Lace Morris has earned a gold star in Ben Higgins' The Bachelor book.

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Morris was on a rollercoaster ride this season, as her short-lived journey was filled with alcohol-fueled tears, curse words and confrontations.

However, the "villain" redeemed herself Monday night when she told Higgins before the Rose Ceremony she needed to leave the show because she had to work on herself and learn to love herself before she could truly love a man.

"I have to admit, when Lace pulled me out of the group after we were all downstairs I was worried. It had been an incredibly difficult day in so many ways, and I just wasn't sure I was ready for anything else. But I could not have been more wrong about what was about to happen," Higgins wrote in his People blog.

Higgins addressed all the individuals who were "so quick to judge" Morris, a 25-year-old real estate agent from Denver, CO, especially in the first few weeks of the season.

"Every viewer has been at the least amused by Lace's beauty, alcohol intake, interactions with the other women and desire to stare deeply into my eyes AT ALL TIMES. I have been asked over and over how I could keep Lace, and I hope this week you saw why I had. This week for the first time I believe Lace was truly herself," Higgins explained.

"If we are honest with ourselves, we are all amateurs when it comes to love. I've not known anyone who has turned pro yet. But Lace brings up a fundamental point -- we can't truly love anyone else if we don't fully love ourselves. In one of the conversations that affected me the most this season Lace did what so many of us refuse to do -- be vulnerable."

Despite the fact Morris dumped him, Higgins hopes for the absolutely best for the bachelorette.

"She may have said goodbye to me, but I hope and believe Lace was also beginning the process of saying goodbye to the demons that have haunted her. If there is one thing we can all agree about Lace, it's that she never ceased to be anything less than honest (sometimes to a fault)," The Bachelor star said.

"Lace if you are reading this, your honesty and vulnerability is appreciated by me, and now millions of others across the nation. We are all complicated and we are all humans who have problems, but the difference with you, Lace, is you are willing to admit it. Where in weeks previous people may have had a hard time relating with you, after last night we all can."

Higgins continued to gush about Morris, calling her "beautiful, candid and courageous."

"The world would be better if we could all have a little more Lace in us," he admitted. "Lace, our relationship may have not worked out, but there is a man who will be lucky to call you his one day. Thank you Lace for never being anything but yourself."

After Morris quit The Bachelor, Higgins still had to send two more bachelorettes packing during Monday night's episode.

"You'd think that Rose Ceremonies would get easier as I would go. I know the women better now and it should get easier knowing who should stay and whom I should let go back to their lives at home. And in a way it does. But it also gets so much harder knowing how wonderful these women actually are and knowing that I will be hurting them by not giving them a rose," Higgins wrote in the blog.

"[Jami Letain] and [Shushanna Mkrtychyan] are two women with some of the best energy of anyone in the house, but I knew at that point that they were not the ones for me. And I hope that going home they didn't lose sight of the fact that any man would be lucky to have them and will be some day in the very near future I'm sure."

Higgins teased the season will only get more intense as the group heads to Las Vegas next week. He also has "one of the most difficult decisions" of his life coming up.

"Just thinking about it again makes me shiver," he said. "So tune in, Bachelor Nation -- it only gets more unpredictable from here!"




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