On The Ellen DeGeneres Show airing December 5, Ellen apologizes to the ‘bachelor’ Brad Womack for calling him a ”jerk” on Wednesdays show for not picking either woman at the end of the shows finale.

Womack gets the chance to tell his side of the story as to why he did not pick either of the two last remaining women, DeAnna Papas and Jenni Croft. He stresses the difficulty he had in his attempt to choose one of the two women.

“I did not take the easy way out,” he told DeGeneres. “In fact, I took the tough way out in order to show these women respect, in my opinion. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.”

One of Ellen’s big questions for the bachelor was why did he tell Pappas the finale would be “a good day” for her. DeGeneres asked if he regretted telling Pappas this misleading information.

“I definitely regret that,” Womack told DeGeneres. “I don’t know if I got caught up in the moment. I don’t know if I was trying to comfort her. I bear the full brunt of responsibility for saying that. I do. She deserves someone to be straightforward and honest, which I thought I was. That’s one very, very bad decision of mine that I made.”

Though Womack regrets what he told DeAnna, he told DeGeneres he never asked that Pappas’ father be flown out. The arrival of Pappas’ father created false hope for DeAnna.

“What I did say is a proposal was such a big deal to me that a phone call was not sufficient, if and when that proposal would happen,” he said. “When it got to that day, I was informed that DeAnna’s father was flown out. I never one time asked for DeAnna’s father to be flown out. Never one single time.”