Andi Dorfman Recounts "the Stupidest Thing" She Did for Juan Pablo Galvais on The Bachelor

Unlikely reality TV star also explains how she would up looking for love on The Bachelor to begin with

By Rebecca Macatee Apr 15, 2016 7:31 PMTags
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Looking for love on reality TV is tough to begin with, but when Juan Pablo Galvais is The Bachelor—well, we all know how that went down.

Andi Dorfman has a better perspective now that she's had time, distance and her own stint as The Bachelorette and subsequent broken engagement, but she's still pretty blown away by you-know-who and everything that went down. Her issues with Juan Pablo, though, actually started earlier than you think.

"For me, it was the very first night on The Bachelor, my first season," the It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After author tells Cosmopolitan. "I remember standing in the rose ceremony room, it's 4:30 in the morning at this point, it's freezing cold, everyone is cold and nervous standing on these risers, and you could hear the teeth chattering and the deep breaths. And I watch Juan Pablo come in with a stack of roses, and I'm thinking, 'This is the stupidest thing I've ever been a part of. I'm standing here cold, my feet hurt, and I'm waiting for a dude I don't know to give me a rose.'"

Hindsight, obviously, is 20/20, but Andiwho had been working as an attorney in Atlanta doesn't seem like the type to put it all out there on TV to begin with. So how did she first end up on The Bachelor? "I was so naïve," she tells Cosmopolitan. "I had never really watched the show before. I knew about it, of course — my friends watched—but I couldn't tell you any of the major storylines or anything. So I was just naive enough to say, 'This could be fun.' I had no idea that I would be mic'd up the entire time, no idea that there would be 20 cameras at any given point."

"I was so sheltered, which was interesting because I didn't come out of a sheltered, naïve world, especially with the job I was doing at the time," she goes on. "But yeah, reality television got me. Reality TV: 1; me: 0."

But you live, you learn, and you move forward—and that's exactly what Andi's doing. Her book, That's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never Ever, comes out May 17.