Ben Higgins ‘Frustrated’ by Lauren Bushnell’s Comments About Their Relationship

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It’s been over for Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell Lane for six years, but the former Bachelor appeared bothered by what he perceived as his ex-fiancée rewriting their history.“I will say the only point of this that upsets me at all — not, like, upsets me angrily, just, like, would make me frustrated — would be that show is a real experience for me.

I invested, personally, a lot of effort into trying to figure out if it was the path that it was going to help me find my partner or not,” Higgins said on a recent episode of his “Almost Famous” podcast after Ashley Iaconetti suggested Bushnell Lane downplayed their relationship during his appearance on Shawn Booth’s “In the Booth” podcast. “I had a lot of incredible women on that show and a lot of incredible people.

And if she was feeling this way, I wish she would have, maybe, made that more apparent during the process.”During her chat with Booth, Bushnell Lane reflected on getting engaged to Higgins in 2016 after some fans were heavily rooting for him to pick fellow finalist JoJo Fletcher.

At the time, she thought she was “hurt” by the fan response because she was “so madly in love” with Higgins, but now she thinks it was because she was “being torn apart” online.“I feel like you, maybe, had deeper feelings [for Kaitlyn Bristowe than I did for Ben] and maybe it’s because you were older,” Bushnell Lane told Booth, who was engaged to the season 11 Bachelorette from 2015 to 2018. “Looking back, it would be like me explaining, like, me being madly in love when I was 21.