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- Hello, everyone!
- We're here!
- We're here.
You guys saw our love story unfold on TV
but do you know the real story?
- You have no idea!
Only we do and we're
gonna share it with you.
All the good, the bad, the ups and downs,
everything that you didn't see.
- You are about to get the
real reality of our love story.
(imitates suspenseful music)
He's ready to go.
- Scary!
- Give me a high five.
It's go time.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- First one.
- Let's do it.
- Okay, so I'm about to
go way back here to--
- Way before me.
- Way before Jordan.
I'm gonna take us back to
when the limo drove me away
from that final moment that I
had with Ben on The Bachelor.
(bright upbeat music)
I don't know if I've even talked
to you about this moment
- You haven't.
- 'Cause obviously, that's
a weird thing to talk about.
- We got some popcorn?
I'm ready, let's go!
- Here we go!
I had just gotten dumped.
I was heartbroken and it was sad.
It's just crazy for me to even think back
on going through a moment where
I was preparing to say yes
to somebody else because
people always ask me like,
if Ben would've chosen you and
he would've proposed to you,
where do you think your
life would be like now?
And that is the weirdest
thing to think about.
- Where would I be?
- I don't know, I don't know.
Would I still be with him?
Would I not even know
that you were out there?
It's very weird.
So a couple of days go
by and the show ends
and I think that's when I
really kind of experienced
a heartbreak and a loss.
So it was sad and it was hard
and I really just blamed it on my family.
And that time, no part of me was thinking
in that moment about what was to come.
Being The Bachelorette was
not something that was ever,
that was not even something
that I wanted to do,
thought about, was curious
about, until I got the call.
I saw it work the first
time in the sense that--
- That probably helped out a lot.
- I saw myself develop real feelings
and I fell in love with Ben
and I wanted that again.
(bright upbeat music)
- I was a part of none of that.
I was living my life in Nashville
and it was March 3rd.
And we started filming March 13th.
I got a call.
Someone said, "Hey, are you single?
"Are you interested?"
I'm like, "I have no idea!
"This has never been on my radar.
"Let me think about it."
And I decided literally two days before,
this is an opportunity
to maybe find somebody
and maybe have some fun, I don't know!
I didn't watch the show so
I didn't know who JoJo was,
I didn't know that she was on.
- So you never saw me get broken up with!
- I never saw her get broken up.
- Still to this day?
I thought that you had!
- No.
- Do you wanna see that?
I'm curious.
- I've seen pictures of you in that dress
and I was like, I don't know
how you break up with her
while she's wearing that but,
I don't know, I don't know.
It didn't really matter to me.
It's like in a normal life,
having an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend.
You don't really care how that happened,
you just care about who they are now.
The only thing I saw, I
watched two episodes back
and I think it was the second
and third so not the finale.
Let's be honest, I was like, JoJo's hot.
(JoJo scoffs)
The only thing I remember
about the episode,
you were swimming, you
were sitting on some rocks.
- Of course, it was the bikini episode.
- I don't know who this Ben guy is.
It was the bikini episode.
I was like, she's cute.
I hope it's her but I had no idea.
I really had no idea until
we're locked in a hotel room
and we watched After The Final Rose
and they announced you
and I was like, yes!
Let's go!
Let's go!
I was ready!
But really, that's actually what I did.
I was excited.
- Wow, I didn't know that.
- I saw the bikini JoJo and I was sold.
- Wow, that's good.
- But you're so much more than that.
- Yeah there you go!
- Come here, come here.
(bright upbeat music)
- So now, being on the
other side of things,
being The Bachelorette.
- You were kinda like, it's my turn now.
I'm holding the cards.
I get to decide what happens here.
No more breaking up with me,
I'm breaking up with you.
You know, there's a
little bit of kinda like,
you were like, okay.
- You definitely feel empowered.
You definitely feel like, oh
my gosh I'm the one in charge.
I have the control.
But Jordan, you don't know
what it's like to be in that.
- That's true.
- There's so much weight that you carry
as you go further and
further along in the season
that your emotions are so wacky.
It's like you feel sick,
excited, happy, in love,
nauseous, nervous, anxious.
It's a roller coaster of emotions.
But initially, that first night,
it was the most hopeful
and excited for the future
that I've ever felt in my life.
- Especially after that kiss.
(lips smacking)
- He's all jokes, guys.
I can't wait for you to see
his emotional, vulnerable side.
- It's in there.
- It'll come, just wait.
- So for me, that first
night was a mixture of,
I was a nervous wreck
and then obviously, it
ended up pretty good.
(JoJo snickers)
I've played football my whole life.
I've played in front of 100,000 people,
I've never been more
nervous my entire life
than sitting in that limo
with her 20 yards away
in this beautiful dress.
I was like, I don't know if I
would even know how to walk.
(JoJo laughs)
I'm serious!
- I don't know if it's
because I had seen your photo
in a tabloid or something before
but I felt like I knew you.
I was like, "There he is!"
Because I had thought
that you were coming,
but I also in the back of my mind
always kept this part of me
which I don't know if you knew this.
You actually, you did know this.
I was always very doubtful
of him from the beginning!
- Our first major date was
in Uruguay and it was amazing
but I always tried to withhold
my feelings a little bit
because I never wanted to
be saying, I really like you
or even when it got to the
point saying I love you,
I took a step back and
I kinda just, I didn't.
I wanted to sleep on it.
If I woke up the next morning
and I still felt that way,
then to me, I was like,
okay, that might be real.
But I was having trouble
with my own feelings.
- I remember that day.
- We'd have so many conversations
but like, "I can't tell
if you really like me."
And I'm like, what?
- Which is honestly so frustrating
when you're going through this process
and you have all these guys
telling you how much they care about you
and they like your or love you
and it's kinda like you have those few
that you actually really do like
but they're not giving you what you want.
So in my mind, I'm going
like, this is so weird.
It's like now I'm comparing
him to all these other guys
and what they were telling
me and then not thinking
that he actually liked me so
much so it was very strange.
(bright upbeat music)
- Yeah, so a really big moment for me
was the moment I first
told you I loved you.
- I remember.
- I remember the first
time I thought I did.
It was on--
- I remember it, too!
Our first one-on-one.
- Our first one-on-one in Uruguay.
We were on a boat coming back from
swimming with a bunch of dirty seals.
- It wasn't 'til we were
sitting on that bench.
- Yeah!
- Oh my gosh!
You remember this!
- Let me tell the story.
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, okay.
- On the boat, I was like,
I had this rush of oh my god.
Do I love and am I in love with her?
- This is our first one-on-one date.
- And then that night,
I think you could kinda tell
I wanted to say something.
- We had this moment
where we locked eyes and--
- And I think I even said, like--
- [Both] "There's
something I wanna tell you.
- "But.
- "I'm gonna wait."
- Oh my gosh, yes!
Okay, I remember.
- And I am frustrating her again.
- No, I appreciated that.
- But I didn't just wanna say it
and that means a lot to
me to say those words.
- 'Cause you've only
said you loved someone
once in your life.
- One other time, yeah.
So it was actually a couple weeks later
that I ended up finally saying
it in Buenos Aires, right?
- Yup.
- It had swelled up and it had built up
and I had to let it out.
- Oh!
It was so perfect.
- That's what you said!
I remember you saying,
"I'm just so happy."
And to me, I didn't need
her to say I love you too
'cause I could tell.
Remember all the signs I missed?
- Yeah, he missed all
the signs and we'll get--
- So she kept squeezing
my hand three times
and I always thought it
was just like a thing.
- Do you guys know one, two, three?
Like if someone squeezes
you, it's like, I love you.
I thought that was a universal thing.
(whistling)
And I had been doing it to
him in these random times
and I'd be like, is this guy dumb?
- Yup.
- Ugh!
- I had no idea.
(bright upbeat music)
- To the very end.
- I remember in Thailand,
we were sitting on the beach and...
I was trying to be really real like hey,
I think this is how I feel about you.
I think I'm ready to get engaged
but if we're not there,
it doesn't have to be now.
- When he was honest and
genuine with me in that moment,
telling me, basically saying,
I think I'm there but I'm not sure
and if I'm not there, that doesn't mean
that I don't love you or care about you.
Those conversations aren't
easy and in my mind,
those little demons that were
in the back of my head in the beginning,
those all started creeping
back which was so hard for me
because we had gone through
this whole season, months,
and I had finally gotten to
the point where I trusted him,
I was there with him, and then
it started to creep back in
on those final days which was
very emotional, very hard,
and also, this was the same time
where I found out he hadn't asked my dad
for my hand in marriage.
- Here we go.
- Well yeah, you say here we go.
In my mind, that was very scary to me.
I understand your reasoning now
and I think that this is a good time
for people that don't know,
you can explain that better
which I understand a little more now.
- And I've never talked about it.
To me, as you go through the show,
you're always talking with
producers and understand,
okay, you're gonna get
to meet her parents.
This is your opportunity to ask her dad
for her hand in marriage.
And in my mind, going wait,
this is the first time
I'm meeting her dad,
there's still another guy here,
he hasn't really had a chance
to talk to his daughter yet about
how she feels about
these guys and so to me,
it just didn't feel right.
So I wanted to sit there
with Joe, who I love,
Joe now that I know.
- Go pops!
- But the first time I met Joe,
I wanted to tell him,
hey, here's how I feel
and I feel like I did.
I said, "I'm so in love
with your daughter,
"I feel like this is in
the cards for us someday."
But I just didn't ask
because I didn't feel
comfortable asking at that point.
I wanted her to have a
chance to sit down with dad
and tell him, hey, here's how I'm feeling.
I really do like this
guy or maybe I don't.
That's when I would've felt comfortable.
Here's something you guys don't know.
It was a few days after
I've met your parents
and they had already left Thailand.
And I went to one of the producers.
I was like, "Okay, I'm ready.
"I would like to call her parents.
"I would like to have a
conversation with them."
And they said, "Nope,
you missed your chance."
And I said, "Wait, no!
"No, hold up."
"Time out.
"I get it but I'm ready
"and I would like to make a phone call."
So I kinda said, "Here's
what's gonna happen.
"You're gonna put me on the
phone with Joe and Soraya."
- He's calling the shots now.
- And I did!
I brought the producers in and I said,
"Here's what's gonna happen.
"I realize you guys are filming a TV show
"and we want some drama but
I'm gonna ask her to marry me.
"And so I need to get her
parents on the phone right now
"or I'll go tell JoJo that
I'll see her after the show."
And I was actually willing
to walk away at that point
and tell her, hey, they
didn't allow me to do this
how I wanted to do it
so if you would like to,
I will meet you after the show.
Obviously, it didn't happen that way
and they got her parents on the phone
and I get how it felt to you
that I didn't ask your dad.
It wasn't that my feelings weren't there.
It was kind of just a respect thing.
So I was able to call him and get the okay
and that was probably
the best day of my life.
(bright upbeat music)
- I'm thinking about it now
but did you ever tell me,
yes, I'm going to propose
to you on that final day?
- No.
- He didn't.
And so when you say, oh, all
the cards are in your hand
and you were so in charge and those,
you will never understand the
emotional torment of that day.
- Tell me, tell me what I don't know!
- I'm so passionate about this!
I'm laying in my bed, it's
the night before the proposal
and I'm sick to my stomach.
I'm sick, I'm nauseous,
I don't sleep more than
20 minutes that night.
I was so in love with Jordan.
I knew I wanted to be with Jordan
but I was very scared that
maybe he wasn't there with me.
And then I had Robby who at the time,
I cared very deeply for as well,
which I think people don't get.
They're like, if you're
so in love with Jordan
and you wanna be with Jordan,
why are you so upset and emotional
about saying goodbye to Robby?
And it's like the idea
of hurting somebody is...
I hate that.
I don't like to hurt people
and I think that was
the hardest part for me.
I was sitting there in my
room with the stylist, Keri,
who I love so much and he
just looked at me and he said,
JoJo, baby doll, whatever
he calls me, he's like--
- Muffin.
- "You know what to do
"and if you want to take the safe way out,
"then you know what direction that is
"but if you wanna follow your
heart and take a risk on love
"and see what it could be,
"then I think you know
the answer to that too."
If I get hurt, I get
hurt but at least I know
that I am following my heart
and I'm doing what I want
and not what everyone else wants for me.
I got about 30 minutes in
between saying goodbye to Robby
and then Jordan walking up to me
so you can only imagine all the feelings
that are going through my mind.
- But we don't know.
I don't know and we've
never told each other.
She never told me it was me.
- Never!
- I never told her
that I was gonna propose
so in our mind, in my mind,
I'm like, okay the engagement
is always like a sunset shot
so I'm like, if I get
in that car too early
to head over there, it's not me.
So the whole day,
I'm watching the sun.
- Why didn't I think of that?
- I'm like, okay.
And then they tell me,
"Okay, it's time to go."
And then I'm like, oh no,
that sun's not that low.
I'm like, she's gonna break up with me!
As much as I knew that she loved me
and that I thought she would say yes,
as confident as I was,
you still never know.
And so I go through my whole spiel
and then literally, I am
flexing to take a knee
and she goes, "Wait."
And you guys don't catch this on camera
'cause our minds go a
million miles an hour.
In my mind, I'm like--
- Oh!
- Mother!
I'm like, she's breaking up with me!
You idiot, how'd you not see this coming?
You just made a fool of yourself!
You went through your whole proposal
and then she stops, she goes,
"I just wanna tell you that I love you."
And then it was just all aboard from there
and I got down on one knee and--
- Aw!
- But those were things
you don't know!
I was so nervous and then I was confident
and then she stops me and I'm like,
it's over.
- What a day!
What a day!
- And then we were just
sweating and just sloppy.
(playful rock music)
Once we walked away from the engagement,
you would think it's all
love and we get to hang out.
- We obviously just had
this really amazing moment.
We just got engaged.
That's a moment that you
wait for your whole life
and normally, you wanna
shout it from the rooftops,
you wanna tell everybody, and you can't.
Right when you get separated,
you just had this high of a moment,
that's when all the
tabloids start coming out
and that's when you start reading
all of the horrible gossips and the rumors
and you start having to deal
with those emotions on your own.
- It was ugly at times.
- Yeah.
- We fought.
And when you just think about it,
you get this person's
number after you're engaged.
- It's weird!
- So everything up
to that point had been face to face.
You could always see emotion,
you could always talk things out.
- Yeah, that's so true!
We had never dealt with
any sort of problems--
- Distance or friction!
- Via phone call.
- Yeah, we'd never dealt
with distance or friction
or anything like that.
- And that's really when things
changed a little bit for us.
- And our story really started.
- The real story began.
And that story is just as
important as our love story
because it is how and
why we are still together
and sitting here today.
That is coming next.
So stay tuned for that.
- And she's a huge romantic
and she wants to hear
all of your love stories
so comment below and
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wanna miss this next one.
- We'll see you guys next time!
(bright lively music)
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