, and you look to the right and see the sun, aka Michelle. It’s really like you’re stepping on the moon.”

Pardeep said he pumped himself up for the experience by listening to ’90s Eminem in his hotel room and tried his best not to trip when exiting the limo.

To hear more of his conversation on “Click Bait with Bachelor Nation,” check out the full episode below.