Olivia Caridi definitely has the potential to break The Bachelor star Ben Higgins' heart.
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"Rose ceremonies are never ever easy, but if I am being honest, I went into the cocktail party in Mexico City with a very good idea of what I thought I was going to do. Especially after reflecting on my relationship with [Jubilee Sharpe] and where it had gone wrong, it was becoming clearer and clearer to me who I was moving forward with and who I could no longer see something with," Higgins wrote in his People blog.
But Emily Ferguson confronted Higgins about Caridi's behavior before it was time for him to pass out roses. Ferguson bawled in her conversation with Higgins, explaining that Caridi was rude, offensive and fake.
"When Emily came to me about her concerns about Olivia I was really thrown off. I say it every week, but watching this back and seeing what was happening at the party when I wasn't there it all makes so much more sense. But at the time, seeing Emily's emotions really shocked me. And that it was coming from Emily, who up to this point had been one of those women I always knew I could look to for a giant smile, meant a ton," Higgins said.
"I knew that it had to have been something fairly serious for it to come to this. But when Olivia came up right after that, I was still trying to gather my thoughts. Looking back I think I should've just addressed it immediately, but I needed a moment to process everything. I wanted to give Olivia a chance to tell me what she was feeling herself."
Caridi's case worsened once Stanton and Jennifer Saviano had Ferguson's back and echoed her opinions of the blonde news anchor.
"I wanted to talk to a couple of other women that I truly trusted to see if this issue with Emily was just an outlier or if this was a consensus. Hearing everything from Amanda and Jen, too, one of my biggest fears was being realized. Having someone be inauthentic to me, showing me one person when they really are something else entirely is terrifying. Especially someone who I had been feeling so strongly for to this point," Higgins confessed in his blog.
"I have heard all of you guys throwing your hands in the air and wondering how I hadn't seen the cracks in Olivia already, but if you take away all the moments that you are seeing with her and the other women and just see what she was showing me, those cracks just weren't there. When I looked at this group of women, Olivia was really someone I could've seen as my wife."
So how did the Bachelor feel after listening to the other women's concerns?
"Hearing all of this now?! My mind was reeling in a way that it never had before," Higgins noted. "So when Chris Harrison walked in and said it was time for the Rose Ceremony, I knew what I had to do. I couldn't go into the Rose Ceremony like this. I just couldn't. I needed to get to the bottom of this with Olivia right then and there, and I don't think you'll be expecting what happens next."
The Bachelor airs every Monday night from 8-10PM ET/PT on ABC.
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