Blake Horstmann has revealed he hasn't spoken to Becca Kufrin since The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose special in August and his heart has since healed.
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Blake was rejected at the final Rose Ceremony of The Bachelorette's fourteenth season, and moments later, Becca accepted a marriage proposal from her now-fiance, Garrett Yrigoyen.
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While Becca and Blake's breakup was excruciating to watch considering he was madly in love with the leading lady, he recently told Entertainment Tonight he was able to pick up the pieces and move forward in his life.
"We haven't spoken. [After the Final Rose] was the first time and last time we spoke," Blake, 28, told ET.
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"I'm definitely over it and ready to move on -- I closed that door. It was funny, at After the Final Rose, it was actually not really seeing her that helped me, but it was actually seeing them together."
He continued, "Because during filming, you don't really see them together. So when I saw [Becca and Garrett] together on that couch and how happy and everything they were, I was like, 'Okay, I'm ready to move on.' So that's where I'm at right now."
Blake revealed that while he hasn't gotten into a serious or committed relationship with a woman since filming the show, he is in fact "dating" again.
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The sales representative from Bailey, CO, also confirmed he is "just friends" with rumored romantic interest Kristina Schulman from The Bachelor franchise.
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After Blake was eliminated from The Bachelorette, he admitted to People he had felt "blindsided" by Becca's decision.
As fans probably recall, Blake was a frontrunner to win Becca's heart all season long.
"I truly thought that if it came down to me proposing, that she wouldn't say no," Blake recalled. "I thought what we had was real."
Blake admitted it was "incredibly hard" to get over his heartbreak at first.
"It made for some really hard days, but I had a great support system. My family was amazing. We talked through a lot of things and they were there for me," he said.
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Now that Blake has found fame from the ABC reality dating series, he called life "surreal" and even a little bit "weird," but he has made some great friends from the show and is having fun.
"There's nothing I would do differently, nothing I could do differently when I was in that moment because that's how I felt throughout the whole thing. Honestly, I don't have any 'what ifs,' like looking back on it... which is a good feeling. I put it all out there," Blake told ET.
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