Chantal O'Brien was head over heels for The Bachelor's Brad Womack during the show's filming last fall, but Womack reportedly wasn't her first choice when it came to love.

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The Bachelor bachelorette was attempting to get back together with ex-husband Jason Vena, whom she had divorced about a year ago, ending their five-year marriage, just weeks before the show began to film, Life & Style reported in its February 7 issue.

"Right before she left to film the show, she told Jason she wouldn't go on The Bachelor if he took her back," a source told Life & Style.

O'Brien and Vena, who had been together a total of 10 years, reportedly divorced because she felt their relationship had lost its spark, but she regretted her decision to split from him soon after. 

"She knew she'd made a mistake," the source said.

However, Vena was apparently over the bachelorette, as he was dating another woman named Tawny and refused O'Brien's "desperate" attempts to rekindle their relationship, according to Life & Style

"Chantal begged and pleaded and cried. Jason was in a lot of pain over it, but at the end of the day he said no," the source explained.
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Elizabeth Kwiatkowski is Associate Editor of Reality TV World and has been covering the reality TV genre for more than a decade.