they broadcasted the moment he breaks up with becca unedited and in real time. >> i feel like my future was ripped away. i can't imagine my life without you. oh my god. >> i wanted those things for us too. and i just can't give those to you if i'm in love with someone else. >> i mean watching this we see becca go through every possible emotion. shock confusion, pain this unprecedented heart wrenchers go wildly viral. and people asking why would the do this to us and why are we part of this moment. things said about ari but this tore slew twitter like a tornado. and hosarrison explaining the decision. >> that was wild. and 16 years of this and that was breathtaking it was a lot even for me. a lot to take in. there was no way ari was going to do this and look great. but in my opinion you don't get to just tell the fairytales. >> they wanted us to feel it all. becca eliciting so much compassion and care. they feel bad for this fiance proposed to and dumped on tv. they found her on venmo and sending her money for wine and a cocktail. >> and tonight after the final rose, all of them face-to-

. >> reporter: the result was "bachelor" arie breaking up with his fiancee becca in a jaw-dropping, unediteda" producer snapped this photo of jason mesnick and ben higgins in the green room. as perhaps the most awkward breakup ever played out for viewers to see. the backlash swift and furious. even past "bachelors" are calling out the show. ben writes, how did this breakup end on camera? we don't belong in this conversation. sean lowe posted, make it stop. the show ended with a cliffhanger. will lauren take him back? harrison has hosted "the bachelor" for 16 years. but he says showing it's not all roses is important. >> i expect to catch some heat from this. in my opinion, you don't get to just tell the fairytales. that's not real life. that's not how this works. it's not how my life worked. it's not all about the fairytales. but then there's stuff like this. this real life that happens. it's probably what stirs everybody up. it draws something inside of all of us that we can all -- we have all been there. >> reporter: now, we should point out the last time this happened, molly did take jaso

bachelor arie dumping becca and calling off their engagement. it was raw and unedited't imagine my life without you. >> i wanted those things for us, too, and i just can't give those to you if i'm in love with somebody else. >> reporter: becca talking to our cameras moments after taping after the final rose, but the studio audience still there. kind of a whiplash of emotion. >> reporter: i know. >> reporter: revealing how she felt coming face to face with her ex days after viewers coast to coast watched her painful breakup in real time. when you saw arie tonight, how did you react. >> i was so anxious and so nervous. it was good to see him and asked some of the questions that i wanted to ask and to get the closure and move on. >> were you upset at being essentially ambushed when you thought you were going to have a happy weekend with arie? >> we had to do what he had to do. i would want him to follow his heart. at the end of the day, if it had to happen then it had to happen. i don't want to say everything . i truly think it is. >> reporter: we just finished watching y

unedited what happened. a camera on him, a camera on her and he says to her i'm breaking up with you. i have feelings for the other one and for 20 minutes america watched becca, the brunette cry. >> oh, my god, stop. >> cry and cry and feel humiliated and cry and say go away and then he wouldn't go away. >> oh, my gosh. >> he wouldn't go away because somebody was whispering in the ear piece. >> stay there. >> can we just go to black and -- >> no. >> the whole point was it was 15 minutes of prime time of the humiliation of an individual person who was sandbagged by the show. humiliated, crushed, embarrassed, and abc just let this run. let it run. >> oh, my gosh. >> okay. you've got it. i'm shocked. >> there was something different about this. i think everybody who watched it thought there was something qualitatively different. they hadn't handed her a script. they were whispering you're the best man i ever met. they said that to her in order to have us watch her degraded. >> that's an awful lot like the way president treated gary cohn while peter navarro was standing outside letting trump hedge his -- how's that for a segway out of that? catch his eye and lis