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"Well, it&amp;#039;s already been a very dramatic season on The Bachelorette - and we&amp;#039;re only three episodes in! It&amp;#039;s only a short period of time, but it was long enough for Brandon Aldreen to fall for star Desiree Hartsock, and then end up heartbroken when she sent him home this week. Brandon recently spoke to reporters about his time on The Bachelorette, so read on to find out what he had to say about his emotional exit, the drama with &amp;quot;politician&amp;quot; Ben and whether he was really falling for Des...  Did you expect to be this emotional on the show? Are you generally an emotional guy, or did the situation kind of bring it out in you? &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the thing. Of course I am an emotional person - I am caring, I do feel like I have a heart. In the situation that I was in and the circumstances and some of the emotions that got brought out in me, that was something that I did want to share with America and let them know that yeah, there are guys like me out there that do struggle with stuff like this. I am who I am and I love who I&amp;#039;ve turned out to be, the man I am because of those circumstances. There&amp;#039;s nothing in my heart that regrets any of what happened as a child. It was more so a blessing than anything.&amp;quot; Looking back on your time on the show, do you think you really did have true feelings for Desiree? &amp;quot;You know, Des is the kind of girl that you just cannot help - being around in the room, guy or girl - just falling in love with her. She&amp;#039;s just a happy, wonderful, full of life woman that brings out the best in anybody that she&amp;#039;s around. So when I said I was falling in love with her, obviously I never said, &amp;#039;I love you&amp;#039;. Those words didn&amp;#039;t come out of my mouth. But I was falling for her. I&amp;#039;m in a situation where you have very limited time to really speak about who you are, and then see how she is. And the feelings that I had in the situation I was in were becoming more of a reality. Obviously I wasn&amp;#039;t there to waste any time, and so the quickness that I did start to have these feelings and what I said is just the timing and the situation. She&amp;#039;s a wonderful woman - I couldn&amp;#039;t help but have feelings for her.&amp;quot; Do you wish you&amp;#039;d come across a little less strong? &amp;quot;I am a guy that doesn&amp;#039;t like to live with any regrets, and so the things that I did say were just the things that I said. I didn&amp;#039;t want to leave the show because of the fact that I didn&amp;#039;t get to pour my heart out and tell her who I am. If I were to just sit there and talk about The Vikings or something like that, and then she just didn&amp;#039;t have the feelings for me, that would have been unfortunate. So I don&amp;#039;t regret diving in. Yes, maybe it was a little bit too soon, a little bit too much, but for the situation I was in it just seemed right.&amp;quot; Do you regret sharing details of your childhood on television? Did you watch it thinking, &amp;#039;Oh gosh, I cried on national television?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Not at all. I&amp;#039;ve been just infiltrated with thousands of people reaching out to me with nothing but positive and wonderful things to say. After the whole thing happened, all I thought was, &amp;#039;I wonder if kids and people and adults will see this and realise that it is okay&amp;#039;. If a kid can look at me after what I said - if one kid can say, &amp;#039;If that guy can make it, I can make it&amp;#039; - I have zero regrets about anything I said. Yeah, I cried on TV - if I&amp;#039;m the only guy in the world that&amp;#039;s ever cried, so be it. But I did what I did and it happened the way it was supposed to happen, and now I&amp;#039;m so happy with the outpour of kids, teens and adults reaching out and saying, &amp;#039;What an inspiration you are and thank you for that - you have absolutely made a big impression on me and my children&amp;#039;. Everyone has been really reaching out so it&amp;#039;s been a very positive thing.&amp;quot; When Desiree sent you home, she chased after you to explain that she wanted to let you go before you fell any harder. Did you appreciate that, or do you wish you&amp;#039;d been able to spend more time with her? &amp;quot;You know, of course I would wish I had a one on one date. I wish I had more time to not just go into it and be, &amp;#039;Here&amp;#039;s my background&amp;#039; - kind of the story deal. Laughing and actually hanging with her. So of course I wish I could have had that time but at the same time I don&amp;#039;t regret it, and I honestly do appreciate when she did let me go because it was an emotional week for me. Obviously I would have loved to have gone to the next step with her and the guys on the journey, but I really do appreciate the fact that she respected me enough to say, &amp;#039;This isn&amp;#039;t going anywhere&amp;#039;. Because you can&amp;#039;t force love. It&amp;#039;s just not something that you can do. It&amp;#039;s got to be at least a little bit of a natural feeling. Of course she probably had a little bit of feelings for me, but at the same time that woman loves and respects almost every person she comes into contact with, so the fact that she would have let me go at that point before it got any further - I can&amp;#039;t be more thankful.&amp;quot;  We saw you kiss Desiree in this week&amp;#039;s episode, but it didn&amp;#039;t look like there was much passion there. Did you feel that way at the time, or did you come out of the kiss thinking she had feelings for you? &amp;quot;No - I think that that was the point that I realised, well a) I apparently in that situation, I just wanted to kiss her. And I look back, I just definitely don&amp;#039;t think that was the right time to kiss her. I don&amp;#039;t know, I just did it. I don&amp;#039;t know how she felt - it was a kiss. I felt like it was a little... it wasn&amp;#039;t passionate, you know? It was more of just a, &amp;#039;Hey, how are you?&amp;#039; kiss, more on her end I think than on my end. So, you know, I did it. It is what it is.&amp;quot; At times, we saw you watching Des with the other guys - maybe dancing or kissing. Did you expect to find that side of things so hard before going on the show? &amp;quot;No, I didn&amp;#039;t. I really went into it with just, &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s go, let&amp;#039;s do this&amp;#039;, and I really didn&amp;#039;t try to think about what was going to happen or the emotions I was going to feel or how I was going to have to pretend to be someone else or something. It wasn&amp;#039;t what it was. I just went into like I always go into everything, and that&amp;#039;s just, &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s go, let&amp;#039;s do this right now and see how it goes&amp;#039;. I stayed myself, I was genuine.&amp;quot; We obviously saw you get really emotional when you found out about Brian leaving a single mom at home to come on The Bachelorette, because of your own childhood. Do you think that if that drama hadn&amp;#039;t happened, you might not have gone home this week? &amp;quot;I try not to think about that, you know. I think that it happened the way that it was supposed to happen.&amp;quot; Did any of you have an inkling that Brian had a girlfriend back home, or was it a complete surprise? &amp;quot;One hundred percent complete shocker. Brian would talk to me and build me up - we would talk and have conversations and he would say things like, you know, &amp;#039;You look great tonight man, let&amp;#039;s keep this thing positive, let&amp;#039;s do this&amp;#039;. And he seemed like a really genuine guy. Obviously you know from the show and from getting let go off the show I don&amp;#039;t know the full story. I never got a chance to talk to Stephanie so I don&amp;#039;t know what the 100% full story is and definitely Brian didn&amp;#039;t get a chance to say anything about it. Whether or not it is 100% that that&amp;#039;s exactly what happened is beside the point - he admitted to the fact that he was with her and slept with her the weekend before he got on the show, which is disgusting. &amp;quot;So it&amp;#039;s just unfortunate for Des. At that moment, you could just see that she just felt sick to her stomach, because that right there was like, hey, there&amp;#039;s the first moment when it went from positive, happy, everybody&amp;#039;s cool, let&amp;#039;s do this, let&amp;#039;s find love, let&amp;#039;s film a rap video, let&amp;#039;s do these things to okay, now it&amp;#039;s getting really serious because there could be some other wolves in sheep&amp;#039;s clothes in the house that could come out eventually. So I do think she put her guard up at that point from the time that she let it down before the show after probably having to have her guard up a lot after Sean let her go. So it&amp;#039;s just unfortunate that that had to happen.&amp;quot; Would you give Brian a chance to explain himself? &amp;quot;Absolutely, yeah. I don&amp;#039;t hate the guy - I don&amp;#039;t hate anybody - and so I definitely would love a chance. He saw the show. He didn&amp;#039;t know what happened - he just left, and so he didn&amp;#039;t have a chance to see how that affected me until the show aired which I&amp;#039;m sure he&amp;#039;s obviously seen. So yeah, I would love a chance to sit down with him, hear the full story if that&amp;#039;s something that he&amp;#039;s interested in. If not, he doesn&amp;#039;t have to explain anything to me. It&amp;#039;s not his due diligence to speak about his personal life. He already did that on national television. So if he is interested in having a one on one, coffee, sit down with me, I&amp;#039;d love to hear more about what happened and get it figured out because I do have a slight resentment against him right now.&amp;quot;  It seems like a lot of the men had a problem with Ben. What was the issue? &amp;quot;You know, with Ben, with what I saw, it was just unfortunate that the house had a nice positive atmosphere to it and he was just the guy that kind of wanted to mess it up. And the lies that he told me as far as when he went out and saw Des, and then just lied straight to my face about doing that in front of Mikey and Michael. It&amp;#039;s just unfortunate because we really did want all of us to be there for the right reasons, and it was pretty apparent that the politician wasn&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; You guys all think Ben wasn&amp;#039;t there for the right reasons - why do you think he was there? &amp;quot;I mean, if you heard on the show when I said he&amp;#039;s talked a lot about his nutrition shops and bars, and that was just one of those things that, you know, it was just like he was pitching. I don&amp;#039;t even know. He just wanted to be the dramatic guy on the show, that&amp;#039;s how I feel, and maybe that&amp;#039;s just him. Maybe that&amp;#039;s his personality and who he is, or he was actually just putting on a facade on television. I&amp;#039;m not sure. I don&amp;#039;t know Ben on a personal, off camera level. But as far as what I saw and what America saw, it&amp;#039;s definitely that he is that guy. America - they know. People know when they can tell, they can sense someone that&amp;#039;s not there for the right reasons. So I&amp;#039;m not sure what reasons he was there for.&amp;quot; Do you think Michael and Mikey - who seem to have the biggest problem with Ben - got kind of sidetracked and hurt their chances with Des? &amp;quot;Yeah, I mean, that was the unfortunate part. He was the first one to really - I mean, obviously besides Brian - but just from the beginning it was just like there&amp;#039;s one thing about this guy that none of us could really put our finger on. And then the lie came out about the whole seeing her thing - he could have just said, &amp;#039;Yes, yes I did go see her&amp;#039;. Why do you have to lie about that? It doesn&amp;#039;t make any sense to me. We&amp;#039;re all here, trying to be here for the right reasons and having her find love, and there&amp;#039;s so much drama or whatever he wanted to stir up. It was just unfortunate that that took away from - that really did, at that point at least, that took away from the house trying to really focus on why they&amp;#039;re there, each individual person, and put more of the focus on Ben. So it was just unfortunate that he had to be on the show.&amp;quot; What was it about Des that you fell for? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. It was the build up, it was the whole journey - not just on the show, but the journey getting to the show and moving out here to California a couple weeks before the show and it just seemed like it was so perfect. And then to meet her and find out that she is so happy - that&amp;#039;s one of the biggest qualities that I could find in a woman, is for her on a daily basis to wake up and say, &amp;#039;This is going to be a great day&amp;#039; no matter what the weather is or what&amp;#039;s going on, to have that positivity. And that&amp;#039;s what I found with her, that she was just a beautiful person inside and out, and I love that about her. So it&amp;#039;s the vibe that you get from a woman, and her vibe is just amazing. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s just Des - she&amp;#039;s just her and I love that. She&amp;#039;s not like anybody else - she&amp;#039;s not like past Bachelorettes - she&amp;#039;s Des, and she&amp;#039;s just been the same girl from the first episode on Sean&amp;#039;s season to now. I love that she&amp;#039;s stayed true to herself and hasn&amp;#039;t changed and I do believe that the emotions that I was feeling and the connections that I was feeling were just on the aspect of I know who I am and I have a pretty good idea of who she is. And on the flipside, she knows who she is. She really didn&amp;#039;t know much about me besides the stuff that I talked about growing up and things like that, so I think that&amp;#039;s why we were kind of off.&amp;quot; Now that it won&amp;#039;t be you, is there one of the other guys you think Desiree should end up with? &amp;quot;You know, from the beginning, the guy that I first really connected with was Brooks, and Michael. And so those two kind of went back and forth, but hands down, every time I would see Des look at Brooks it was just... I mean, you could just tell. It was just one of those things where you were like, &amp;#039;Wow, she really likes him&amp;#039;, and you can definitely tell he likes her after the conversations that we had. So he was the one that I absolutely thought from the get go, if it wasn&amp;#039;t going to be me, it was hopefully going to be him. Because all in all, I was there for the right reasons and I did want her to find love, because she was the Bachelorette. So if it wasn&amp;#039;t with me, I pray to God that it was with someone she actually did fall in love with and that was there for the right reasons and I think Brooks was that guy.&amp;quot; The Bachelorette airs Mondays on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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