After an official breakup announcement in December 2020 and a Super Bowl reunion in February 2021, Flanagan is opening up about their final split and why things ended on “really bad terms” shortly after reconnecting.
“It ended really badly,” she said on the Chicks in the Office podcast on May 21, per People. “I essentially went off on him. I ended up leaving New York and going to one of my girlfriend’s houses and hanging out with her.
He texted me, I didn’t respond and then found some news out that I wasn’t happy about. We still had each other on Find My Friends, we were closing it out, it was ending but still wasn’t necessarily done.”
Flanagan was the fifth runner-up on Weber’s season of The Bachelor after they had met once before the show taped. When the pilot’s relationships with frontrunners Hannah Ann Sluss and Madison Prewett didn’t work out, Weber and Flanagan gave their romance another shot.
During an interview on the Chicks in the Office podcast on Friday, Flanagan, 29, opened up about their eventual breakup, which they made official in February after initially splitting last December and then getting back together.
“He loves Pokémon cards and he loves playing video games and he loves going out and partying,” she said. “There was a while where I was trying to convince myself that that’s what I liked and I was like, ‘Alright, Kelley, let’s be honest with yourself. Does that add up for you?’ “
Nevertheless, despite everything, Kelley said that they hung out together again on Valentine’s Day and they “had a great Valentine’s Day together.” But things didn’t last nearly as long this second time.
“Again, there were just like little things,” she said. “It ended really badly. I essentially went off on him … I went off and essentially said, like, ‘Get the hell out of my life.'” She said she also told Peter to “lose my number.”
She also described the moment Weber went against her wishes and announced their initial breakup on New Year’s Eve (Flanagan didn’t post until January 3).
“I asked him not to do it on New Year’s and I was like, ‘Can you just give me a couple of days to tell people?’” she said. Flanagan also claimed that ABC recommended they wait until the day before the premiere of Matt James’ Bachelor season to make the announcement.
Flanagan said executives thought people were “excited about other things,” which would distract from the breakup, but “[Peter] had to do it in 2020.”