However, the pair remained in touch, and he ended up apologizing for having a relationship with friend Shinia Powell in a season four episode of SLOMW after she’d left to film The Bachelorette in fall 2025.

“I do just want to say sorry for everything that I did. I know that caused a lot of problems,” Mortensen told her over FaceTime. “I’m sorry for hooking up with Shinia. Was it dumb of me? Yes. Could I have picked someone else? Yes. Who it was matters, and that’s where I think I went wrong. I picked somebody that was obviously going to come with problems, and that was very s–tty of me to do.”

However, as Paul said in a confessional, she believed “the apology is just words, like it always is.”

“I think there are a lot of things we’ve done to hurt each other,” Mortensen continued in the FaceTime, “but overall, I still think we love each other.”