In The Bachelorette finale, when Hannah Brown accepted a proposal from Jed Wyatt that was rooted in deceit, she thought she made the safe choice. Though he played nice for the cameras and for Brown, Wyatt had risk written all over him.
The 25-year-old musician from Nashville, whose crowning achievement in life is singing a generic jingle in a dog food commercial, raised red flags to the audience when he revealed to Brown that he’d only come on to the show to promote his music career. All of that - he falsely claimed - changed when he realized that Brown was someone with whom could fall in love. But the season-long front runner who made Brown feel comforted and loved kept making it evident to those watching at home that he wasn’t there for lasting romance. He even brought his guitar with him to propose, clutching onto his instrument with one hand as he greeted Brown in what would turn out to be a symbolic display of where Wyatt’s priorities truly stood. All this, of course, ignores the largest elephant in the room: Wyatt came onto the show with a girlfriend that he never broke up with and waited until after the engagement to lie to Brown about it.
In an interview with People, Brown said that the initial runner-up, Tyler Cameron, seemed like the “scary choice” and that picking Wyatt was, she thought, “the best decision I could make.” Brown admitted that there was a moment during the proposal that she questioned her decision, but Wyatt had “the biggest piece” of her heart.
The epilogue to the broken engagement and final closure with Wyatt on After the Final Rose occurred when Brown boldly asked Cameron out for a drink. Despite having his heart broken, he accepted the offer. Those expecting him to get down on a knee anytime soon, however, may need to temper expectations. Nonetheless, it was a heartwarming end to a tumultuous and stunningly entertaining finale in which Brown managed to come out on top.
For Brown to unveil in an interview following the show’s conclusion that she thought Wyatt was a safer choice than Cameron is a part of what made her a perfect decision to be the lead of The Bachelorette. In the beginning of the season, she was open about her insecurities. In the Men Tell All and After the Final Rose, she articulated her personal growth, while not shying away from mistakes she made along the way. Brown learned that in being handed the torch of The Bachelorette, she’d been given not only a renewed shot at love, but also a chance to stand up for women who had ever been in situations like the one she found herself in with Wyatt. She entered into this flawed process with doubt and left it with a stronger sense of self, and it was Brown’s ability to invite the audience into both her struggles and her triumphs that made this season so worthwhile.
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Source: People
