Joan Vassos has addressed her prior cryptic comments about her The Golden Bachelorette ending.

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Joan previously teased to Us Weekly, in a vague manner, that while she "found a lot of love" on her The Golden Bachelorette season, there are "all different kinds of love."

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When asked to spill more details about how her journey ended on The View recently, Joan said, "I feel like everybody's journey is completely different, including mine."

Joan added, "Mine ended in a unique way, but the way it ended makes me very happy."

The 61-year-old private school administrator and mother from Maryland went on to share, "I feel like life does that to you. It turns out the way that it's supposed to, and I feel like my journey really did."

But Joan didn't get away with that response.

When The View's co-hosts pushed Joan to reveal if she found love on the show, Joan quipped, "I am smiling!"

Joan recently gave E! News a similar teaser about The Golden Bachelorette's ending when she shared, "Like every finale in the Bachelor history, everyone's is kind of unique -- mine is also. And I think I ended up exactly where I'm supposed to be."

Joan's The Golden Bachelorette season premiered on September 18 with 24 bachelors competing for her heart, but she is quickly narrowing down her pool of men.

In a preview of what's to come on The Golden Bachelorette, Joan appears to say, "I love you," to Mark Anderson, and she tells the cameras, "I've only been in love with one person -- more than one now."

When Us had asked Joan if she could confidently say that she found love on her season, Joan admitted it was a "hard question" to answer.

"The journey ended exactly like it should," she told the magazine at the time.

"I feel like every one of these men are going to be in my life forever. We shared really, really intimate things about our lives and we are bonded. So I think I found a lot of love actually this season."

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Joan said she simply wanted to meet a man whom she could see "a future" with in "the real world" outside of The Bachelor bubble.

"I didn't want to go through all of this and be at the same place I was when I came to the mansion," Joan explained.

Joan lost her husband John Vassos to cancer in 2021 after 32 years of marriage, and she said her goal for starring on The Golden Bachelorette was to prove to senior women and men that dating "is still worth a try" and they're not invisible.

"Dating can be fun," she noted. "Dating can be fun, and finding love is worth the journey."

Joan shared that while she hoped to find a partner with whom she can spend the rest of her life, she wasn't necessarily banking on an engagement and returning home to her family in Maryland with a diamond engagement ring on her finger.

"I said all along I didn't need to leave engaged," Joan recently told People, noting, however, that she really wanted to leave the show "in a committed relationship."

Starring on The Golden Bachelorette apparently helped Joan immensely as she was still processing her husband's death and dealing with grief.

"I went from not being able to think about him or even having a picture in my house that I could see every day -- I had pictures in the guest room and other parts of the house I don't see every day -- to the point where now I'm feeling so much better about it," Joan told People.

Joan has learned to honor John's memory and pay tribute to him by sharing stories about him.

"I said, 'You know what I think he would like the most? Is that you don't forget him,'" she recalled. "Tell me stories. It doesn't hurt me anymore; it makes me happy."

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Now that Joan has finished filming the show and is hopefully in love, or maybe even engaged, she revealed that The Golden Bachelorette "cured" her.

"This journey made me open to love. And I figured it out partway through the journey that I really wasn't there when I came, but I got there," Joan concluded.

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