The Bachelor star Juan Pablo Galavis has insisted the man viewers saw on television wasn't the real him, however, runner-up bachelorette Clare Crawley clearly disagrees and is challenging.
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"As short of a time period that we get to see on TV, I think your true personality kind of comes through in the end. And I think mine did and I think his did as well," Crawley, whom Galavis dumped at the eighteenth season's final Rose Ceremony in favor of girlfriend Nikki Ferrell, said during a Monday appearance on Good Morning America.
"Going into the final Rose Ceremony, I felt like, 'I've been here the whole time and I said that I would follow it through to the end,' and I just figured, 'I'm going to be there and no matter what happens, I'm going to say how I feel.'"
And that she did. Crawley unleashed her anger on Galavis, telling him she'd never want her children to have a father like him and he was not the man she thought he was all along. Galavis simply waved off Crawley's speech and told the cameras, "I'm glad I didn't pick her," once she left the scene.
"I don't know [why he didn't pick me]. And like I told him, it doesn't really matter to me. I think it's a blessing in disguise for sure," Crawley said, adding that there had been red flags she missed throughout the process during which she was surely "falling in love."
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"I thought he was a man that was very proud to be an amazing father and that loves his daughter a lot. I thought he was very charming. I thought coming from his cultural background, my family has a similar thing going on... [But] in Vietnam, how he talked to me... Watching it back now, how he talked to the other women and just dismissed a lot of their feelings by touching them and kind of being charming [were all signs]."
Crawley told GMA she began having doubts about Galavis when he had made a distasteful and offensive remark at the end of the helicopter ride on their last date of the season. When cameras weren't around and their microphones weren't being picked up, instead of telling Crawley something sweet or romantic, Galavis said something along the lines of, "I love f-cking you."
Now that The Bachelor season has concluded, Crawley is thankful she doesn't have to pretend she had a great experience.
"I actually feel amazing. It feels so good to finally have it out in the open and to not have to hide how I feel," Crawley explained.
"[Watching the show] was a little surreal because it still doesn't feel like that's me. I'm still just Clare from Sacramento, so watching, it's a little strange. But also, it's that feeling of being able to be that fly on a wall and to know, 'Okay, that's what happened there. It makes sense.'"
Despite all the drama and heartbreak, Crawley insisted she wouldn't change a thing looking back on her journey.
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"The greatest thing is that I have zero regrets," Crawley said. "I went into this feeling, 'I'm going to be 100 percent open and I'm going to be 100 percent myself and I'm going to think about what I do,' and because I thought and then acted, I'm proud of that."
Crawley apparently kept her heart open after the show finishing taping, as she shyly admitted she's moved on from Galavis and there's currently a new man in her life.
"I'm very happy," Crawley noted, without naming the guy. "The good thing is it's not on TV right now."
However, Crawley may be a bit more reluctant to say, "I love you," in the future after the horrible way things had ended for her on The Bachelor.
"I think I was definitely falling in love with [Juan Pablo]. It's a huge step for me to say, 'I love you,' and I hadn't said it in over 10 years. So it's a huge step for me," Crawley said.
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