WARNING: Stop reading if you don’t want to know spoilers from Tuesday’s season finale of The Bachelorette.
Hannah Brown went on The Bachelorette in hopes of finding true love — but instead, Tonight we found out that Hannah Brown was left heartbroken after catching her fiancé Jed Wyatt in a web of lies.
“This is not the future I expected,” Brown, 25, who broke up with Wyatt after she discovered he had been dishonest with her about having a girlfriend when he went on the show, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “I’m going through a lot of emotions right now. I’m mad, I’m sad. And other days I’m like, ‘What just happened to me?’ “
Brown and Wyatt had been engaged for five weeks when she received news of PEOPLE’s exclusive interview with the girl Wyatt had been dating when he went on the show, singer-songwriter Haley Stevens.
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“It was heartbreaking,” Brown says through tears. “The foundation of what I believe love is is based on honesty and truth. If he loved me, wanted the best for me, why did he not give that to me? He always said he never wanted to hurt me, but he hurt me worse than anybody else did.”
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Continues Brown: “I did feel remorse from him, but I still think he tried to justify that [relationship].”
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Brown says she was totally unprepared for the bombshell, despite what many perceived as red flags on the show, including when Wyatt himself admitted that he applied to further his music career.
“I was really insecure,” explains Brown. “I knew that no guy was actually there for me because they didn’t know who the Bachelorette was going to be. And I was the dark horse. So, Jed being honest [was] refreshing. He didn’t come for me, but he liked me. And that’s what made me initially start to fall for him.”
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