April 06, 2023 • bachelor insider
Courtney Robertson Spills Uncensored Behind-the-Scenes ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Tea
Keeping it real.
Fans first met Courtney Robertson on Season 16 of “The Bachelor” when she ended up getting engaged to Ben Flajnik.
Longtime Bachelor Nation fans remember Courtney famously ruffled feathers with other women on her season, especially when she orchestrated a moonlit skinny-dipping session for her and Ben while they were in Puerto Rico.
Despite being her season’s “villain,” Ben loved what he saw in Courtney and proposed to her at the end of the season.
Things didn’t work out with Courtney and Ben, and Courtney was eventually asked to be a part of Season 1 of “Bachelor in Paradise.”
While she didn’t appear on the show, she did have relationships with some of the cast members and is spilling the tea about what happened behind the scenes.
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Courtney just stopped by the “Click Bait with Bachelor Nation” podcast, where she was completely unfiltered about this chapter of her life.
The Bachelor Nation star told co-hosts Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt, “They had reached out for me to go on ‘Paradise,’ but I was just starting to date someone that I really liked at the time. I remember testing the waters and asking him what he would think if I did the show. If he would’ve been like, ‘Yeah, go do it,’ I would’ve been like, ‘Bye!’ But at the end of the day, I didn’t do it. I ended up dating him for a while.”
While Courtney didn’t end up going to “Paradise,” she did say that many of the show’s cast members reached out to her in hopes that she would be going.
She said, “I did get a lot of guys sliding into my DMs that were going on, like Chris Bukowski. He had just come to my book launch in New York, so I had already met him. We made out after that book launch party and he messaged me saying he was going to ‘Paradise,’ but I wanted to just do it in real life. Brooks Forester also slid into my DMs. Some of the girls that were going on were also messaging me. Some were even staking their claims.”
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Courtney said there was one man going to “Paradise” that made her reconsider her decision to not go.
She said, “I remember Graham Bunn was going on that season and I thought he was cute. We had played in a ‘Bachelor’ charity soccer league together, so we had met a few times. I remember wondering if we would hit it off down there, but a girl who wanted to date him really badly reached out to me and said, ‘He’s mine.’ Clare and I were also messaging about it. We get along great. I think she was interested in Graham too.”
Courtney went on, saying, “It made me wonder if I should go down and meet him. I think he’s an eligible Bachelor if he’s still single. Brooks even flew out to California to meet me before he went, but it was weird because I was dating this other guy. He just said he wanted to meet me because he’d always had a crush on me and wanted to see if anything was there. There’s the tea for ya!”
To hear more from Courtney, check out this week’s episode of “Click Bait” below.