“I was afraid they were going to shut the whole thing down.”

Bachelor Nation likes to refer to the overnight Fantasy Suite dates as “sex week.”

ForThe Golden Bachelorettestar Joan Vassos, however, the goal was asexlessweek.

JOAN VASSOS

Joan Vassos on ‘The Golden Bachelorette’.Disney/Gilles Mingasson

“I’m taking that off the table.”

It’s not going to be what they want," she recalls.

I thought, ‘Okay, this is a good time to tell him.’

I said, ‘I need to talk to you about something.’

“He came back and was like, ‘Yeah, okay.’

They had no problem with it,” Joan continues.

“They respected that that’s how it needed to be for me.

They were great about it.

I’ve got to do this again tomorrow.'”

He’ll (presumably) have a chance to explain himself next week at theMen Tell Allreunion.

The Golden Bacheloretteairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.