After some of the heart-wrenching breakups in Bachelor Nation historical past, Brandon Jones got here face-to-face with Michelle Young through the dwell After the Final Rose particular on Tuesday, December 21.
“Entering into, I assumed I used to be so sure, and, you already know, finally I simply needed the most effective for her,” Brandon, 27, advised cohost Kaitlyn Bristowe. “I simply needed her to be glad. I needed her to really discover her individual as a result of going into this, she did specific that she was terrified of not discovering her individual, so I’m glad that she did. Congrats to her and Nayte [Olukoya].”
When pressed by Kaitlyn, Brandon admitted that he was “so certain” that she was The One for him.
“In relationships, [I’m] by no means like that. … I'm not that weak. I don’t open up like that — or it takes me some time — however I met Michelle [and] she is actually a one-of-a-kind individual,” he stated.
When requested whether or not he nonetheless loves Michelle, Brandon replied, “I'll all the time, all the time love Michelle. Sadly, I don’t assume it might be respectful to like her in that method anymore, you already know? I would like her and Nayte to really be glad. However yeah, I meant what I stated. I'll all the time love her, I'll all the time look after her.”
Michelle subsequently joined Brandon on stage and he requested her to share her “aspect” of their breakup for “readability,” prompting her to elucidate why she stated “I like you” however nonetheless picked Nayte.
“My resolution to share that I used to be in love with you, I wasn’t sharing that as a result of I already had decided. I used to be sharing that as a result of it was one thing that I had been holding again, and since I didn’t assume I used to be able to falling in love with two individuals, it was actually arduous for me to actually come out and discuss that, as a result of it’s scary and you're courting within the public eye and there’s all these various things. … You see individuals get ridiculed for falling in love with two individuals,” Michelle defined. “I felt like it might additionally do the connection to a disservice to not share them. And now, if I'd have identified my resolution in that second — and powerful emotions, I'm all the time an individual to consider any person else — however on this distinctive place, I needed to be fully trustworthy with the place I used to be at and that was that I used to be in love with you. And saying that, it was arduous at the moment, as a result of it’s scary. And it’s scary with additionally figuring out that you simply might need to interrupt any person’s coronary heart with who you stated ‘I like you’ to.”
Brandon admitted that he was “confused” as a result of he felt Michelle needed to “push” him to get able to suggest.
“I felt a bit of little bit of my love was ignored,” he admitted. “But in addition I didn’t know the total story. … Generally we don’t perceive what our coronary heart is telling us.”
Throughout Tuesday’s finale, the trainer was torn between Brandon and Nayte, telling each males that she was in love with them. Simply after deciding that Nayte was The One for her, she obtained a letter from Brandon that made her really feel conflicted once more.
“Michelle, ever because you’ve entered my life, I don’t view the world the identical anymore. I spotted {that a} world with out you is a world I worry to face,” Brandon wrote. “You might have really contaminated me with the love I don’t imagine is remotely simple or frequent ever discover in a lifetime. A love so lovely and deep that it leads me to a pure understanding that what I've with you is a love of wanting extra for somebody than for themselves. The type of love the place I'll all the time place your happiness above mine. Comply with your coronary heart, Michelle, and by no means look again as a result of I adopted mine and it led me to. Simply know Michelle, you'll by no means have to ask for my love as a result of I'll love you endlessly. I see you, I've all the time seen you and I'll all the time see you.”
On the ultimate day, Brandon arrived with a Neil Lane diamond in hand, able to suggest to Michelle.
“I’m feeling like I’m going to get engaged right now. It’s an thrilling and nerve-wracking day. … I’m going marry this lady,” he advised the cameras. “, when you already know you already know. You’re not going to attend one other second. I really discovered the one particular factor in my total life that I’ve been trying to find. [If] I get down on knee and she or he says sure? I’ll be, like, the happiest man to ever stroll this Earth.”
It didn’t take lengthy after Brandon confirmed pup, nonetheless, for him to see that Michelle was visibly upset.
“I really want you nothing however happiness. I really imply that even when it’s not with me,” he stated after she advised him that her coronary heart belonged to another person. “You’ve been value it each second. Supplying you with my coronary heart was value it. It’s one thing that I’ll by no means remorse. I'll all the time be there for you.”
Earlier than leaving, Brandon advised the cameras that his coronary heart “sits on the ground in f—king items” and “what’s gonna sting probably the most” is that he was “really, really so deeply in love together with her.”
Michelle subsequently accepted a proposal from Nayte.
