Spilling the tea.

Bachelor Nation fans are watching Kylee Russell look for love on the beaches of “Bachelor in Paradise” season 9.

Now the fan favorite is stopping by the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, where she’s opening up about her experience on the show so far.

Co-hosts Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt asked Kylee about the famous fire emoji that Aven Jones sent her on Instagram before the show and whether they had any other prior communication before heading to Mexico.

Kylee said, “Everyone assumes for whatever reason that we talked. The Internet really shipped us. I don’t know why or why this came out. I had a crush on him prior to going on Zach’s season, but never in a million years did I think that he would like me back. So unfortunately he never sent me a DM before walking to the beach.”

She went on, sharing, “I hated that because I wanted to know if this guy was interested in me. He was really the only one I had my eyes on, so I didn’t want to walk on that beach expecting him to like me back but having no clue if he was going to. So no, we never talked. The only type of communication we had was the fire emoji.”

Kylee said while the fire emoji gave her butterflies, she actually wasn’t even sure it was intentional because they didn’t speak again.

She said, “I was like, ‘Come on. You couldn’t have at least given me the heart eyes?’ I am an overthinker. I was wondering if he accidentally swiped up and sent that. I wasn’t sure if it was on purpose. I just really hoped that he truly meant the fire emoji.”

Joe and Serena said that while sitting in the unknown was probably hard, it was the “right move” to not communicate before “Paradise” and go in completely open-minded.

Kylee agreed, saying, “I think too. I think it would then make our relationship more organic, and honestly, it made me more excited. There was all this hype around us and I don’t even know this man, so I was just excited to see how he was when I finally met him. I was also kind of scared too because I felt all this hype and I didn’t know if it would live up to that hype. It was either going to go really well or it would crash and burn. You’ll just have to see what happens.”

Joe asked Kylee if she was disappointed when Aven wasn’t there on the first day in “Paradise” and she said disappointment would be an understatement.

Kylee shared, “I was crying, screaming, throwing up that he wasn’t there on the first day. I tried to play it cool and say it’s fine and that maybe he’d be coming down later. Maybe they were just doing it to trick me, but I was freaking out inside. I am talking to Mercedes, saying, ‘What’s going on? He’s not here.’ I was breaking my neck the whole day watching people walk down those stairs, but he never came. I tried to play it cool, but I don’t know if I came across cool.”

So Joe and Serena asked Kylee if she would have considered leaving if Aven didn’t end up coming down.

She got candid, saying, “I didn’t think it would leave if he didn’t come. I didn’t think it was fair for me to have that attitude. I like the thought and idea of us, but I didn’t really know him. It wasn’t fair to put all of my eggs in his basket. He might get down there and be a person that I don’t want any part of. My options were still wide open. I really feel like I put myself out there at the beginning of ‘Paradise.’ If he wasn’t coming, I wanted to start talking to people. I was disappointed but still excited to see who else I would be interested in.”

Hear more of Kylee’s conversation on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast below!