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The Bachelorette Season 9: Conference Call with Brandon Andreen

Posted on 06/17/2013 by Gina in The Bachelorette and Cast Interviews

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Brandon Andreen of The Bachelorette Season 9

 

by Gina Scarpa

 

Among this season's crop of suitors on The Bachelorette this season was painting contractor Brandon Andreen. Initially, he seemed like he could be one of the frontrunners but had a tough time keeping his emotions under wraps. Things came to a head when it was revealed that Brian, one of the other men on the show, had a girlfriend back home. Brandon opened up to Des, not only about his feelings for her, but about the abandonment issues he's had in his life. Worried that she would only end up hurting him down the road, Des let Brandon go at the rose ceremony and he talked about it with RealityWanted and reporters on Thursday in a press conference call.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: A lot of the guys this season seem to have such a big problem with Ben and saying that he's not there for the right reasons. Can you elaborate a little more on what everyone's issue is with him?

A. Brandon: You know, with what I saw, it was just unfortunate that the house had a nice positive atmosphere to it, and he was just the guy that kind of wanted to mess it up. And you know, the lies that he told me as far as when he went out and saw Des and then just lied straight to my face about doing that and all with Mikey and Michael. It's just unfortunate because you know, we really did want all of us to be there for the right reasons and it was pretty apparent that the politician wasn't.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: It seems like there have been a lot of emotions, especially from you. Was that something you were expecting? Are you an emotional person in your everyday life or was it the situation that sort of brought up issues within you that you were talking about?

A. Brandon: Right, yes, and that's the thing is... I mean, I'm an emotional person, you know? I'm caring, I do feel like I have a heart and in the situation that I was in and in the circumstances and some of the emotions that that brought out in me. That was something that I did want to share with America and let them know that yeah, there are guys like me out there that do struggle with stuff like this. That today, I am who I am and I love who I've turned out to be, the man I am, because of those circumstances. There's nothing in my heart that regrets any of what happened as a child, so as a child there was, it was more so a blushing than anything.

 


Q. So you told Des that you were falling in love with her, but then in your final words, you said you were in love with Des. Could you clarify exactly what you were feeling at that point in the season for Des, and looking back, do you think it was true love on your end, or maybe just like infatuation or lust or something like that?

A. Brandon: You know, Des is the kind of girl that you just cannot help but be around in a room and just falling in love with her. She's just a happy, wonderful, full of life woman that brings out the best in anybody that she's around. And so when I said I was falling in love with her, obviously, I never said "I love you". Those words didn't come out of my mouth but I was falling for her, you know? I'm in a situation where you have very limited time to really speak about who you are, and then see how she is and the feelings that I had and the situation that I was in were becoming more of a reality. Obviously, I wasn't there to waste any time, and so the quickness that I did start to have these feelings and some of the words that I said is just the timing and the situation, so yes. She's a wonderful woman and then I couldn't help it to have feelings for her.

 

Q. Chris [Harrison] mentioned in his Entertainment Weekly blog that it was just too much, too soon, when it came to your relationship with Des. Do you regret getting so emotional and diving into that family history and stuff with Des as early as you did?

A. Brandon: You know, I am a guy that doesn't like to live with any regrets and so the things that I did say were just the things that I said, and I didn't want to leave the show because of the fact that I didn't get to pour my heart out and tell her who I am. If I were to just sit there and talk about the Vikings or something like that, and then she just didn't have the, you know, feelings for me, then that would have been unfortunate. And so, I don't regret, you know, diving in. Yes, maybe it was a little bit too soon, a little bit too much for the situation that I was in, it just seem right.


Q. Obviously, and we've already sort of weeded through the guy with the girlfriend and few of the other guys have gone home. Is there a guy that you think, "I could really see that working out"?

A. Brandon: From the beginning, there was a guy that I first really connected with, Brooks. And Michael. And so those two, I kind of went back and forth, but every time I would see Des look at Brooks, it was just him. I mean, you can just tell. It was just one of those things where you were just like, "Wow, she really likes him," and you could definitely tell he likes her after those conversations that we had. And so he was the one that I absolutely thought from the get-go, if it wasn't going to be me, it was hopefully going to be him. All in all, I was there for the right reasons, and I did want her to find love. She's The Bachelorette and so if it wasn't me, I pray to God that it was with someone that she actually fall in love with, and that was for the right reasons, and I believe Brooks was that guy.

 

Q. I wanted to ask about when you got sent home and Des said she wanted to let you go now before you start to fall any harder. Did you appreciate that or do you kind of wish you'd had longer so you could have spent more time with her?

A. Brandon: Of course, I would wish I had a one-on-one date. I wish I could have had that time. But at the same time, I don't regret it and I honestly did appreciate when she did let me go, because it was an emotional week for me. Obviously, I would have loved to have gone to the next step with her and the guys, and on the journey, but I really do appreciate the fact that she respected me enough to say, "This isn't going anywhere." You can't force love. It's just not something that you can do. It's got to be at least a little bit of a natural feeling and of course, she probably had a little bit of feelings for me but at the same time, that woman loves and respects almost every person she comes in contact with, so the fact that she would have let me go at that point before it got any further, I can't be more thankful.

 

Q. We saw you getting so emotional and so affected by Brian and him leaving a single mom behind. Do you think if that hadn't happened that week, he might have stayed?

A. Brandon: I try not to think about that. You know, I think that it happened in the way that it was supposed to happen.

 

Q. When you were let go, your first thing to say was that another person who abandoned you and things like that. Do you think that that is an issue that comes up, as much as it did on television, or is that something that is a little more rare that affects you?

A. Brandon: I mean, in my adulthood, yes I've had people here and there that have gone out of my life for different circumstances. That was just unfortunate, but growing up and things like that, people that I really do have feelings for have gone to the wayside, and gone on with their lives. As a kid, it just affected me and it was unfortunate but Des was just on a journey and the fact that she left me behind. It's something that was just a part of the journey, and I'm sitting here in sunny California, and my life is wonderful and I couldn't be happier for her. I hope that the journey just continues and that she does end up finding the one that she wants to be with for the rest of her life.

 

Q. What was it like for you watching it back on television?

A. Brandon: The feelings were overwhelming. It didn't stir up any of the same emotions or anything like that but what a dramatic exit! It was just unfortunate that I had to get let go at that point. But yeah, I mean, watching it on TV was just surreal.

 

Q. How have your friends and family reacted to seeing you on the show? How did you personally feel about the way that the show portrayed you?

A. Brandon: I've had just so many friends come out of the woodwork that I haven't seen for a long time. My phone won't stop ringing and I won't stop getting emails, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. In my life, in my own little bubble, they are so happy for me. It came off better than I could ever imagined, you know, crying and stuff like that, there's maybe five out of 50,000 people that actually could laugh or joke about the story that I told and the pain that I felt when I was growing up. But the positivity has far outweighed it, and I couldn't be happier to have such support on the show and off the show.

 

Q. Have you found love since leaving the show?

A. Brandon: I have not.

 

Q. Since you're single, any interest in becoming the next Bachelor?

A. Brandon: You know, if I were to get asked to be the next Bachelor, it would be something that I'd want to really talk to my friends and family, like I always do, and really sit down and think about it. But I mean, if that opportunity would present itself, I would absolutely consider it.

 


The Bachelorette
airs Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.

 

(Image courtesy of ABC)

 

 

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