Kaitlyn Bristowe, Ben Higgins React to Exes’ Relationship Claims

Bachelor Nation’s Kaitlyn Bristowe and Ben Higgins opened up about their respective exes, Shawn Booth and Lauren Bushnell, who claimed their associations weren’t necessarily genuine.

“My emotions were so damage,” Bristowe mentioned on the “Almost Famous” podcast on Friday, Could 3. “I was, like, that was so true to me. That was like 1 of the most in adore I have ever been in my total existence, and I assumed I was heading to marry them. It was so actual to me. So to listen to him be like, ‘Yeah, naturally wasn’t authentic.’ […] Like the season and our time with each other, that is four yrs.”

Bristowe extra that her “biggest fear” was owning an individual “fall out of love” with her, which she felt is what transpired in between her and Booth. “Then to hear him validate every little thing, I was like, eight yrs afterwards, nine a long time, and it’s nonetheless like, ow! It however hurts,” she explained.

Bristowe and Booth acquired engaged on period 11 of The Bachelorette, but they finished their connection a few years afterwards in November 2018. As for Higgins, he built his Bachelor Nation debut on Bristowe’s time of The Bachelorette in 2015, later on starting to be the star of The Bachelor.

“It was mainly because they are incredibly genuine to us,” Higgins explained to Bristowe on Friday. “I signify, they are yeah, like there. I really don’t see that marriage as just an offset of my lifestyle. This was a marriage that impacted me greatly and then also led me to my spouse.” (Higgins, who was engaged to Bushnell from 2016 to 2017, married Jessica Clarke in November 2021.)

He added, “That’s attractive and fantastic and all functions out in the end. But even to listen to that that piece of my story was not impactful for someone else who was also very concerned was hurtful. It did sadden me. It did confuse me a lot.”

Higgins 1st discussed his ex’s remarks about their partnership just after she appeared on Booth’s podcast, “In the Booth,” in July 2023. Bushnell stated of Higgins at the time, “I come to feel like my thoughts weren’t as deep, maybe, now in hindsight. In the minute, I thought that they had been or I would not have built that final decision.”

Booth, for his part, included that he made use of to be “bitter” about his experience on the truth clearly show. “I recognize that the Bachelor and Bachelorette is a small business, like, hundreds of millions of dollars,” he claimed at the time. “They’re there to make a display. I really don’t want I went in there being aware of that because then I wouldn’t have opened up, but there are definitely factors that [aired] and I was like, ‘Oh, Okay, which is not specifically what occurred.’ I used to be incredibly bitter about it.”

Higgins responded soon just after, stating he was “frustrated” by Bushnell’s reviews. “That show is a true practical experience for me,” he claimed in August past yr. “I invested, personally, a ton of effort into hoping to figure out if it was the route that was heading to enable me find my lover or not.”

On Friday’s episode of “Almost Famous,” Higgins concluded, “They can say what they want.” He extra, “At this point, in my viewpoint, I know what it was for me, and that’s all that matters.”

Bristowe agreed, stating that whilst she was “so hurt” soon after Booth’s feedback about their relationship, she has taken the time to procedure it.

“If that was his working experience, I cannot modify what he felt or what his practical experience was,” she mentioned. “And I really do not know if that is legitimate, what they’re declaring, you know? They could just be like, ‘Oh, yeah, it was not true since it did not do the job out, whatsoever.’ But I just have to be like, ‘Well, we both equally experienced distinct experiences there.’”

She stated, “Like you explained, it led you to your wife. Envision who this is likely to direct me to. I have obtained all the observe in the world.”