Becca Kufrin’s season finale of The Bachelorette was dramatic, sure, but it was a cake walk compared to what Rachel Lindsay went through last year. If you forget, one of Lindsay’s suitors, Peter Kraus, was such a fan favorite that it seemed like her actual love story with the winner, Bryan Abasolo, was pushed to the wayside. She constantly had to defend her choice and punt allegations that she was “settling” by picking Abasolo. At one point during the season, Kraus told Lindsay to find someone to have a “mediocre life” with. When the finale aired, the blink-and-you-missed-it proposal at the end of Lindsay’s season was overlooked by viewers. It was like her love life and happiness played second fiddle to the drama—and this was her season of The Bachelorette.

So it’s understandable why Lindsay’s a little bit salty about the fairytale treatment Kufrin received for her season finale, which aired last night (August 6). The controversy surrounding her winner, Garrett Yrigoyen, aside, what ABC viewers saw last night was pure, blissful romance—the polar opposite of Lindsay’s tearful (and windy) finale.

“Do you ever recall seeing Bryan profess how excited he was to propose to me? Do you recall seeing me cry about how I was so excited to say yes to Bryan and get my fairytale ending? The answer would be ‘no’ to both of those questions,” Lindsay wrote in her Bachelorette recap for Us Weekly. “And it is a shame because both of those things actually happened. You just did not see them. See, you know more about the journey of my breakup than the journey to my proposal acceptance. I think it is fair to say that I was denied my on-camera happy ending.”

She continued, “Do I sound a little pissed off? Well that is because I am. Take a trip down memory lane to exactly, oh let’s say one year ago. Becca did not sit on stage for three hours and watch the finale for the first time in front of a live audience. Becca did not have to deal with someone telling her she would live a mediocre life. Becca did not have to deal with being baited with real time questions about her emotions watching certain scenes. Nope, that was me.”

Don’t get it twisted: Lindsay is happy for Kufrin—and she’s happy in real life, too. She’s just upset her Bachelorette finale was edited to appear more tumultuous than romantic. “I was placed on display for three hours and labeled an angry black female,” Lindsay continued. “And there will always be that stigma attached to my finale because it has been said that when truth is blurred by misinformation, perception becomes reality and all is lost.”

What Lindsay wanted was to have her love story documented, and that’s not an unreasonable request. So how can the network pay her back? A televised wedding wouldn’t hurt, though Lindsay isn’t sure she’s down for that. “I have no idea,” she said. “But they damn sure owe us one.”

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