WEBVTT - A Look Back: The Jed Wyatt Interview 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:00.800 Hey guys. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.920 I'm Rachel and I'm Allie and welcome you guys to 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.960 a very special edition of Bachelor Happy Hour. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:08.200 Very special edition. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.480 It is Ali because normally when we bring you a 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.640 new podcast, we bring it to you every week, but 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.680 sometimes if something big happens, which is what we promised 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.880 you when we have breaking news, we will bring it 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.440 to you, and that's what we're bringing to you right 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.279 now in this extra special edition. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.520 Rachel is in New York, so she's calling in. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.119 Hey Rachel, Yeah, Alie, I could not miss this. 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.400 I know, I know, we really knew that you all 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.159 have so many questions about Jed and the Hannah situation, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.640 and we wanted to get answers for you guys, so 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.800 we decided instead of waiting until next week for our podcast, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.120 and we were going to have this special I guess 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.080 we'd like to say emergency edition of a Bachelor Happy Hour, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.640 so you guys can get your questions answered. Jed flew 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.640 in last night to Los Angeles and he is coming. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.240 He's sitting down with us. Actually he's sitting right across 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.880 from you right now, so let me not talk about 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.760 him like he's in the third person. Jed welcome to 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:00.840 our podcast. Thank you so much for being here. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.240 Thank you all so much for having me. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.560 Okay, we know you're tired, we know you're exhausted. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:07.520 We don't want to take up a whole lot of 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.400 your time, but we definitely just want to get right 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:09.720 to it. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:21.040 Right Ali, Yes, all right, Okay, So I think first, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.640 just to start it off, what do you want people 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:24.840 to know right now? 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:31.039 I think the main thing really is just how how 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:31.720 sorry I am. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:32.920 You know, I've just. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.880 Really had time to think about the things that have 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:43.800 happened and how Hannah has felt, and you know, I'm 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:49.320 very remorseful and ultimately just want to become a better 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.840 person because of all this, and that's really my main 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:53.480 thing right now. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.120 But Jed, you know, we we I saw your interview 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.360 on GMA, we watched it. We saw you on AFR 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.240 where you apologized, and I feel like that. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.040 That's what we've gotten from you. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.000 You seem very sincere, you seem very remorseful about the 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.959 whole situation and how it went down, and we understand 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:16.000 that absolutely. I feel like there's more to it. We've 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.760 heard you apologize, but we haven't heard your side of 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.240 the story, and we really want to give you a 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.919 chance for you to just speak freely and tell your 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.160 side of what happened, because I don't think anybody's heard 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:28.639 it to this point. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:29.720 Yeah, and Jed too. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.880 I want to say, like, I want you to feel 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.079 comfortable in this situation because I feel for you, Oh 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.200 my goodness, like you have been like I what you 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:39.240 did obviously is wrong. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:40.079 You know that, right. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.320 You apologize for it very sincerely, I believe, And I 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:45.080 don't even fault you. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:46.320 For going on the show for your music. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.520 I've been very vocal about this since the notion that 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.960 people go on the show because they want to have 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.000 a good time. Nobody goes on the show thinking they're 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.280 going to fall in love and then they do and 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:56.800 they're like, oh my gosh, this works. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.640 I can't believe it works. So I don't fault you. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.760 If I had a music career now in the Bachelor 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.760 asked me to come on, I'd be like to my husband, Hey, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.679 can you just hang tight because I'm gonna. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.040 Go on a Bachelor. So I don't even fault you 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.519 for that. But that's what I think. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.640 I think, Like, like, where do you feel like it 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.200 kind of all really messed up, really got messed up 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.679 for you, like, just talk us through all of it. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:19.440 Yeah. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.160 So, like I like I told Hannah, you know I did. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.960 I did show up because I knew it was a platform. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:25.960 I knew that. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.320 It had a lot of opportunities for adventure. And then 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.440 coming out of it, you know, all the people that 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.920 I've seen seem like they have like a pretty amazing life. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.680 So that was all very intriguing to me. I was 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.880 reached out to to do the show, I didn't sign up, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:46.720 and I just really felt like it was something I 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.440 was supposed to do. It just landed in my lap. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.480 And you know, once I was there and I saw 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.200 how emotional Hannah was and how passionate she was about 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.920 the whole thing, it kind of hit me. I was like, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.000 I can remember it. I believe it was like within 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.200 the second week that you know, this is real, This 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.040 is a this is a real person. Though I don't 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.040 know her that well, we haven't had much time to talk, 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.040 I can see that her heart really. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:12.240 Is in this. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.480 And that was kind of the turning point for me 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.320 that I was like, you know what, I want to 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.720 really investigate this more, and you know, going forward, I 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.119 could feel myself falling so I wanted to be honest 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.880 with her, and if that meant her sitting me home immediately, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:29.880 then so be it. But I wanted her to know 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.880 the honest truth as to why I showed up. And 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.279 you know, going forward, you know, people ask me now, like, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.160 you know, you were so honest about that, why weren't 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:47.239 too honest about the whole Haley situation? And in my head, 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.560 you know, I had more closure than Haley. I felt like, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.400 you know, we had a conversation on the phone once 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.000 I landed in LA and we knew that I was 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:01.719 stepping into a very unforeseen future that anything could happen. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.480 We had talked about all the variables and you know, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.480 be that like if they wanted me to be a 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.040 bachelor or something, or paradise or anything falling in love, 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.240 like it was all discussed and understood that you know, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.160 who knows, right? 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.800 So was that's a great, great question. I love that 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.960 you just shared that, because then let's look at the 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.680 I love you right before? So was that like a 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:23.720 goodbye I love you? 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:24.840 It was? 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.919 Yeah. I really did care for Haley. You know, we 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.920 we had a great time together. Obviously, going on the show, 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.479 there was not stable ground to actually commit to an 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.800 exclusive relationship together like we just we never did that. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.159 So I mean I did love her, I did care 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.400 for her. She's a great person. I will not talk 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.560 bad about her. There's nothing bad to be said. But 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.440 in my head, we had more closure than I think 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.480 she did. I felt like we had more closure than 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.719 I guess she did. So, you know, going into the journey, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.839 it wasn't crossing my mind because you know, I felt 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:08.520 like we understood that anything could happen. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.120 Yeah, I mean, obviously, go ahead, Rachel. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.520 Well, I just want to ask you this just piggybacking 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.280 on what you mentioned before. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.200 When you left that note to Haley and you make. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.159 Comments that are like you know where my heart will 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.920 be and I'll see you at the dock. That sounds 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.440 like you're trying to you plan on returning to her. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.400 So if that's how you left her, how do you 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.360 explain that? What does that mean? 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:39.560 I think actually, I know I was just really kind 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.840 of talking out of my ass. I don't really know 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.640 why I would say something like that when you know, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.400 I didn't know what I was getting into at all. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.239 Like I had not watched collectively, I've probably seen maybe 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.360 three episodes of the show in my life. I had 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.480 no idea what I was getting into, and you know, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.360 just I thought I was showing up for a platform, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.880 and then I met Hannah and completely fell in love 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.760 and I was like, you know, wow, this is like 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:10.920 completely unexpected. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.360 So but Jed, yeah, I'm sorry. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.600 So I'll just preface this by saying I don't agree 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:18.080 with Ali. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.400 I have a different view of how I. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.000 Interpret the situation. Sure, and so when you say I 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.280 too as well. Did not watch the show before I 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.560 was on it, But I understood that the concept of 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.480 the show, which I'm I'm sure you did too as well, right, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.040 I understood that how the show works. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.320 For the for the most part, I thought I understood. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.880 But you know, it's one of those things that want 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.920 even even if you think you get it, once you're there, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.000 it's a completely different situation. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:53.200 And I get that. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.200 I know the show is about people are finding love 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:57.400 at the end of the day. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.360 You did know that, right, yep? 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.840 Go ahead, Jed, Yeah, absolutely, Like I could see that entirely. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.559 But it's like I had no idea that it would 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:12.720 actually be possible in that setting, like it just would 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.400 you when even with watching like I didn't watch the 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.240 show much because to me, it didn't seem real. Like 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.760 when you watch the edits and you see how people 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:25.200 act and react, it looks like it looks fake. And 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.200 I had people in my ear prior to the show 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.000 telling me it's scripted, that there's going to be people 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.360 coming at you trying to fight you. On night one, like, 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.400 I had all these variables going through my head and 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.560 I had literally no idea what I was getting into. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.400 So I'm and I. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.520 Think that's fair Jed, Like I will say, and you 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.560 know that I went on the show thinking it was 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.240 BS like I didn't think that I was actually I mean, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.319 I did fall in love with Jason Mesnick' story again 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.679 this is way back in the day, but like, again. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:54.840 Did not. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.440 I think most people don't go on the show for love, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:08:59.280 and that's the truth. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:00.560 That's my opinion. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.160 So I truly don't fault you for it. And I 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.080 think that's interesting. I think a lot of viewers watched 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.559 the show and wonder is it scripted? 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:08.680 Is it fake? And it's not. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.120 But you don't realize that until you get there. You 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.400 don't realize that the emotions are real, the feelings are real. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.920 So I feel that I think jed for me like 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.200 I have been, and maybe people get mad at me 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.760 for this, I've actually been quite a cheerleader for you, 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.440 you like, in terms of I don't blame you for 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.199 going on the show for music. When you came out 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.560 with that information to Hannah, I was like, heck, yes, 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.120 finally somebody says the truth. They didn't come on the. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:31.640 Show for love. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.560 So I actually really appreciated that. I think for me 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:39.160 where all sort of fell apart was I know you 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.400 say you didn't want to tell Hannah out of fear, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.760 but when you had to have realized when the information 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.520 came out at that point, the fear is kind of 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.480 out the window. I mean, so why then still were 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.360 you sort of not being completely because even when you 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.560 sat down with her, not after the final rows, before that, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.920 I feel like you were trying to talk your way. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.000 Aroun That was one of the hardest conversations I've had 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.959 in my life. And if it seemed like I was 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.040 dancing around anything, it was simply because there were cameras 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.720 in my face and I'm sitting there with someone that 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.280 I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:18.480 feeling like it's falling apart and not knowing how to 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:19.000 handle it. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:19.880 It was just so much. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.080 Did you not watch it? 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.000 I've I couldn't. To be honest, I couldn't do it. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.840 I mean this has all been so much, and especially 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:35.040 going into you know, it was first aired when you know, 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.000 right before I went to after the Final Rose, and 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.680 I was in my trailer, so I couldn't watch it live, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.080 so I just walked in there kind of blind. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:44.880 Yeah. I mean I think we saw some emotion. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.360 You know, you said I don't want to cry, and 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.920 we saw a few tears, but I think what we 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.160 really wanted to see, like as a viewer, was your 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.920 fighting for the woman that you love in that point. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.960 Do you feel you gave it your all to say 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:00.800 that relationship? 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:02.000 Absolutely? 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.960 I mean I had let her know that I would 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.160 you do anything. I would come to LA to Alabama. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.040 I would have done like literally anything to sit down 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.720 and have a conversation with her. And this is you know, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.520 prior to or this is after the where she broke 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:22.040 the engagement. Leading up to that point, she didn't want 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.520 to talk. She needed space and I understood that. So 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.520 I mean I would have done literally anything. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.400 Yeah, did did your family your family had to have 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.440 known about Haley, right, Yeah. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.040 I mean they knew exactly what we were and they 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.000 knew that it was not a relationship. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.120 They knew they knew like every bit of it. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.280 Oh, because I assume maybe when during your hometown that 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.240 the reason they were hesitant is because they're like, well, wait, 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.280 he was just in another relationship. Like did your sister, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.040 your mom, or anybody off camera say, hey, whoa, you 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.680 were just in a relationship. No. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.720 The only thing they were saying to me off camera 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.880 was is this real? Do you really feel this way? 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.160 They were just skeptical to the whole, Like there's cameras around, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.760 there's lights, there's people running around our house. I walk 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:10.959 in with a girl I'm filling head over heels about 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:15.520 and they were just totally blown away. It wasn't like 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.800 when I watched back on that, especially with the whole 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.120 Haley thing coming out, I can see where people would 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.680 say they knew or it felt like they were acting 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.360 the way they did because of that, and that was 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.720 not the case at all. Like I talked to them after, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.720 I was like, be honest with me, was any of 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.120 this because of that situation? 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.800 And it just wasn't well, then, Jed, why did Hannah 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.280 say when she was sitting with you in the house 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.959 and you all were discussing the People magazine and Haley 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.480 and everything with that, Why did Hannah say, no, wonder 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.199 your family was acting like that? Because obviously it's something 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.280 that she felt as well. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.680 Absolutely, I think it was just the to the moment 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.520 and that discussion, because like I said, it was the 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.760 hardest conversation that we have ever had and. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.000 The weight of it. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.679 I can see where she would be led to feel 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.520 that way, but I know for a fact that that 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:15.199 wasn't the case. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:16.400 Jed. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:17.760 Let me ask you this, and I'm going to go 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.760 back a bit because I told you, Ali and I 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.239 have differing views on how this whole thing played out. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:31.000 When I am like you, I came onto the show skeptical, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.120 didn't believe it could work out, but was open to 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:40.600 whatever opportunity presented itself, whether that be love, whether that 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.600 be friendship, whether that be a platform after this, like 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.559 you said, and I think that's how most people come 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.360 on the show. I think what gets me about the 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.439 way you came on the show, coupled with the messages 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.280 that we saw from Haley, is that you admit that 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.839 you came on the show with different motives. You came 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:06.440 on the show technically to deceive Hannah, right, You just 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.960 happened to fall in love with her as the show 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.880 went on, and you were pleasantly surprised. So I guess 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.160 my question, and maybe this is a burning question for 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.240 a lot of people out there, how did you envision 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:18.880 this going? 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:19.080 Like? 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.000 How far were you willing to take it to grow 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.520 your platform? Because that was your initial intention to come 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:26.040 on the show. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.280 What I had told a lot of people prior to 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.160 going on this show, like all my friends, was you 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:39.000 know that I am open, like you said, to anything 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.760 that could happen, and if it was love, I just 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.240 I would tell everyone I just don't see that happening. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.360 There's no way that that could happen in that setting. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:54.840 I was open to the idea, though, And were you Yeah? 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:56.280 I mean, did Haley know that? 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.120 Because I just feel like everything that you've said has 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.560 been I came on for the platform. I've never heard 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.760 you say that you were open to finding love on 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:06.280 the show. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.560 So I just want to be clear. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:12.360 Right, Well, God knows if it's still there or not. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.440 But when I had my interviews in Nashville when they 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:16.720 kind of did like my hometown. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:17.920 Piece think. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.720 When I was interviewed there, I can remember being asked 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:28.760 if or if I thought that it would be possible 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.120 to fall in love there, and I remember being just like, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.840 you know, I'm open to it. I just I doubt it. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.080 I just I didn't believe in it. I didn't think 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.600 it was going to be possible, and my heart was 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.200 open to it, and I talked to multiple people and 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.120 said that I was open to the idea of it. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.520 I just didn't feel like it was feasible. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.760 So and I think another question that people want to 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.520 know is if you came on the show for a platform, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.240 why didn't you just go on American Idol or the 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:00.800 voice I have? 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.240 You know, I was it just landed in my lap. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.360 I mean, like I said, it wasn't like I was 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.680 out scouting for TV shows to go onto. I was, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:16.240 you know, I was happy, I was living life and 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.960 I was reached out to to do it and it 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.360 just kind of landed in my lap. So I felt 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:21.640 like it was kind of a god thing and I 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:22.440 just ran with it. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.040 That's fair, do you My one thing I've really been 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.680 wondering because I really think about Haley and this, right 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.720 she it seems like her. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.680 Heart was broken in this. Absolutely have you talked to her. 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.520 We have ran into each other and passing and talked briefly, 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.000 but I haven't had the chance to like really go 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:43.760 into any of this. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.360 I want, where where did you see each other? 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.480 We ran into each other at a bar and. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.720 What like what was said? Because it was this before 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.720 after she gave her story. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:57.080 This was before she gave her story. Oh right, So. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:01.720 She came up to me and you know, we're surrounded 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.280 by people. This is like right when I got back 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.960 from the show. I believe one episode had played at 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.159 this point, and people were like videoing me standing there. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.000 I was trying to have some conversation with my friends, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.760 and she walked right up to me and she was like, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.600 you know, you weren't going to call you weren't going 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.800 to like say anything, And I just told her that 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.480 I didn't feel like this was the time or place 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:29.239 to have this conversation. And after that I kind of 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:35.320 discussed with Hannah that she had been I had heard 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.280 that she was throwing fits at bars and like throwing 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.280 beer bottles and like making a scene, so I knew 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:44.879 she was obviously pissed and rightfully so, and I felt 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.000 like that was the point where I wanted to like 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.960 say something, and. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.919 So Hannah to Haley. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.639 So I discussed with Hannah that I think that I 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:58.560 should have this conversation with her. And Hannah was, you know, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.919 kind of brushing it off and making jokes about it. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.240 But we came to terms that I should just give 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.600 her a call. So I did give Haley a call, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.520 and she ignored it and never called me back. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.280 Oh okay, So I guess my question is, then, at 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.840 that point, were you afraid that you heard that. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.600 Haley was causing a scene, you know, in Nashville. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.760 Were you afraid at that point that maybe she might 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:23.639 do something bigger? 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.400 Did you think she might go to the press? 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.359 I really honestly didn't think. So. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:37.400 Okay, So you said that you talked to Hannah prior to. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.040 Maybe I think and correct me if I have the 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:40.840 timeline wrong. 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.520 But maybe a couple of days after the proposal you 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.000 told Hannah about this girl Haley. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.280 No, actually I told her the morning after our engagement, 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.280 and we were laying in bed and we started disgusting 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:59.640 or disgusting talking about our past relationships and I ran 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:06.000 her through literally everything that I have done, like my mistakes, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.720 this the stages of just like sleeping around the people 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.479 I loved, thought I love like. We talked about everything. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.720 I'd never been honestly so open about my past as 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.520 someone ever felt like I even could. I was just 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.719 I felt like I could be completely open. So we 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.240 talked about that and when we talked about Hailey, but 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:34.040 I really gave more so my perspective on our relationship. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:40.000 And I could see now, like I can see now 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.240