Uh, Carling, YOU’RE THE LIAR.
You changed “admit” to “admitted” to make it seem like he was admitting it to her at the time, indicating he was acknowledging this conversation was after the fact.
He was admitting to the audience that he should have had an optin.
The context of bringing up the incident was to answer why he had acted as he had. If the incident happened after he had acted, it could not have been why he acted as he had.