, crying buckets of tears, and taking all led to finding love with . But in his new book, The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV, Colton shared that not only did The Bachelor help him find a girlfriend, it helped him figure out his sexuality and realize he's not gay.
To promote his memoir, host and , and explained how The Bachelor helped him. He told her, "[The show taught me] that I'm straight and I'm very, very attracted to Cassie and women—but it would have been okay if it would have been the other way too.
I think that's the biggest message I have for people." Colton added that his main motivation for sharing his journey in this book is to help anyone who may be experiencing the same thing he did.
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