The Bachelorette alum Hannah Brown has revealed the last time she spoke to Tyler Cameron, her Season 15 runner-up.
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"We haven't talked," Hannah told Us Weekly as she's promoting her new memoir, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments, which hits shelves on Tuesday, November 23.
"It's really hard trying to figure out what's going on in the spotlight, but I wish him well in his endeavors."
Hannah said it "definitely took a long time" for her to get over both Tyler and her The Bachelorette third-place finisher, Peter Weber, who starred on The Bachelor's 24th season after his breakup with Hannah and hooked up with Hannah while his season was airing in February 2020.
"The whole issue with all that is I didn't trust myself enough to make a decision," Hannah shared with the magazine.
"What you see kind of as a pattern in the book, like, if you don't really trust yourself [and] know yourself, then it's really hard to make decisions about love and relationships, especially in an intense amount of time."
Hannah reveals in God Bless This Mess that she really wanted to date Tyler after her The Bachelorette engagement to Season 15 winner Jed Wyatt failed in 2019.
"I thought I'd made a mistake. I had feelings for Tyler. And I wanted to make things work," Hannah writes in her book, according to People.
Hannah therefore asked Tyler out on a date during her The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose special and the couple spent one night together at Hannah's place in Los Angeles in early August.
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"We had really intimate conversations about planning trips and things," Hannah claims.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOW"I wanted it to work and to know that everything had happened for a reason. But maybe there was some miscommunication of what that meant."
But then Tyler apparently distanced himself from Hannah and began dating supermodel Gigi Hadid.
"I was really caught off-guard," Hannah reveals, People reported. "I knew we were not together or openly dating, but just from the conversations we'd had, it was so shocking — and so public."
Hannah explains, "I felt like I had to be strong and pretend it didn't bother me when it did. I was already on the ground [after Jed] and this was another kick. I was deeply hurt. I said to Tyler, 'I'd date Gigi Hadid too if I could, I get it.' But it was not the way I wish it was handled."
Hannah recalled not talking to Tyler for months because she was "upset with him," but then she reached out to the former general contractor in February 2020 when his beloved mother Andrea Cameron had been hospitalized, which resulted in Tyler apologizing "for how everything went down."
"The next day my brother had an overdose. We bonded over each other's trauma," Hannah writes.
Tyler's mother subsequently tragically died from a brain aneurysm in late February, and so Hannah visited him in his hometown of Jupiter, FL, to give her support.
Hannah later found herself stranded at Tyler's place with his friends once the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020.
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Hannah and Tyler were in lockdown for several weeks together, along with The Bachelor 25 star Matt James and the rest of "The Quarantine Crew," until she returned home to Alabama on April 1, 2020.
Hannah and Tyler, who were both "hurting" at the time, according to Hannah, confirmed in October 2020 that they never hooked up during their time in quarantine together.
However, the "friendly" reunion created emotional inner-turmoil for Hannah, who still had feelings for her The Bachelorette runner-up, and caused the former couple to bicker frequently and sometimes go days without talking.
"We didn't even kiss! And it was really confusing because I told him I still had feelings for him and he rejected me," Hannah admits in her book.
When Hannah and Tyler went their separate ways, Hannah confessed that she felt "embarrassed" about the whole situation for a while, although she learned a lot.
In Tyler's own memoir, You Deserve Better: What Life Has Taught Me About Love, Relationships, and Becoming Your Best Self, he confessed to handling the situation with Hannah and Gigi very poorly.
"This was a major mistake on my end. Not because I shouldn't have been dating, because I was very clear with Hannah all along that after the way the show ended, I needed some time and space to figure things out," Tyler disclosed, according to Us.
"I even called Hannah in the afternoon the same day I arrived in New York and told her again that I thought we both deserved to date other people. But I still put Hannah in a tough, tough position... If I could go back and do it all again, I would handle it differently. My communication should have been better."
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Hannah has now been dating boyfriend, model Adam Woolard, for about a year.
"It wouldn't have worked with Tyler. Yes, there was chemistry and we had fun together, but I don't know if I had what he wants in a person or if he had what I wanted," Hannah claims in her memoir, according to People.
"Things might not turn out the way you expected, but I try to learn from every moment. I don't wish ill on anybody. I've been through growing pains. But I'm happy. And I'm in a really good place."
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"It was time for her to refocus on her own very lucrative career," a source said of why Camila allegedly pulled the plug when Tyler had declared he was "very in love" with her.
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