Spilling the tea.

Bachelor Nation fans got to know and love Becca Tilley on Season 19 and Season 20 of “The Bachelor.” 

Since her time on the shows, Becca has found love off-screen with her girlfriend Hayley Kiyoko, and the two have been going strong for over seven years. 

The couple loves to keep fans updated with their lives online and recently shared that they are officially engaged!

Now, Becca has taken to Instagram to share the story of when she and Hayley first said “I love you” to each other and reveal why she originally took it back. 

Becca started off, admitting, “I have to preface this by saying, before Hayley, I had never been in love before. I never told anyone I was in love.”

The Bachelor Nation star went on, sharing, “We had known each other for about two and a half weeks and Hayley was on tour at the time. So I went to one of her shows and we were all on her tour bus afterwards, and she got really serious and she told me that she was in love with me. So hearing that, I was very overwhelmed because I feel like I should say it back, so I said it back. I told her I loved her too”

Continuing her story, Becca confessed her response was not what she anticipated. 

She said, “I was just like fully in my head and I woke up the next day, and I was like wait did I say that because I meant it, or did I say it because I felt like I needed to say it back? And so I took it back. I took back my ‘I love you.’” 

Becca then revealed the reason why she took back her “I love you” and how Hayley reacted.  

She shared, “She handled it so well because I know it probably didn’t feel good but I explained to her, ‘I never said that to anybody and you’re the first woman I’m dating. There’s a lot happening.’ And I knew I was falling in love with her but I felt like she deserved to hear it when I was 100% sure and I deserve to have that moment of being 100% sure.”

Becca finished her story, sharing that she finally told Hayley she loved her shortly afterwards. 

“I just went back and checked the dates,” she stated, “So she told me she loved me on April 26, and then I took it back the next day, and then I flew out to surprise her on May 2 and I told her on that trip that I loved her. So nearly a week later, but I was bursting at the seams to tell her, so I knew I was ready…That was the moment I realized Hayley was my perfect match.”