The Bachelor’s Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell Break Up
The former couple at an event in Warsaw earlier this year.
The wedding is off! The Bachelor‘s Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell have broken up.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce our decision to go our separate ways,” Higgins, 29, and Bushnell, 27, told People in a joint statement Monday. “We feel fortunate for the time we had together, and will remain friends with much love and respect for one another. We wish nothing but the best for each other, and ask for your support and understanding at this time.”
The couple met on Higgins’ season of The Bachelor, which premiered in January 2016. They went on to star in a spinoff, Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After?, that aired for a single season.
Rumors of turmoil swirled in late January. At the time, Higgins denied there was anything wrong, saying, “I am still extremely lucky to be able to share life with her and be by her side.”
At the beginning of the year, Higgins told E! News he wanted to take “huge steps in either getting married or having a really good idea of when we’re getting married.” He also touched on having some of their arguments play out on their Freeform TV series, saying, “I wanted it to be transparent, but some of that isn’t exactly healthy to do in a public setting. So, that is meant to be private. As much as it was a good thing to show it, and we wanted to show it, I look back on some of that and say there was some nights where we just both like, it hit hard. It hurt.”
SOURCE: E News
