The Bachelor: Special Edition The Phone Call Opener: Leanza: When the bachelor concluded his quest for love by choosing Amanda, America approved. But there was one person left broken hearted, Trista, the runner-up in this ground-breaking televised experiment in courtship. I’m Leanza Cornett here with the Bachelor, Alex Michel. Hello again Alex. Alex: Hey, Leanza how are ya? Leanza: I’m very well. Now, we are about to see some much touted, never before seen footage, I know you haven’t seen it either, but you’ve lived it so, tell me about what we are going to see. Alex: It’s a phone calI that I had with Trista, late the day after the final selection, and it was kind of the final break-up call which is never easy, and, uh, I was actually feeling guilty because I was so focused on my happiness with Amanda that I had sort of not considered as much how Trista might be feeling and she was sort of neglected and alone all day, the next day, so I just heard she was upset and called to try and make her feel better. Leanza: Okay, here it is, the phone call the day after, take a look. The call: (Phone rings) Trista: Hello? Alex: Trista? Hey, how are you? Trista: I’m just a little shocked, that’s all. Alex: That’s what I hear, I heard you were upset. Trista: I guess after our date the other night I just, I, you know, things that you said and everything, I just thought it would be different. Is there something that happened that you could go from telling me that it was me...to....making the decision that it was? I just am having trouble understanding how you could go from one extreme to the other and what could’ve happened in one day Alex: Well, I mean, first of all, our date the other night, I felt we weren’t best friends we’ve had, but even at the end of it I thought, you know, I’m not totally sure how into this she is. Trista: You know, at one point, I was like, well trying to make sense of it all and I was like, ‘was he for real?’ you know, when he told me ‘it’s you’ you know ‘you’re the one.’ Was that just a bunch of -------- as ever, you know, or was I just strung along for the ride just to get me in a ------- bikini and for any kind of physical, you know, gratification. And...I so don’t want to believe that, but part of me thinks that. Alex: That’s what I felt at that moment, I mean, I told you in the beginning of the night that it could go either way and you said ‘If you had to decide right now’ and I said ‘it’s you’ it would be you because, you know, that’s what I thought. But, then, I just felt like, in your mind you still had lots of big questions about weither I was really the guy for you or not. Interview Continued: Leanza: Now this is another thing the show brings up about courtship and that is that agonizing phone call after a break up, and we all have had ‘em, and you know what they’re not a good idea, ever. Alex: Agreed Leanza: You seemed so upset. Alex: Well I really, I, like I said I was feeling guilty that she sort of said ‘how could you not think how I’d be feeling today, you know, ‘no one’s check on me’ ‘I’ve been upset all day’. I felt like, hmm, she’s right. Leanza: So, If it was so hard, why did you make the phone call? Was it for you, or was it for her? Alex: Well, it was really for her. I heard that she was upset, I felt guilty that I hadn’t worried about her I was kind of focused on being with Amanda and I wanted to make sure that she knew that I thought she was a great person and that it was a tough call and that, you know, she should feel fine about her self and about my feelings for her. I guess the other thing that we discussed is that she really felt like I had promised that I was gonna pick her... Leanza: (interjecting) yeah Alex:...in our conversation a few night earlier and that really wasn’t true from my perspective. I had told her once that it was, that I wasn’t sure and then once I said ‘well, if I had to choose right this second, I’d probably choose you’ but she knew I had another date the next night, and, you know, I think that was, that’s not the thing you should be upset about so I wanted to kind of clear that up with her. Leanza: You know, Trista really kept you at arms length, pretty much thru out the whole show until the last day, so I think a lot of people were surprised when she got that emotional over not being picked, and were you surprised? Alex: I was a little surprised. I was surprised my self. Leanza: Yeah...Now, most people know that Trista is going to be the Bachelorette... Alex: Right Leanza: ...next season, and during this show, you know, she put up a lot of walls in this sort of compressed sped up situation that didn’t do very well for her, really. How do you think she’s gunna do when she’s in your shoes? Alex: Well, I think she probably learned a lot from her first experience and I think she’ll do well, and I wish her well and I hope she’ll find a great guy, um, I also think that being in my shoes she’ll have a little more sympathy for me, I think she was, you know, mad at me in the aftermath of our experience and I think when she goes through it her self that, you know, it’s a tough thing to do. Leanza: Well it’s time for us to go, thank you so much. Alex: Thank you very much Leanza: And thank you for watching the Bachelor special edition marathon along with us, for Alex Michel, I’m Leanza Cornett, good bye.